Results 641-660 of 1,477 for speaker:Grace Boland

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

Grace Boland: 2439. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the steps being taken to regulate non-refundable administrative fees in the early childhood education sector; whether any guidelines or oversight mechanisms are in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42813/25]

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

Grace Boland: 2440. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she has conducted any impact assessment on how unregulated crèche administration fees affect low-income families access to childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42814/25]

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

Grace Boland: 2441. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to consider mandating transparency in how administrative fees are used by childcare providers; whether such fees should be refundable or deductible from future childcare costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42815/25]

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

Grace Boland: 2453. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) will be called for their assessment of need appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2557. To ask the Minister for Health the total spend by her Department on external legal services in each of the past three years; the main areas of legal activity for which external advice was sought; if she will provide a breakdown by case or category; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2561. To ask the Minister for Health if she will give due consideration to expanding Ireland’s medical card scheme to cover psychotherapy, both short-term and long-term, through a reimbursement model for accredited private therapists, as currently medical card holders can access up to eight free counselling sessions via the HSE’s Counselling in Primary Care programme, which does...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2563. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on legal fees associated with litigation, advice and settlements in each of the past three years by her Department and agencies under its aegis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40882/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2698. To ask the Minister for Health if all external legal fees incurred by her Department, and by any bodies under its aegis, are charged at negotiated discounted rates; how fees are monitored for compliance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2699. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department conducts regular benchmarking, or market testing, to ensure that the rates paid for legal services, solicitors and barristers, represent value for money for the taxpayer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2700. To ask the Minister for Health to detail the procurement processes used when engaging external legal firms and barristers, including whether panels are used; how often these are refreshed; the criteria used for selection and performance review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2701. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has conducted any audits or reviews in the past five years on legal fee spend; if so, to publish the findings or summaries of those reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41560/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2702. To ask the Minister for Health the internal oversight that exists within her Department to monitor the scope, duration, and cost escalation of legal services once engaged; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2703. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department makes use of capped fee arrangements, fixed-fee briefs, success-based fee models or other such arrangements in its legal engagements; if not, the reason such options are not considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Legal Cases (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2704. To ask the Minister for Health whether any legal engagements have exceeded their initial estimated or approved cost in the past three years; if so, the number of such cases and total overrun; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41614/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2764. To ask the Minister for Health the current general practitioner to population in the Fingal area, particularly in Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk; how this compares to the national average; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41900/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2766. To ask the Minister for Health the number of public health contracts, by general practitioner in Fingal, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41902/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2765. To ask the Minister for Health the steps her Department is taking to address the capacity constraints of GP services in Fingal where population growth has outpaced GP supply; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2767. To ask the Minister for Health the plans her Department has to expand general practitioner training placements or incentivise practice establishment in high growth areas such as Balbriggan, Rush and Lusk, where demand is increasing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41903/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 2876. To ask the Minister for Health the work her Department is undertaking to tackle the declining fertility rate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42551/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Jul 2025)

Grace Boland: 3101. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria required to open a DDoc service in the north of Swords; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43224/25]