Results 21-40 of 160 for speaker:Ciarán Ahern

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Feb 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the severe cuts by a company (details supplied) to its routes servicing large areas of south Dublin and north Wicklow; the way he plans to fill these gaps in service to ensure residents in these areas have reliable and sustainable access to Dublin Airport; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Feb 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 292. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the decision by Dublin Bus not to tender for the outer Dublin metropolitan area routes on the Bus Connects network in Dublin; his views on whether the tender on these routes has been awarded to a company (details supplied) notwithstanding the major service delivery problems experienced by that company on its...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (25 Feb 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 295. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on whether the current NCT regime is fit for purpose; how he will address current issues with wait times for testing; if he will consider reforming the mandatory completion time for re-tests; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8170/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (25 Feb 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he intends on fulfilling the commitment contained in Budget 2025 to expand free public transport to children aged five to eight years; if there is a timeline for the roll-out of the scheme; if not, when he expects a timeline to be available; when he expects the measure to be fully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (25 Feb 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason a fully completed apartment complex is lying vacant for the past six months on the corner of Grange Road and Nutgrove Avenue, Rathfarnham; and if this development was included in his Department’s figures for housing completions in 2024, notwithstanding the fact that it remains vacant. [7262/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 93. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way he will ensure that the pipeline of road transport projects he plans to fund in 2025 are individually and cumulatively assessed for their impact on the transport sectoral emissions ceiling set under the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9528/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: What will the Minister do to ensure the pipeline of road transport projects he intends to fund in 2025 are individually and cumulatively assessed for their impact on the transport sectoral emissions ceiling set under the climate Act 2021?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: It is really important that they are cumulatively assessed and not just on an individual basis. The Government has inherited an overshoot in the transport emissions budget as well as our broader carbon budgets. Due to the climate imperative, the previous Government had a spending ratio of 2:1 for public transport versus roads and invested €1 million a day in active travel...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: It is encouraging to hear that. To the extent the Minister might be considering refreshing the EV grants, I hope it will be purely for EVs rather than hybrids. The transport sector is wildly off course. We feel there is a need for accelerated and urgent demand management measures and the implementation of ambitious active travel and public transport measures that can bridge the emissions...

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Creidim go bhfuil malartú cultúrtha agus meas nua tagtha ar ár dteanga dhúchais le blianta beaga anuas. Tá Pop-Up Gaeltachtaí, leabhair nua, podchraoltaí cosúil le "Motherfoclóir", ceol Kneecap agus a leithéid sin ag cabhrú leis an nGaeilge a chur chun cinn. Tá suim sa Ghaeilge ag daoine óga na linne seo, agus tá ár...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: There is a commercial operation-----

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I commend my colleague, Deputy Wall, and his staff on all of their work in producing this important motion. I especially commend the young carers who are with us in the Visitors Gallery this evening, and who shared their powerful testimonies with us in the audiovisual room this afternoon. They should not have to be here, but the reality of our broken system of care is what makes this motion...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 315. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number primary and secondary schools in Tallaght that have expressed an interest in opening a specialist class in the 2024/2025 academic year; the number of these applications that were accepted and refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13105/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (20 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 316. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in Tallaght that were approached by the National Council for Special Education to open a specialist class; the percentage of those schools that declined; and if her Department can provide insight into the reasons given for these refusals. [13106/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (20 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 437. To ask the Minister for Health if the commitments made in the 2020 Programme for Government regarding the implementation of an informed consent model of care for hormone replacement therapy, simplifying the process for 16 and 17 year old trans people to acquire a gender recognition certificate, and ensuring that Government bodies use a trans or non-binary individual’s correct...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is satisfied with the decision by Dublin Bus not to tender for the outer Dublin metropolitan area routes on the BusConnects network in Dublin; his views on whether the tender on these routes has been awarded to a company (details supplied) notwithstanding the major service delivery problems experienced by that company on its...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he will take to implement the recommendations of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Climate Change Advisory Council in their respective annual national greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories, reviews, and GHG projections to ensure that the transport sector meets its sectoral ceiling of 54MtCO2e for the budget period...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Data Centres (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 199. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the Commission for Regulation of Utilities’ (CRU) assertion that the provisions of section 15 of the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 are insufficient to enable it to mandate explicit emissions reduction and offsetting measures for data centres; whether the decision to allow data...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 200. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he still plans to bring a memo to Cabinet recommending an LNG facility for Ireland given that the consultancy firm which originally recommended a facility is now reviewing its findings; when he expects the latest analysis to be complete; when it will be publicly available; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (4 Mar 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 201. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on whether the importing of liquified natural gas is consistent with the Programme for Government commitment to take decisive action to radically reduce Ireland's reliance on fossil fuels; if he will ban the importation of liquified natural gas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9001/25]