Results 4,481-4,500 of 5,950 for speaker:Paul McAuliffe
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Scholarships (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 213. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of Gaeltacht scholarships available to post primary level students in DEIS schools; her plans to increase this number; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7226/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 214. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total revenue collected by the TV licence in the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7227/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 215. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of households who paid for a TV licence in the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7228/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 216. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the total number of prosecutions for not having a TV licence in the past four years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7229/24]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Paul McAuliffe: In the context of catching criminals who are trying to use Ireland as some sort of refuge, they can be caught as a result of their fingerprints as opposed to the travel documents they have destroyed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 24 - Justice
Vote 21 - Prisons (15 Feb 2024) Paul McAuliffe: I am not doing so; I am only saying that in the case of - I will put my comments in context - the people to whom I refer. I am trying to debunk some of the concerns regarding a person who committed a crime and is being sought by the police in another country and who destroys his or her passport on arrival here. When that person presents, he or she will be fingerprinted and his or her...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I wonder if we can ask the clerk to the committee to circulate confirmation of attendance for next week's meeting on 22 February. It is merely to confirm which bodies have accepted our invitation.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Excellent. That is great. I thank the Chair.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Key Issues Affecting Youth: North South Youth Forum (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: It is great to hear young people's voices from across the island in Leinster House. When I was a young person involved in youth work we did North-South discussions. There were people at that time who would not sit in the room together or shake hands. These were not politicians but young people. We are now operating in an entirely different environment. As adults we must realise there are...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I move amendment No. 29: In page 35, line 32, after “water” to insert “and wastewater services”. My amendment is similar to Deputy Flaherty's. I will withdraw it.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Deputy Flaherty has covered many of the points that I want to raise. From a wider perspective, having discussed the Bill with Irish Water I know there are a number of powers it fears it may lose from the current range of powers it has. It believes the process with the local authorities is working quite well. Has the Minister of State examined any process to deal with issues such as this...
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (13 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Okay. I thank the Minister of State.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (20 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: On the basis of what she has just said to the House, I encourage the Minister to work with her Government colleagues on this issue, in particular for those people who applied for the carer's allowance several years ago, or up to a decade ago in some cases. Over that time, that person's partner may have had an increase in salary. Many of those people do not understand that it is a...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Meals Programme (20 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: Never mind the mouldy bread, we often get mouldy answers here but the Deputy is correct that it was a good answer. That is because it is a good policy and it is welcome. I have seen it in practice in schools, as have many Deputies present. It is transformative. I also like the universality element because disadvantaged children do not always go to DEIS schools. It is important to roll...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the third shared island forum; and the priorities under the shared island initiative in 2024. [7800/24]
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I am very happy to raise this issue because many schools and parents have been in touch with me about their concerns regarding the recent circular on special education teaching, SET, hours. As the Minister of State knows, five criteria are currently considered, namely, enrolment, gender, the profile of the school, the degree of complex needs and the level of deprivation in the area. The...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate the additional information he has provided to the House. As with everything, we have to rely on experts. On the issue of gender, the evidence clearly shows that is not an appropriate ground to consider. Unfortunately, the defence the Department is relying on for the second factor, relating to complex needs, is that the data being returned by the...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of delays to payments (details supplied). [7524/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (20 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 433. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many people nationally are on a waiting list for renewal of their Irish residence permit (formerly GNIB); if the Department considers this a delay; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7928/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Feb 2024)
Paul McAuliffe: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on a carer's allowance application for a person (details supplied). [8351/24]