Results 41-60 of 237 for speaker:Tom Brabazon

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

Tom Brabazon: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to ensure there is patient information and supports for those under the hereditary cancer model of care. [34964/25]

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

Tom Brabazon: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to provide patient information and supports, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34965/25]

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

Tom Brabazon: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to identify the IT infrastructure required to enable the implementation of this hereditary cancer model of care, including genetic counselling network and referral to national specialist genetics multidisciplinary teams. [34966/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The programme for Government contains a commitment to reduce class sizes to 19. Two schools in my constituency, Belgrove Infant Girls' School in Clontarf and Scoil Mhuire in Howth, have classes amalgamating due to falling numbers. This will result in pupil-teacher ratios of 35:1 in both classes. Can the Taoiseach expedite the programme to introduce the 19:1 ratio in these schools as soon...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I welcome all of the witnesses. My first question is about the 2013 pension scheme that was introduced. I am on the justice committee, and we have had the Garda Commissioner before us. We have had the GRA in and it suggested that recruitment and retention in particular are a big problem, and this pension set-up is a big part of it. Gardaí are probably paid a little better than the...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank the Minister for his very detailed presentation, which underscores the Government's strong support for An Garda Síochána and the great work it is doing. The GRA came before the committee last week and spoke about the post-2013 pension scheme, which was introduced for newly recruited gardaí at that stage, as being a difficulty for recruitment and retention. It is not...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: A number of gardaí are suspended, and the period of suspension ranges from three years to seven years. Is there anything we can do to speed up the disciplinary process so that whoever is going through the disciplinary process is either back to work as a member of An Garda Síochána or the alternative option is taken under the process?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The training allowance in Templemore is €354 per week. In the context of the recruitment age being increased from 35 to 50, between the ages of 35 and 50 people are generally established in life with responsibilities such as rent, mortgages, children and school fees. Does the Minister think he might be in a position to recruit more people within this specific age cohort with a higher...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Chair, we agreed to have a meeting in September.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 359. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the recommended pay increase for the contract cleaning industry will be approved by Government. [33938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it can be ensured that a child (details supplied) can avail of an appropriate school place in time for the coming school year.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33989/25]

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank the witnesses for their clear presentations. First, as a riposte to part of the contribution by Deputy Ó Laoghaire on the drug interdiction and the statement that it is potentially possible to get involved in drug interdiction without a change to the legislation, I would hate to be a prosecutor defending the legality of evidence brought before a court where this is brought up...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Does Dr. Burke have anything to add to that? No. One of our other witnesses last week put forward the theory that, if we pass this legislation, we will unpick the Lisbon treaty and by extension other EU treaties, which I felt was a rather dramatic interpretation of matters. What do the witnesses have to say about that?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: If the Constitution enshrined military neutrality or non-military alignment, would this legislation stand up to the constitutionality test?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 203. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total amount of money which the State has provided to the UNFPA from 2024 to date. [33452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (19 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 250. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the grades of former civil servants that are having their pension deductions assessed for possible anomalies and if these former civil servants have or will receive official notification that their pension deductions are subject to such assessment. [33463/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: As the Taoiseach will be aware, in 2019 the Government proposed to develop a national security strategy. The new strategy at that time aimed to set out a whole-of-government approach on how the State could protect its national security and vital interests. Over a period of five years, from 2020 to 2025, the current and emerging threats have changed significantly and the threats have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 21. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide an update on the progress of the national security strategy. [29818/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Reports (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 15. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide details on the implementation of the Dublin city task force recommendations through his Department. [32469/25]