Results 61-80 of 115 for speaker:Aisling Dempsey

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 106. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the ACRES 2023 balancing payments will be issued to the remaining 1,850 farmers. [26152/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (21 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 107. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when the ACRES 2024 balancing payments will be paid to the remaining 7,660 farmers. [26153/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (21 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 108. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will agree and implement a consistent and adequately resourced TB scheme, which includes a plan to manage infected wildlife. [26154/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (22 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I congratulate the Chair on her role. I was delighted to see a first-time female TD getting the chair. With the Chair's background, I am sure she will be an excellent ambassador for the committee. Members do not often get the opportunity to say it in these Houses but there appears to be a bit of a gender imbalance on this committee, which I am glad to see. It is important in this age of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: The assisted human reproduction Act was passed by these Houses in 2024, but has not yet been enacted. Retrospective surrogacy legislation will provide a pathway to parental rights to the second parent of eligible families. This part of the Bill is aimed at ensuring that children born through surrogacy in the past have the same recognition as other families. I raise the case of my...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (27 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 444. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has entered into contracts with companies (details supplied) to provide accommodation for international protection applicants in Trim, County Meath. [26703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Contracts (27 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 445. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has entered into any contracts with any companies to provide accommodation for international protection applicants in Trim, County Meath. [26704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if an additional driving test centre will be opened in Meath west to help combat the 42+ week waiting time for learner drivers to secure their test. [27891/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 96. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if driving test centres will be mandated to work late nights throughout the summer months at least and operate a seven day week schedule to combat the 42+ week test wait time in Meath west. [27892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (28 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 304. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when a person will receive their visa application decision (details supplied). [27958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Policy (28 May 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 305. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the way in which a child (details supplied) can prove at Irish immigration that they should be allowed re-entry to Ireland following a trip abroad. [27959/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 16. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [29816/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the Taoiseach for his comments and continued focus and priority on disability matters. A cross-departmental approach is the only way we will improve disability services and the lives of those affected by disability. I am heartened to hear of progress on the work programme being worked on currently and that a new strategy document will be prepared. However, I have a question about...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Housing is the number one priority for this Government. It is the issue I hear most about when I meet people across Meath West. This concern is not limited to one age group. Our twenty-somethings are struggling to gain independence. They are stuck in expensive rental markets with little hope of home ownership. Our thirty-somethings who are ready to settle down and start families are...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the Minister and her officials for being here today and for their engagement with the committee to date. I thank her for her briefing last week and her personal engagement with me on questions and issues I have raised. I was delighted foster care was the first issue she mentioned in her opening statement. It is a topic I am very interested in and that is very close to my heart....

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: There was the question on DEIS.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Work Permits (10 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 456. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to increase the number of work permits for people working here in the caring professions given the shortage of staff in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 793. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to extend the enhanced defective concrete blocks scheme to County Meath where there are affected parties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29509/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (11 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 70. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the electric small public service vehicle scheme will re-open for applications. [31091/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (11 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider recommending that Crohn’s disease and colitis sufferers be allowed to avail of the tax break on gluten-free products that is available to coeliacs, given that a gluten-free diet is hugely beneficial to a large percentage of Crohn’s and colitis sufferers. [31098/25]