Results 341-360 of 532 for speaker:Eoghan Kenny

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 128. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given her Department’s recent decision to reduce the criteria for allocating special education teaching hours from five to three for the upcoming academic year, thereby excluding factors such as student gender and the complexity of individual needs, if she will conduct an immediate policy review to assess the impact of these changes on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 328. To ask the Minister for Health if a permanent ambulance base will be reinstated in Midleton, County Cork, following flooding events last year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 387. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will open a special educational needs classroom for the academic year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15137/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will open a special educational needs classroom for the academic year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15138/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: Schools are at absolute breaking point financially. Having spoken to a number of principals in recent days, I have come to the understanding that schools are unable to continue providing an education because they do not have the funds to operate. One principal informed me that the Department of Education and the financial support services unit, FSSU, have told schools to take money out of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I raise the 215 Blarney bus. The 215 Blarney bus goes from Mahon Point to Blarney. The Minister of State can appreciate it is coming from Mahon Point and through the city, so the timing is quite difficult. I want to make the Minister of State aware of it. I know the Minister of State will not have any answers on that. Will he look into it?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I thank the Chair.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given the programme for Government commitment to "continue to reduce the Student Contribution Fee over the lifetime of the Government to ease the financial burden on students and families at the start of each academic year, in a financially sustainable manner", to outline his Department's plans to reduce the student contribution fee; and if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I ask what plans the Minister and his Department have to reduce the student contribution fee, given that the programme for Government commitment is to "continue to reduce the Student Contribution Fee over the lifetime of the Government to ease the financial burden on students and families at the start of each academic year". I am quite concerned about the Minister's comments on 15 March this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: When the SUSI grant is being made available, in terms of means, it is taking into account both parents and the individual. If a student has a part-time job outside of college, it is taking into account those means as well, so there is no encouragement there for a student to have a part-time job. I am quite concerned at the lack of communication between the Minister and the Tánaiste....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The programme for Government.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Fees (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I thank the Minister, and I appreciate that. The Minister has the opportunity to have the same impact the former Minister, Niamh Bhreathnach, had in 1995. He has that opportunity to make that same impact where, across all socioeconomic backgrounds, third level education was fully accessible because third level fees were abolished. The Minister could have that same impact the former Labour...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 29. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills given that he has committed to publishing a new student accommodation strategy in Q2 of 2025, when the new strategy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 48. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will seek to abolish the pro-rata fee for apprentices and ensure that apprentices are paid a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to ensuring that technological universities are able to borrow funds in order to facilitate the building and purchasing of student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to establishing a minimum PhD stipend of €28,000 for all PhD students, as recommended by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 389. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to recruit the additional 11 WTE staff needed towards delivering an obesity service in Mallow to coincide with the funding in the capital submission for 2025 for the required infrastructure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14765/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (26 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will commit to increasing the percentage of Irish-language courses at third level to 5% within the next five years, in order to ensure the success of the Government’s 2030 goal of 20% of the public sector working through Irish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14560/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: You are.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: To clean up your mess.