Results 2,161-2,180 of 2,627 for speaker:Noel Grealish

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (18 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to change or remove the upper age limit for driving a school bus from 70 years of age; if he will increase the number of bus drivers eligible to drive a school bus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51754/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 718. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has plans to set targets for green procurement in 2022 and in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51321/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if the drugs pentoxyphylline and clasteon are available in Ireland; if so, if there is a shortage of these drugs; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that doctors are prescribing these drugs that are in short supply; if a person who has been prescribed these drugs from a doctor in an Irish hospital can seek a prescription to obtain these drugs from...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (20 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if the Government will call for an extension of medical device directive certificates (details supplied) until the notified body capacity is resolved, in order to maintain patient access to vital medtech that are already safely in use in the market, given that as much as 85% of the 500,000 devices covered under the previous medical devices directive are yet...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (25 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 162. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the expected impact of the Sick Leave Act 2022; the number of businesses that currently pay sick pay for a medically certified absence; the number of businesses that do not; the number of employees currently entitled and not entitled to sick pay for a medically-certified absence due to an illness; the employment...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 270. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will clearly outline the maximum lump sum and pension benefits payable for civil and public service retirees in all grades from junior to senior; if there are caps on any part of applicable pensions whether a retiree is in a junior or senior grade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (25 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: 682. To ask the Minister for Health when staff who worked in nursing homes during the Covid-19 pandemic period will receive their €1,000 bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53396/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Agriculture Industry (8 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 345. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the period to spread slurry given that the inclement weather has prevented farmers from completing the task; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54109/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (8 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 376. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there is any insurance scheme or support provided by the Government to help owners of thatched cottages to insure their homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54500/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (8 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 1034. To ask the Minister for Health when front-line workers will receive the payment given that on his visit to Galway on 21 October 2022, he stated that contract services front-line workers who worked in hospital settings should receive the Covid-19 pandemic recognition payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54636/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Priorities (17 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 307 of 21 April 2021, if consultants have been appointed for the purposes of providing a pedestrian footbridge over the Owenriff river in Oughterard; when he expects this work to commence; when the work will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57071/22]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 206. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the working group to consider the taxation of funds, life assurance policies and other investment products, as mentioned during his budget 2023 speech; if he will provide the names of the working group membership; if representatives of the insurance and brokerage industries will be included; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 226. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total cost of payments made for all public sector pensions, including Civil Service pensions, over the past five years, in tabular form; the projected cost for these over the next five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56415/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 279. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects that the vacant property refurbishment grant will be extended to houses outside of settlements of 400 persons, to which the scheme was originally confined; the properties that will be eligible under the expanded scheme; the expected level of increase in applications; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 280. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of applications received and the number approved, by local authority area, for the vacant property refurbishment grant; the total expenditure on the scheme to date; and the anticipated expenditure in 2023. [56414/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the criteria for a local authority to purchase a house in cases in which the house is for sale on the open market and is currently occupied by a person who is on the housing waiting list and who is not in receipt of other State supports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56694/22]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 474. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda vehicles in the Galway division, by station and type of vehicle, currently and in each of the past ten years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56409/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 552. To ask the Minister for Health the plans he is putting in place to ensure the availability of the FreeStyle Libre 2 device in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56406/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 553. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ringfence funding under the diabetes care envelope in budget 2023 to fund the provision of the FreeStyle Libre flash glucose monitoring system to persons with diabetes over 21 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56407/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Nov 2022)

Noel Grealish: 554. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to remove the age restriction on Freestyle Libre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56408/22]