Results 381-400 of 413 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 299. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised if the current nitrogen dioxide (NOx) levy was doubled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23148/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised annually if the current nitrogen dioxide (NOx) levy was applied to both categories A and B vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23149/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review an application for a school building project (details supplied); and the reason approval has not yet been granted. [23155/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 351. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the fuel allowance; the number of applications for the fuel allowance; the number of refusals for the fuel allowance over the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Cybersecurity Policy (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current status of Ireland’s ratification of the Budapest Convention on cybercrime; if he will provide a timeline for when ratification is expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (8 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 389. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the status of the regulations relating to alcohol labelling, which were signed into law by the previous Minister in May 2023 following an extensive notification process to the European Union and the World Trade Organisation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22902/25]

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

Barry Heneghan: We all agree that Ireland urgently needs better infrastructure to meet its housing needs. The Minister has sat here listening to all of the Deputies say this with regard to water planning and grid capacity. The solution does not lie in trading blame. It lies in us all rolling up our sleeves and fixing what is broken, and what is easily fixable right in front of us. There are small...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the estimated total cost of a proposed cycleway (details supplied), including all associated planning, construction and ancillary works; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Protection (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason no annual report of the Revenue Commissioners has ever reported a single personal data breach of either the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, or of the GDPR; the number of such breaches that occurred in each year from 2010 to 2024, the number of each such number were the result of the unauthorised or unlawful destruction of the personal data of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Data Protection (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 56. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of phone call recordings unlawfully destroyed by the Revenue Commissioners in the absence of a disposal certificate made by the Director or a Designated Officer of the National Archives for each year since 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24791/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Site Acquisitions (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 59. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will give an update on the progress of the Northern Cross Garda station development; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24793/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 63. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will review and amend the public sector single pension scheme introduced in 2013 to reinstate the supplementary pension for members of uniformed services such as firefighters, Defence Forces personnel and members of An Garda Síochána, in recognition of the shortened career span and the inability of many to work beyond...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 647 of 29 April 2025, if an impact assessment on the effect it would have on pensioners without the means of engaging online was undertaken when the decision to cease issuing payslips to civil and public service pensioners; if so, if a copy of the assessment's findings will be laid in the Library...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 65. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 646 of 29 April 2025, if he plans to ensure that the National Shared Services Office (NSSO) resumes fulfilling its responsibility for distributing payslips, perhaps with a phased roll-out commencing with for example pensioners aged 70 years and over (details supplied) as opposed to the NSSO...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Obesity Levels (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that, according to the Healthy Ireland Survey 2022, 63% of men and 50% of women in Ireland were classified as overweight or obese; if she will consider introducing or expanding nutritional and health education in schools to address these disparities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he is taking to ensure a radical overhaul in the approach to vacant and derelict properties; if he will support a significant increase in the vacant homes tax to serve as an effective deterrent. [22417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Election Management System (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the findings of the recent report on the Electoral Register; if he acknowledges the ongoing problems with accuracy, transparency, and public confidence in the register; and the specific reforms he believes are urgently needed to ensure the integrity and accessibility of the electoral system. [24160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if his Department has assessed the at-risk-of-poverty rate for people with disabilities when the additional cost of disability is taken into account; if he will consider adjusting poverty measurement tools or setting revised targets in light of these findings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in view of the higher poverty gap experienced by households affected by disability, the measures his Department is taking to address this disparity; if he will commit to setting targets to reduce poverty depth among disabled people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (14 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 126. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider reforming the State’s equivalence scales or poverty metrics to incorporate a disability-related weighting to reflect the higher cost of living associated with disability; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24808/25]