Results 1,061-1,080 of 2,149 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 372. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any circumstances by which there are exemptions or accommodations made for the driver theory test. [23293/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 376. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any circumstances by which there are exemptions or accommodations made for the driver theory test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 432. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of learner drivers who failed to show up for their scheduled driving test appointment to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24387/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 433. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver testers currently employed in each of the 57 driving test centres; the number of permanent testers; the number of temporary testers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24388/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 434. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of driver testers' contracts that are due to expire in 2025; the number that will be offered new contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24389/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 435. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the time it takes to recruit new driver testers; the time it takes to complete their training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24390/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 436. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to make a driving test mandatory to obtain a new learner permit, closing a loophole that allows drivers to continue driving on learner permits indefinitely without ever taking a driving test; if primary or secondary legislation is required to introduce this measure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24391/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 437. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the revised National Vehicle and Driver File Bill 2025 has been presented to Government for approval to draft; if the Bill has been sent to the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for drafting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 438. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has made all the necessary ICT changes to allow motor insurers access to realtime data on driver disqualifications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 439. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a timeline has been jointly agreed between his Department and the insurance industry to allow motor insurers access realtime driver disqualification data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Insurance Industry (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 444. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 395 of 29 April 2025, how the nightly file from his Department to An Garda Síochána could include the disqualification status of every driving licence and include the driver number when many court disqualifications imposed on Irish licence holders cannot be matched to the appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of disqualification orders received from the Courts Service via a weekly file to date in 2025; the number that did not include the driver number of the person, to enable automatic endorsement on driver records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 445. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 1 April 2025, the number of Irish licence holders who received a court driving disqualification, but a match could not be made; the number that remained on the shell record for the period of the disqualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 allowing access by insurers and intermediaries to disqualification and endorsement data from the NVDF database at policy processing or renewal time; the date(s) that commencement orders were signed and provisions implemented in practice; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of validations that failed when an insurer attempted to validate the driver number of a disqualified driver against the National Vehicle and Driver File since 31 March 2025; the number of drivers that were advised by the insurer or broker to contact the National Driving Licence Service for the Road Safety Authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 443. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if insurers and brokers have his authority to cancel a motor insurance policy whereby the driver number cannot be validated against his Driver File database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24398/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms being put in place to allow businesses and representative organisations to make submissions to the proposed cost of business advisory forum on the regulatory and administrative costs affecting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23458/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1087. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps her Department has taken to expand IVF support to those experiencing secondary infertility; the supports currently in place for secondary infertility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24012/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The Minister of State's response proves my point. I thank him for it. This is heavy on regulation rather than on the rights of residents and communities. The language used is not at all consumer friendly. Meanwhile, we are seeing the fast development, growth and expansion of these deliveries and services and they are impacting communities. We have to make sure the regulations and public...