Results 621-640 of 6,188 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Commission for Energy Regulation Staff (24 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 247. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he is satisfied the staffing resource levels of the Commission for Energy Regulation is sufficient; if there has been a review of the staffing levels; his plans to increase staffing levels; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24846/17]

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On a separate matter.

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yesterday evening my party wrote to the Ceann Comhairle's office regarding the revelations we heard yesterday, which emerged since the last meeting of the Business Committee, seeking a debate on the matter and for the two relevant Ministers to come into the House to discuss it. I was informed that the appropriate avenue to raise this matter was to submit a Topical Issue. I was successful in...

Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I request that the Business Committee meet to discuss this and find appropriate slots for both Ministers to come in and discuss the matter this week.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to proposed amendments to the 2011 legislation regarding student grants having been requested by Members of the Houses of the Oireachtas or officials in his Department in the past 12 months; his views on the legislation's shortcomings with regard to persons whose income has been affected by exchange rate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider adding additional schools to the DEIS urban band 2 programme in view of the fact that no new schools were added to this category in 2017. [25927/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has or will be given to bringing new schools into the DEIS band 2 designation. [26001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Designation (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if in evaluating schools (details supplied) the schools were considered as being urban or rural, in view of their location on the city-county border in advance of the February 2017 announcement. [25928/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials in his Department considered or read the research document, a case of mistaken identity, conducted by Togher family centre in association with local schools, which was sent to his Department; the action taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26028/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if schools (details supplied) have applied for resources under the resource allocation model; if so, if they have been successful; and if not, if they have appealed. [26029/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional resources which may be provided to schools under the resource allocation model. [26032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home School Community Liaison Scheme (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider putting in place home school community liason officers for schools that were not succesful in applications for DEIS but face considerable disadvantage. [26030/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: DEIS Applications (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next round of DEIS schools will be announced; the assessment criteria which will be used; if schools that have an existing application will need to reapply; and if the existing assessment will be adequate [26031/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 485. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the non-compliance with procurement regulations on the part of the HSE in recent years; the circumstances in which this took place; and the steps which were taken in order to rectify same. [25823/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Procurement Regulations (30 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 486. To ask the Minister for Health the steps which were taken regarding chapter 14 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2013 which identified significant instances of non compliance in relation to procurement regulations; and the steps his department has taken to rectify same [25824/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: First, I would like to say how enormously important is the role that foster carers play. I have said at previous hearings that our care system would effectively collapse without foster carers. We are all grateful to them and to EPIC, which is an excellent organisation. I have had some engagement with it. I have some questions on a few different topics. The presentation touched on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (31 May 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to clarify a point. Ms Bond spoke about regulation assisting matters. We heard from the Health Information and Quality Authority two weeks ago that, essentially, the area was unregulated, whereas, if I understood Ms Bond correctly, there is a degree of regulation. To what extent is the area regulated? What exactly is the shortfall to which HIQA was referring? I want to understand...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am sharing time with Deputy Louise O'Reilly. I thank the Minister for agreeing to hold this debate which certainly is timely. It is important to reflect on the content of the interim report and the Minister's contribution, in which there were a number of additional points for us to consider. I will return to it. Some weeks before the report was issued, the House debated and voted on a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Persons Data (1 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 108. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the percentage of the homeless population that are young and LGBT, if known by his Department; his plans to obtain such data; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26488/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Labour Activation Programmes (1 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 109. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to inform the Government Senators on the contents of the Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016 before the Bill’s second reading in January 2018. [26489/17]