Results 61-80 of 6,812 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Area Plans (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1196. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 1 April 2025, when Meath County Council will have the requisite resources and expertise to carry out its statutory planning functions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19201/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 496 and 497 of 1 April, if he plans to publish an SAC management plan for the Boyne-Kells Blackwater SAC; if so, if concerned stakeholders will have the opportunity to make submissions on any such plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19202/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1922. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question 674 of 1 April 2025, and with regards the 30.3% of AONs completed in 2024 that indicated ‘No Disability’ in accordance with the Disability Act, 2005, the percentage of those that were subsequently diagnosed with autism; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2163. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to lift the recruitment embargo on physician associates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2164. To ask the Minister for Health the details and timeline for the review of the role of physician associates; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2189. To ask the Minister for Health the projects in County Meath included in the HSE Capital Plan 2025; the funding allocated to each in this plan; the timeline for progress of each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Healthcare Policy (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2367. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the diagnosis and treatment pathway for patients suffering with Lyme disease; if there are plans to introduce extended antibiotic therapy as a matter of course or to make antibiotic assistive hypothermia therapy available here or through the treatment abroad or the cross-border directive; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20500/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (29 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of applications to CAO 2025 which are from students who will not sit the Leaving Certificate in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19368/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 21. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the date on which a private wires policy will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17088/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the way in which the Eirgrid All Island Resource Adequacy Assessment 2025-2034 (details supplied) will impact on energy supply in the years ahead; if it means that more renewable and less fossil fuel generation capacity will be required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17087/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Financial Services (10 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 420 of 25 March 2025, if she will provide a list of the schools referred to the FSSU; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18229/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: There are real concerns.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Last night in the Dáil, the Minister for Education doubled down on her intention to continue with the accelerated roll-out of senior cycle reform and a start date of September 2025. This is despite the significant concerns raised by school leaders across the State, including the tens of thousands of teachers who protested on this issue last November. On the current trajectory, they...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I have a later question that should have been grouped with this question. Will the Minister address the issue of artificial intelligence as a concern among those in the education sector?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I thank the Minister. Children are being exposed to extreme violence, including sexual violence and pornography, and some social media platforms trade on hate and division. That has real implications where people are suggesting, and I do not disagree with them, that there is a very significant experiment with our children and policymakers are very often behind the curve. There is a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: We need specific timelines and measures because we can all agree in the round here, and I do not disagree with a word that the Minister has said, but what we need from the Government is action and implementation on this. For example, while this is not the Minister's responsibility, we have light-touch regulation and it needs to be improved, with age verification and recommender settings....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Education Policy (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Some of that is already outdated.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The people who deserve a huge amount of credit here, given the financial pressure they are under, are school principals, school leaders and school communities. In many of these cases they are keeping schools operational that, without their effort, would be under the water. I recognise there have been increased levels of funding, but there has also been a far greater level of increase in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: We cannot be running from one crisis to the next.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: That is exactly what is happening. You are robbing Peter to pay Paul.