Results 501-520 of 696 for speaker:Albert Dolan

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of total expenditure on disability services in each of the past five years (details supplied), in tabular form. [32155/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 700. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the names of the five highest-funded for-profit organisations that have received payments under service arrangements for the provision of disability services in each of the past five years (2020 to 2024); and the amount paid to each organisation annually, the CHO area under which each operates, and any changes...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 701. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the projected service demand and planned capacity increases in the provision of disability services for the period 2025 to 2029 (details supplied); and if he will provide any published forecasts, modelling data, or strategic planning documentation that underpin these projections, including relevant content from...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 704. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth whether provision has been made in the Health Service Executive’s draft service plan for the establishment or support of an equine therapy centre in Tuam, County Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32188/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 721. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 822. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on current waiting times for access to mental health support services, particularly in primary care and community settings; the measures being taken to reduce delays in access to counselling, CAMHS; and the additional resources that will be allocated in 2025 to improve mental health provision nationally, and in underserved areas such as east...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 876. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorded, for each of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 962. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits, if recorded,...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Websites (17 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 995. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if his Department’s website employs analytics tools (details supplied) that track website traffic using UTM parameters (for example, utm_source); if so, whether any visits have been recorded with a specific parameter or similar identifiers indicating traffic from ChatGPT; and to provide the monthly number of such visits,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: This question is important in the context of our economy. Across our economy in health, ICT and engineering, there are skills shortages that need to be filled. Will the Minister of State provide an update on his plan to expand the list of occupations?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: Are there plans to expand the lists? The programme for Government does not just mention visas; it also refers to merging the visa and employment permit systems into one user-friendly, single-application procedure supported by a new ICT system. I understand that a new permit system has been rolled out, and Deputy Mattie McGrath also raised this issue. Concerns have been raised with me by...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: It is welcome to hear that a review will take place and that such reviews happen periodically. Is there a date for when submissions will open? Are they made on a rolling basis? If I go back to my constituents in Galway East and across the network, it would be great to be able to give people an update. I would appreciate an update on the permit system. As with any new system, there have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 8. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Galway currently supported by Enterprise Ireland and by the IDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33001/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: In Galway, we have a fantastic economy that has grown over the past few years and has only gone from strength to strength. There is a significant amount of people employed across our IDA and Enterprise Ireland clients. I ask the Minister to provide details of the number of jobs in Galway in either IDA- or Enterprise Ireland-related companies.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit. That tells the story. I was expecting to hear numbers like that. A 7% increase in Enterprise Ireland employment numbers across Galway in 2023 to 2024 alone is phenomenal growth and the type of growth we want to see, not just for Galway, but for all of the west. There are two important aspects I wish to highlight. The first is the planning...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: I appreciate the commitment by the Government to tackle the planning issues, but we did not have that problem in Athenry, fortunately. It was an eight-week planning process and permission was granted with the necessary conditions to ensure nobody was impacted negatively. It was a positive news story and something we as a Government should promote more to the wider world to show that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: 11. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new western regional enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33000/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: This question is essentially to ask when a new western regional enterprise plan will be published. Will the Minister of State provide some detail on that? The previous western regional enterprise plan from 2021 to 2024 has been a success. It identified a Galway to Athenry economic corridor in which we now see enterprises developing in the form of Dexcom, but we have also seen other...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: The western regional enterprise plan must have significant consideration of AI and a dedication to it. Ireland has benefited massively in the past 30 to 40 years from having incredible educational opportunities, ultimately leading many people into high-paying, knowledge worker roles. The problem is that, with the speed at which AI is changing, it is a threat to many of the knowledge worker...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Albert Dolan: I appreciate the Minister of State's commitment to digitalisation, but I want to hammer the point home. An AI hub for the west is something we need in order to be as competitive as the rest of the country, and world, into the future. The final point I want to raise relates to agritech and the agrifood sector. There is a role to be played between agritourism, the food sector and what we...