Disability Services

153. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the staffing establishment of the CDNT team based in Clonmel, County Tipperary; the number and category of posts filled; and the number and category of posts vacant. [69062/26]

Budget 2027

154. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an organisation (details supplied) with an additional €1.4 million in Budget 2027 to sustain existing direct services. [69045/26]

Budget 2027

75. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide €27.3 million in Budget 2027 to protect existing youth work foundations, secure existing services and support retention of staff. [69151/26]

Early Childhood Care and Education

158. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to increase funding in Budget 2027 for the early childhood sector to provide pay parity for graduates, increased graduate premium and in-service training. [69048/26]

Social Welfare Payments

7. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will increase the annual carer's support grant. [67666/26]

Budget 2027

9. Deputy Seamus Healy asked the Minister for Social Protection to review the carer’s allowance and carer’s benefit with a view to the abolition of the means test in budget 2027. [67662/26]

34th Dáil debate — 2026-09-30

Deputy Seamus Healy Families throughout the country are experiencing a severe cost-of-living crisis. In the teeth of this crisis, the Government withdrew all cost-of-living supports this year, leaving families as much as €1,400 worse off. The Government must now introduce a windfall profits tax on energy companies and price caps on petrol, diesel, home heating oil, electricity and gas to support families with the cost of energy. We already have the highest retail electricity prices in Europe at

34th Dáil debate — 2026-09-30

Deputy Seamus Healy The proposals to impose more severe regulations governing Irish citizenship are pandering to a tiny minority of far-right, anti-immigrant voices. It is shameful. As the Irish Council for Civil Liberties has said, no rationale, research or evidence has been presented by the Department for these proposed changes and no issues have been identified in the current system. Claims that changes bring us into line with Europe do not ring true as several European countries retain the