Results 41-60 of 637 for speaker:Michael Cahill

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: I thank the Minister. I welcome the proposed increase in age limits. That is welcome. The scheme should now be made more flexible to include all people living in rural Ireland on low incomes. The RSS delivers to rural communities key community services including the maintenance of sporting facilities, community recreation areas and waymarked walking routes. Declining participation since...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 99. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility in the rural social scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21421/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: The question is to ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility in the rural social scheme and if he will make a statement on the matter. The rural social scheme was introduced in the first instance by former Minister Éamon Ó Cuív in 2004. I pay tribute to him for that. Of course, he was the first ever full Cabinet Minister with a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: Skellig Michael, where monks lived, worked and prayed hundreds of years ago, is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Its place in the history and culture of Kerry and Ireland is undisputed but it is also vital to the local economy of south Kerry, the Iveragh Peninsula and, indeed, the whole country. It attracts visitors from all over the world, even more so since the filming of the "Star Wars"...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 79. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if a new south west regional enterprise plan will be published soon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Job Creation (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 53. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in IDA supported companies in Kerry at the end of March 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of schools in Kerry now eligible to receive hot school meals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21420/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 203. To ask the Minister for Finance to include spinal fusion recipients in the disabled drivers and disabled passengers scheme, (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 204. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) can be urgently addressed; if we will outline and expedite the flood mitigation plan in place for Listowel, County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to expedite flood relief works to the areas affected by the flooding of 23 November 2024 comprising the Castleinch area in Listowel and Kilocrim, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21878/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contact details in relation to a matter (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21871/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of social welfare applications, that are first refused and are subsequently granted on appeal; the average time it takes to process appeals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to support and expedite a carer’s benefit appeal in respect of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21881/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 329. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to address the urgent need to increase the wages of early childhood educators (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21872/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 357. To ask the Minister for Health to give a detailed report in regard to any possible delays to Ireland’s alcohol health information labelling regulations (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 358. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women waiting for outpatient gynaecology services and appointments in the Cork/Kerry region for 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21875/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 359. To ask the Minister for Health to give favourable consideration to a request from an organisation (details supplied) to mandate for standardised breast density reporting for women who have public and private mammograms in Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21876/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 360. To ask the Minister for Health if she will direct HSE Dublin and Midlands to issue an urgent response in relation to the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2025)

Michael Cahill: 361. To ask the Minister for Health to expedite the provision of a primary care centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21880/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Apprenticeship Programmes (29 Apr 2025)

Michael Cahill: I would like to address the issue of the national apprenticeship training placement system. I understand apprenticeship scheduling is currently carried out on a national basis by co-ordinating providers and all efforts are made to schedule apprentices to their nearest available training location. If this is not possible, they will be called to the next nearest available location. However,...