Results 921-940 of 1,458 for speaker:Michael Cahill

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to immediately examine and address an extremely dangerous junction (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 163. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the extremely dangerous road (details supplied) through a town in County Kerry will be brought up to a safe and acceptable standard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36843/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 195. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to intervene and urgently address the huge delays with regard to the signing of a lease for a playground to be developed in conjunction with Kerry County Council on OPW lands at An Cheathrúin, Dún Chaoin, County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36785/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 274. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to intervene in an urgent matter (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 278. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if persons in receipt of carer’s allowance have to be reassessed when the new changes are introduced, including persons who were recently reassessed (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the amount of savings allowed for persons in receipt of carer’s allowance will be increased when the new changes are introduced (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36840/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 281. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will increase carers hours by one hour in line with part time contracts (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36850/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 282. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied) and advise on entitlements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36851/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Equality Issues (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 322. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to enact the Health Assisted Human Reproduction Act 2024 immediately and to extend leave entitlement to include surrogacy as no such leave is provided for within the public sector (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36849/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 354. To ask the Minister for Health to examine an urgent matter in respect of a Kerry patient (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36776/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 357. To ask the Minister for Health if she will urgently intervene in the case of a person (details supplied) who is suffering from severe arthritis and is in urgent need of a hip operation; if she will ensure this case is prioritised as a matter of urgency and that the necessary surgical intervention is expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36807/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: 366. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently investigate delay in a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) who is awaiting a neurosurgery appointment in CUH; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36848/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I welcome Mr. Gloster and his team. Through the National Treatment Purchase Fund and the cross-Border initiative, the HSE has succeeded in reducing waiting times, which is obviously very welcome. Over the years, patients from County Kerry have been travelling in big numbers to Belfast and the taxpayer is obviously footing the bill for that. Why do they have to travel to Northern Ireland?...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I find that man unbelievable in every sense. There have been huge delays with the north Kerry CAMHS look-back review. Is there any progress or updates there?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I do not have any issue with people going to Northern Ireland for treatment if that will address the problem. I recall a former TD for Kerry, John Brassil, raising this issue many years ago in the context of such procedures being offered in the Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I have had many inquiries regarding back garden cabins from constituents all over County Kerry. They must be allowed to go ahead and they should also be available for rent. Local authorities should be able to adjudicate on small to medium-sized infrastructural projects by way of Part 8, even where environmental impact assessments are necessary, instead of such projects being sent to An Bord...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: I, too, welcome the students to the Gallery this evening. The last three budgets reduced the cost of third level student fees by €1,000 per annum as part of the wider cost-of-living packages introduced by the Government. I am pressing the Minister to continue these reductions in fees for students on an ongoing basis as they and their families are hard-pressed to afford them. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: St. Mary of the Angels and St. Francis Special School in Beaufort in the heart of County Kerry is a very special place. The special needs community in Kerry has a major respite crisis. The families do not have the time to wait. The ground and the campus at St. Mary of the Angels should be made accessible now. Families do not have time to wait. They need help. They are not asking for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Michael Cahill: Historically, the respite at Cúnamh Iveragh respite centre in Cahersiveen has been offered from Friday to Sunday. It is only running at half-capacity. There were four beds there. It is two adults per night instead of four. I am reliably informed the issue is that the HSE is not releasing the funding. I cannot understand or accept that. I ask the Minister of State to address this...