Results 201-220 of 11,700 for speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update and timeframe for the introduction of dedicated transport police; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9418/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will use my time to focus on a few of the recommendations of the Housing Commission’s report. I note there have been some important policy changes in recent years - the introduction of cost rental housing, the vacant property refurbishment grant and the new land hoarding tax – but we still have a dysfunctional housing market. People are still struggling significantly to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who have benefited from the baby boost triple child benefit payment to date; the number his Department estimates will benefit from it in 2025; the estimated additional cost in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8526/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his election, and I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. Last October, the Green Party and I championed the idea of a baby boost payment of an additional €280 when a new child is born. I was happy to see it included to see it included in budget 2025 and it was implemented in late 2024. Will the Minister give an update on its...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Getting this idea over the line was surprisingly pretty hard. It was a long negotiation to get full agreement to get this into budget 2025. That surprised me considering that it is quite a small overall cost of €15 million compared with €180 million to do the double payment on child benefit. In light of that fight to get it over the line, I want the Minister's assurance that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I appreciate the Minister's clarification that the baby boost payment is here to stay. It is an initiative that the Green Party and I are proud to have led in introducing. A universal payment that is targeted at a particular time in a family's life where almost every single family is under pressure financially when a new baby arrives is a meaningful step the Government and the State can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in total for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) made in 2024; the number granted at first instance; the number granted at appeal; if he is satisfied with the criteria used for determining the grant of DCA at first instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Children in Care (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give consideration to the provision of foster carers with a State pension as per the Programme for Government Commitment; when he expects to have made a decision on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a timeline for the implementation of the Programme for Government commitment to “Explore a targeted Child Benefit Payment”; his views on whether this would result in eligible families getting additional financial support or would the new payment simply replace the working family payment and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new child poverty target will be set; the future process to establish that new figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8524/25]

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: This week, we mark a grim milestone for Ukraine, which has withstood three brutal years of invasion, occupation and displacement. Millions of lives have been turned upside down. We speak today during another dark chapter in this story, namely, the faltering support of the United States and President Trump's shameful capitulation to Putin's agenda. I remember this week three years ago....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are now in the last week of February and, as yet, the climate action plan for 2025 has not been published. Under the climate action Act, the Minister has to present the climate action plan annually. The draft action plan for 2025 was ready for publication in December last year but Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael took a political decision not to publish it until the new Government was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I notice the Taoiseach is not answering the question.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is ready to go. Why can it not be published?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The last decade has seen a big shift in public policy towards childcare in this country. The State now recognises that the first five years are a critical developmental time for young children and has built a range of supports for parents and children so they can give their children the best start in life. As part of those supports, the State now seeks to make early learning and care...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Taoiseach. From my experience over the past four years, I am well aware of those complexities but I am also of the strong belief that if we just continue to pump money into the existing system and continue our reliance on the existing system, we are not going to be able to deliver the sea change we need to ensure every child has access to the quality early learning and care he or...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I support the motion and I thank Deputy Coppinger for using her first opportunity in Private Members' time to raise this absolutely critical issue. There can be no equivocation when it comes to assessing our efforts to end violence towards women and girls in this country. We are simply not doing enough. I say that as a former Minister for equality, I say it as a politician with a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional places that will be created in SEN classes attached to mainstream schools at primary and secondary level in the Dublin west area for September 2025; and how many extra places are being provided in each school, in tabular form [8433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional places that will be created in special schools in the Dublin west area for September 2025; how many extra places are being provided in each school, in tabular form. [8434/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the work of the Dublin 15 schools taskforce; and if she will state with confidence that all children in Dublin west will be able to avail of an appropriate school placement, be it in a special class attached to main stream primary or secondary schools, or in special schools, in September 2025. [8435/25]