Results 921-940 of 1,082 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if bus services operated by Dublin Bus and (details suppled) in Dublin west will be fined for punctuality or reliability; and if the fines can be listed per each bus route. [13413/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 224. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how each “ghost bus” and “disappearing buses” are monitored by the NTA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13414/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 225. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how “lost kilometres” are tracked on each bus to form the base; and the basis of reliable data for each bus route. [13415/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget invested into running bus services in Dublin west in each of the years 2020 – 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [13416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget invested in the bus network in Dublin west to deal with capacity restraints in each of the years 2020 – 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [13417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the percentage bus services increased in Dublin west in each of the years 2020 – 2024 respectively, in tabular form. [13418/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Meetings (25 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 229. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a meeting will be facilitated for a representative group (details supplied). [13424/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. This is a question that she raised today during Questions on Policy or Legislation. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, for being here, and I thank the Minister of State with responsibility for special education, who cannot be here, in advance for his written response. I hope that, based on this, he can meet us and other Deputies about...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: I want to acknowledge how significant that sentence in the written response is. I take the Minister of State's point that more reading classes for children with dyslexia would be a positive step to support their educational needs, because there has been a policy of not opening reading classes and reading schools. Parents are having to fight for those places and then have to travel very long...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disability Services (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 24. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline plans to progress college places to assist in the workforce planning of disability services. [13715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 111. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to progress work on a strategy for suburban Dublin villages including schemes that are similar to those available for rural Dublin villages. [13721/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Youth Services (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 118. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development to launch an infrastructure scheme for youth clubs based on the community infrastructure fund for community centres. [13722/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 169. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing a vehicle scrappage scheme to support the transition from petrol and diesel cars to electric vehicles and electric bikes; if his Department has conducted any analysis on the feasibility or potential impact of such a scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Active Travel (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 196. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the position regarding the pedestrian and cycling bridge connecting Phoenix Park to Memorial Gardens, including timescales for the delivery of this project. [14653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regulatory Bodies (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 270. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of resources given the Coimisiun na Mean to counter online disinformation in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Regulatory Bodies (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 271. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the level of resources given to Coimisiún na Meán to counter online disinformation in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Artificial Intelligence (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 318. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if it is intended to amend data protection rules to support Irish-based enterprises to maximise the use of available digital data to train their AI models; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Bodies (27 Mar 2025)

Emer Currie: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is planning to disband the Retail Forum Digitalisation and Skills Subgroup; if so, to justify this decision in light of the Programme for Government commitments to invest in digital skills at all levels and to increase basic digital intensity among SMEs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14646/25]

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: Sinn Féin likes to talk up the new combined Opposition but what in fact we are getting is combined obstructionism, a calculated web of chaos to undermine the legitimacy of government, where even staff and clerks of the Dáil are fair game. However, what else would you expect from a party that for decades refused to recognise this House and opposed this State – experts at...

Diverting Young People from Criminal Activity: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Emer Currie: If we are going to have a debate about the diversion of young people from criminal activity, then we have to look at the whole picture of youth work and youth services. It is an entirely lopsided system if youth services only kick in for the vast majority of young people when something goes wrong and criminal behaviour is involved, especially when it has been well established that youth work...