Results 21-40 of 237 for speaker:Tom Brabazon

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: It is necessary to apply within six months. Tusla must go to court and apply within six months of the date of the conviction. If, for example, the legislation is passed today, is it envisaged that the legislation would apply in the case of a person was convicted a year ago? Would Tusla be in a position to go to the court and ask for an extension of time because the six-month period has elapsed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (1 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 358. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the renovation of the science laboratory at a school (details supplied); when works will commence; and the engagement her Department has had with the school in relation on this project. [35604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (1 Jul 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 670. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to increase the availability of GPs in the Dublin 13 area. [35192/25]

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank the witnesses for coming in and giving up their time. I have a number of short questions. First, to Mr. Noonan, if somehow we could cobble together some kind of constitutional wording to enshrine our neutrality and that amendment was passed by the people, would he be as concerned as he is now regarding the triple lock?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Based on Mr. Noonan's logic, we cannot become aligned with a military alliance.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: We cannot join as a member either.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: We had a previous witness before the committee who painted a vista, albeit a stateable case, that in the light of the representations made by the then Government at the time of the Lisbon treaty, she could foresee the Lisbon treaty potentially unravelling before the European courts. What would Professor Tonra say to that?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: When the Lisbon treaty was being put before the Irish people, certain representations were made by the then Government about our neutrality. Based on that, the witness felt that if we changed the triple lock, that would undermine those representations and therefore undermine the validity of the decision made by the Irish people and could in theory, or at least on a stateable basis, be...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank Professor Tonra for that. This is a question on practicality. Professor Tonra mentioned that one of things that could be done or suggested is that a formal legal review be undertaken as part of each proposed overseas deployment. I was thinking about that from a practical point of view. Let us say the Minister for Defence gets a phone call at 2 o'clock in the morning and the...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Let us say there are Irish citizens on a runway in Kabul and the Army Ranger Wing is anxious to be deployed to rescue them but it cannot deploy because there is no legal review.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Under this legislation?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: What would happen if you wanted to send 51 troops?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 43. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the engagement her Department has had with Beaumont Hospital in relation to the hospital capital projects. [34917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 86. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the timeline for the delivery new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital. [34916/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 219. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with supermarkets in relation to price increases. [35028/25]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was introduced in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing. That terrible and cruel atrocity by the Real IRA took the lives of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured more than 300 others. The review group tasked with examining the Offences against the State Acts stated: [W]hile the threat from republican paramilitary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 236. To ask the Minister for Health her Department's plans to increase funding and resources for a hereditary cancer model of care. [34960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to establish oversight for the implementation of the hereditary cancer model of care. [34961/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to ensure the development of networked services and multidisciplinary teams, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34962/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure workforce development, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34963/25]