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Minister for housing set up a commission to undertake an independent professional assessment and a linguistic impact assessment on the new national planning statement. I ask for that to be carried out because there is a real danger that the national planning statement will do the opposite

draft sustainable rural and Gaeltacht housing national planning statement, which we spoke about earlier, still leaves many young people locked out of building on family land. While we expect movement in the document, there is no mention of affordable housing. If the new document does not include

continually put out press releases regarding the Drogheda north train station. Those press statements mislead people because it gives them hope, when it seems that the very same Government party representatives releasing the press statements cannot convince their own parties to deliver. The car park in the MacBride … Department of Transport through the National Transport Authority, NTA, is currently buying new train carriages, which is welcome, for the ever expanding number of commuters in Drogheda. What would be more welcome is the train station that has been planned for decades. The centre of town is choked

second is a submodule in relation to the response of CHI management to waiting list issues. In the distinct personal-family statement submodule recommended by Mr. Farrell, parents and children would be asked and invited to give testimony in relation to their experiences regarding the impact delays … hospital but to CHI generally. Insofar as the module relating to waiting lists is concerned, Mr. Farrell makes clear that he includes the National Orthopaedic Hospital at Cappagh. His recommendation is that this module be conducted on a non-adversarial basis. This a module that has the opportunity

failures, one way or another. I welcome the comments from the Minister for justice regarding greater use of video evidence and pre-recorded statements to reduce Garda time spent attending court. That approach deserves a lot of attention but it has not happened yet. Childcare is another area … operators I mentioned yesterday are increasingly finding participation in schemes financially challenging, so they are pulling out of them. There is no meaningful plan to encourage new providers to enter the market to keep the existing provision open, or as a I referenced the other day, to move

chaired by the national director of the NCCP, and its membership is drawn from across the health spectrum, including representatives from the NCCP, consultant clinicians, radiation oncologists and specialists. The purpose of the group is to consider, on the basis of the need identified, plans for the future … service provision, planning and staffing considerations for facilities. In its initial stages, membership of this group is expected to last for a period of three years, within which the group will meet to consider approaches that may be taken for the furtherance of planning necessary to best advance

here today and I thank her for her kind wishes. I am pleased to join the Taoiseach and Cabinet colleagues for these statements on budget 2027. The Government sees this budget as the next step in the trajectory of delivering on our programme for Government … consider their implications, analyse their effects and react. We need to think of both the short-term and long-term consequences and then plan accordingly. That is exactly what this budget represents. We are in a position to deliver a budget that strikes that balance because

welcome today's statements ahead of World Mental Health Day this weekend. I acknowledge everyone who is struggling with their mental health, be that quietly or in crisis. I want them to know that they are not alone. I want to also remember those who have lost their … modern mental health service with permanently understaffed teams. Let us consider children and young people. There are 4,800 children waiting on CAMHS nationally, with 673 of them waiting for more than a year. The families of those children struggle to manage. Schools are trying to provide supports

intends to build on the progress of the HSE's Breastfeeding in a Healthy Ireland action plan. It is the Department's ambition to develop a new whole-of-government national breastfeeding strategy and to continually increase breastfeeding supports to all mothers and families in Ireland. Work … evaluation and research systems. We will continue to be guided by both evidence and data. To that end, the Department is progressing a national infant feeding survey with the All Island Institute of Public Health, which is the first survey of its kind to be conducted since

warmly welcome that we are having these statements today. It is the tail end of National Breastfeeding Week. I warmly welcome all our guests in the Gallery today, including those from La Leche League, Baby Feeding Law Group Ireland and Bainne Beatha. Mary Byrd has been fighting … last few seconds, I just want to say that significant work must be done with regard to developing a national breastfeeding strategy. The Healthy Ireland action plan expired a year ago, so we need to see a new action plan and for it to be resourced. We also

public service pay agreement; and — Budget 2027 also includes a range of measures to support household incomes and living standards; regrets that the planned strike action on Wednesday, 14th October, will cause great disruption to the public, especially the most vulnerable in our society, and also result … clear that I want to make progress and am hopeful that it may be possible to find a way forward shortly in the national interest, in workers' interests and in the interests of the millions of people who rely on our public services. More broadly, it is important

There are a few points I want to speak about. I cannot answer everything. I answered a lot of questions in the opening statement, which was quite long. I know people have copies of it and they will get a lot of information from that. The first thing … supports for men with €2 million, partnered with family resource centres and Community Therapy Ireland, Exchange House Ireland, and with the Organisation of National Ex-Service Personnel, ONE, the retired veterans' association. It is also partnered with the farmers, and the Irish Farmers Association, IFA. That is important

Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage whether the Retail Planning Guidelines for Planning Authorities (2012) are to be reviewed, or a national planning statement prepared, to address the proliferation of premises for the retail sale of nicotine inhaling products in cities, towns and villages; the timeline

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage further to PQ69374/26, the timeline for delivering of the National Planning Statement in relation to onshore wind energy development; if it will be delivered in 2026; and the year this is projected to be delivered. [72067/26

tabular form; if CAP funding will remain ring fenced under the proposed single national and regional partnership plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70318/26

County Cork, whether completed since 2023, under construction or with planning permission, has been factored into National Transport Authority service planning for the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [70272/26

small and independent employers of recent and planned increases in employment costs, including increases to the national minimum wage, employer PRSI, statutory sick leave and the introduction of pension auto-enrolment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [73569/26

Minister for Health if a successor to the National Skin Cancer Prevention Plan 2023 to 2026 is being prepared; if it will address surveillance of high-risk individuals; the expected publication date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [70659/26

classes and special school places planned for the 2027-2028 school year and beyond; the arrangements in place between her Department, the National Council for Special Education, the HSE and Tusla to forecast future demand; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [71381/26

against the HSE national service plan target of 80 per cent in each of the years 2024, 2025 and 2026 to date, nationally and for HSE south-west, with a separate figure for Cork University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73864/26

National Transport Authority to apply for planning permission for delivery of the BusConnects programme of sustainable transport corridors in Cork; his Department’s view on Cork City Council bringing forward the necessary planning permissions directly if this legislation is further delayed; and if he will make a statement

Minister for Health the reason the HSE has decided not to publish a report (details supplied), despite its relevance to planning and delivering disability services nationally; the specific limitations in the underlying data and analysis that the HSE considers sufficient to justify non-publication; whether the HSE will … publish the report alongside the relevant caveats and limitations, to allow public scrutiny of the findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74581/26

Minister for Health the reason the HSE has decided not to publish a report (details supplied), despite its relevance to planning and delivering disability services nationally; the specific limitations in the underlying data and analysis that the HSE considers sufficient to justify non-publication; whether the HSE will … publish the report alongside the relevant caveats and limitations, to allow public scrutiny of the findings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74576/26

whether the National Transport Authority intends to cascade or redeploy the existing side-mounted Leap card validators currently in use on Dublin bus services to Galway city services following the rollout of the Next Generation Ticketing programme in Dublin; if such redeployment is not planned, the reason … same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [74956/26

National Ambulance Service in the HSE National Service Plan 2026; whether the remaining bookings are declined for reasons of capacity or clinical suitability; whether patient safety incidents arising during transfers carried out by private providers are recorded on the national incident management system; if so, the number recorded … each of the years 2023 to 2026 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73867/26