Results 3,621-3,640 of 9,252 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 517. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes can be made to ensure that telecommunications assistance can be enhanced in order that applicants with queries concerning rent supplement allowance can be supported as efficiently and as expeditiously as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23953/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 540. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if measures can be introduced to ensure that students who sat the leaving certificate in 2019 or earlier are not subjected to the obvious unfairness caused by grade inflation in the 2020 leaving certificate results; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23619/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 550. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans in place to reduce the spread of Covid-19 in third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23620/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 567. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps she has taken to introduce equality legislation prohibiting discrimination on grounds of socio-economic disadvantage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23625/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 568. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the White Paper on direction provision will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23626/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commencement of Legislation (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 589. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when all parts of the Judicial Council Act 2019 will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Inquiry into the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 590. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a statutory inquiry into the death of a person (details supplied) will be commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23615/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 718. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the HSE has stopped providing the median age of those whot died with or of Covid-19 since 12 June 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23621/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 719. To ask the Minister for Health the ICU capacity in hospitals; the extent to which this has been increased as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23622/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Screening Programmes (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 720. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women availing of cervical screening since 1 March 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23623/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tribunals of Inquiry (15 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 721. To ask the Minister for Health when the statutory tribunal established for the purpose of assessing claims against the State arising from its negligence in the provision of cervical screening shall be commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23624/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: One of the great levellers of Irish society has been the leaving certificate examination. No matter who one was or where one came from, when one sat the examination, one knew one’s papers would be marked objectively and fairly. In many respects, an outstanding student from Castleisland was treated the same as an outstanding student from Castleknock. Unfortunately, that has not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: State Examinations (17 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister for her considered reply in respect of this matter. I note she states it is not accurate to say that schools or certain students were downgraded but that is how the students see it. Last Monday, when they got the estimated grades given to them by their teachers and learned those grades were above what they got in the official calculation grades, they viewed that as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason students from schools that previously excelled at the leaving certificate have had their results downgraded due to that excellence. [25255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she plans to take to remedy the disadvantage suffered by students whose leaving certificate results were downgraded. [25256/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probate Applications (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 639. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the Probate Office will recommence processing CA24 personal probate applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24850/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Accommodation (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 640. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if funding has been secured for the provision of in-cell sanitation at block E Portlaoise Prison; the estimated cost of the project; when the works will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24855/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Budgets (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full year cost if the budget for the Data Protection Commission was increased by 12.5%; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24856/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Training (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí trained in public order in each Garda division as of 1 September 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24858/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda National Immigration Bureau (22 Sep 2020)

Jim O'Callaghan: 643. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the budget allocation for the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24859/20]