Results 241-260 of 7,314 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Consumer Protection (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 355. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the measures he will take to improve the consumer protections of home buyers arising from a case in County Meath (details supplied) and others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 12 June 2025 (details supplied), the number of children that account for the 92% of allocations receiving a place in a special class/school, by county. [33621/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to ensure reasonable accommodations for standardised testing in primary schools, such as increased time for dyslexic children is taking place at the moment. [34145/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Defective Building Materials (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 510. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the options open to apartment owners experiencing the effects of pyrite but whose neighbours, also affected by the same problem, do not want to take any action via the Pyrite Remediation Board or other means; if this issue is acknowledged and if possible solutions via the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011; if not, if other...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (24 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 823. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which she will meet with a group (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34064/25]

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank all the Deputies on both sides of the House for their contributions on this Second Stage debate. In particular, I thank Deputy Toole, my constituency colleague, with whom I previously discussed this legislation. She has a particular interest. This is an important intervention we are trying to make from a number of different perspectives. We have touched on a few of them. I...

Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the opportunity to discuss the Healthcare (Transparent Payments) Bill 2022, which I am co-sponsoring with my colleagues Deputies David Cullinane and Seán Crowe. I thank Dr. James Larkin, senior postdoctoral fellow at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, for his research in this area and for his help in preparing the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: In the area of special education, hundreds of children do not have an offer of a school place. They number in excess of 250 and possibly in excess of 260. Many more children have an offer but their offered places will not be ready for 1 September. I have one such example in Corpus Christi National School in Drumcondra in Dublin. This is a major concern. We potentially have hundreds of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Losses (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 92. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he or his officials have had engagement with a company (details supplied) and the examiner located there since announcement of the company entering into examinership; the extent to which the Department can support this process to ensure workers there are supported; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32742/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Losses (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: It was a shock for the whole community because we are talking about 217 jobs. Some workers in the area I grew up in and in the wider area have been in that factory for decades. It was known as a really good employer in the area and the impact on both direct and indirect employment is significant. It is an important employer in the area. In the first instance, this period of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Losses (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: In the first instance, this is about protecting as many jobs as possible. I have raised with the Minister for enterprise the importance of making every effort to identify an investor and save as many good jobs as possible. This is also about ensuring that those who lose their jobs are supported in every way possible in terms of understanding their rights and entitlements and the supports...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 14. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the efforts he is making to increase employment opportunities in County Meath, given the very significant number of workers who are forced to leave the county every day for work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Losses (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or his officials have had engagement with a company (details supplied) and the examiner located there, since the announcement of the companies entering into examinership; the extent to which the Department can support in this process to secure the best possible future for this business; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he recognises the anomaly in the social welfare system which means that people in receipt of widow’s pension, and who are working, are penalised if they become ill and can no longer work, because they cannot claim illness benefit for example; if he intends to address this anomaly; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 12 June 2025 regarding the more than 92% of children who have been allocated a place or are in the process of being allocated a place, the exact number of children this refers to, and for a breakdown of same, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (19 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 327 of 12 June 2025, the number of teachers required to reduce the teacher pupil ratio to 19:1 and 18:1 respectively. [33379/25]

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister for being here. The Minister said that 3,275 special education places were notified to the NCSE for this year under the new arrangement. She said in the Dáil Chamber last week and also on "Morning Ireland" that more than 92% had received an offer. As for the number of children who have not received an offer, being 8% of 3,275, is that 260 or 265 children?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: What is the number of children,out of the 3,275 who were notified to the NCSE, who have not yet received an offer of a school place?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: What is it today?