Results 2,561-2,580 of 2,627 for speaker:Noel Grealish

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (2 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 63. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he is satisfied with the current perverse salmon angling regulations that compel anglers to return alive rod caught escaped farmed salmon in designated ‘catch and release’ fisheries, considering the huge escape of farmed salmon during August 2024 in Killary Harbour, County Galway, with escaped farmed...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (2 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 64. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to introduce a national fishing rod licence in the near future with a penalty points-based system akin to the national driving licence for wild brown trout and other native species excluding Atlantic salmon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39240/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fishing Industry (2 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 62. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he plans to create a freshwater fisheries reserve under an updated Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959 as highlighted by his officials in 2013; if this reserve will be surreptitiously used to validate the presence of invasive/non-native fish such as pike, roach, carp and tench in special areas of conservation such as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Special Areas of Conservation (2 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 65. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he or his officials have ever issued a ministerial consent under ‘ARC 02’ for the stocking of Oughterard Hatchery trout fry into Lough Corrib special area of conservation as required under Regulation 30 of S.I. No. 477/2011 - European Communities (Birds and Natural Habitats) Regulations 2011 and/or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (2 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and his officials in the National Parks and Wildlife Service have plans to designate the Aughrim River catchment, County Wicklow as a special area of conservation considering the recent Ballinglen River works by the east Wicklow Rivers Trust that enhanced the migratory pathway for EU Habitats Directive Annex II species...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (8 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 317. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the normal average rule for calculating a State pension (contributory) can be used when a person continues to work between 66 and 70 years or if the total contributions approach must be used; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40076/24]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: Under the Constitution, the total number of Members of this House has to be at least one per 30,000 of the population. The Economic and Social Research Institute is forecasting that by the year 2040, Ireland's population will have grown by more than 900,000 based on current numbers. The CSO predicts a highest growth scenario over the next 30 years of double that number, which would put...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: Over the past number of years, the Government has put several referendums to the people, mostly recently and notably the 39th and 40th amendments that were defeated earlier this year. The latest referendums were badly thought out and impossible to clearly explain. The resounding "No" vote made it clear that the people are not prepared to alter the Constitution without good reason. A...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: My colleagues and I in the Regional Group have consistently supported the reduced rate of VAT for businesses in the food and hospitality sector because of the huge importance of this sector to the fabric of our communities. Tourism is a vital contributor to the economy of Ireland, particularly the west and Galway, but also to the survival of some communities in areas where there is little or...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his officials in the Inland Fisheries Division issue Section 14 authorisations under the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959 for stocking/restocking of fish in Special Areas of Conservation without appropriate assessment screenings being completed, as required under S.I. No. 477/2011 - European Communities (Birds...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment since the Pike Conservation Bye-Law No. 809 (2006) was signed into law, legitimate pike culling by the Western Regional Fisheries Board, Inland Fisheries Ireland and riparian anglers has continued unabated around Lough Corrib SAC, if he wants to further vindicate this hypocritical policy of simultaneously conserving...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fisheries Protection (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 123. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline, given that the proposed Western Lakes Management Plan for the rehabilitation of Lough Corrib SAC as a salmonid fishery has been in the pipeline for over two years with no sign of it being finalised, the reason there is so much inertia and procrastination regarding this prescient plan; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Inland Fisheries (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a fisheries matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42187/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Angling Sector (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 125. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason why the Angling Consultative Council of Ireland established by himself in November 2020 has reached an impasse, and the raison d’être for its establishment considering the existence of the National Inland Fisheries Forum under the Inland Fisheries Act 2010; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 216. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a fisheries matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42189/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Inland Fisheries (17 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 217. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (15 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 589. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed list of the diabetes care technologies that enable remote monitoring and early intervention to patients; the estimated annual cost of deploying these technologies to patients across the healthcare system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 590. To ask the Minister for Health to outline, in light of current budget constraints, the steps being taken to remote monitor patients to keep them out of GP surgeries and reduce the risk of complications associated with diabetes; his plans to balance these technological interventions with the need to manage healthcare expenditure efficiently; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (15 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the specific measures he proposes to drive efficiencies in the expenditure on diabetes care; and to outline any cost-benefit analyses that have been conducted to ensure the long-term financial sustainability of diabetes management within the health service. [41090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Property Registration (22 Oct 2024)

Noel Grealish: 439. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tailte Éireann can refuse to release details of a folio to a party when that party had an interest registered on that folio and an instrument changed the registered interest to another separate folio without the interested party’s knowledge; whether all parties to a folio be entitled to receive details of...