Results 681-700 of 808 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help agencies registered in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 3328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether technical universities, and specifically, TUS Clonmel IT, receive funding to build student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41216/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: The witnesses are very welcome today. It is such an important issue. Like Senator Paul Daly said, I appreciate their work in relation to this. I appreciate a lot has been answered, and I will keep it brief. Perhaps this is for the EPA really, but there is a huge amount of energy and focus on farmers when it comes to water quality. In all of the reports and so on, it is all focusing on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: I appreciate that this may have already been asked as I was in the Dáil at the start of the meeting, but can Mr. Callanan give farmers an outline of the timeframe over the next few months in terms of engagements with the Department, the Commission, etc.? When will farmers have an update on this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: What about the Commission and the extension?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Nitrates Derogation: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank Mr. Callanan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the Department officials for coming in. I wish Sinéad McPhillips all the best in her new job. I look forward to working with her over the years ahead. I am totally opposed to the Mercosur trade deal. It is incredible really. It has been a masterclass in political doublespeak from the European Union in many ways. Over the last hour we have been talking about the nitrates...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: I am sorry to interrupt Ms McPhillips, but what are the legally binding environmental commitments in this deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: What level of deforestation is allowable under the deal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: Are those commitments on the number of hectares of rainforest that are allowed to be removed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: It is very vague. We all live under the same sky. What is the difference between emissions produced in Mayo, Dublin or Donegal and those produced in Argentina or Brazil?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: Farmers are going to be hurt significantly by this deal, especially beef farmers. What analysis has been done? Analysis was done, as Ms McPhillips mentioned, on the potential reduction of beef prices in Ireland. Who are the beneficiaries of this deal? Has there been analysis done on German and French car manufacturing? By what percentage of sales are they due to benefit from the deal?

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: 424. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he has reviewed the current eligibility criteria for the back-to-school clothing and footwear allowance, in light of concerns raised regarding foster families; if he will now consider removing the means test requirement including the need to be in receipt of a qualifying social welfare payment for foster carers, to...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: 485. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to consider introducing a fee waiver for older applicants for Irish citizenship, as an elderly constituent, who has lived in Ireland for the past 41 years but is of English nationality, cannot afford to access an Irish passport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: 660. To ask the Minister for Health the reason several persons whose routine mammograms are due, have not received appointments in Galway following the postponement of mammography services at Mayo University Hospital; the reason they have had to actively seek out these appointments themselves; the interim arrangements in place to ensure timely access to breast cancer screening for affected...

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: The cost of insurance is crippling to so many young people. This Government has already priced young people out of the housing market, and out of the opportunity to have their own home. Now the Government is pricing them off the road. The Government is taking away their independence. That is what is happening. Over recent years, premiums have risen by on average by almost 10%. The major...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: 101. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department is taking to improve regional and rural transport connectivity in the west of Ireland, with particular reference to rail and bus links serving County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51780/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: Will the Minister outline the steps he and the Department are taking to improve regional connectivity, particularly rail and bus services in Mayo?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: Will the Minister of State please focus on regional rail? The Dublin to Westport line has had no significant upgrades in quite some time. From Westport to Athlone, we are still operating off a single-carriage line. The distance from Westport to Dublin is 262 km. The journey takes three hours and 20 minutes, which means that the average speed is 80 km/h. There are tractors in Mayo that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Paul Lawless: The distance between Cork and Dublin is the same. Trains on that route reach Dublin in two and a half hours. The TGV in France has an average speed of 300 km/h. With such average speeds, it would be possible to get from Westport to Dublin in under an hour. In many cases, the people of Mayo are waiting in Roscommon for half an hour for a train to pass because of the single line and because...