Results 801-820 of 924 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: The next one flagged is one from Deputy McAuliffe according to my brief.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: There is one from Deputy McAuliffe that is flagged ahead of the one that Chair has just read out.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: There are actually two. I have one that I definitely asked to be flagged that is not listed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I echo what Deputy Kenny said. What the “RTÉ Investigates" programme identified was traumatising. That is the only way to describe it. People who had worked all their lives were subjected to trauma. Sometimes it was the older people and in other cases it was their children or their partners who looked after their future life planning, and who put them into a nursing home that...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: It was stated in The Sunday Times that the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General was assessing the minutes of Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, meetings in the context of the as-yet-unpublished report on the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. I want to get clarity from the Comptroller and Auditor General in respect of that matter/ Does he have any new information that has...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: We made a decision to invite the current CEO, the former CEO and the former chair of CHI. Has that happened? Have we had confirmation from CHI that the former CEO and former chair will attend on that date, as well as confirmation from the NTPF that its representatives will attend?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (12 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I have a quick question for the Comptroller and Auditor General. Now he has seen the CHI report on the NTPF, if he had received that report at the time he was compiling the accounts, would he have approved the accounts at that time or would he have withheld approval arising from what was contained in the report?

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (17 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 58. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the response to Ireland's Competitiveness Challenge 2024, published by his Department in November 2024. [27447/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Economic Policy (17 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 59. To ask the Taoiseach if he plans on hosting another competitiveness summit. [27448/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (17 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 127. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her plans to reduce the number of childcare providers leaving the core funding model; the means by which she plans to protect parents and children affected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (17 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will outline her plans to expand the access and inclusion model to support children below the current age of eligibility, which is two years and 8 months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 722. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she can outline the plans being developed by the disability unit within her Department to increase the recruitment of speech and language therapists from abroad. [20997/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (18 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: Like many Members of this House, I speak not only as a public representative but as a former councillor and as a parent of three young children. I regularly meet parents of children with disabilities. What they tell me is clear; the system is not working for them. The programme for Government commits to progressively increasing the domiciliary care allowance, DCA, and to phasing out the...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (18 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the Taoiseach for his reply. Fundamentally though, there is a problem here in that I cannot think of any other allowance in the State where many people who apply for it are refused. It has been one in three applications over the past four years. I do not believe that those families are applying because they think that a little bit of extra money would be of assistance. They are...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 15. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on the new national clustering policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 146. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give a timeline for implementing the Programme for Government commitment to phase out means testing for the carers’ allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33185/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 147. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will outline his plans to reform the domiciliary care allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on a driving licence exchange (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Law (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 266. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to clarify the circumstances in which the Companies Registration Office accept e-signatures for company filings; if it does not accept e-signatures, to outline the reasoning for same; if it does not accept e-signatures, to outline any plans it has for e-signatures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (19 Jun 2025)

James Geoghegan: 352. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1192 of 19 March 2025, if his Department has instructed the Office of Parliamentary Counsel to draft legislation to enable An Garda Síochána to share information and clarifying obligations in respect of the person receiving that information; if not, when that instruction will be...