Results 21-40 of 266 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 39. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to address the backlog in people waiting to take driving tests. [3897/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 40. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions that have been taken in the past 12 months to improve waiting times for driving tests. [3898/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide details on the current waiting times for each driving test centre, including the number of people waiting for tests and waiting to be invited to apply for a test, and monthly break down, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3899/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 68. To ask the Minister for Finance whether Irish sovereign wealth and investment funds have investments in illegally occupied territories in Palestine and the Golan Heights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3900/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 69. To ask the Minister for Finance whether Irish sovereign wealth and investment funds have investments in Israel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3901/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Weather Events (6 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 148. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether additional funding will be made available to local councils for the purposes of dealing with fallen trees and the damage to council property caused as a result of Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3895/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: Go raibh maith agat. Last week, we saw a proposal from the Government to water down the occupied territories Bill 2018 to the point that would remove services from it. It is imperative that we enact this Bill as it is, with the legal improvements that have been made to make it secure against any test at EU level and bring it to commencement immediately in this House.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 4. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the composition of the new US-based strategic economic advisory panel; if the members will be remunerated; to outline the scope of the new US-based strategic economic advisory panel; if it has a terms of reference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4820/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I wish the Tánaiste well in his role and I look forward to collaborating with him. I worked very well with his brother in my previous role as chief commissioner of IHREC and I hope to collaborate with the Tánaiste similarly. My question relates to the announcement from the Department last week of the establishment of the strategic economic advisory panel, a US-based group that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the Tánaiste. It is good to hear remuneration will not be part of it. I am still keen to hear more details about the terms of reference and membership. I appreciate the invitation will give details. For clarity and transparency for us as elected representatives in the Dáil, and for the Irish public, it is important that we know exactly on what conditions the group is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Bodies (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: To reiterate, I believe a formal terms of reference would be helpful in this case, again watching out for, within that membership, the interests of big business and how much it is going to influence the policy development of this country. I appreciate the points about the diaspora and it is important that we harness that network as much as we can. It is in the context that I have mentioned...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We in the Social Democrats reject this Bill. We want to rebuild public trust in the State, trust which has been chipped away and eroded over the years by scandals of misused public funds, by headlines about waste and lavish spending, by a failure to look after taxpayers’ money and by a proliferation of ministerial appointments. Creidimid, mar Dhaonlathaithe Sóisialta, sa...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the engagement his Department has had with the United States and Israel regarding the statements from the US President on the ethnic cleansing of Gaza; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 73. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has engaged with the Moroccan government regarding the right to self-determination of the Sahrawi people in the past 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4804/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 74. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if Israel and/or the United States have engaged with him or his Department in the past three months regarding the potential enactment of the Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018; if so, the nature of any such engagements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4808/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Artificial Intelligence (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has taken advice in respect of the use of artificial intelligence, AI, within the Department; if any section of his Department currently makes use of AI; the purposes it is utilised for and costs associated with same; and if he has consulted with any consultancy firms in respect of the use of AI; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 123. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how much his Department has spent on the purchase of military equipment, leasing of military equipment, and provision of services from Israel in the past two years, broken down by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4805/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 124. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how much his Department has spent on the purchase of dual use goods, leasing of dual use goods from Israel in the past two years, broken down by month, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4806/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of exemptions granted under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989 to allow for the transport of munitions or weapons of war through Irish sovereign airspace in the past six months, broken down by week, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (11 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 181. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has granted exemptions for the transport of munitions or weapons of war through Irish sovereign airspace under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989 since becoming Minister for Transport; if he intends to do so in the future; and if he will make a statement on the...