Results 341-360 of 6,165 for speaker:John Lahart

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I accept the matter is not Ms McGirr's responsibility.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank Ms McGirr.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion (24 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: At least they were published monthly up until May. They have not been published since.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he is increasing access to apprenticeship for under-represented groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45554/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (19 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the total allocation of capital grants (devolved capital grant and the further education capital grants) to the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board in 2023; the likely allocation for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45555/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Active Travel (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State for the comprehensive reply. Stakeholder buy-in is critical. Who are these stakeholders? Obviously, these include the local people who live in the area and use the roads. I refer in particular to parents, who are under pressure in the mornings. One of the things that happened was that school drop-off points were eliminated. Those school drop-off points that...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Active Travel (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Active Travel (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for selecting this and I thank the Minister of State for being in attendance to take the issue. The Minister of State and I have often spoken about this. We both know that the public wants to play its part in mitigating climate change. Everyone wants to help sustain a planet that can sustain our children and grandchildren and future generations. The more...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Control of Dogs (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 300. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she plans to impose a ban on dangerous American XL bully dogs in Ireland; the steps she has taken to ensure that owners of dogs requiring muzzles are complying with the law; and the way the public can hope to feel safe in public from dangerous breeds of dog which are described as same by the law. [45669/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Can we go back on that piece?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: And the criminality piece.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: When Ms O'Shea says mapping, does she mean mapping by identity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Has that not been done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: How were they obstructed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I sense a degree of frustration from the witnesses with some of the politicians. If I can attempt to frame it from my own perspective, it is in the context of the comments about the normalisation of abortion as healthcare and the global challenge with that. I can identify with that. Clearly, and I mean this is a very positive way, the witnesses have got their heads around that. Culturally...

Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I welcome the O'Farrell family. I was down this kind of road when, in opposition, I was Dublin spokesperson, with the Stardust families and inquiry. I put several questions as Dublin spokesperson and I had several motions, as did many Deputies before me in previous Parliaments, to be told by Minister for Justice after Minister for Justice that everything that could be done had been done,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: 8. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline progress on the new well-being-counselling initiative that she announced and introduced this year, and which has been warmly welcomed by the education partners and sector. [44807/23]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: Following on from the Minister’s very welcome introduction of the new well-being and counselling initiative for primary schools earlier this year, which has been warmly welcomed by the education partners and the sector as a whole, will she update the House on the structures under the initiative, including the employment of counsellors, how the process is working and being advertised...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Curriculum (17 Oct 2023)

John Lahart: I welcome the reply. This is a very radical and dynamic innovation on the Minister’s part. It will be one of a number of things for which she will be remembered. It represents a shift in the funding mechanism of the Government, for example. I have long believed that every Department has a role to play in well-being and mental health so it is not only the Department of...