Results 821-840 of 920 for speaker:Michael Cahill

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

Michael Cahill: 80. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new southwest regional enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32982/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the improvements he is planning in relation to the fuel allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32978/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 170. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the improvements he is planning in relation to the living alone allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32979/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 187. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the additional measures that will be taken to bring an end to the Genocide, slaughter, starvation and degrading of the Palestinian people (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 280. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will expedite the issuing of the HAA cards, as it offers far more supports and benefits to survivors of industrial schools than the ‘enhanced’ medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to expedite the issuing of the Health Amendment Act cards, as it offers far more supports and benefits to survivors of industrial schools than the ‘enhanced’ medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address a school transport issue as regards a dangerous school bus pick-up point in Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33338/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 316. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on an application from Kerry County Council (details supplied);; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33290/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 329. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if there are plans to abolish the means test criteria for carers, who provide an invaluable service to their cared on behalf of the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26363/25]

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

Michael Cahill: 339. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to expedite a carer’s support grant application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33371/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 397. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently address and support the 166 healthcare workers, who put their lives at risk working during the pandemic, who are now facing an end to long-Covid special leave with pay (SLWP), but whose lives are still drastically and negatively affected by this disease, by extending the SLWP; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33297/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 408. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 321 of 11 June 2025 to outline, of the new approved maximum whole time equivalent (WTE) staff figure of 129,753 for the HSE and Section 38 agencies, the number of those that will be available to the HSE Kerry/Cork region; the number of WTE staff currently employed in the region; what increase will the new approved...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 411. To ask the Minister for Health if she is fully satisfied with the proposed location for a facility in County Kerry (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33372/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I welcome HIQA witnesses. What we have seen in recent weeks has left many of us shaken. The "RTÉ Investigates" programme exposed a level of suffering and neglect no resident in any nursing home should ever endure. These were not isolated incidents. They reflect systemic issues. We are here today because the Irish public has serious and legitimate questions. They are demanding real...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I have a couple more.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I will finish while I am in full flight. Were conflict of interest safeguards in place when contracts were awarded to firms linked with former HIQA board members? In regard to transparency, will HIQA commit to publishing all board minutes, procurement, reviews and audit findings related to agency staffing, governance and ICT spending? There was a subsequent programme on RTÉ. It gave...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Surely, they should be in before this committee.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Chair, it is important that they are invited back in. I am new. I put in a lot of work preparing for today. I acknowledge everybody else did. I would like to get answers to all the questions I asked. This is a huge issue. There is public anger out there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Five minutes, in the context of such an important issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Will I be able to get written replies?