Results 5,421-5,440 of 6,887 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the completion of the updated guidelines for rural planning; the expected timeframe for publication; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51612/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her engagements with the teaching unions and parents in relation to the shortage of school places in areas such as Dundalk, County Louth acknowledging the challenges this has on families at an already stressful time of year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51606/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the provisions that have been commenced in relation to the Education Act 2018, specifically, the aims to make the rules around admissions to schools more structured, fair and transparent; the provisions yet to be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51607/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that currently comply with the Education Act 2018 and the aims to make the rules around admissions to schools more structured, fair and transparent by county in tabular form; and the number of schools yet to comply with these rules. [51608/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 278. To ask the Minister for Health if e-tenders for the supply of (details supplied) will be issued following the suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic; if so, the expected timeframe for the reopening of the e-tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51617/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Contracts (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe in which (details supplied) will be open again through e-tender for competition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51618/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the new statutory scheme on home support providing an update on each of the four CH0 sites that are due to test the reformed model of service delivery; if services will be fully operational under the pilot on 1 November 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51619/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeframe in which the strategic workforce advisory group considering the challenges to homecare will report with recommendations regarding the ongoing difficulties with the recruitment and retention of homecare staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51620/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts through (details supplied) that will be provided to CH08; the expected timeframe for the recruitment for these posts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51621/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail the incentives and alternatives being considered to attract more workers into homecare; and the engagements he has had on the issue with various other departments. [51622/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons per CHO in tabular form from the establishment of the scheme who have availed of HSE funding to hire homecare support providers themselves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51623/21]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horticulture Sector (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 321. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the engagements he has had with plant nurseries in relation to the reuse of carbon by LPG generators; the considerations made following these engagements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51615/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 328. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development further to Parliamentary Questions No. 36 of 14 October 2021, the expected timeframe for the finalisation of proposals to guide the future direction and work programme of the Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce; the groups the engagement has taken place with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51613/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Issues: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank the Minister of State for appearing before the committee. I will follow up on a number of the issues he has dealt with. Obviously, the Irish protocol remains paramount for us. In fairness, it appeared that the Commission and Vice-President Šefovi pushed themselves as far as they possibly could to find a solution which, I believe, a considerable number of people in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Issues: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: It would relate to all sorts of funding and moneys into the future.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Issues: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I am called a lot worse.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Union Issues: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Not in public session though. I thank the Minister, Deputy Byrne, for a comprehensive answer to what was a considerable number of questions. On the rule of law issue, I accept that talking has to take primacy. I accept what is happening at the minute and the processes in regard to Article 7 and then the recovery and resilience funding, which matters because money counts on leverage. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: I thank Mr. Geoghegan and Mr. Cullinane for appearing before us. To return to something Mr. Geoghegan dealt with in response to Deputy O'Rourke earlier, multiple people have contacted us about those HR issues. Without getting into the ins and outs of them, I welcome the fact that negotiations are ongoing and that Mr. Geoghegan has stated that it is not the DAA's wish not to have those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: No decision has been made in that regard at this point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chairperson Designate of the DAA: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: Mr. Geoghegan has spoken about 2025 and of being in a better place, for want of a better term. He says the DAA will wash its own face when we get to passenger numbers in the high 20 millions per year. This is possibly gazing into a crystal ball, but when does he foresee that happening, on the basis of indications, modelling or whatever else?