Results 781-800 of 1,995 for speaker:Joe Flaherty

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 261. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the status of a passport application by a person (details supplied). [35422/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gender Balance (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline his Department’s strategy to encourage more female participation in science, technology, engineering and maths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36763/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the take up of the apprenticeship incentivisation scheme by sector and county in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36762/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Strategies (7 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 132. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline commitments under Ireland’s National Action Plan for the EU Child Guarantee; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36705/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 144. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on capital developments at St. Joseph’s Care Campus in Longford. [37459/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the plans that are in place for primary care facilities in Edgeworthstown, Granard and Ballymahon; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37460/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Budget 2023 (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 371. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a similar compensation payment awarded to two county councils resulting from the closure of power stations will be included in Budget 2023 given that the local authorities face profound uncertainty should this not happen (details supplied). [37606/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 423. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income thresholds for social housing supports will be updated. [37602/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 396. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application from the Forgney community water connection previously known as group water scheme for a water connection to the Ballymahon public water system has been included in the Longford County Council bid under the new multi rural water programme 2022 to 2024 (details supplied). [37219/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 421. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the new fire station for Ballymahon, County Longford (details supplied) [37598/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 422. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide assurances that County Longford and other affected local authorities will be appropriately compensated as a result of the new local property tax brackets (details supplied). [37601/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 424. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the current €30,000 upper limit on the amount payable under the essential works grant scheme for the elderly will be reviewed upwardly; and if so, when this will occur given the current inflationary costs affecting construction. [37603/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 425. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are any plans to revisit the new ten-year tenancy requirement before a tenancy can apply for the tenant purchase scheme and to reduce the wait time for the many households that felt that they could have been approved in 2022. [37604/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 426. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will give an assurance that Longford County Council will be compensated in respect of the significant, unavoidable and unbudgeted over-spend for the housing retrofit scheme (details supplied). [37608/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if any consideration will be given to community employment scheme supervisors who retired prior to the 2008 reference year in order to allow them to receive the CE ex-gratia payment (details supplied). [37222/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister and his departmental officials for their work on this important area. It is good to see it coming before us in such a timely fashion. I have a couple of key questions. The UTP directive is being operated currently on an interim basis by the Unfair Trading Practices Enforcement Authority, UTPEA, since 2019. Will the Minister give us some details on what activity we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Has the agency taken anybody to task yet?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Mr. Collins. The Minister outlined there will be a CEO and five board members. In terms of staffing, what kind of personnel will be assigned to this body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: What is being envisaged in terms of the skill set? Is it forensic accountants or what type of people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: In terms of a comparison with the UK Groceries Code Adjudicator, is this agency modelled directly on it or have we looked at European models as well? Is this going to be best in field? Will the Minister give an oversight on what the agency has been based on and the level of research that was carried out.