Results 7,801-7,820 of 9,409 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Insurance Coverage (23 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons availing of private health insurance, by age group (details supplied). [43416/24]

Family Courts Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this Bill. I commend the Minister for bringing it before the Dáil. Obviously, under our Constitution the administration of justice is the preserve of the courts. Even though that is the case, we, as Members of the Oireachtas, have an extremely important role to play in putting in place the statutory architecture required in order for the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Apologies have been received from the Cathaoirleach, Deputy Paul Kehoe, and from Deputies Mairéad Farrell and Sorca Clarke. I ask members to turn off their mobile phones. This meeting has been convened to consider the Supplementary Estimate - Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, which was referred to this committee by the Dáil. I welcome the...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State. I do not think there will be too many questions. One thing that Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan and I were pleased to see was that €116 million was going to be set for once-off cost-of-living measures for students. We had the Union of Students in Ireland before the committee earlier in the week. Cost-of-living challenges are a big issue for third level...

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The increased stipend for PhD students that was announced in the budget is not covered in the Supplementary Estimate; it does not need to be. Does the Minister of State think it will facilitate postgraduate students in terms of their further studies?

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Supplementary) (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State and his officials for their engagement at this meeting and at all previous meetings of this Dáil, which is coming near an end. That concludes our consideration of the Supplementary Estimate for Vote 45.

Select Committee on Education and Skills: Message to Dáil (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research,...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 141. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved since 1 July 2020, broken down by county, along with the number of applicants associated with these claims; and the number of claims by homebuyers (excluding self-builds), broken down by county, and which is the number of these claims relating to purchases. [43816/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (24 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 17 October 2024, if she will provide a breakdown, on a local authority, basis of the overall totals provided, in tabular form. [43592/24]

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State and her officials for coming before what is probably the last meeting of this select finance committee. Obviously, the function of the committee is to consider the Supplementary Estimates. If we had to approve them, I am sure they would be approved. I wish to raise one issue with the Minister of State that she identified in her opening statement. It...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office (Supplementary)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Supplementary)
Vote 6 - Chief State Solicitor's Office (Supplementary) (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister of State.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (6 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on a matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45445/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 252. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he intends to review the tax regime associated with exchange traded funds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44117/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 351. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the annual funding allocations in 2024 and 2025 for the small school's initiative; and the number of schools invested in each year. [43901/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 709. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of criminal prosecutions that were struck out, or discontinued in the past one or two years, due to the prosecuting Garda or Garda witnesses no longer being members of An Garda Síochána. [43959/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 721. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of sworn members in An Garda Síochána at present. [44204/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 789. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of penal warrants outstanding in the Garda R District as of 25 October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 790. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí, by rank, attached to each divisional scenes of the crime unit as of 29 October 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45067/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 791. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda public order unit vans attached to DMR North as of 29 October 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45068/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (5 Nov 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 792. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda cars and vans attached to each Garda district within DMR to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45069/24]