Results 201-220 of 6,491 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1886. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm that it is possible for a company or an organisation with no prior experience in providing accommodation services to apply for and receive a departmental contract for the provision of international protection accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20240/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (29 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1887. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of companies or organisations with no prior experience in providing accommodation services that have been awarded a departmental contract for the provision of international protection accommodation; the total value of these contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20241/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Appointments Status (29 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 2110. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a hospital appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medical Inquiries (29 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 2222. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the relevant data regulations have yet to be signed off on which would finally enable the formal commencement of the non-statutory inquiry into the historical licensing and use of sodium valproate in women of childbearing potential in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19786/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 2449. To ask the Minister for Health if she will recognise fibromyalgia as a long-term disability for the purposes of healthcare, in line with a recent decision taken on this matter in Northern Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21038/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 2491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider increasing the parental income threshold for SUSI grant applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18707/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 2492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications made to SUSI for the 2024-2025 academic year that were rejected on the grounds of household income exceeding the limit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18708/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 2493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he can provide data on the number of second level students from DEIS schools who have proceeded to an approved PLC, or undergraduate or post graduate course during the 2023-2024 and 2024-2025 academic years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Dormant Accounts Fund (29 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 2604. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when band 2 funding will be disbursed as part of the Dormant Account 2024 Growing Social Enterprise Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19785/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: Married couples in my constituency on decent but modest incomes are contacting my offices in frustration following confirmation from SUSI that their children are either not eligible for grants or fees or, if they are, are just entitled to the bare minimum. I am dealing with one case where one parent is a council employee and the other a civil servant. They have always instilled a profound...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: The tariff trauma has begun. Even if our industries, particularly our pharmaceutical and agri-export sectors, can escape the worst of the challenges that arise, there is no doubt that we are in for a sustained period of economic uncertainty that is going to send chills through tens of thousands of households in this State. However, I want to state clearly that we have, in effect,...

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

Carol Nolan: I wish the Minister of State well in her new role and look forward to working with her on a number of issues. The Bill before us is in response to the Pensions Commission’s recommendations and implementation plan, published in 2022. Many aspects are welcome but there are also many concerns. The Government subsequently committed to introducing a range of reforms to ensure the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 939. To ask the Minister for Health for details on ultrasound scans by private services contracted by the HSE, for the purposes of dating start of pregnancy for women considering abortion within the 12-week limit; to summarise total expenditure per year, in tabular form, from 2019 to present; to provide the current cost or range of costs per individual scan; the qualifications are held by...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (8 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 940. To ask the Minister for Health the number of GPs reimbursed (PCRS) for the year 2024 and Q1 in 2025, in tabular form, for first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16954/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department will not enable a DEIS band 1 primary school in Offaly to retain its mainstream teacher; if she will consider her Department's actions in this matter and permit the school to retain its teacher; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16446/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: I wish to raise an issue that is of considerable importance not only to my constituency of Offaly, but to many areas nationally that have witnessed a dramatic increase in the level of demand. I refer to special education schools and the enormous pressure they are under every single day to keep the doors open, retain staff and deliver urgent therapeutic interventions to all pupils in their...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (2 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. The pilot scheme has failed. We are certainly all in agreement on that. However, I am concerned about the backlog of children waiting for in-school therapists. I acknowledge that a disability forum will be set up, which is progress in the right direction, but there is a need and a vacuum now. Offaly School of Special Education has done its level...

Support for Householders, Businesses and Farmers Affected by Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this motion. I am aware that many people are yet to receive a response to applications they submitted under the humanitarian assistance scheme. I am engaging with the Department to see how this process might be escalated given that it is now almost two months since the storm. Last month, I submitted a number of parliamentary questions to the...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: Stop it, will you? Have respect. The Deputies are a disgrace. I spent too long with them. I will be voting in support of the Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Verona Murphy, from one female politician to another, and as one who has had more than her fair share of spite and political attacks to contend with, particularly from one party in here. I will not sit on the fence as others have done...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: What an example to lead by. What would that be like in government? What would the country be like? A disgrace. It is shameful. I will make my vote here today with a settled and calm conscience that this is the right thing do.