Results 1-20 of 901 for speaker:Mark Wall

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current position with those over 70 years of age being allowed to drive a school bus; the attempts the Minister has made to change this ruling; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 242. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware that Kildare County Council is no longer in a position to provide for new tenant in situ applications; if he will be providing additional income to prevent families from entering homelessness in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24959/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 258. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the report commissioned by his Department on extending the fuel allowance to recipients of the working family payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 259. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has considered implementing an individual means-test for social welfare payments rather than a household means-test, to ensure that people are only assessed on their own income and not that of their household’s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated cost of indexing the child support payment to 45% of the qualified adult payment for children under 12 and 55% for children over 12 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Employment Rights (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 297. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department has carried out any research on aligning Ireland’s family leave options with those of other EU countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (15 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 304. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions her Department has taken to support Irish speaking early years childcare settings and to increase the number of these settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25059/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Parking Provision (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is seeking to update the application procedure for applying for a parking disability permit, if he will address some specific issues (details supplied). [24634/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 170. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to confirm the number of publicly provided residential care places for children, available in each year from 2020 to 2024, and the number available in 2025, in tabular form; the additional number of regulated places added in each year, either public or private; the plans for adding new public places in 2025;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 171. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated average capital cost and current expenditure operating cost respectively of providing each new publicly provided residential care place for children; to provide a breakdown of staffing costs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24610/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 172. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to phase out the use of special emergency arrangements by Tusla; the progress made over the past year on achieving this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24611/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 173. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children in foster care arrangements in each year from 2020 to 2024, and to date in 2025; the number of households offering foster care in each of those years, and the increase or decrease in each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24612/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Children in Care (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 174. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children currently in special emergency arrangements; the number in SEAs as of 31 April 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 193. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date on reducing hospital parking charges; the hospitals where charges have reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24633/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (14 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether there are any other pathways for a child in county Kildare (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24635/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 355. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who applied for the disability allowance at the age of 16 when their domiciliary care allowance finished over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22970/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 356. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who applied for the disability allowance at the age of 16 when their domiciliary care allowance finished; the number who did not qualify for disability allowance; the number over the past three years per year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Inquiries (8 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 357. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has any plans to extend the domiciliary care allowance from 16 to 18 years of age; if he has a timeframe on this introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22972/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on behalf of the Labour Party. I thank Deputy Kerrane and her Sinn Féin colleagues for bringing it forward. Like many Deputies, I have been contacted by parents struggling to either find or afford a childcare place. I have also spoken to a number of providers in Kildare who are struggling either due to low funding or an inability to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (7 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 286. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child maintenance payments are disregarded from secondary social welfare entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22282/25]