Results 6,601-6,620 of 6,847 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

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

Darren O'Rourke: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the counselling in primary schools pilot; the counselling hours delivered to date and the number of children to benefit; the way in which this pilot is monitored and evaluated; her plans for its further rollout; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8492/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on Strand I and II of the educational therapy support service; if she intends to transition this service to a national therapy service in education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8488/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures she is taking to increase access to, and participation in, transition year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 213. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to change the tax treatment of the widow’s pension, to ensure that people in receipt of widow’s pension and who are working are not doubly penalised, particularly in light of the fact that if they become ill and can no longer work they cannot claim illness benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8914/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a new toolkit for the deployment of special needs assistants is being implemented; the details of same; the way in which this will impact on the supports available to children at school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8661/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the toolkit for deployment of SNA support (details supplied) amounts to a shift of responsibilities from SNAs to teachers; her views on whether this will place undue burden on teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8871/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the proposed timebound provision for teachers who qualify outside the Republic of Ireland (details supplied) will be introduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8834/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 283. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses in County Meath now being considered for inclusion in the defective concrete blocks grant scheme; when a decision on these will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8872/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 314. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he recognises the anomaly in the social welfare system which means that people in receipt of widow’s pension, and who are working, are penalised if they become ill and can no longer work, because they cannot claim illness benefit for example; if he intends to address this anomaly; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (26 Feb 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to publish the account for the year 2012 that shows the balance as described on page 27 of the Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98 School Transport Provision (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8294/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Anyone interested in the issue will have heard the Taoiseach's previous answer in regard to SOSAD Ireland, which the Minister of State handed to him, ten times over. That reply does not answer the question he was asked. I will ask it again. The question relates to interim funding to keep the doors open on these vital services between now and when SOSAD Ireland can continue to engage in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 34. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disability will meet next. [8320/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I raise the research published today or yesterday by the ESRI, which shows the crucial role of the school completion programme in supporting student attendance and engagement and highlights staffing and funding challenges. Among the major issues highlighted is the lack of referral pathways into therapies. Will that be looked at with a view to potentially delivering school-based therapies?...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Can I call for a quorum? We do not have a quorum. We need five in the Chamber. Is that the case? I think it is. It is an important debate.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to return to the issue of Garda numbers, as I often do, in regard to County Meath. County Meath is the county with the lowest number of gardaí per head of population, something which has been the case for a long time. By way of comparison, in 2009 there were 315 gardaí in County Meath, with a population at that time of 172,000 people. At the end of 2024, there were 316...

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] (4 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: Mo bhuíochas leis an Teachta Ó Snodaigh as an rún seo a chur faoi bhráid na Dála. Tá mé ag labhairt mar urlabhraí oideachais mo pháirtí, ach níos tábhachtaí arís, tá mé ag labhairt mar thuismitheoir páistí ar mhaith liom go mbeadh oideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge acu. Teastaíonn an deis...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered legislative or regulatory changes to aid the fast-track delivery of temporary school building accommodation to increase special school- and special class-provision for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9992/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (5 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 215. To ask the Minister for Health when a transfer will be facilitated for a person (details supplied) to CIRRUS Rehabilitation Unit, Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10174/25]

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

Darren O'Rourke: 47. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the measures he is taking to regulate the use of social media by children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10172/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (6 Mar 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 145. To ask the Minister for Health when a person in County Meath (details supplied) will receive a CAMHS appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10178/25]