Results 1-20 of 56 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (15 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of an instalment payment option for those making payments to Revenue for payments such as vehicle registration tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/25]

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank my colleague Deputy Ó Broin for his work on this motion. Right across counties Carlow and Kilkenny, we have towns and villages crying out for an increase in housing. These towns and villages have prime sites for housing developments that are unusable simply because the Government of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has failed to invest in adequate and fit-for-purpose...

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: This Friday marks the 75th anniversary of the historic signing of the Schuman Declaration just five years after the end of the Second World War. To paraphrase that declaration, it was intended that the pooling of Europe's resources would change the destinies of regions long devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war. Today, 75 years later, the core of that vision has been abandoned....

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: We need to be frank. Public confidence in the board at Children's Health Ireland is shattered and is in pieces. It is beyond repair. These unnecessary hip surgeries are a national scandal, a scandal of which we still do not know the depth. Thousands of hip surgeries have taken place over the past decade. There are possibly hundreds of cases of children who underwent highly traumatic...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Four weeks ago, I raised with the Taoiseach the case of four-year-old William Jonathan Moore who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, Duchenne muscular dystrophy. As I said at the time, his condition is so rare that no treatment is available in Ireland or the EU. William has been accepted for treatment at the Boston Children's Hospital but the United States is not covered...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: We have already sent them to you. I then sent them to you again. It keeps going back to the Minister for Health but I am not getting a response.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 751. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the marks required to pass ordinary level Leaving Certificate maths paper 1 and paper 2; if a student is completing the exam through Irish, if additional marks are given to the student; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 1447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will review the disability claim decision in relation to person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20222/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Help Service (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 2328. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of home helps employed, the nuance of vacancies, if there are plans to hire additional numbers, her views on the optimal number to be employed in this critical service, in each CHO region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20258/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Help Service (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 2329. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of home helps employed by the HSE that are on permanent contracts, and the number on non-permanent contracts, in each CHO region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20259/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Home Help Service (29 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 2330. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of home helps employed on contracts of less than 18.5 hours per week, in each CHO region, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20260/25]

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I strongly welcome the allocation of time today to discuss Uisce Éireann. This week, the community of Castlecomer in north Kilkenny received yet another notification of overnight water restrictions. This is a recurring issue that they have endured for years. This time the cause is critically low water levels. It is now April. We have not even reached the summer months and...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (10 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 198. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of feedback provided by craftspeople in relation to their experience of their participation in the Collect 24 exhibition under the auspices of the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland (DCCI) and the subsequent threat of legal action against the authors of the feedback by DCCI; his views on whether organisations...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (10 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 367. To ask the Minister for Health when staff at a nursing home (details supplied) in County Kilkenny will receive their section 39 payment increase; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18126/25]

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: This is welcome legislation from the Government. An increasing cohort of workers opt to work past their planned retirement age, some into their late 60s or even into their 70s. While this is fundamentally a personal choice for many, it would be naïve to ignore the external factors which put workers into a situation where they feel they have no choice but to keep working. These factors...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I am getting to it. It is the cost to them. Now, Ireland’s energy costs are the most expensive in the EU. The consequences are stark. Research carried out by ALONE shows one in three people over 65 are at risk of poverty. This is a national disgrace. After a lifetime of contribution to society, a third of our elders face possible poverty. Is it any wonder so many feel compelled...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (3 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 215. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason parents of children attending a school (details supplied) were not informed of the route change; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16358/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is only available in the United States.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The Government should not be putting-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Apr 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I raise the case of a young William Jonathan Moore, a four-year-old boy from Kilkenny who has been diagnosed with a life-threatening condition, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, DMD. This condition is so rare that no treatment is available in Ireland. William has been accepted at the Boston Children's Hospital for treatment. However, as I am sure the Taoiseach is aware, the treatment abroad...