94. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding to be provided for youth services in 2027; the number of additional staff to be recruited through this funding, broken down by role, funding scheme and county; the net increase in staffing compared with 2026; and the timetable for recruitment and filling these posts, in tabular form. [74607/26]
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Youth services do important work, particularly with young people experiencing disadvantage, social isolation and mental health difficulties, yet these organisations operate with inadequate staffing levels and considerable financial pressures. My question concerns the additional funding for youth services in budget 2027. How many additional staff will be recruited and what is the timetable for filling those posts? Wil…
I acknowledge the enormous contribution of local youth services, often operating on a shoestring. In Cork East, we have excellent examples of this work done through the Cloyne Diocesan Youth Services, CDYS, in Mitchelstown, Fermoy, Midleton, Carrigtohill and Cloyne, and we have a separately run and very dynamic youth service in Cobh. The reach of their work is extraordinary relative to the resources available to them…
We need to acknowledge the damage done to youth services during the austerity years. Under the Fine Gael-Labour Government, funding for youth organisations and special youth projects was cut dramatically. Between 2008 and 2015, funding fell by more than 44%, and that has had a far-reaching and very serious impact. While there have been increases in recent years, the sector has still not recovered from those cuts in r…
When Cork University Hospital, CUH, CEO, Jennifer Kearney, raised serious staffing and patient safety concerns in August, the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, lashed out, accusing the hospital of mismanaging its budget. She dismissed those concerns and repeatedly held up the mid-west as an example of sound financial management.
On Monday, mid-west TDs and Senators were briefed on a similar staffing crisis in their…
Have you talked to any of the doctors?
No, but the recruitment freeze-----
Is this just imaginary?
Today's The Irish Times reports on the horrific sexual exploitation of a 14-year-old girl, who has an intellectual disability, in Tusla's care by multiple men. The High Court has ordered the girl be moved to a special care setting but the Government has failed to ensure Tusla can provide the protection and support she desperately needs. The court also heard of another teenage girl being sexually exploited by men and …
7. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [70192/26]
IBEC has repeatedly called on the Government to put the enormous surplus in the National Training Fund, NTF, to work. That is money contributed by employers specifically to develop the skills of our workforce, yet approximately €2 billion has accumulated in that fund. The Social Democrats have consistently called for this money to be invested in apprenticeships, upskilling and retraining and to protect against the th…
36. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [66937/26]
I welcome the provision in this Bill extending to first cousins the right to participate in efforts to identify the remains of people buried at former institutions. That is a sensible and necessary change. However, I wish to raise the case of the Bessborough mother and baby home in Cork, where the burial places of 859 children and 19 women remain unaccounted for, according to the commission of investigation. Think ab…
Across the country, families are paying the price for years of political failure to resource disability services properly. Parents in their 70s and 80s are still providing round-the-clock support. Children wait years for therapies. Adults who want to live independently are denied personal assistance. Families struggle on with little or no respite. Too often, the State waits until a family reaches breaking point befor…
-----when disabled people take up work and funding a €5 million disabled entrepreneurship and self-employment fund.
I commend my colleague, Deputy Whitmore, on this motion, as well as on her broader work on the cost of living and a just transition. One statistic in this motion should stop us in our tracks, namely, that 323,559 households were in electricity arrears at the end of June, which is one in every seven households. Prices are now climbing again. Wholesale electricity prices rose almost 77% in the year to August, including…
Imagine a new mother in acute psychological distress being told that to get the inpatient care she needs she must be separated from her baby. This is still the reality in Ireland because, nine years after it was recommended, we still do not have a specialist mother and baby unit. This is highlighted today on thejournal.ie. The Irish Association for Infant Mental Health, I-AIMH, is clear that women and babies should b…
The central problem with this legislation is that it changes the assessment of need process without addressing the issue at play here, namely, the chronic under-resourcing of our services, compounded by the recruitment embargo in 2023, followed by the pay and numbers strategy, which was another form of recruitment restriction. We can change the eligibility for an assessment of need and we can change procedures or pro…
Overcrowding on the Midleton-Cork rail line is reaching farcical levels. For a prolonged period, peak-time services have been left operating with just two carriages. This morning, a constituent told me the train was again dangerously overcrowded, with the driver on one journey having to get out to stop commuters boarding at Glounthaune and Little Island. My colleague, Councillor Eamonn Horgan, has been raising this i…
59. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether she is aware of the National Disability Services Needs Analysis commissioned by the HSE and undertaken by an organisation (details supplied); whether the final report will be published in full in order to inform the Oireachtas and the public of the scale of unmet need and pressures across disability services, and to support scruti…
The campaign group Before We Die has been seeking access to a report undertaken by Grant Thornton and commissioned by the HSE, under the title of the national disability services needs analysis. This appears to be a major examination of need across disability services intended to inform future planning, funding and investment. Yet, the HSE has told Before We Die that the report will not be published while at the same…
The separation of the Minister of State's decision-making around the publication of the Grant Thornton report from the HSE's decision-making is perplexing because this report seems to span across disability services.
As we all know, there are children waiting years for therapies, families unable to get adequate respite or home support, young people falling into gaps as they reach adulthood, adults living with ageing…
I thank the Minister of State. I find this rationale extraordinary. For years, disabled people and their families have told us that services have developed reactively, after people reach crisis points, if they are developed at all. The HSE has now commissioned what sounds like a substantial analysis drawing together population data, waiting lists, workforce information and the experiences of families, providers and d…
5. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. [48681/26]
21. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Taoiseach when the Cork city task force will be established. [50817/26]