Results 26,281-26,300 of 26,302 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 400 of 17 June 2025, regarding a school (details supplied) if she will ensure, given the significant health and safety issues that are involved, together with the unavoidable delay in delivering a special education unit at the school, urgent approval will be given to ensure that essential works will be...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will put in place guidelines to local authorities for the reletting of casual vacancies setting a maximum timeframe within which a house must be relet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he agrees that it is totally unacceptable in a housing crisis for a local authority to take up to one year to relet a residential property; if he will engage with local authorities to ensure the efficiency of their procedures in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 124. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department will urgently assess the impact of their random reviews of means tested payments to the very old and disabled, having regard to the fact that the impact on the vulnerable people involved in terms of stress and anxiety may be far greater than any benefit achieved for the State and may in fact contribute to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 593. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine the case of an elderly couple (details supplied) where the husband is in receipt of a contributory old age pension and an increase for a qualified adult in respect of his wife; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Policy (26 Jun 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 20. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone' Implementation Plan 2025 - 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/25]

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 68. To ask the Minister for Health the capital investment being made in mental health for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34707/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Chair. I will be brief. I welcome Mr. Keown and Mr. Smyth and thank them for their assistance. I welcome that the Government is adopting this twin-track approach of trying to influence matters at European level and enact what the public will see as Senator Frances Black's legislation, no matter what we produce at the end of the day. I cannot remember any occasion over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So we are talking about €214,000 worth of goods. Are they made of up fruit, vegetables and other items? Do we know the nature of the goods?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Do we know the value of services that would be envisaged by this Bill, were they to be included? Reference was made to the opinion of the Attorney General. We have a very eminent Attorney General, and we have had many very eminent Attorneys General over the years. I am not looking in any particular direction. It is very frustrating, given the length of time this Bill has been in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If the value was only €10, the symbolic value of the legislation is still absolutely enormous in terms of the leadership role it allows this country to take on this particular matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: How frequently are such infringement proceedings taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his engagement with the Department of Finance on the tax treatment of Land Development Agency cost rental activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he intends that the Land Development Agency will support local authorities, the Housing Activation Office and his Department in master planning and infrastructure provision in new towns and districts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35637/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence regarding mild general learning disability designation of schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35864/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a section 28 directive to local authorities to commence the review of their county development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the context of the reform of the private rental sector, he accepts that an unintended consequence of changes could be the departure of landlords who have four properties or fewer from the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in respect of those landlords with four properties or fewer, who had intended their properties to be part of a pension arrangement, said landlords are obliged to sell the properties within the tenant in situ scheme, he agrees that there is a risk of tenant n situ arrangements reducing market value of such property and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address matters concerning the mysterious deaths of a large number of the farm animals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36593/25]