Results 41-60 of 950 for speaker:Johnny Guirke

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of first year, second year, third year, and fourth year apprentices who have completed the required on-the-job training for that year, but have yet to be called by Solas to undertake their block release training, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50833/25]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I thank Mr. Brady for the presentation. He said that there are some signs of a slowdown. What businesses would be the first to be affected? I have a few questions so I will just ask a few of them. Mr. Brady talked about tariffs and how they are affecting business. In my view, what has been affecting business in the last 12 to 18 months has been the weaker dollar and how much business is...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed) (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: Given the demand for housing and trying to entice construction workers home from different countries, what does Mr. Brady think the Government should be doing to help them out with housing, and making it a little easier for them to obtain driving licences and so on?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: The Department has written to me three times about the Oldcastle House Hotel in Oldcastle, County Meath. It is a 12-bedroom hotel. The Department has said that while it received a request with regard to accommodation, it is no longer considering it. The people who own the hotel have IPAS centres throughout the country. A meeting has been organised in Oldcastle for tomorrow night by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I thank the Minister. What is causing a lot of hassle around the country is where section 5 exemptions from planning are used to house international protection applicants or Ukrainian applicants. We believe something needs to be done about this because it is being abused. What determines the location of an IPAS centre? Is it communication with local representatives or communities? Is it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: We feel an examination is needed because millions of euro were paid for IPAS accommodation to a company owned by man who was named by the Criminal Assets Bureau as being linked to a gangland feud. The Department of justice continued to lease accommodation from the Good People home care company, which was found to have supplied fake Garda vetting clearances to Tusla. Is that being addressed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: Just to say, in any correspondence I have had with the Minister, her has been very helpful and I appreciate that. I have a couple of quick questions that I will ask together. Of those who have received voluntary deportation orders, how many have not gone home and are missing in the State? How widespread is that? What measures have been taken with people who destroy documentation? We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: That is two and half times more than the State accommodation, so it is a no-brainer to have State accommodation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: The State currently provides accommodation to 33,000 people in emergency accommodation. How do we get those numbers down?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I wish to tell the Tánaiste how much it is costing students to go to college this year. I will tell him about a student in my constituency of Meath West who goes to college in Galway. Last year, she paid €8,632 to go to college. This year, it will cost her €10,380 for the same room, just moving across the hall. How is that happening? There is an additional €350...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I thank the witnesses for coming in and for the presentation. I agree with them all on a couple of things. One is that they would not be here only that Fianna Fáil bankrupted the country, and the second is that the housing crisis will not be sorted if the party is kept in government.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: That is all right. The budget is about choices, as we know. The Government has choices. A fifth of children are living below the poverty line. It is about choices and how to spend it. Instead of spending it on super junior Ministers, it could be spent on the people who need it the most. Reference was made to the housing targets and other targets. I was listening to RTÉ Radio 1...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I know, yes.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (18 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I thank the witnesses.

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Johnny Guirke: Every year, families do not fight for a favour, they fight for a basic right: the right to a school place or a school bus for their children with additional needs. This is not a one-off problem. It is one that circles back year after year, with no lessons having been learned from the previous year. In too many communities, children with additional needs cannot even access education in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (29 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 1055. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in County Meath still without an appropriate school place for September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41446/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 1056. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current average class size, that is, pupil-to-teacher ratio, in primary and post-primary schools in County Meath; the corresponding figures for the latest academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41447/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (29 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 1057. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of classes in Meath that currently exceed 30 pupils; the way in which this proportion compares to national levels; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41448/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 1058. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of school transport allocations in County Meath for September 2025; the number of pupils approved for school buses; the number of routes confirmed; the summary of outstanding applications or appeals; the steps being taken by her Department to ensure that all eligible students have safe and reliable transport arrangements in place...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (29 Jul 2025)

Johnny Guirke: 2325. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide an update on the availability of childcare places in Navan for September 2025; the number of available and waitlisted places; how this compares with demand; the steps being taken to expand capacity locally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41453/25]