Results 381-400 of 7,163 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 401. To ask the Minister for Finance if clear guidance will be issued for taxi drivers who will be affected by the tax implications of the ‘reverse charge’ model operated by taxi app companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11271/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Bodies (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will take action to ensure price gauging practices are banned and added to the remit of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Workplace Relations Commission (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 540. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will consider adding voluntary organisations into the remit of the WRC in view of an inquest verdict (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 610. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine a case (details supplied) where a child who requires a place in a reading school will not have one due to the lack of available places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to examine the case of a child (details supplied) who is at risk of expulsion from primary school due to a lack of additional supports available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Electric Vehicles (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1133. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the progress being made to ensure that peoples using e-scooters dangerously are fined appropriately, or the e-scooter confiscated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11545/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1134. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will honour former Justice Minister Helen McEntee’s plans for a ban on the use of private counselling notes being used as evidence in cases of sexual violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11546/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1610. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of the promised additional 117 ICU beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11272/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1611. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of key organ donation personnel in intensive care units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11273/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1657. To ask the Minister for Health if she will take steps to increase the number of advanced paramedics being trained across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11463/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1658. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure staff applying for the helicopter emergency medical service do not have to forfeit their advanced paramedic allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1973. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the Community Centres Investment Fund will reopen for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: An Garda Síochána (6 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if An Garda Síochána has the legal powers to pursue motorbikes and scramblers being driven dangerously; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reviewing the ten-year requirement for special-purpose vehicles where older vehicles are roadworthy as per the NCT; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10385/25]

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I endorse Deputy Nash's request for that commitment from the Minister of State that he will look at this and work on getting a solution to it. It would be very welcome if he would do that. I will make a point to him. I accept his bona fides in what he is saying about the Supreme Court ruling on the Zalewski case. What is pertinent in that ruling is that, because of the quasi-judicial role...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I ask the Minister of State to reconsider this. The case for this amendment has been made strongly. Yesterday in the audiovisual room, Members of the House from Opposition and Government parties heard directly from women who are survivors of domestic abuse and have gone through horrendous situations. They spoke passionately about the lack of support for them and the lack of refuge places...

Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: I also welcome this. It is very important. Like others, I have spoken to people who have been treated absolutely abysmally by some of these credit servicing firms. These include people who have been harassed or who have tried to get out of the situation and tried to sell. On contacting the firms to say they want to sell, they have been told that if they want to talk about that, then they...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: The Taoiseach says there will have to be forward planning in the future. Why is that forward planning not taking place under this Government? Why did it not take place under the previous Government? The crisis in special education is simply getting worse under the Taoiseach's watch. There are now hundreds of parents who do not know if their children will have a school place in September....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: Does the Taoiseach see something wrong with parents who have a huge amount on their hands being cast into the role of project managing to try to get a school place for their child? There is something fundamentally wrong with that. What is the Taoiseach doing to sort this out? Parents should not be put in that situation. The Taoiseach said 400 special classes have been promised to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (5 Mar 2025)

Cian O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will open a reading school in the Killester, Raheny, Clontarf school planning area, given there is currently no provision for children who have dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10049/25]