Results 7,021-7,040 of 7,082 for speaker:John Paul Phelan

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Functions (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 172. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role that her Department has in nominating members to the board of the Irish National Opera. [38389/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on a scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 193. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people in receipt of jobseeker’s allowance or jobseeker’s benefit continuously since December 2019; the ages and geographical locations of these recipients; the number of these recipients currently receiving reduced rates of payments; and the number who previously had their payments reduced but...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 208. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legal status of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Ireland and Europe; and whether she is considering proscribing that organisation. [38380/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the legal status of female genital mutilation in Irish law; and whether it is permissible for minors to be brought out of the State for such practices. [38381/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 324. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the studies or reports he consulted in advance of his recent statement criticising single-sex education; and in particular to outline what informed his suggestion that single-sex learning environments contribute to aggression by young men towards women and girls. [38378/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (1 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the long-proposed updating of the planning guidelines for wind turbine development; if he plans to make the new rules statutory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38760/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (1 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recent developments arising from the establishment, a number of years ago, of an office on Capel Street in Dublin which was staffed by police officers of the People's Republic of China with the apparent aim of monitoring Chinese citizens in Ireland; and if the Government is monitoring any attempts to establish other such...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of third-party bodies who conduct counts of bird species in Ireland on behalf of his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the details of how these bodies are selected; when further selections are planned; and the criteria for selection. [39200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the National Parks and Wildlife Service conducts counts of bird species in Ireland, including the standards and scientific basis underpinning the count process; and whether counts are subject to independent peer review. [39201/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures put in place to ensure consistency and alignment in the methodologies used for counts of bird species in Ireland with those used in Northern Ireland. [39202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the methodologies and agencies and external bodies involved in conducting assessments on the status and trends of bird species as required under Article 12 of the Birds Directive. [39203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the logic of allowing a 17-year-old bring tobacco and alcohol into the country through duty free, but banning the purchase of tobacco until the age of 21 in their local shop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39204/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges that there are significant loopholes when it comes to the duty-free purchasing of tobacco and alcohol by those under the age of 18, while his Department intends to prohibit the sale of alcohol to 18- to 20-year-olds in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 231. To ask the Minister for Health that actions that are being immediately taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have access to their prescribed medication within the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39276/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the amount of VAT raised from sports streaming services in any of the years 2021, 2022 or 2023 has been calculated; the totals calculated in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of Ireland’s target to achieve cervical cancer elimination by the year 2040, he will consider removing the requirement of a GP prescription for the provision of the HPV vaccine in pharmacies by adding it to the Eighth Schedule of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015, as is...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 27. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if commercial bus operators will be included in the continuing reduced fare scheme and the extended children's free travel, in order to increase the reach of public transport. [40408/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the cost per kilometre of subvention for commercial bus operators services scheduled by the National Transport Authority, compared to the cost per kilometre of subvention for PSO services [40409/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Budget 2025 (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide further details of his Department’s plans announced in Budget 2025 relating to ‘investing in electric and hybrid-electric busses, and in charging infrastructure at depots’, including the scale of funding to be provided. [40410/24]