Results 1-20 of 6,055 for speaker:Frank Feighan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can confirm that she has in her role as Minister the discretionary powers to provide for a larger central activities space than the standard size for all SEN bases built in certain cases (details supplied); her views on whether given the scale of an extension granted that this school and others with similar large extensions, would...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 561. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a report to Dáil Éireann on the availability of gastrointestinal ultrasound for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in Ireland; the number of IBD patients who received gastrointestinal ultrasound scanning in Ireland in 2024 or an equivalent year; if she recognises the pivotal role of this testing in raising the standards...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 562. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a report for Dáil Éireann on international and Irish standards of care for women with advanced ovarian cancer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22726/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 563. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women in Ireland diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer annually from 2020 to 2024; to report this information by disease subtype and in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22727/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 564. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to the average wait time for dermatology patients as part of the Waiting List Action Plan 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22728/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 565. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of consultant neurologists; when they will be recruited; where they will be based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22729/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 566. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of specialist neurology nurses; when they will be recruited; where they will be based; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22730/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 567. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the work of the National Clinical Trials Oversight Group; when her department will publish the planned interim report on challenges of conducting trials in Ireland; if she will publish interim year-on-year targets for the level of clinical trials activity in Ireland for 2025, 2026 and 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (7 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 609. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if it is intended to allocate funding to local authorities in 2025 under the local improvement scheme; if he has had any discussions with the Minister for Transport in relation to match funding support for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22253/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (1 May 2025)

Frank Feighan: 312. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide any updates from his Department’s interaction with the Forestry Forum (details supplied); the progress or agreement on the responsibility for safe corridors for electric supply lines through forestry; action points agreed; if there is a plan to assist or compensate forestry owners who have seen devasting...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: A new Garda divisional headquarters has been agreed for Sligo but the timeframe for the start of the project remains unclear. A site in a very strategic part of Sligo town was purchased some years ago. This could provide an ideal location for other emergency services apart from a central Garda headquarters. Earlier this year, the then Minister for Justice announced a new divisional...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Insurance Coverage (29 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: 679. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he agrees with the Commissioner of Public Works at OPW insistence on a local development group in County Leitrim (details supplied) that prior to entering the leased property, Community Group members will need to be covered for public liability insurance of €6.5 million employer’s liability insurance cover in the sum...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (8 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: 780. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on whether there is an unfair bias against farmers who planted forestry before 2002 and in effect are unqualified for the basic farm payment scheme (details supplied); his further views on whether the absence of a proposal to compensate farm forestry owner for the carbon credit element on standing forestry needs to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (8 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: 1002. To ask the Minister for Health when she will bring forward proposals to provide medical cards for children over eight-years-of-age as proposed in the Programme for Government. [17411/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: Surgical hubs are being developed in north Dublin, south Dublin, Limerick, Cork, Waterford and Galway. Surgical hubs eliminate day-care waiting lists and take the pressure off various departments in hospitals. I am disappointed that there is no surgical hub for the area north of the Dublin-Galway line. The programme for Government contains a commitment to explore the possibility of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Frank Feighan: 837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider exploring the feasibility of establishing a wind turbine trade school in the northwest to boost apprenticeships and employment in the green energy industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15207/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Mar 2025)

Frank Feighan: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine a case where, in the assessment of income and savings query by his Department and a review of a spouse’s pension allowance, a credit union loan was not assessed for this couple based in County Leitrim (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (25 Mar 2025)

Frank Feighan: 907. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when he will announce further funding for local authorities under the local improvement scheme; and if priority can be given to local authorities with significant waiting lists. [14115/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (25 Mar 2025)

Frank Feighan: 908. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is considering a review of the current successful funding schemes within his Department, such as the outdoor recreation infrastructure scheme, town and village scheme, Clár, community centres investment fund development, and the rural regeneration and development fund, to review maximum spending categories and variation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Frank Feighan: 920. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of homes that have been bought in each county, by each local authority under the tenant-in-situ scheme since the year of commencement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11898/25]