Results 11,001-11,020 of 24,567 for speaker:Róisín Shortall

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (30 Sep 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 139. To ask the Minister for Health if he will assist a person with special needs (details supplied) in Dublin 11 in accessing day-centre facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33564/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: UN Conventions Ratification (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 121. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the Government's plans in respect of the ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33757/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 130. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will support and facilitate the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in conducting a second sexual abuse and violence in Ireland study. [33759/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 155. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will support and facilitate the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in conducting a second sexual abuse and violence in Ireland study. [33762/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 181. To ask the Minister for Health if he will support and facilitate the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in conducting a second sexual abuse and violence in Ireland study. [33761/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average waiting time for the registration of teachers with the Teaching Council of Ireland, given the necessity for a person who has trained as a primary school teacher abroad to be certified as competent to teach Irish, through Marino College in Dublin 3, where registration is required by November 2015. [33758/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (1 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support and facilitate the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre in conducting a second Sexual Abuse and Violence in Ireland study. [33760/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (6 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 177. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the average waiting times from the point of application to a decision being made in respect of each social welfare payment. [34045/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (6 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual tax savings and costs to the State if the standard fund threshold were to be changed from €2 million to €1.2 million; €1.4 million; €1.6 million; €1.8 million; €2 million; and €2.4 million. [34443/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Pensions Reform (6 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual tax savings to the State if, when computing the standard fund threshold for members with defined benefit pensions, post 1 January 2014 conversion factors were to be applied to all pensions, and not just the portion accrued after that date. [34444/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (6 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 437. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons, in tabular form, granted citizenship in each of the years 2010 to 2014, by age; and in respect of those under the age of 13 who were granted citizenship, if she will provide details of the numbers born in the State. [34566/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Funding (8 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 207. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amounts of grants allocated to each local authority in each of the past three years; the basis on which these allocations were made; and if he will publish the criteria, data, or other factors which determined the amount awarded to each local authority. [35009/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Development Contributions (8 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 218. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if levies collected in advance of the previous metro north proposal will have to be now refunded; the basis for this; and the amounts involved, by local authority. [35152/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (8 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 223. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans for the provision of the bus rapid transit line from Swords in County Dublin to Dublin city centre; and how additional passenger demand will be met in advance of the completion of the metro north project. [34995/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (13 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 316. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the national contact point system for co-ordinating Ireland's commitment to the cross-border directive does not contravene the European Commission's requirement that member states do not operate obstructive application procedures for citizens accessing public health care, given certain matters (details supplied); and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cross-Border Health Initiatives (13 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the expenses incurred by the Health Service Executive for patients under the cross-Border directive since it came into effect, in tabular form; the number; type of procedures that have taken place; the itemised costs; location of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35685/15]

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate and thank Deputy Billy Timmins for sharing time with me. Having listened to all of the pre-budget hype and all of the speeches made yesterday one gets the strong sense of history repeating itself. This budget would do Bertie Ahern proud. It is very much a pre-election budget. It is a budget aimed at spreading the small amount of jam...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Commencement of Legislation (14 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 107. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the sections and subsections of the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015, that are commenced; that remain to be commenced; and in each case, the reason they are not so commenced. [35844/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Dementia Strategy (20 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 446. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of a submission from the Alzheimer Society of Ireland regarding the need to support persons with dementia to live at home for as long as possible; and the Government policy and his plans in this regard. [36170/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (20 Oct 2015)

Róisín Shortall: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the position further to Parliamentary Question No. 530 of 29 September 2015 in respect of a student with special needs whose parent applied for school transport in March 2015 and whose school also made an application, and given that no decision has been forthcoming, the steps she will take to ensure that the special education needs...