Results 861-880 of 3,706 for speaker:Michael Lowry

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 634. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will detail the contacts she has had with a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary in respect of the need to progress the building programme for the school; if she will provide an update and give assurance in relation to the building programme at the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12594/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 661. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on an additional accommodation project at a school (details supplied), given the tendering process for this school build was completed on 13 October 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12849/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 726. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the possibility of extending free school transportation for the 2023-2024 academic year has been considered; if she will take into account the persistent impact the cost-of-living crisis is still having on families, and the significant demand for school transportation in rural communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 727. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has completed a review of the decision made in July 2022 to allow all valid and concessionary school transport tickets to use the school transport scheme for free during the 2022-2023 academic year; if so, the review's findings and recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13312/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the eligibility for school transportation currently at primary level, that a family must reside not less than 3.2 kilometres from and attend their nearest national school; if she will consider reducing this distance to less than two kilometres for the 2023-2024 academic year, given that many families have both parents and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 781. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an application for the provision of school bus transport for 14 students from Emly, County Tipperary, who require school bus transport into post primary schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13779/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 782. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will request that Bus Éireann school transport review the current school bus route for a school (details supplied); if she will request that Bus Éireann reconfigures this route to include the home of a student so that they can avail of school transport; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13782/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 849. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has a policy of writing to social welfare payment recipients and asking them to change their method of payment from collection at their local post office to electronic fund transfer with their bank; if correspondence from the postmaster (details supplied) has been brought to her attention; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 920. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department can confirm the total number of persons who are permitted to reside in St. Anne's, Roscrea; if this facility is being considered as a potential site for the use of modular dwellings to house Ukrainian refugees or for persons seeking asylum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12846/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 981. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason his Department did not contract a property (details supplied) for the provision of humanitarian accommodation for individuals fleeing conflict; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1030. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received correspondence (details supplied) from a group of 1st year students from the University of Limerick who are partaking in a business studies degree and who have been tasked with a social and civic engagement project; when he intends to review and response to this group; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13535/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1079. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps that a person should take in order to become a peace commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13282/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1080. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the criteria which would prohibit a person from becoming a peace commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13283/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1081. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality where a County Tipperary resident may acquire a list of all Tipperary appointed peace commissioners and their contact details; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13284/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1082. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a peace commissioner is appointed in the Mullinahone area of County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13285/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1083. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of peace commissioner applications received and pending approval from persons resident in County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13286/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1084. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how frequently the list of peace commissioners is updated to reflect commissioners who have died, who have retired, surrendered or been removed from their peace commissioner appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13287/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1351. To ask the Minister for Health if patients with hemochromatosis can still be treated in the day ward at Nenagh General Hospital by a person (details supplied); if he will review correspondence from a person and hemochromatosis patient living in Nenagh, County Tipperary; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13094/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1471. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions regarding pay increases and full pay restoration for section 39 workers and those who work in day care centres for the elderly and disabled; if he will consider communication from (details supplied); when funding will be provided to cover this organisation's annual wage increase of 5%; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Mar 2023)

Michael Lowry: 1497. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 281 of 20 January 2022, 532 of 13 December 2022 and 528 of 5 December 2022, if he will confirm that the review and service demand need analysis which have been carried out in part to identify the allocation of long-stay, respite, palliative care beds in St. Antony's unit Clonmel can be made available to myself and the...