Results 441-460 of 471 for speaker:Cathy Bennett
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (24 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will report on his engagements with his Cabinet colleagues regarding the inclusion of a bypass for Monaghan town in the National Development Plan; the steps that Monaghan County Council must take to secure its inclusion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the amount of funding raised through the work of honorary consuls; the amount expended in support of their work, by country and by year, for the years 2019 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33708/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 82. To ask the Minister for Health the basis of excluding women over the age of 35 from accessing the free contraception scheme. [34921/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 116. To ask the Minister for Health her proposals to provide adequate access to care for people with endometriosis. [34920/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Facilities (26 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 142. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps Monaghan County Council needs to take to secure funding for sports facilities at the convent lands in Monaghan town. [34926/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)
Cathy Bennett: 158. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the operation of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund. [34925/25]
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I welcome the Garda Commissioner and all the other witnesses. Gardaí play a vital role in all our communities, and I thank them for that. I have a few questions. I previously brought to the Garda Commissioner's attention the JPCs that were still not up and running around the country. They worked very well for councils and communities coming together in every area. What is happening...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: When are they happening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: The JPCs stopped a year ago and the other ones are not up and running yet. One was supposed to replace the other.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: It is important that communities, councillors and gardaí are on board together. It is a good communication system in each county, and I say "Well done" for all the work on the JPCs. In 2023, An Garda Síochána spent €2.9 million on a construction project for a new station to be built in Bailieborough. The expected spend for the lifetime was supposed to be...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is there still €7 million in the pot for that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Is there enough to finish it?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I have an issue with that. Sometimes, I see the vans. A company has been hired. I think GoSafe is the company that does it. I have an issue, in that, the vans are parked in the most obscure places where they are trying to get people who are just doing 30 or 40 mph. If this is supposed to be "go safe", is it not about people speeding in a 100 km/h zone or something like that as opposed to...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: Why are they in a 50 km/h zone in preference to a 120 km/h zone?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: I know but my issue is that these speed vans are in places where traffic is travelling at a slow rate. It is never on the motorway.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is okay. I thank the Commissioner. How much was paid for that GoSafe service in 2024?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is up significantly from 2022 and 2023. In 2023, it was only €7.9 million. Why was there an additional cost there?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: There were additional hours to get more money in.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (26 Jun 2025) Cathy Bennett: That is fine. With regard to the ongoing conflict in Palestine, the Commissioner will be aware of media reports of certain civilian airlines carrying weapons of war or components bound for Israel in support of the genocide of the people of Gaza. My understanding is that it is illegal to do this without the permission of the Minister for Transport and so it effectively would amount to...