Results 181-200 of 258 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to ensure that children in County Mayo who are waiting prolonged periods for their initial CDNT appointment do not experience delays in accessing appropriate school placements and supports. [17165/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 417. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment what business grants supports for small business ratepayers will be introduced in 2025, and what the deadlines will be; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 526. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address the lack of supports for single working parents of children with autism (details supplied) during school holidays, as they rely on term-time-only afterschool services, and need further assistance when schools and afterschool are closed for holidays; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to provide a timeline for when local authority homes can avail of the pyrite scheme, considering the urgency of the situation for those living in such houses; if he would address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 668. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of women denied the non-contributory State pension due to their husband's contributory pension through his employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 669. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost to the State to allow all women to qualify for the non contributory State Pension, regardless of their husband's pensions or earnings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16827/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: You promised to enact the occupied territories Bill before the election.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: The new policing model is not working. One of the main aims of the model was to increase community policing. In fact, the opposite has happened. One of the main reasons for that is manpower. The regular units have been depleted. In many stations across Mayo, the regular units are half what they were a number of years ago. Internal competitions are pulling from regular units and, because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: Go raibh maith agat.

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I first want to acknowledge the pain and heartbreak that this has brought to so many families and children, particularly children who went through unnecessary and needless surgery. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering that those families have gone through. We think of medical professionals as people we can trust and we entrust our...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and I welcome the parents here in the Public Gallery. They are the warriors who have been fighting so hard. They have been fighting, taking legal action and pitching tents outside Leinster House. What are they fighting for? They are fighting for their basic rights and their constitutionally enshrined rights for access to education. I...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the national planning framework. I welcome any attempts to future-proof infrastructure in this country. I am very disappointed, however, in reading the report. It is high on vision but it is almost like the report is detached from reality. I do not have long but I will give just one example. The report references the value and importance of the...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: The framework rather. There is not even a mention, or hardly a mention, of it. That is hardly progress. We need real delivery. I do not have any longer but could go on to speak about a litany of things in relation to this. I ask the Minister of State to focus on the delivery.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: The legacy Act gives an amnesty to murderers and blocks the families of murdered civilians from achieving justice. It is the son and heir of the cover-up by the British Army and RUC for some of the most heinous crimes in the North. It is unilateral action that actually undermines human law and human justice. It turns Britain into an outlier and indeed a rogue state. It is heaping more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: I am sure the Minister will acknowledge that lone parents are vulnerable and have a difficult time. According to the ESRI, there is a huge risk of economic vulnerability. We should do everything we can. I will certainly work with him on any of those families who may be at risk and who fall in that gap in terms of the payment. I welcome what the Minister said to Deputy O'Reilly on child...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the transitional supports being put in place for the 380 people whose one-parent family payment and half-rate carer’s allowance are both due to end this year; and whether he accepts that the sudden loss of these payments risks plunging vulnerable families into financial hardship and uncertainty. [21009/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the Minister's comments on the nutritional review of the school meals programme. I acknowledge and commend the great work of the companies right across the country, including in Mayo, in delivering school meals. Companies like Steak Out catering, for example, are delivering high-quality nutritional meals to hundreds of children across east and south Mayo, in particular. My...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase funding to the CIS scheme substantially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21100/25]