Results 241-258 of 258 for speaker:Eoghan Kenny

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 967. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if reviews are taking place in third level special education teaching courses; if so, to minister provide these reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20118/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1069. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has begun the process of trialling new administrative supports and arrangements for school principals, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21300/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1070. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a report has began in reviewing the leadership and continuous professional development supports to aid school management structures, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21301/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Service (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1667. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the Courts Service has brought to his attention matters in respect of proposals to restructure district court services in District No. 21; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21302/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda cars allocated to Carrigaline Garda station in 2024 and to date in 2025, and the units assigned to same, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21045/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1877. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will make a commitment to providing multi-annual funding for residential placements for people with disabilities for the Cork and Kerry region, as there are currently 600 people on a waiting list and no placements available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20121/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1972. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update of the establishment of a community neurorehabilitation team for Cork and Kerry, funding for which team was announced in budget 2022 and this team was committed to within the 2024 HSE Service Plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21304/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Facilities (29 Apr 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 2483. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to address the shortfall of 175 regional inpatient neurorehabilitation beds across the country, highlighted in the Inpatient Rehabilitation Mapping report published by the HSE in September 2024; the steps that will be taken to address the shortage of 34 beds in the HSE south west region as Cork and Kerry continue to lack a dedicated...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (8 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 452. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all pharmacies that have opted into the free HRT scheme scheduled to commence on 1 June 2025, in tabular form. [23087/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (7 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 315. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of the excessive processing times being experienced by citizenship and naturalisation applicants; the reasons for such delays; the steps being taken to remedy this occurrence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22257/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (7 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 413. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans for €1.4 million in additional annual funding on a rolling basis for St. Lukes Home, Cork CLG; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22040/25]

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the power of higher education, research and skills as economic enablers. My predecessor, former Deputy Seán Sherlock, was a champion of research and skills when he served as a Minister of State. It is often said that education is a great leveller, meaning that further education qualifications can enable those with the least in our society to make...

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I thank Sinn Féin for this extremely important motion. In the majority of towns and cities across the country, there are very serious difficulties with public infrastructure and this is having a knock-on effect on the development of housing. The provision of housing is by far the greatest issue of our time and of our generation as politicians. I am a 25-year-old still living at home,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: As regards the Minister of State who has just left the House, Kieran O'Donnell, it would be remiss of me when speaking on an issue like this not to commend his father, Martin, one of the founding members of St. Joseph's Foundation, and his commitment to disability services in north Cork. This morning I raise a serious issue regarding residential placements for adults with disabilities. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I appreciate that. As regards the 2021 disability capacity review to which the Minister of State referred and the projected need for a minimum of 1,900 residential placements by 2032, which we want to get to, and if we continue in the same vein of the previous four years, which is not mentioned in the response, with 140 placements opening each year, give or take, there will be 400 fewer than...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: As the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, will be well aware, a car is an absolute necessity in any rural part of Ireland now. In a number of parts of my constituency of Cork North-Central, a car is an absolute necessity because public transport is not available. The Minister of State will be just as inundated as I am by the number of people contacting us looking for representations to get...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The Government is literally using support measures for senior cycle reform as a negotiating tool. These are essential for any reform. There will be a significant impact on students' experiences of senior cycle reform. As someone who has experience in the field, I am of the view that this senior cycle reform is absolutely destined to fail. The package includes fast-tracking permanent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 25 February 2025, if the application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24523/25]