Results 341-360 of 630 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in light of the exponential rise in the cost-of-living index since 2005, when the block grant for a school (details supplied) was set, if she plans to increase this block grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36352/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a timeline for the introduction of a new national small schools project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce special educational needs co-ordinators; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36563/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to the amount by which the capitation grant will increase per pupil within the lifetime of this Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36564/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for a timeline within which the Government will reduce class sizes to 19 pupils, as stated in the programme for Government; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36565/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of planners employed by An Bord Pleanála, broken down by grade, from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36582/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 147. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce an additional Project Tosaigh, with provision for small developers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36588/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 183. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a timeline on legislation to implement the recommendations of the disregard scheme in relation to a mechanism to formally clear the names of those with historical convictions for consensual same sex activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36581/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Equipment (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 243. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the installation of a PET scanner at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 268. To ask the Minister for Health the number of surgeries cancelled at University Hospital Limerick, by surgery type and reason for cancellation, in tabular form, since January 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 269. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department pays third-party ambulance providers such as St. John of God to deliver pre-hospital emergency care on behalf of the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36589/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 286. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the process of designation of institutes for higher education institutes will begin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36353/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) is recognised as a ‘designated institute’ will it have access to funding streams like other HEIs within the Higher Education Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (2 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 288. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school (details supplied) will be allocated capital development funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36355/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (3 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 151. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Irish Rail has any plans to refurbish the CAF fleet of mark 4 trains used on the Dublin-to-Cork service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36813/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 275. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a full-time carer in receipt of carer’s allowance is only entitled to a maximum of three weeks leave over a 12-month period; if he will consider increasing the maximum leave entitlement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36725/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: There is no clarity on student fees.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I second what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. We also need to have a debate in this House around the proposed changes regarding apartment sizes. This is the fourth or fifth time that we have attempted to do this in the past decade, going back over various Ministers, and none of it has actually worked. We believe that these proposals are not evidence based and they are not going to deal with...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister of State for his statement, although, unfortunately, I did not hear it. The Bill is not in the summer legislative programme. We have not had any pre-legislative scrutiny, which is a missed opportunity. We should have had more time to hear from the planning experts in this regard. Given that we are taking Second Stage of the Bill today and Committee and Remaining...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Sometimes I wonder what this country has against young people and, in turn, what this Government has against young people. Young people always pay the price: they paid the price for the sins of the crash, for the banks and for the property developers. This whole calamity has been really badly handled. The Minister opened a can of worms on the radio the other week and unleased a...