Results 1,501-1,520 of 1,776 for speaker:Derek Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Post Office Network (3 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 591. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the remit and operational plan of the newly established post office network development group; if it will specifically affect post offices in Connemara, County Galway; if will re-iterate his support for the protection of post offices in Connemara; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9186/15]

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: I propose to share time with Deputies Seán Kenny, Anne Ferris and Seán Kyne. I am happy to speak on the Bill, which is important. Anyone speaking out must give enormous credit to Dr. Lydia Foy, who through decades of perseverance, legal challenges and of holding the State to account, often in legal confrontation with it, must be commended for the Bill and for it being debated in...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospitals Building Programme (5 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: The emergency department in Galway is the second busiest, if not the busiest, in the country, with 65,000 attendances last year. There is a not a week that goes by when I do not receive representations in the form of an email or a call from somebody sitting in the emergency department, or whose partner or child is sitting in it. The conditions in which they have to wait are appalling. The...

Topical Issue Debate (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: I thank the Minister for Health for his response. I am trying to read between the lines. I welcome some of the positive investment in Galway University Hospital. It is the case that construction on a new 75 bed ward block will start next year which will have a big effect on the number of people on trolleys. However, we are still left with a completely inadequate, underdeveloped and unsafe...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions Legislation (5 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 138. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012 and when it will be entered into law; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9617/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions Legislation (5 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 139. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the way a person who was convicted of a minor drug offence six years ago and received a €100 fine will be covered by the Criminal Justice (Spent Convictions) Bill 2012; the way potential visa applications will be affected when the Bill is passed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9618/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (10 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 313. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the situation of two Galway residents (details supplied) who have had their citizenship application accepted since July 2014, but have yet to receive a date for their conferring ceremony; the reason for this delay; the reason the two applicants were not informed of this delay; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme Coverage (10 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 364. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision will be made regarding the inclusion of fampridine, known as Fampyra, for funding under the Health Service Executive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10624/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (10 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 381. To ask the Minister for Health when a free general practitioner care initiative for children under six years of age will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10028/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Administration (10 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 387. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Government decision to return discretionary medical cards to those who had them withdrawn, as announced in June 2014, did not apply to former medical card holders (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10050/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (10 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 476. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a school (details supplied) in County Galway will take part in the prefabricated buildings replacement scheme; if such works will take place at the same time as works on an approved special education teacher support room; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10258/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (11 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on making it mandatory that career guidance counsellors form part of staffing for post-primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10628/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Exemptions (11 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 134. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce an exemption to water charges, for households or homeowners paying development charges; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10597/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 194. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will extend JobsPlus to those in receipt of the One-Parent Family Payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11450/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: JobsPlus Scheme (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 195. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason persons on apprenticeships cannot qualify for JobsPlus; her views on relaxing this rule; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11451/15]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Universal Social Charge Application (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 291. To ask the Minister for Finance the current estimate of the cost of making the universal social charge structure highly progressive, along the lines of option 4, page 13, of his Department's Review of the Universal Social Charge in November 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12110/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 386. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an Agri-Environment Options Scheme payment will be made to a person (details supplied) in County Galway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11946/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 517. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she will finalise legislation to deal with Ireland's prostitution laws on foot of last year's Oireachtas joint committee's report on this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12106/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Administration (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 831. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the summer works scheme will take place this year; when schools can make applications for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12111/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Charges Administration (24 Mar 2015)

Derek Nolan: 902. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if landlords have the right to increase tenants' deposits to cover water charges; if future legislation will prevent this from occurring; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11812/15]