Results 6,481-6,500 of 6,659 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Meals Programme (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1371. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a school (details supplied) will be given permission to go to tender for the hot school lunch programme for which it has been approved. [45750/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2660. To ask the Minister for Health the remaining budget for respite for carers in 2025 for CHO4, broken down by area. [47340/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2661. To ask the Minister for Health 3361.the number of days respite that can be provided within the remaining budget for CHO4, broken down by area. [47341/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2662. To ask the Minister for Health the budget that has been spent to date for respite for carers in 2025 for community healthcare organisation 4 or CHO4, broken down by area. [47342/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2672. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting list for home help in the south Lee area of County Cork. [47505/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2673. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south and north Lee areas in County Cork, in each of the past 12 months, in tabular form. [47506/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2674. To ask the Minister for Health if all home help organiser positions in south and north Lee have been filled; and if not, when they will be filled. [47507/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 2675. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people waiting on home help allocation longer than six, 12, 18 and 24 months, respectively. [47508/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to ensure sufficient funding is provided to resource Joint Induction Training Centre, JITC, Gormanston, Baldonnel, Haulbowline and DFTC infrastructure master plans. [49298/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This question relates to funding, primarily for training locations at Gormanston, Baldonnel, Haulbowline and the DFTC, and the infrastructure master plans for same.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Tánaiste. For the record, I appreciate there are constraints, given the window we are in, in terms of what the Tánaiste can tell me. What he will tell me is another question, maybe. In general, I put on record that we support increasing defence expenditure provided it is done in a wise and rational way. It is vitally important that we are investing in the areas of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To come back to some of the brass tacks in terms of the training objectives outlined in the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces, there was one objective for the future and another that I hope has been progressed a bit. Will the Tánaiste give an update on it? It was recommended that a new communication information workshop facility at the training centre would commence in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 3. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the national maritime security strategy; and the level of funding that has been committed for 2026 and 2027. [49299/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The area of maritime security is one of the most salient to us as an island nation. If we are talking about increasing defence expenditure, we must surely ensure that our seas are safeguarded against traditional threats but also against new and expanding threats such as threats to undersea cables, hybrid threats and so on. A maritime security strategy is obviously something that is very...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Addressing this in a way that is sustainable will require some current spending as well as capital spending and I might come back to that in my last contribution. The threats that are potentially faced are multiple. There are obviously the traditional issues that the Defence Forces faced in ensuring the protection of Irish waters in a fishing and general sort of sense but also as regards...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: On that, and it partially relates to my first question, it is important after the budget that the Department would publish a document outlining where we now stand with the revised capital development plan and to mark that against the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces. That would be a useful document if it were possible to achieve. One of the areas in which the gap between the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Maritime Jurisdiction (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: There is only so far 1% will go.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline his proposals to remove the triple lock neutrality protection; when he intends to bring forward a Bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49300/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will return to some of the things that we discussed in the committee but I might first respond on the issue of UNIFIL and what this means in terms of the UN. I wish to say clearly that I regret very much the decisions that have been taken in relation to UNIFIL. A lot of work would have gone on behind the scenes to ensure there was not a cliff edge. This was important so that the least...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Swiss and the Austrians have constitutional protections in terms of neutrality so perhaps that is a conversation the Tánaiste wants to have. Instead of legislation governing the triple lock then perhaps the Tánaiste wants to have a conversation about us looking at constitutional protection for neutrality. Let us have that conversation. I suspect that is not what is in the...