Results 41-60 of 225 for speaker:Cathy Bennett

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the training provided to teachers to ensure the adequate provision of education to students with special educational needs. [8610/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her proposals to ensure that there is a suitable school place for every child with special educational needs in County Monaghan in September 2025. [8609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his proposals to ensure that part-time workers unable to submit jobseeker’s allowance declarations in emergency circumstances do not see payments delayed, as occurred recently during storm Éowyn. [8620/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 159. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the divisions and units that operate within his Department; the bodies that operate under his aegis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8780/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports available to schools regarding the heating of school buildings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8769/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 266. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to provide details of the divisions and units that operate within the Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 354. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding allocated to Enable Ireland in the years 2023 to date; the purpose thereof, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8757/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the free HRT scheme announced under Budget 2025 is delayed; the timeframe in which she intends for it to be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the supports available to those undertaking apprenticeships; if any specific support is available to assist with the purchase of tools and equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8764/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Mental and physical health is one of the strands considered in the Government's well-being framework analysis. In counties Cavan, Louth, Laois, Meath and Monaghan, the well-being of people and our communities will be negatively impacted by the recent downgrading of the services of SOSAD Ireland. They have been downgraded because of a lack of sustainable funding. The potential for this had...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Deputy Bennett.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It is going on since Christmas. Why is it not -----

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (4 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: It needs to happen.

International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Is onóir mhór dom a bheith anseo inniu le labhairt faoi Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan. International Women's Day is an opportunity to recall and pay tribute to the women who came before us. The rights we have today are their legacy, won and taken by them, never freely given by others. It is not a cause for celebration, but rather a warning and a reminder. A warning...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Industry (6 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 27. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail any proposals to cultivate tourism in Border areas. [10193/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Gaeltacht Policy (6 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 28. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to details any proposals to develop Gaeltacht tourism. [10194/25]

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The number of adults accessing emergency accommodation across the north-east region that comprises Louth, Cavan and Monaghan in a single week in January was 263. That is an increase of nearly one third on the same period last year. The number of children involved was 130, a near 70% increase year on year. What can the Government do? The tenant in situ scheme is one mechanism that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of domestic abuse refuge spaces in the State; his target for the delivery of additional refuge spaces by year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12811/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I congratulate the Minister on his new post. Will the Minister outline the current capacity of domestic violence refuge spaces and his intentions to increase this to an adequate standard?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (20 Mar 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I am delighted to hear that the Minister is committed. I hope he will be able to make the necessary changes. The Government delivered seven spaces by the end of 2023. It delivered 12 in 2024. The language I have heard the Minister use referring to 54 units under construction, or due for refurbishment this year, suggests to me a net increase of less than 54. In the best case scenario that...