Results 6,001-6,020 of 6,030 for speaker:Brendan Ryan

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland Portfolio (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 150. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 229 of 10 July 2019, if there has been success in marketing the site by the IDA; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43894/19]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Landfill Sites (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 208. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Parliamentary Question No. 533 of 17 September 2019, if tenders have now been invited for the project; the closing date for receipt of tenders; the number of contractors invited to tender; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43901/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Services (24 Oct 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 163 of 26 September 2019, if there has been further progress on the approval of the capital expenditure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43893/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Postal Voting (6 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 218. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many older persons, persons with long-term illnesses and those who are housebound feel angry and discriminated against due to the fact that they are unable to vote in elections and are unable to get to a Garda station to have a postal vote form verified; and the way in which...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide temporary accommodation to a school (details supplied) to meet the capacity needs for the incoming intake of pupils for September 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46495/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Catchment Areas (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: While I note the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy McHugh, is delivering legislation in the Seanad, I am disappointed that he is not here to hear this debate. I have been advised by the Minister in reply to a previous parliamentary question that the country is divided into 314 school planning areas. Skerries is one of those planning areas but I am afraid there is no evidence of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Catchment Areas (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: Although I am grateful to the Minister of State for reading the reply that was provided to her, I have to say that every piece of it was complete and utter nonsense. A solution must be found for the children of Skerries for next September. The Minister of State must give the House an indication that she understands the seriousness of the matter. She must give parents some hope. There is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Catchment Areas (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: The problem is what will be done about providing additional capacity from next September, not in the long term.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: State Properties (13 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 137. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Thornton Hall lands in County Dublin earmarked previously for a prison; if the lands are still in public ownership; if so, if offers from community groups for temporary use of the land will be considered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46731/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Traffic Offences Data (19 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 262. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines issued for driving in bus lanes in 2017 and 2018, in tabular form. [47397/19]

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: The amendment seeks a report on the carbon tax, but I will approach it from a different perspective. My party supports carbon tax changes generally. In fact, we might have gone a little higher. The matter I wish to raise, and this appears to be the appropriate time to raise it, relates to how carbon tax is being applied, particularly by utility companies. My question is whether it is...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I return briefly to the Minister's response to my points. He made no attempt to justify it other than to say that is the way it is. I cannot understand how it is justifiable. How can one tax a tax? Will he at least try to justify it? If one is to tax a tax and describe that as value added, I ask where is the value added to a tax?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 84. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the fact that utility companies are adding VAT onto the total charge of consumption, including the carbon tax, indicating that VAT is being charged on the carbon tax itself; if this was the intention of the carbon tax when it was constituted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47997/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: I will make a comment on normalising bike riding. I have not checked the numbers but I would bet that on this wet, dark, miserable day there are more bikes on the Kildare Street side of this House than there are cars parked inside the gates of Leinster House.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (21 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 13. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the extra carriages planned for 2021 will be provided for the northern line; the way in which the carriages will impact on frequency; if the existing platform infrastructure is capable of servicing extra carriages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48150/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Light Rail Projects Status (21 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 21. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the works taking place in relation to Metrolink; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48151/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (21 Nov 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 32. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the provision of a regular bus service from Portrane and Donabate, County Dublin to the city centre will be reviewed to ease the congestion and burden on the rail service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48152/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Dec 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if alternative arrangements will be made by which there are no provisions for students due to sit examinations and due to unforeseen circumstances are hospitalised as an emergency and in many cases have no alternative to leave hospital to sit examinations in no fit conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49938/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Personal Public Service Numbers (3 Dec 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 596. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her attention has been drawn to the backlog that exists in processing applications for PPS numbers; the impact it is having on employers seeking to recruit critical skills shortages particularly in the building trades; the way in which she plans to address the problem; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (10 Dec 2019)

Brendan Ryan: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a primary school for the Donabate peninsula, County Dublin (details supplied); if a cost-benefit analysis has been carried out to justify the extra expense in building the school on private lands as opposed to public lands; the policy in respect of constructing schools on privately-owned lands when there is...