Results 61-80 of 6,820 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 490. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of planning permission (details supplied) being sought for a college to retain the existing five classroom prefabricated building on their site; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 491. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of planning permission (details supplied) being sought by a college for the provision of a suite of additional prefabricated specialist classrooms that will be required to accommodate the existing cohort of students in September 2020 to include science, art, home economics and woodwork rooms; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to the fast tracking of an application by a college (details supplied) for inclusion on the building list of her Department to accommodate a new school and its growing population; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health if it is safe for blind persons to use a sighted guide in view of Covid-19 health restrictions; his plans to issue guidance on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18889/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I want to return to the social welfare issue. I completely accept Mr. Gray's point around the data sharing and the DAA's very timely tweets over the weekend and thank it for that. It assured people that the authority is not engaged in this. Based on Mr. Gray's comments today I am curious as to the basis on which the DAA is allowing social welfare inspectors into the airport. Presumably...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I apologise, but surely those people identified themselves to the DAA.

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Many State authorities act there, okay. Let us say I wanted to give a group of people high-visibility vests to go in and conduct a survey, would nobody in the airport question me or stop me?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: Am I to understand that the Department neither sought permission for this action nor was given any?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: In Mr. Gray's professional experience might staff of the Department be there in the normal course of their activities?

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Covid-19: Impact on Aviation (28 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Gray. He speaks in the report, which I also thank him for, of reviewing capital investment programmes. I am aware works have started on the north runway. Is this project under review? In 2020 passenger numbers were expected to be at 9 million. Now, based on predictions from CAPA - Centre for Aviation, it will be a five to ten year wait to reach the circa 30 million passengers...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (30 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 922. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the views of a number of animal welfare groups that an upcoming shipment of live animals from Ireland to Libya could contravene EU rules on protecting transported live animals to third countries; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19925/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff (30 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 1146. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase the number of Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists in view of the shortage here with three in Dublin and none elsewhere in Leinster; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19898/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (30 Jul 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 1147. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to improve access to essential services for those with Parkinson’s disease such as to neurologists, physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and dietetics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19899/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (8 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the deemed disposal rule which was introduced in the Finance Act 2006; his plans to revise same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22141/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (8 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 923. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to prevent and detect the importation and sale of illegal fireworks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21614/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (8 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 1378. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline of the review of the epidemiology of tuberculosis here considering the public health impact of having no BCG vaccination since April 2015; when this review will be complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22492/20]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Traffic Management (9 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 117. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the expected start date and completion date of the proposed consultation process on a Phoenix Park traffic management strategy. [22895/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Female Genital Mutilation (10 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to develop and implement a national action plan to end the practice of female genital mutilation here by 2030; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23107/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (10 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 217. To ask the Minister for Health when the monthly drugs payment scheme threshold will be reduced to €114 as provided for in budget 2020; when a commencement order will come into effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23098/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (15 Sep 2020)

Neasa Hourigan: 787. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of Covid-19 tests in which the swab taken to lab result time exceeded 48, 72, 96 and 120 hours, respectively in July and August 2020, by community and hospital settings nationwide and specifically in the South/Southwest Hospital Group [23983/20]