Results 61-80 of 83 for speaker:Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in counties Wicklow and Wexford who have diagnosed special needs for both primary and secondary level, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford that were approached by the National Council for Special Education to open a specialist class; the percentage of those schools declined; the reasons given for these refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford that expressed an interest in opening a special education class in the past two years; the number of applications that were refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children carried on school buses entirely comprising concessionary tickets due to the change in school transport scheme policy for all schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16943/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 497. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the changes planned for the 2025-2026 school year regarding the school transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16944/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SNA posts funded in Budget 2025; the level of support this will provide in the planned new special classes and special schools for counties Wexford and Wicklow, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 499. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to address the issue of some schools' SNA applications status currently unknown; the actions that have been taken to ensure that schools receive the necessary SNA support to meet the needs of students with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 814. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the criteria and processes being used to assess a proposed IPAS centre (details supplied); if an impact assessment has been conducted to evaluate the effects of establishing another IPAS centre in County Wicklow, noting that the county has approximately 1,600 IPAS residents to date; when the findings of this...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 815. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of IPAS centres approved in counties Wicklow and Wexford, by year, for the past five years; the number of applicants who have resided, or are residing there; if her Department has done an assessment on the impact of establishing IPAS centres in these counties; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 818. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the total number of IPAS centres located in counties Wexford and Wicklow; the number of IPAS centres located in an area of deprivation according to Pobal, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16945/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Immigration Support Services (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 819. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of communication his Department has with communities in relation to proposed IPAS centres prior to granting permission; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16946/25]

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: With regard to children's healthcare in Ireland and our Bill to address the scandals of misdiagnosis, I would like to briefly mention my personal experience. From two months old until two years, my son was prescribed antibiotics for throat infections. When he turned two years old, he was misdiagnosed with asthma. He was supposed to begin a lifetime of medication, steroids and inhalers. It...

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Childcare costs are completely out of control, with many people now paying the equivalent of a second mortgage. A local man who came in to do a job in my office this week stated that most of his wages went towards the €1,400 per month charge for childcare, while his wife's income went towards the €1,600 per month mortgage. In view of the high cost of living, how are families...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funds currently available for the safe routes to school programme; the number of applications received for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date including successful and unsuccessful applications, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20476/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of acres of land sold, by each local authority, for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the emergency supports currently available for victims of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 2361. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug entresto is included on the drugs payment scheme; the consultation given to eligible patients eligible for this scheme when a new prescription is given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20478/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that has been provided to Uisce Éireann in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; where this funding has been allocated, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have accessed the rent supplement for victims of domestic violence in counties Wicklow and Wexford in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the set-back rule for residential tree planting; the required distance to protect private dwellings; the body responsible for residential matters in relation to tree planting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22966/25]