Results 81-100 of 153 for speaker:Natasha Newsome Drennan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 Jun 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 1021. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a decision will be made on an application for a spousal visa for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29667/25]

Flood Relief: Statements (29 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I welcome this opportunity to contribute on the crucial issue of flood relief schemes. My home county of Kilkenny has borne the brunt of devastating floods far too often in recent times. We do not need to look too far into the past; we all remember the damage done across Kilkenny by Storm Babet in 2023, when the banks of the River Nore broke, leaving Kilkenny city suffering heavy flooding...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The volume of traffic on this route has increased hugely. For 2024, we are looking at a figure of 15,000. That should be 8,000 or 9,000. This route has hugely exceeded what it was built for. There are also 11 local road junctions along this road now. This road was not built for those. We have what is the main route for Wexford traffic coming in to go to the hospitals. More than 80...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Part of the N25, in particular the stretch out past the Rhu Glenn, can be described in no other terms than a deadly accident black spot. Over the past number of years, there have been several fatal road accidents along this road. The road traffic report clearly states that the road has completely exceeded the safe number of vehicles. It has a 360% increase in road users. The community has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: It is great to have the Minister attend along with so many officials. I welcome his opening remarks and it is positive to see progress on the ACRES payment scheme. Farmers put a lot of faith into the scheme and I would not like to see any more delays in it. Officials from the EU were in Leinster House last week to brief Members on the Mercosur deal. I raised with them several concerns...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: What feedback is the Minister getting? Is it good?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Regarding Mercosur, has the Government identified enough like-minded EU members if a veto is needed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 327. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of transporting special education children to school in Carlow for the academic years 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of transporting special education children to school in Kilkenny for the academic years 2022-2023, 2023-2024 and 2024-2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Policy (27 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 377. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the recently published National Planning Framework which allocates national renewable energy targets to regions using a geospatial, grid-led and even growth approach, if he will confirm the specific setback distance from sensitive receptors was applied in the analysis for wind energy; if he will clarify which...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Energy Policy (27 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 378. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government in relation to the recently published National Planning Framework which allocates national renewable energy targets to regions using a geospatial, grid-led and even-growth approach, if he will provide a copy of the allocation analysis and the modelling iterations carried out, including the turbine specifications used, such...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (27 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 471. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the type of visa a person (details supplied) who is currently in Ireland is on; if they can apply for Irish citizenship; the steps they need to take to move towards this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27173/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: The United Nations has reported that up to 14,000 children in Gaza are at risk of starving to death in the next 48 hours. That is the same number of children under the age of 18 living in Carlow. It is unimaginable to picture that amount of death for such innocent children - 14,000 childhoods erased in 48 hours. The genocide in Gaza is reaching levels of unimaginable horror. Yesterday,...

Fair and Sustainable Funding for Carers, Home Support and Nursing Homes Support Schemes: Motion [Private Members] (21 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank the Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. As someone who has worked as a carer in the disabilities sector for 18 years, I am acutely aware of the struggles facing this sector. This motion clearly sets out the vital role carers and front-line healthcare workers play in our society. The role they carry out every day across Ireland is a quiet but vital contribution to...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: Over 15,000 children are currently awaiting an assessment of need. By the end of this year, that number is expected to soar to over 24,000. The law set out in the Disability Act clearly states children must be assessed within six months, but only 7% of children are assessed within that timeframe. Day after day, the Government is breaking the law and, in doing so, failing vulnerable...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (15 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 209. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider the introduction of an instalment payment option for those making payments to Revenue for payments such as vehicle registration tax; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25069/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I, too, congratulate the Cathaoirleach and wish him the best of luck in him role. I look forward to working with everybody. I am from Kilkenny. We have a suckler farm at home, so lots of issues and hardships. No doubt we will be hearing plenty of them but I am looking forward to working with everybody.

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: I thank my colleague Deputy Ó Broin for his work on this motion. Right across counties Carlow and Kilkenny, we have towns and villages crying out for an increase in housing. These towns and villages have prime sites for housing developments that are unusable simply because the Government of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael has failed to invest in adequate and fit-for-purpose...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (13 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: 950. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm plans to deliver a partnership (details supplied) with the World Health Organization. [24481/25]

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Natasha Newsome Drennan: This Friday marks the 75th anniversary of the historic signing of the Schuman Declaration just five years after the end of the Second World War. To paraphrase that declaration, it was intended that the pooling of Europe's resources would change the destinies of regions long devoted to the manufacture of munitions of war. Today, 75 years later, the core of that vision has been abandoned....