Results 1-20 of 115 for speaker:Aisling Dempsey

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Jul 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 636. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider implementing a streamlined approach for assessment of needs reports to ensure that each report completed is done to the same standard and with consistent use of language and terms. [35349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 84. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to provide additional supports for GP practices in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 99. To ask the Minister for Health how she intends to provide targeted supports for newly qualified GPs and to GP practices that take on newly qualified GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (25 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider extending the right to citizenship to great-grandchildren of Irish citizens, without the need for their parent to have attained citizenship before they were born.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has plans to use State-owned accommodation in Meath west as an IPAS centre. [34276/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 96. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to suspend the periodic means test reviews for carers in receipt of carer's benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33130/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I ask the Minister his plans to suspend, or indeed abolish, the periodic means test review for carers in receipt of carer's benefit.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire for that and the very welcome news he has given us in terms of the income disregards. That will be very beneficial to many across the country, I am sure, but specifically in my area of Meath West. Many families have been in touch with me about this matter. I was this morning in a meeting of the committee on children. I am very privileged to have been...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Again, I thank the Minister for his response. Our ambition and our goal is to get rid of the means test completely, and this is a really significant part of it. These people save us untold money every day in the care they provide in their own families. For example, in one family in my area the mother works part-time just for her own mental health, just to have a little breather from the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the witnesses for attending. I suppose it is very difficult to read the child poverty monitor and find anything positive in it. As has been referenced already, it is quite heartbreaking reading. The huge increase in numbers in 12 months is quite shocking. Not to try and find a positive in it but to ask a genuine question, are there measures that have been brought in in the last 12...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Foster care was referenced quite a bit in the opening statement. We had the Minister here last week, and it was top of her agenda, which was wonderful to see. We had a lot of contributions on it from the floor as well. It is one of our main focuses. We talked about their pension rights. This week we saw the back-to-school allowance being extended to foster carers. Does Dr. Corbett think...

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

Aisling Dempsey: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new mid east enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33033/25]

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

Aisling Dempsey: 52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Meath currently supported by Enterprise Ireland and by the IDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33034/25]

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

Aisling Dempsey: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend social welfare payments, benefits and allowances to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a legal executive officer cannot currently apply for a secondment to another role like all other staff grades; and the reason that some grades can apply for secondments, and some cannot, contributing to a loss of opportunity based on ambiguous rules. [33246/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the intentions of Government to bring forward new guidelines to replace the 2006 guidelines on wind energy; and if further changes to the planning process are being considered in respect of the need to ensure that the views and concerns of local communities affected by large scale wind farms...

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

Aisling Dempsey: 362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the community neuro-rehabilitation team that has been promised since 2019 for the midlands northeast will be funded and put in place. [33243/25]

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

Aisling Dempsey: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure that givinostat is available at the earliest opportunity to sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [33245/25]

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

Aisling Dempsey: Meath West commuters eagerly anticipated the new commuter fare zones being announced but they were disappointed in April to find out those only related to rail fares. We were disappointed again in recent weeks when the bus fares were announced. My own town of Trim only saw a minimal decrease in the fare but towns like Navan and Athboy saw an increase. The rationale given is that these...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the Minister and her officials for being here. The first thing I would like to raise concerns the special classes. I acknowledge the work the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, have done in this area. I believe it is most important to have special classes in primary schools. I know there has been a focus on this aspect this year and there is also a...