Results 1,181-1,200 of 1,730 for speaker:Colm Keaveney

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Advisers Remuneration (5 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 231. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the total severance packages, stated in total euro amounts and individually detailed, received by any special advisers to his office since January 2014, specifically in respect of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9640/15]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (5 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 232. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the primary goal and purpose of Irish foreign policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9645/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Applications (10 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 152. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason a child (details supplied) in County Galway in respect of whom a domiciliary care allowance was awarded in 2008 is now not regarded as a qualified child, in view of the fact that the child's medical condition has deteriorated over the years; when a decision will be received on a domiciliary care allowance for a second child; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (10 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 371. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for counselling; his views that the waiting time for such appointments leaves persons in distress, delays their recovery and increases cost on the health service, for example, through increased medication costs; his plans to increase the provision of counselling service, and to...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I am sharing my time with Deputy Barry Cowen. If Irish Water had been conceived as a Netflix series, we would currently be on series seven. What we are seeing and witnessing is slapstick comedy that lacks idealism. It looks like something along the lines of "The West Wing", but smells more of "House of Cards" in respect of the contempt with which the Government is approaching the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Physical Education Facilities (24 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 529. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the Early Years Capital Programme will provide funding for the strand grants to provide natural outdoor spaces that promote active outdoor play in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11237/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointment Status (24 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 641. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive a date for surgery, in view of the fact that the person is a full-time carer and is finding it difficult to carry out this function due to pain suffered on a daily basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11578/15]

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Stalinism.

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I welcome the measures proposed in the referendum. There can be little reasoned or objective opposition to it except to wonder why we did not reduce it to 18 years. The Government has taken the maxim from Animal Farmthat all animals are equal but some are more equal than others as an instruction rather than an ironic statement. The Government is very good at singling out young people when...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I refer to the gusto with which the Government attacked core rates of social protection payments for vulnerable people. I look across the Chamber at the party that claims as its core principle the issue of equality. What chance does an 18 or 19 year old have to run for the Presidency of the country if they receive €100 per week, having had social protection payments pulled off them...

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: The Taoiseach should read the ESRI report.

Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: They are cheaper than Irish Water.

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Minus the group water schemes.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 112. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the amount of funding that has been allocated by her Department to the Polska Éire Festival; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 129. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to an article in the Roscommon Herald on 12 March 2015 stating concerns regarding the closure of Rosalie Unit in Castlerea, County Roscommon, which is a 25-bed psychiatry-of-later-life unit and is under the care of the newly established POLL team; that in the past few months the staff have been informed that the unit will be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Correspondence (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 134. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 196 of 15 January 2015, if he will reply to the question again, in view of the fact that the person who responded to this Deputy by correspondence on behalf of the Health Service Executive to that parliamentary question specifically denied any knowledge of the correspondence and contradicted its contents at a public...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Turf Cutting Compensation Scheme Applications (25 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: 207. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason a positive decision has not been made regarding the acquisition of property in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Galway; the date on which a decision will be made; the amount of ground to be acquired; the amount of compensation to be paid; his views on this project, taking into account the co-operation of...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: I will cast the Tánaiste's mind back to November 2012, when the people of this country voted in a referendum to amend the Constitution to provide for children's rights. She will remember from some of the rhetoric and Government spin at the time that children were to be front and centre in all public policy. Unfortunately, the actions of the Government in the meantime can be said to...

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Give us a date.

Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)

Colm Keaveney: Speaking as the father of three children, the Tánaiste has become a cold-hearted technocrat. Her response was appalling. I simply asked her when the Government would cease the practice of admitting vulnerable children to adult wards. She will be aware of high-profile reports last week of inappropriate relationships between staff and service users. Will the Tánaiste give a date?...