Results 521-540 of 2,486 for speaker:Patricia Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Swimming Pool Programme (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 489. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will co-locate a public swimming pool with an existing or new-build school in the area of Newbridge or Kildare town, County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11910/21]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 604. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when hard copies of the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes will be available in libraries; if they will be available in other public buildings such as Garda stations which open during level 5 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11906/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 944. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a single point of contact to families of patients in each hospital to alleviate problems that families are having in finding out information while staff are busy assisting patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 945. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish criteria for changes in the level of pandemic related restrictions in terms of number of cases, number of deaths, the R rate, vaccination numbers and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11897/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 946. To ask the Minister for Health when the Athy primary medical centre will be fully operational; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11900/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 947. To ask the Minister for Health when occupational therapists will return from secondment to contact tracing in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11901/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 948. To ask the Minister for Health if he will introduce safeguards and an appeal system to counteract persons giving false names to avoid fines under the Covid-19 travel restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11903/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 949. To ask the Minister for Health the number of antigen and PCR tests carried out by the HSE for Covid-19 to date in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11904/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Provision (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 950. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons with a disability in County Kildare awaiting a HSE-funded residential placement; the waiting times for same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11907/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 951. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on CAMHS waiting lists by age and gender in County Kildare in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11908/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff (3 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: 952. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff working in the HSE in County Kildare in each of the years 2015 to 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11909/21]

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. The origins of the State agency are to be found in the national planning framework, NPF, published in February 2018. Buried in this 182-page document was a commitment to create a national development and regeneration agency. Its focus was to ensure the best use of public lands, including working with local authorities to drive the renewal of...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: I thank both the witnesses for attending. Dr. McQuinn mentioned the calls for unconventional fiscal policies. What might they entail?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: Does Dr. McQuinn know why the European Commission is waiting until after the forthcoming German elections to reveal the European fiscal framework?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: Why are mortgage interest rates so high in Ireland, given the historically low interest rates throughout the eurozone, and what can be done to reduce them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: We are in the middle of a housing crisis. I note criticism by the ESRI of the affordable housing Bill. What is the best way to approach solving this crisis?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: What is Dr. McQuinn's opinion on the taxing of the pandemic unemployment payment and the temporary wage subsidy scheme? Does he consider the taxing these payments is counter-productive?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: Dr. McQuinn mentioned in his statement that increased public investment has been found to crowd in as opposed to crowd out private investment. What area should public investment prioritise with a view to attracting private investment?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Dr. McQuinn for that. He mentioned in his statement that existing welfare payments could be reformed to better target at-risk groups. What reforms would he suggest in that respect?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Stability Programme Update: Economic and Social Research Institute (9 Mar 2021)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses for their responses. I have completed my questions.