Results 161-180 of 1,850 for speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 589. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the status of the sanctioned autism class at a school (details supplied); to confirm the stage it is at within the school building unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29855/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 590. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current allocation of educational welfare officers in County Longford, noting that there is only one officer currently in situ; if and when an additional officer will be appointed to meet the demand in the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29856/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Attendance (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 688. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to tackle absenteeism in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30595/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 689. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding levels for home school liaison officers and other measures to help ensure young people complete school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (10 Jun 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1287. To ask the Minister for Health if she will intervene to ensure the continuation of home help support at a location (details supplied) where service users have been informed that this support will cease at the end of June 2025, following a decision by the HSE; if he will outline the rationale for this decision and confirm whether an alternative plan is being developed to maintain...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 486. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received under the 2025 open call for farmer safety, health and wellbeing projects, which closed on 19 May 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the expected timeline for the assessment and announcement of successful projects under the farmer safety, health and wellbeing this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28544/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (29 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 488. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide a breakdown of the types of projects submitted and indicate whether any are based in the Longford-Westmeath region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28545/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: The witnesses are all very welcome. I think of the words "Groundhog Day". We are back here again after a couple of years. I was a member of the previous committee, along with Deputy Malcolm Byrne. Mr. Bakhurst has just made a comment about this never happening again. We were told a number of years ago that this would not happen again. It took a news agency and a letter of correspondence...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Yes, if Mr. Bakhurst will just let me finish for a second. Mr. Bakhurst made the comment that the audit and risk committee was aware of the write-down. A number of committee members who are in this room at present were at those previous meetings. We saw that RTÉ asked for significant funding from the Government to bail it out. It requested significant moneys yet no one in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: There are staff members present here today who were in senior roles in RTÉ during that time, such as the acting DG - the previous DG is not here - and the head of HR. Did they know about this while they were attending meetings of this committee and speaking to Members of the Oireachtas who asked questions of them? Two staff members are present. I will ask Mr. Lynch and Ms Cusack...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Was Ms Cusack aware of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: As head of HR, and bearing in mind that this was a system that was related to HR, Ms Cusack was not aware that this had happened. Who put together the tender for this IT system? Was it put together properly? Was the right ask put out there when it was being tendered for? Was Ms Cusack involved in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Ms Cusack was aware of the tender being put together. Was the correct tender put out? Did it have the right specification for the job?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: It was the right specification for the job. Was the right supplier picked?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Was it properly project managed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am sorry to interrupt, but I am caught for time. RTÉ got it wrong. People are responsible. The specification was not done properly, the right supplier was not picked and it was not project managed. That is why there is a deficit of €3.7 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Sorry, but I am just asking Ms Cusack specifically about this. The reality is that all three of these things were gotten wrong.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Has the Secretary General, as a departmental official, confidence in the governance and procedures in place at RTÉ, based on the fact that not one of the senior management team was aware of something that cost the taxpayer €3.7 million?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Policy, Governance, Expenditure and Administration at RTÉ: Discussion (28 May 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Is Mr. Ó Coigligh happy with the governance procedures now, based on the fact-----