Results 421-440 of 12,956 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of expanding the free travel scheme to include those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance. [31198/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 206. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of pension provision for foster carers and kinship carers; figures to be given separately. [31200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending the guardian payment to cover children over the age of 12. [31201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 208. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing the rate of guardian payment to be on par with the foster allowance. [31202/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Workers Register (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 209. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of hiring a case worker to help social welfare applicants. [31203/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Application Forms (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 210. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of increasing support for social welfare applicants struggling with literacy or accessibility. [31205/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Paternity Leave (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 211. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of doubling the provision of paternity leave benefit to four weeks. [31206/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Parental Leave (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 212. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of extending parent’s leave benefit up to eight weeks. [31207/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 213. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the first- and full-year cost of providing up to 20 days of reproductive leave, as outlined in the reproductive health-related leave bill. [31208/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Carer's Leave (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 285. To ask the Minister for Health the first- and full-year cost of giving family carers the right to a minimum of 20 days paid respite. [31199/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (11 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the first- and full-year cost of allowing recipients of disability allowance to retain their medical cards if they return to work. [31204/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The Minister of State has some neck to move that amendment. I thank Deputy Gould for bringing forward the motion and for all his work on this issue. There are 126 boarded-up homes in Fingal County Council's area. That amounts to 500 men, women and children who could be housed. Can the Minister of State imagine what it must be like for people to walk past those houses when they are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: He did not say that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Your time is up. Go on, you are out of ideas.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Do you want to phone a friend?

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: We will go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters.

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Good morning. I welcome you all to the public session of our meeting. The first item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes of the previous meeting. Are those agreed? Agreed. I will now read the formal notice on privilege. This is a requirement, so bear with me. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the...

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: A lot of work goes into ensuring we have the documentation here, and we greatly appreciate that. If there is no further business, members, that concludes our consideration of public petitions for this morning. I invite members of the public to submit petitions via our online portal, which is available at petitions.oireachtas.ie. I also encourage members to invite people to make petitions....

Committee on Public Petitions and the Ombudsmen: Business of Joint Committee (10 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Then I will adjourn the meeting. The committee now stands adjourned until 24 June 2025, when we will meet in private session and in public session.