Results 61-80 of 12,577 for speaker:Brendan Howlin in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Education (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that there are an estimated 3,000 trained nurses from India and the Philippines currently working in Ireland; if he plans to allow those who wish to have their nursing qualifications recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland and those who need additional language training to progress to recognition as nurses; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (5 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 314. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 236 of 11 May 2022, if any improvement has been made in filling vacant therapist posts (occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology therapy) in County Wexford’s four CDNTs; the plans he has to ensure that an adequate service for children in County...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (4 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 182. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and location of therapist posts, including speech and language therapists, occupational, psychological and other, appointed to special schools to date in 2023, setting out the CHO areas of each appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43112/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: EU Enlargement (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 48. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on progress to EU membership of each of the Western Balkan state applicants, the issues to be resolved by each country to advance their applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41901/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 54. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the matters raised by him and the responses received, in his meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; if he specifically raised the continued annexation of Palestinian land by Israeli settlers and the treatment of Palestinians in the occupied territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Union (28 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 55. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to set out his views on the EU reform proposals from the Franco-German expert group which were presented to the General Affairs Council on 19 September 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41902/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 447. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 2518 of 21 April 2021, if he could update the table provided to include 2021 and 2022 figures and, using the same methods as before, to calculate the CO2 missed capture due to failed afforestation targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41471/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 448. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if officials from his Department have carried out analyses on the afforestation files on hand that will be affected by new restrictions relating to peat, high nature value farmlands and extended bird exclusion zones; to detail the overall number of applications affected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 449. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is accommodating all forestry stakeholder groups equally in terms of facilitating meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41474/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 450. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there have been any changes within his Department at Assistant Secretary-level with responsibility for forestry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41475/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out his proposals to increase LocalLink bus services to facilitate access to Wexford town from adjoining rural areas; if there are any plans, in particular, to provide disabled persons access from the Curracloe area into services in Wexford town; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39763/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 190. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he proposes to approve the Labour Court recommended increase in pension entitlements for An Post pensioners who have been due pension increases from 1 January 2022 and further increases from January 2023 and July 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39621/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 605. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 698 of 25 July 2023, if she will accept that a great injustice has been done in requiring the repayment to her Department of monies caused by the extraordinary requirements of the Covid crisis whereby a person (details supplied) exceeded their allowed working hours to facilitate the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 623. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if it is her intention that foster carers be allowed to maintain a social protection stamp/credit while continuing their foster caring and not be required to fulfil the signing-on requirements for jobseeker's credits; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39770/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 630. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she intends to include fibromyalgia as a recognised long-term illness condition for social protection purposes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39894/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 Sep 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1049. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will facilitate an appeal in relation to the awarding of a SUSI grant to a person (details supplied) who, due to their being abroad during the allowed appeal period, in line with Teaching Council requirements, has been unable to forward an appeal under the statutory provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39486/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Diplomatic Representation (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will set out the number of officers at the Embassy of the Russian Federation who have been notified to his Department under Article 10 of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic relations, and any changes in the number notified in the past six months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34626/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Diplomatic Representation (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 43. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish diplomatic and support staff assigned to the Irish Embassy in Moscow; if there have been any changes in this number in the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34628/23]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Overseas Development Aid (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 44. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the budget for overseas development assistance in 2022, and the expected amount in 2023; the proportion of GNI that has been committed; if he will provide a breakdown of the various programmes under which ODA is spent; the amount assigned to each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34642/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jul 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current annual training capacity for the Defence Forces; how many new entrants were trained in each year since 2016, broken down by service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34635/23]