Results 921-940 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I echo the concerns of others about the attitudes and approach of local authorities. I welcome the cross-government approach of Departments, but at a local level I have concerns about how local authorities engage with the Traveller community, particularly in my own city of Cork. I spoke to a constituent recently, a Traveller woman with real housing need, who contacted the council on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider amending an element of the Road Traffic Acts (details supplied); if he is aware of claims that the limited three-hour window is causing undue pressure for An Garda Síochána to collect blood samples and could be helping intoxicated drivers evade the collection of a blood sample; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Offences (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider amending the Road Traffic Acts to allow a designated doctor to take a blood sample (details supplied); if he is aware that this is standard practice in many jurisdictions, such as Australia, where blood samples are taken by medical professionals and placed in a container with a tamper-evident seal that has a unique...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: State Bodies (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 339. To ask the Minister for Finance if any moneys invested on behalf of the State through ISIF/ the Irish Whiskey Growth Fund has been lost; the reasons for the loss including liquidation, examinership, cessation of trading, bankruptcy or other; to provide the details of the amount of investment lost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49186/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Measures (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 413. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 483. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure parity of health and safety leave entitlements between special needs assistants, SNAs, and teaching staff; to explain the rationale for the existing 21-day cap on such leave for pregnant SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48097/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Human Rights (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 706. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the legislative observations made by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in relation to the general scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; if he is aware of the Commission’s recommendation (details supplied); the steps or actions his Department has...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Human Rights (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 707. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the legislative observations made by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in relation to the general scheme of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024; if he is aware of the Commission’s recommendations (details supplied); the steps or actions including engagement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 797. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the Programme for Government commitment to “continue to significantly increase the income disregards for carer’s allowance in each budget with a view to phasing out the means test during the lifetime of the Government”; the work carried out to date to progress this commitment; his plans...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 798. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the justification for only allowing persons to qualify for half-rate carer’s allowance in instances where they are in receipt of a contributory State pension (details supplied); his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49180/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if she will expedite approval and funding of a new drug (details supplied) to treat those living with Barakat Syndrome; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Sales (17 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1383. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure that certain events (details supplied) are not in breach of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; the engagements she has had with the hospitality sector on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49184/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disruption to the authorisation of newly qualified paramedics and advanced paramedics within the National Ambulance Service; to outline the rationale for not conducting any consultation or providing an explanation for the disruption; the persons responsible for issuing the necessary letters of authorisation; the date at which these...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The problems with school transport are not new. If anything, this has become an annual fiasco. My colleagues Deputies Whitmore and Cummins have been raising this matter and calling for a restructuring of the scheme for a long period. In the time afforded to me, I want to refer to the consequences for some of the families in my constituency of Cork South-Central. Several families in Cork...

Use of Vapes and Nicotine Products by Young People and Adolescents: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Minister of State and her predecessors have shown a shocking lack of urgency when it comes to vapes. Under the watch of successive Ministers, youth vaping rates have skyrocketed. Is this any wonder with flavours like cotton candy, cherry cola and bubble gum readily available in any corner shop or indeed with stores showcasing vapes like pick and mix rather than the display of highly...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I am seeking leave to introduce a Bill.

Public Health (Alcohol) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I move That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 by restricting the advertising of alcohol-free and low-alcohol products bearing any statement of any trade description or designation, or a display or other publication of a trademark, emblem, marketing image or logo, of an alcohol product with the aim or direct or indirect effect...

Public Health (Alcohol) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (25 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Sector (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 27. To ask the Minister for Finance following the lifting of the €500,000 executive pay cap at Bank of Ireland, AIB, and PTSB, the current level of remuneration for CEOs at each institution; the planned level of remuneration for 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50617/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 168. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 378 of 22 May 2025, the status of the long-awaited National Endometriosis Framework; the timeline being worked towards in reaching an agreement between an organisation (details supplied) and the HSE; if she expects this framework to be published by the end of 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50611/25]