Results 121-140 of 730 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 265. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of WTE positions within the IDA assigned to each county in the State in each of the past 20 years, including job titles and grades, in tabular form. [33367/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills , given that the 1,600 additional SNA staff promised in Budget 2025, bringing the number of SNAs from 22,000 to 23,600, will now amount to approximately 500 fewer than expected, she will provide a breakdown, by county, of the 1,600 extra SNAs that had been promised for each county for September 2025, and the number of SNAs that will be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 334. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the failure to make progress towards the Roadmap for Social Inclusion target of reducing consistent poverty from 5% to 2% or less by 2025, given that the most recent EU-SILC data shows the rate remains at 5% showing no net reduction; the analysis his Department has undertaken of the reasons for this...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the way in which feedback and recommendations from the Social Inclusion Forum are integrated into the development and implementation of national anti-poverty policy; his views on the Forum’s role in informing future iterations of the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 336. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to child poverty and jobless households; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 337. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on progress toward the Roadmap for Social Inclusion targets specifically relating to poverty amongst older persons; the data sources used to track these targets; his views on the challenges and interventions identified to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Poverty Data (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 338. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the mechanisms that exist across Government to ensure interdepartmental coordination in delivering the Roadmap for Social Inclusion; the way in which his Department monitors implementation across sectors; his views on the effectiveness of these oversight arrangements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33361/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care of the Elderly (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 368. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a retirement home (details supplied) in Waterford was closed; the reason for its closure; if his Department plans to reopen the facility as a public nursing home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 383. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, given that many of the frontline workers during the pandemic are still suffering with the effects of long Covid and have to deal with an increased amount of sick leave and medical bills, her views on the secession of special Covid payments to healthcare workers/HSE staff with long Covid, on 30 June 2025; and her views on long-Covid sufferers...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 409. To ask the Minister for Health her Department’s position is regarding pension entitlements for staff employed under HSE-funded Roma and intercultural health projects operated by area partnerships; if her Department or HSE intends to fund employer pension contributions for these workers; the plans in place to address this matter upon the introduction of pension auto-enrolment; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 410. To ask the Minister for Health to detail all applications made in the past five years with respect to the establishment of a Jigsaw youth mental health service in Waterford, including the date of the application, by whom it was made, by whom it was received, the consideration given to the application, the outcome, date of decision, and the rationale for that decision, in tabular form....

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I will speak on amendment No. 211 on child and youth mental health services. Sinn Féin's policy for a considerable amount of time has been to change CAMHS to a broader service and to increase the upper age limit to 25. This would be an important step if it were to be adopted. I note what the Minister of State said earlier about listening to the Opposition and working with us but I...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The policy the Government is now pursuing when it comes to rent is a cynical attempt to drive rents even higher for tens of thousands of people already struggling to keep a roof over their heads. There is no denying that the Minister has chosen to side with corporate landlords, institutional investors and developers and to throw renters under the bus. I want to see RPZs - those modest...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Local authority CEOs are telling the Government that the affordable serviced sites scheme is not working.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: As Head of Government, when will the Taoiseach acknowledge his housing policy is failing rural communities?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The issue is that local authority managers are saying it is not suitable or appropriate.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The housing crisis is not just an urban crisis. It is also tearing out the very heart of rural Ireland. Young people are being priced out or locked out. They are being pushed into the larger towns or cities or, more often than not, they are being pushed abroad. GAA clubs and county boards are raising the alarm on this. Some are now appointing demographic officers to deal with rural youth...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If you did not waffle as much in the first four minutes.

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Public transport is essential for rural communities. It connects young people to education and training, older people to services and workers to jobs. It keeps our rural towns and villages alive and links people to public services, which unfortunately have become ever more concentrated in urban areas at the expense of rural accessibility. Local Link provides an excellent service in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (18 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the capitation grant for primary schools is significantly less than the capitation grant for post-primary schools. [33081/25]