Disability Issues

330. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance the number of people who availed of the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme in 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; the Exchequer cost in each year; the number of unsuccessful applications refused; the latest timetable provided to his Department for replacement of the scheme; and whether provision has been made for the transition to the proposed needs-based vehicle adaptation scheme in Budget 2027. [68956/26]

Disability Services

602. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the total expenditure on one-to-one, two-to-one or three-to-one supervision, or other enhanced observation, for children and adolescents with an intellectual disability admitted to each Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick, by month from January 2026; the number of admissions for this cohort; whether each such admission was to a paediatric ward or an adult ward for the young person; the longest duration of any such admiss

Nursing Homes

662. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health to provide, in respect of safeguarding referrals or notifications relating to residents of nursing homes, the number recorded under each category of safeguarding concern used by the HSE, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse, neglect, discriminatory abuse, institutional abuse, self-neglect and any other category recorded, in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she will make a stateme

Disability Services

507. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality in respect of safeguarding referrals or notifications relating to people in disability services, the number recorded under each category of safeguarding concern used by the HSE, including physical abuse, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, financial abuse, neglect, discriminatory abuse, institutional abuse, self-neglect and any other category recorded, in each of the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026; and if she w

Health Services

167. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the measures in place, or being considered, to assist households with the cost of disposing of adult incontinence products, given the significant increase in waste collection charges in recent years; whether consideration will be given to introducing a national waiver, subsidy or support scheme for people who rely on these products for medical reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50486/26]

Planning Issues

207. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment the engagement hi Department has had with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage on the development of planning guidelines for anaerobic digestion and biomethane facilities, given the targets set out in the National Biomethane Strategy; whether he considers the absence of such guidelines to be a barrier to sustainable delivery of biomethane infrastructure; and if he will make a statement on the m

34th Dáil debate — 2026-09-30

Deputy Liam Quaide 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 a 9.6% jump in August alone. People have been absorbing the

34th Dáil debate — 2026-09-23

Deputy Liam Quaide 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 produce new guidelines, but if a child who does not proceed thr