Results 821-840 of 3,706 for speaker:Michael Lowry

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1362. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Parkinson's disease nurse specialists working in neurology centres in Tipperary University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16402/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1363. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to ensure that appropriate funding is to be provided towards the employment of additional Parkinson's disease nurse specialists in neurology centres, and specifically in Tipperary University Hospital, University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16403/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1383. To ask the Minister for Health the way that his Department is supporting the medical genetics service in Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin, as committed to in the programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16486/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1578. To ask the Minister for Health the strategies in place to address the General Practitioners shortfall in County Tipperary, particularly in light of the impending retirement of certain long-term general practitioners; if he intends to overhaul the present locum system in order to recruit general practitioners and healthcare professionals into Ireland in order for them to assist to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1645. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a person (details supplied), who had received septorhinoplasty ENT treatment through the National Treatment Purchase Fund, has been denied additional treatment through the NTPF despite a senior consultant ENT confirming that this person requires additional ENT specialist treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17584/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1756. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the ongoing issues within County Tipperary ambulance service; the steps he is taking to provide additional support to ambulance services in County Tipperary to address ambulance shortages within the county; if he will provide from January 2022 to March 2023, in tabular form, the number of ambulances and ambulance staff operational or stationed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1757. To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form from January 2022 to March 2023, the number of times ambulances typically stationed to operate in County Tipperary were asked to responds to ambulance call-outs outside of County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18172/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1758. To ask the Minister for Health to provide in tabular form from January 2022 to March 2023, the number of times ambulances not typically stationed to operate in County Tipperary were asked to respond to ambulance call-outs in County Tipperary because an ambulance was not available for dispatch within County Tipperary; the average response time for ambulance call-outs in such...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: I have raised the issue of ash dieback on numerous occasions. This perilous disease hit Ireland in 2012 and now almost 80% of our 123 million ash trees are dead or dying. Valuable land, including 2,000 ha in Tipperary, has been rendered useless. Plant and animal life have been wiped out and livelihoods have been seriously eroded. Common sense would dictate that the lands should be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: Last December I stood in this House to plead on behalf of a family whose seven-year-old son, Danny, was terminally ill. They wanted to bring Danny home from hospital to spend his final days with them and his young brothers. This was also Danny’s wish, following prolonged hospital stays. Imagine the anguish and helplessness they felt when they learned that bringing their precious boy...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: I thank the Taoiseach for his commitment and personal interest in the matter. The Minister of State, Deputy Butler, has been very active on the issue. I do not know where the blockage is, but it appears to be between the consultants and the nursing profession. There is no joined-up thinking on this and it needs to happen. Families living in the south east have been without this service...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 82. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of seizures conducted by customs officials on illegally imported solid fuels in 2021 and 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15687/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Customs and Excise (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 83. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of funding that has been provided to the Revenue Commissioners in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023 to combat smuggling of solid fuels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15688/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 96. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government why Tipperary County Council is unable to purchase a ground floor two-bedroom apartment at (details supplied) due to the annual management fees associated with the property and the building in which it is located; currently, this property is being sold by the owner and is currently rented for over ten years to an elderly...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what additional financial assistance has been provided to primary and post-primary schools to help them with their rising energy and utility bills; if she will confirm whether her Department will issue a scheme for schools that is comparable with the temporary business energy support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 164. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality concerning the firearms expert committee, if he has received correspondence (details supplied) from an association regarding the firearms expert committee's proposed recommendations and amendments for persons in receipt of a firearms licence; if he will meet with the organisation ; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on and define the qualifying criteria for publicly funded IVF fertility treatment as outlined in the programme for Government; if people who pay for IVF treatment between now and September 2023 will be reimbursed for their costs starting in September 2023, given his stated plan to start providing interim public support for IVF...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the reason terminally ill young children living in the south east are still being denied community paediatric palliative care services, therefore depriving them of the right to die at home; if immediate steps will be implemented to provide this critical treatment to young children in need of paediatric palliative care services; the reason home palliative...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (29 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 180. To ask the Minister for Health if the recommendations listed in the Bee Wee report 2020 for the clinical governance and operational arrangements for supporting a model of care for children with life-limiting conditions towards the end of life is being implemented in the south east for paediatric palliative care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15550/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an additional special needs assistant will be put in place to meet the classroom education needs of a child who attends a school (details supplied); if she will provide an update and assurance on SNA staffing levels at this school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14695/23]