Emer Currie

814. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current supports available to provide music education in primary schools across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59129/25]

815. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures her Department are taking to expand access to music education in primary schools across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59130/25]

828. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth if additional supports will be provided to special schools to assist with the day-to-day running costs, similar to supports provided in Budget 2024 and Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59342/25]

829. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of changing the criteria of the capitation grant for special schools to consider all school staff or the square meter area of the school premises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59343/25]

830. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider providing all special schools with an additional AP1 post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59344/25]

840. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth where parents can find guidance on the structure for children opted out of religion under the new primary school curriculum; if her Department plans to review of these guidelines within the lifetime of this Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59459/25]

967. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to provide details on the €3 million in funding provided in budget 2026 for League of Ireland academies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60033/25]

1110. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the latest update on the proposal to remove planning requirements for log cabin-type residential structures for back gardens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59444/25]

1138. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to confirm whether Fingal County Council received an additional €10 million from his Department under the Second-hand Acquisitions Programme for the remainder of 2025; to provide a breakdown, by spend and units acquired, of the allocation of this funding in areas (details supplied). [60123/25]

1139. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a breakdown of the €20 million funding provided, by spend and units acquired, under the 2025 Second-hand Acquisitions Programme (details supplied). [60124/25]

1260. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the number of learner permit holders, by county, who were disqualified in court in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; the number that surrendered their learner permit to the Road Safety Authority; the number who were prosecuted for failing to surrender their learner permit to the RSA; the number convicted of the offence; the penalties delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57957/25]

1465. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality for an update on a building blocks extension grant application for a creche (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57741/25]

1537. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider launching a nationwide text alert system for disabled parking to allow individuals to report illegally parked vehicles by sending a text message with the bay number to an enforcement team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59107/25]

1547. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the funding streams available in her Department to family resource centres for capital projects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59325/25]

1548. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is considering an increase in the capitation grant for ECCE services given the grant has not been increased since 2018; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59330/25]

1549. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the breakdown of the children who do not take up the second year of free ECCE, by birth month, which could constitute approximately 17% of children who avail of the first year available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59331/25]

1550. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider an amendment to the Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Act 2021 in relation to parents leave, to ensure parents who have sole custody, can avail of additional leave, further to a court ruling in Spain in January 2025 that families should be treated equally regardless of family structure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59332/25]

1551. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider increasing parents leave available to parents of twins and triplets to reflect the same uplift in child benefit available to those parents, which is currently 1.5 times the standard child benefit payment for twins and twice for triplets and multiple births. [59333/25]

1552. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider the introduction of regulations around the management of waiting lists in childcare facilities including rules regarding the return of deposits when places are relinquished in a reasonable timeframe. [59335/25]

1562. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on a building blocks extension grant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59484/25]

1591. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality whether her Department is considering proposals to introduce statutory leave entitlements for those undergoing fertility treatment such as IVF, and for those who experience early miscarriage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [59544/25]

1592. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on her Department’s engagements with officials in the Department of Enterprise,Trade and Employment with regard to the issues raised in the Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health) Bill 2021. [59545/25]

1607. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will consider proposals in relation to extending parental leave entitlements in the case of multiple births in the same pregnancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60029/25]

1608. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her Department will examine schemes where single parents of newborn children can access the full leave entitlements of two-parent families as seen in other European countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60030/25]

1609. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider changing Ireland's parental leave legislation to address the disparity faced by one-parent families, whereby children in such households are effectively entitled to only half the parental leave available to children in two-parent households; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60031/25]