Results 481-500 of 645 for speaker:Donna McGettigan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Appointments (8 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 2713. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to visit (details supplied) before the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (8 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 2714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for capital investment in the higher education facilities in Kilkenny over the next three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 2715. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of instructors employed by the City of Dublin Education and Training Board to conduct commis chef apprenticeship training in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45608/25]

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: It is clear to anyone paying attention that we have a serious capacity issue when it comes to providing school places for children with special needs. Every child is entitled to the best quality education the State can provide, and this means schooling that meets their needs and is based in their own community. Yet parents in my constituency of Clare are having to place their children on...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans for the triple lock given recent comments by the Minister for Health and by other members of the Government proposing to scrap or undermine it, despite it being the expressed will of the people to retain it. [48759/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: No.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I support the triple lock and want it retained. The vast majority of us do not want Irish troops to serve anywhere unless it is as peacekeepers under the auspices of the UN. Opinion polls have consistently shown that. It was enacted to reassure the voters of the State that we would not become involved in an EU army, NATO or any other military alliances. The Government is now clearly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: Sinn Féin supports investing in our military, air force and naval services to overcome the chronic neglect they have suffered under this and previous Governments. We are not a major military power and should not strive to become one. Our standing in the world should rest firmly on our neutrality and independence. We should seek to assert influence from that basis. Any military...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Policies (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to detail the human rights, anti-racism, academic and civil society groups his Department engaged with in relation to the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism; the groups or individuals that proposed its introduction to him; if consideration was given to adopting the Jerusalem...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 894. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in County Clare currently on leave for medical reasons; the length of time each member has been on leave; the anticipated date of their return to duty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 895. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of An Garda Síochána stationed in County Clare that have retired over the past five years, by rank, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48467/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 896. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of An Garda Síochána that have been deployed to County Clare over the past five years, by rank, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 897. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of An Garda Síochána stationed in County Clare expected to retire over the next four years, by rank, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Airport Security (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 922. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the screening measures in place at airports and ports of entry here to detect people who have served in the Israeli Defence Forces and may have committed criminal acts in Palestine; whether such people will be refused entry or will be arrested under universal jurisdiction; if not, if he will introduce such measures; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeline for the delivery of the DCU student accommodation project for the promised funding of 405-beds, which is currently undergoing ongoing procurement through internal university governance structures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48766/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department announced and made public to the schools or student population in the North the recommended equitable CAO points conversion system for A level students there; if so, when this occurred; the way in which this was communicated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48767/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (17 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 1424. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans for students to get full recognition for the 4th A level instead of the current 24 CAO points, particularly as many students in the North were unaware of the process (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48768/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (18 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: 137. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will intervene to oppose plans for wind turbines in east Clare (details supplied); if aviation authorities have been formally consulted in his Department’s mapping exercise; and, if not, if east Clare will be removed from mapped wind areas until full consultation and a cumulative aviation risk assessment are...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: I want to talk about a worrying issue that affects parents and pupils in Shannon, Six-mile-bridge and Newmarket on Fergus in Clare when they are using school transport and the problems that come with the integration of our school transport system into the public service. Last year, the NTA made a significant investment in public transport in Shannon and the surrounding areas. This was very...

Auto-Enrolment: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Donna McGettigan: We in Sinn Féin agree with the concept of an auto-enrolment pension scheme. There is no doubt that, with an ageing population, provision will have to be made for such a scheme in order to supplement the State pension. However, this is the wrong scheme at the wrong time. It is vital that any enrolment scheme is properly designed and managed for the benefit of the people when they...