Results 141-160 of 266 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Bodies (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide an update on any work his Department is undertaking to comply with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice regarding the illegal occupation by Israel of Palestinian Territories; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15497/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide details on any engagement he or his officials have had with the Israeli government following Israeli bombardment of a hospital in Gaza where Irish medical personnel were working; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 200. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has been briefed regarding ReArm Europe plans following the European council recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15459/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 211. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to report on the number of inspections of military aircraft carrying munitions of war that took place in Ireland since January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15561/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 215. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of Irish citizens that have sought permission from the Government to accept titles of honour or nobility in the past five years, pursuant to article 40.2.2 of the Constitution, and whether that permission was granted. [14993/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 263. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the progress of the examination of the legal and policy implications of the provisions of the Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024; if appropriate mechanisms for routine inspections have been established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of exemptions granted under Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Orders 1973 and 1989 to allow for the transport of munitions or weapons of war through Irish sovereign airspace for February 2025, in tabular form, broken down by the applications granted, refused, and cancelled, and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Military Aircraft (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether there is a set date on any given month by which the previous months statistics on exemptions granted for the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft are published by his Department as part of its monthly publication of these statistics; if he will provide this schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he is aware of any policy change in the issuing of drivers’ licences which has resulted in licence holders whose place of birth was previously recorded as Northern Ireland now being recorded as the United Kingdom upon renewal of their driver’s licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Policy (1 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the number of inspections of civil aircraft carrying munitions of war that took place in Ireland since January 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15561/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 200. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has engaged with representatives of the Defence Forces, An Garda Síochána, fire brigades, or prison officers since January 2024 on the issues with the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension scheme for uniformed services recruited after 2013, if he will provide the dates of those engagements,...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Pension Provisions (3 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 201. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if it is the policy of his Department that those working in the uniformed services and covered by the fast accrual (uniformed) single public service pension recruited after 2013 are expected to take up a new profession after their retirement from those services in order to maintain their standard of living until State pension age; and...

Employment (Contractual Retirement Ages) Bill 2025: Second Stage (8 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the opportunity to speak on today's legislation. I will set out some of they key principles that inform the Social Democrats' policy positions on retirement and pensions. I had the privilege of working in this area a few years ago when I ran a digital literacy programme for older people in a previous job. People use that word "privilege", but I genuinely did find it a privilege...

Protecting the Irish Economy Against Increasing Trade Tariffs: Motion [Private Members] (9 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We welcome this motion and thank our colleagues in Aontú for putting it forward. We welcome the opportunity this morning and later today to speak on tariffs. We urged that this time be made available so that we can discuss this crisis. We in the Social Democrats share deep concerns about the impact of these tariffs on Irish jobs, the economy and consumers. These concerns are shared...

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I welcome the opportunity to make statements on the tariffs that we know are worrying people across the globe, this country and my constituency of Dublin Rathdown. Tá faitíos ar go leor daoine fud fad na tíre. Tá an faitíos sin orthu mar gheall ar a gcuid post, mar gheall ar chostais maireachtála agus mar gheall nach mbeidh na seirbhísí poiblí a...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Process (10 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 111. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on proposed legislation to abolish the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18305/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Legislative Process (10 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 112. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the oversight mechanism that will be provided for in the proposed change to the triple lock to ensure deployments are in line with the “spirit of the UN charter”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18306/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 263. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount that is owed as of March 2025 to each local authority for expenditure on the provision of housing, by local authority, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18174/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Vacant Properties (8 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 220. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department has any vacant or derelict buildings in Dublin-Rathdown; to provide the addresses of these buildings and details on the length of time they have been derelict, in tabular form; and his plans to bring any vacant or derelict buildings back into use. [17486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (8 Apr 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether he or officials in his Department have engaged with their German counterparts on Irish citizens being ordered to leave Germany due to pro-Palestine activism, despite not being convicted of any crime in the German courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17133/25]