Results 941-960 of 1,009 for speaker:Mark Wall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 578. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of hours of specifically family carer in-home respite only the HSE has delivered, by CHO, for the year to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26740/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 579. To ask the Minister for Health the means by which the authorisation scheme charge out rate for overnights was arrived at a figure below that of a daytime rate; to explain how the HSE allocate a charge out rate for an overnight rate below that of the previous Tier 1 tender and below that of the current daytime hourly rate for a premium awake overnight service; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 580. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the home support services available to provide family carers with in-home respite supports between the hours of 10pm – 8am; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26742/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 660. To ask the Minister for Health if the procedures (details supplied) are available after surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (27 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 680. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the number of overnight home support hours that were delivered by HSE direction provision and authorisation scheme providers, by CHO, for the year to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26975/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 358. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if a procurement process was carried out by her Department for awarding a contract to a company carrying out research on the development of a national childcare agency; if so, the details of this procurement process and the details of the contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27937/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of funding allocated to Youthreach services in County Kildare for the past four years to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Youth Services (28 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 415. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of young people availing of Youthreach services, by county, for the past four years to date, in tabular form; the numbers waiting for a Youthreach place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 678. To ask the Minister for Health if sanction has been given to cover a post at a health facility in County Kildare (details supplied); the timeframe for such a sanction; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28893/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (29 May 2025)

Mark Wall: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with the provision of a health care facility in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28894/25]

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: Go raibh maith agat. We have been here before. It has been 20 long years, as other Members said, since we saw the distressing footage of conditions at Leas Cross nursing home. Unfortunately, what we saw on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme replicated those horrific and dark days. I thank Aoife Hegarty, the "RTÉ Investigates" programme and, of course, Clare Doyle, the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: It is more than 6 km from Kildare town to the Curragh Camp. No matter what road is taken, and even the motorway can be taken, there are no footpaths. The majority of the three or four routes are winding country roads, with little visibility and a lot of danger for anyone who might want to walk them. I will come back to this. I want to discuss Curragh Community College. This is, and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (12 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: The good news is that at the moment we have 20 pupils, double Bus Éireann's requirement. There is potentially another 12 students so 32 students could avail of this. These students are residing in Kildare town, some of them less than 500 yards away from the site of the very welcome, proposed new school that will be built over the next two to three years. That will accommodate 1,000...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: I thank the Minister and his officials for attending the committee. I have a number of questions. My first is about yesterday's report on child poverty, which must concern us all in this committee. The ESRI has a report out in the newspapers this morning looking for a second-tier payment for child benefit, which it reckons would cost approximately €800 million a year. Is the...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: I want to bang a drum I have been banging over the past number of years. It happened to me again on the way up in the car this morning. It concerns people being disallowed the fuel allowance because there is somebody living in the house with them who is in receipt of a social welfare payment and in employment. It is wrong because we are in the middle of a housing crisis and these people...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised) (11 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: May I ask a question on that? Does the Minister know how many people that will bring into the carer's allowance? Does he have any indications?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: 458. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the allocation of an additional teacher to a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32697/25]

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

Mark Wall: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) would qualify for jobseeker's pay-related benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32732/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: 888. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of hours of specifically family carer in-home respite hours only the HSE has delivered, by CHO, via the tender authorisation scheme for the year 2024; and the number of overnight hours (details supplied) only the HSE has delivered, by CHO, via the tender authorisation scheme for the year 2024, in tabular form; and if she will...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Social Welfare Code (19 Jun 2025)

Mark Wall: 86. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to outline his plans for a pay-related carer’s benefit payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33117/25]