Results 101-115 of 115 for speaker:Aisling Dempsey

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Moving on to the school bus transport scheme, this is critical and crucial for many parents and guardians. Gone are the days, rightly or wrongly, of mammy having to drive five minutes or 15 minutes to get the bus. A lot of us rely on that bus to get the kids to school. I think we are finding out too late when the routes are agreed, who is getting the concessionary tickets, who is on the...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I had Colin McElroy, the principal from Kiltale National School, in today. He spoke about being a working principal and the difficulties it brings. There will be emergency works done at the school. He will be working throughout the "summer break". Is there a policy change likely where principals can be just principals?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: This is a local issue, but I imagine the experience is probably replicated nationwide. We have the former St. Mary's national school building in Trim, which has been vacant for more than a decade. Previously as a councillor, and now as a TD, I have asked about it numerous times. The answer to a question in February was that it was being divested to Meath County Council. We are in dire...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when a new mid east enterprise plan will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 52. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Meath currently supported by Enterprise Ireland and by the IDA; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend social welfare payments, benefits and allowances to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a legal executive officer cannot currently apply for a secondment to another role like all other staff grades; and the reason that some grades can apply for secondments, and some cannot, contributing to a loss of opportunity based on ambiguous rules. [33246/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the intentions of Government to bring forward new guidelines to replace the 2006 guidelines on wind energy; and if further changes to the planning process are being considered in respect of the need to ensure that the views and concerns of local communities affected by large scale wind farms...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the community neuro-rehabilitation team that has been promised since 2019 for the midlands northeast will be funded and put in place. [33243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure that givinostat is available at the earliest opportunity to sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [33245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (25 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will consider extending the right to citizenship to great-grandchildren of Irish citizens, without the need for their parent to have attained citizenship before they were born.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 647. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has plans to use State-owned accommodation in Meath west as an IPAS centre. [34276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 84. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to provide additional supports for GP practices in rural areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 99. To ask the Minister for Health how she intends to provide targeted supports for newly qualified GPs and to GP practices that take on newly qualified GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disabilities Assessments (1 Jul 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 636. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will consider implementing a streamlined approach for assessment of needs reports to ensure that each report completed is done to the same standard and with consistent use of language and terms. [35349/25]