Results 8,341-8,360 of 23,978 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (25 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 483. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of community employment supervisors' pay and pensions; if she has engaged with the Minister for Finance regarding the provision of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38458/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tenant Purchase Scheme Review (25 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 537. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he will finalise a report on the review of the tenant purchase scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38661/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Bus Éireann and Department of Education and Skills officials for coming in today. It is important to raise an issue of which I know the Department and Bus Éireann are aware. These are issues affecting the Termon and Kilmacrennan area of Donegal. Students attending secondary school in the Milford area are without school bus places. The Minister met Oireachtas Members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: In respect of the Milford-Kilmacrennan school transport issue, the timeline involved and the Department assessing that, could Mr. Dolan elaborate on where the Department is with regard to that and the timeline in terms of coming back to the families concerned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (25 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: Okay.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: The first line on page 53 of A Programme for a Partnership Government on the Government's health plans states that efforts to increase access to safe and timely care as close to patients' homes as possible will be a priority for the Government. I draw attention in that regard to the demonstration outside of the Dáil today where a number of Lyme disease suffers have gathered here, not...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Administration (26 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the level of red tape involved in the annual forms that applicants for farm assist are required to fill out and return will be reviewed; if the level of information that is required on an annual basis will be reduced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38657/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Delays (26 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 82. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the processing times for carer's allowance and carer's benefit applications; the reason for the backlog of applications; her plans to address same; if additional staff will be allocated in order to clear same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38658/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 45. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if families whose homes are affected by mica in County Donegal will receive at least the same redress as those families whose homes were affected by pyrite; when a redress scheme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38913/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to provide funds to address the issue of providing a pension and gratuity to retiring and retired community employment supervisors as per a recommendation of the Labour Court; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39360/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if the provision of an art assist device on the medical card scheme has been considered for patients who have been prescribed same by their doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39241/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to including an art assist device on the medical card scheme for persons who have been prescribed it by their doctor (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39271/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Sheep Welfare Scheme (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 163. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the proposal by an organisation (details supplied) regarding the sheep welfare scheme. [39351/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 164. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the contingency plans deployed in terms of monitoring and biosecurity measures in view of the confirmation of the spread of African swine fever to western Europe; and the supports that will be available to pig farmers. [39352/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: State Aid (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 165. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the European Commission’s proposal to increase the state aid threshold for farmers to €25,000 per producer following the Commission's public consultation process on this matter; the latest discussions and timeline for agreement at European Council; and his proposal for the national threshold limit. [39353/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the obligatory labelling of country of origin on vegetables, fruit and potatoes in supermarkets as proposed by farming organisations. [39354/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Brexit Issues (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the timeline and deadlines that have been agreed for recruitment of veterinary inspectors in the event of a no-deal hard Brexit scenario; the amount of funds ring fenced to enable recruitment targets to be met; the advertising and promotion of these new places planned; the budget for same; the budget allocated for training of new...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fur Farming (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of fur farms by county; the number employed in such farms in each county; and the domestic and European regulations in place including animal welfare regulations regarding this activity in tabular form. [39356/18]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Agreements (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 169. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on discussions by the European Commission with the US Administration on renegotiating the EU’s annual 45,000 tonne quota for hormone-free beef and allocation a larger share of that quota exclusively to the United States of America; the State's position on same; the State's position on the EU’s negotiation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: EU Directives (27 Sep 2018)

Charlie McConalogue: 170. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on the joint statement by a group of European farming and food organisations (details supplied) calling for all participants in the food supply chain to be protected from unfair trading practices regarding EU proposals on unfair trading practices. [39358/18]