Results 1,101-1,120 of 4,350 for speaker:Bobby Aylward
- Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (23 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: I welcome the review which is well due after five years. I accept that the last one was carried out under Fianna Fáil and that the criteria were set down at that time. However, we need to review the scheme. I, therefore, look forward to the meeting with Bus Éireann tomorrow. The problem I highlighted is just one example of a vast array of fundamental problems with the school...
- Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (23 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: It is small money. The Government controls the purse strings.
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (23 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 110. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has had an eight week delay for receipt of a disability allowance back payment having been notified by the social protection appeals office that the appeal was successful on 14 September 2016 and despite the fact that the extenuating circumstances surrounding applicant's finances have been communicated to...
- Flood Insurance Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: As a public representative who witnessed the utter devastation caused by flooding in my constituency last year, I welcome the legislation brought before the House tonight by my Fianna Fáil colleagues. The Bill seeks to ensure that insurance companies cannot discriminate against home and business owners in areas where major flood defences have been completed by the OPW. The insurance...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (29 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will approve the resources that may be necessary for the allocation of a temporary teaching post until June 2017 for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37446/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (29 Nov 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 541. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commence a health technology assessment to assess the benefits and cost-effectiveness through the HSE of FreeStyle Libre, a sensor for measuring blood sugars, with a view to making it available on the General Medical Services, GMS, and long-term illness card, in view of the fact that this technology is available on the Irish market through a...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 61. To ask the Minister for Health the increase in home help hours the Carlow-Kilkenny local health area can expect in 2017. [38035/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 89. To ask the Minister for Health the action being taken to address the fact that latest figures indicate some 698 persons under 18 years of age are waiting more than a year for a first time assessment for occupational therapy in counties Cork and Kerry. [38034/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an alternative avenue of complaint exists, away from school transport inspectors, which is available to parents and pupils that wish to raise concerns regarding pick-up and drop-off points; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38150/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Motor Tax Exemptions (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will consider introducing tax relief on motor tax for persons providing valuable assistance in view of the significant responsibility which is undertaken by spouses or next of kin of persons suffering from severe visual impairment or sight loss in assisting in transport to medical appointments, everyday...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff Scheme Applications (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 271. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 11 October 2016 (details supplied), if a suitable source of funding is available within his Department that may be applicable to supplement a green energy project as previously detailed to his office, considering that the person has already been granted REFIT approval; if any...
- Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (1 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 295. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress of the accreditation process between Ireland and Kazakhstan for the purposes of adoption between the two countries; the progress of the formalisation of an administration agreement between the relevant adoption authorities of both countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38141/16]
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the measures being taken within his Department to ensure equality in the roll-out of broadband services for rural areas, rural communities and regional towns under the national broadband plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38310/16]
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: I ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures being taken within his Department to ensure equality in the roll-out of broadband services for rural areas, rural communities and regional towns under the national broadband plan.
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: I thank the Minister for his response and acknowledge that he has taken on a very difficult brief with the best of intentions since the Taoiseach announced his appointment in May last. However, I remain gravely concerned that the need for prioritisation of broadband roll-out for rural areas is being severely underestimated within the Government’s national broadband plan. Many rural...
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: The word is equilibrium and it is equality. I agree that fibre broadband is the way to go, if we can get fibre broadband to every household. However, as a rural Deputy I know it will not be possible. With all the Minister's grand plans and whenever he rolls out broadband over the next number of years, it will not reach rural areas. While it might get into the populated areas, the towns...
- Other Questions: National Broadband Plan (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: To reach every household?
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Electoral Commission Administration (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 18 October 2016, if he will provide a further update as to when the Boundary Review Commission, established to examine the boundary between counties Kilkenny and Waterford, is expected to publish its concluding report in view of the fact that the results of the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 339. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 432 of 18 October 2016, if he will provide a further update as to when the national steering group established by him to develop policy on a major trauma system for Ireland will publish its first report; the status of the group's recommendations in respect of St. Luke's Hospital, County Kilkenny; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (6 Dec 2016)
Bobby Aylward: 428. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources when the results of the survey of the River Barrow conducted by Inland Fisheries Ireland will be published, in view of the fact that publication of same was expected in July 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38492/16]