Results 261-280 of 430 for speaker:Liam Quaide

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

Liam Quaide: 509. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to improve access to mental health services for people affected by rare diseases given the particular physical and psychosocial demands of living with a rare disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22461/25]

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

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for his statement on the power of higher education, research and skills as economic enablers. This is a noble and important subject for us to consider. I will briefly recall an era when higher education was much better set up to develop the whole person who was passing through this important, exciting and memorable stage of his or her life. I first went to college in...

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

Liam Quaide: I welcome and fully support Sinn Féin's motion. The need for urgent action on critical infrastructure is no more keenly felt than by residents of Ballyhooly in north Cork. There are chronic water pressure issues in Ballyhooly that are having a significant impact on the quality of life of those residents. This has been happening for many years. The water pressure there is never...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister of State for his statement. The crisis in driver test waiting times is disproportionately affecting rural constituents and people in towns such as Youghal, where public transport links are extremely poor. The rural bus link improvements that, in fairness, we saw in some parts of the country during the previous term of Government unfortunately did not reach villages such...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Real Estate Investment Trusts (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 37. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated number of real estate investment trusts in Ireland; the rate of effective corporation tax paid by such entities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 38. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of applicants to the help-to-buy scheme who were required to pay the payment back to the Revenue Commissioners as they did not live in the property for at least five years after buying or building it, in each of the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, respectively. [24521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (14 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 225. To ask the Minister for Health the current status and recent developments in the public provision of dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) services across Ireland, including any expansion of DBT teams, training initiatives, data on the availability of individual and group therapy, and support for families and carers over the past year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24832/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (15 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 53. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the programme to be put in place by his Department to arrange for Uisce Éireann to take in charge wastewater treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24542/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Hedge Cutting (15 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to ensure the protection of hedgerow habitats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23721/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 148. To ask the Minister for Health how a proposed 50-bedroom mental health facility on the grounds of Saint Stephen's hospital, Glanmire, is compliant with the UNCRPD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24174/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 189. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the development of new policy on adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 785. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reasons no increases for child or adult dependants are paid with jobseeker's pay-related benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23175/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the launch of an information campaign to promote the expanded scope of the wage subsidy scheme; his plans to promote a greater level of awareness and uptake among employers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 914. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of e-scooters, e-bikes, motorbikes, mopeds and quad bikes, respectively, confiscated by An Garda Síochána in 2024, by Garda division, in tabular form. [24499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1098. To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare workers with Covid-19 currently in receipt of the special leave with pay. [23714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 1101. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for healthcare workers with Covid-19 upon the ending of the special leave with pay but who continue to suffer disabling symptoms that render them unable to work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23743/25]

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the Minister for her statement. Cara Darmody, a remarkable 14-year-old disability activist from Ardfinnan in County Tipperary, today began a 50-hour sleep-out on Kildare Street in front of Leinster House. Cara is taking this action to highlight the more than 15,000 young people in this country who are overdue an assessment of need. We hear from the HSE that this figure could reach...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: I pay tribute to Cara Darmody and her dad, Mark. I acknowledge the leadership Cara has shown in bringing us all here this evening with this collective motion. Clinical services and educational supports for children with additional needs and disabilities are in a dire state, directly resulting from years of poor planning and under-resourcing. All of this did not come about by chance....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 283. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to extend the electric vehicle grant for taxis, hackneys and limousines (eSPSV) to include hybrid vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Capital Expenditure Programme (20 May 2025)

Liam Quaide: 361. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for a breakdown of cost overruns stemming from capital projects under his Department's remit that were in excess of €100,000 at original cost projection and overran by 20% or from 2020 to 2025, across each county, detailing the name of the project, the original cost projection and the latest cost projection, to include projects...