Results 141-160 of 413 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Policies (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 479. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will examine the retirement policies for various professions, specifically regarding the recent extension of retirement ages for guards, prison officers, firefighters, and in the case of a person (details supplied); and if there are plans to address the retirement age policies for other professions or provide any...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 592. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the Individualised Personal Budget Pilot Programme currently being trialed by the HSE; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 593. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of persons at the various stages of the Individualised Personal Budget Pilot Programme; the total amount of funding provided in each of the years since the commencement of the pilot; the breakdown of the costs to date of running the programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 594. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline for when the evaluation of the Individualized Personal Budget Pilot Programme will commence and report back on its outcomes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the installation of the fibre-to-the-home network (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to regulate taxi apps (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 393. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider allowing gym membership, or indeed any sporting membership, to be made tax deductible in the same way weight loss drugs are tax deductible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 422. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason mortgage lenders and the banks have maintained mortgage rates in the face of an interest rate environment where the ECB has cut rates six times in the past nine months; when the banks will cut their rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of local authority access officers; if this role is filled in each local authority; whether the role is full-time or part-time; and what grade the access officer role is in each Local Authority [11335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will support this query; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11902/25]

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

Barry Heneghan: 1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine subsidies for the elderly (details supplied) who cannot claim them because their children are still living at home due to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing public sector sick leave policies to ensure greater flexibility for employees with disabilities who require extended leave due to their condition; if there are discretionary measures available to prevent employees from being placed on nil pay in such cases; and if he will make a...

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

Barry Heneghan: 1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he plans to take to ensure that necessary and appropriate care is being provided to family members in the context of the planned expansion of the carer’s allowance. [12953/25]

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

Barry Heneghan: 1366. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 25 February 2025, wherein you stated that a total of €949,718.86 had been spent to end of 2024 on the administrative and staffing costs associated with the running of the Personalised Budget Demonstrator Pilot, considering that €3.5 million was made...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on safeguarding issues at an organisation (details supplied); the specific steps she will take to ensure that such abuses are never repeated; and the mechanisms to be put in place to ensure that independent charities working with vulnerable populations are held to the highest standards of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1749. To ask the Minister for Health to address the situation in relation to the drop-off zone at the entrance to the Mater Hospital Dublin (details supplied) which is now having an impact on the safety and wellbeing of patients; if she will make a commitment that the situation will be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1775. To ask the Minister for Health if the long waiting times for blood tests in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and address the severe inadequacies in Ireland’s eating disorder services, particularly the lack of inpatient beds and the absence of integrated community-based supports; if he will commit to increasing the number of dedicated public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; and the immediate steps being taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1896. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a campaign (details supplied) which calls for an end to the loophole in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which allows zero-alcohol advertising, using the same master branding as full-strength equivalents, in places that are restricted under the 2018 Act; if she supports the campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints about the behaviour of nurses that have been made to the HSE, the Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Office of the Ombudsman in 2023 and 2024; and if she is satisfied that the current system for overseeing and acting on complaints against health and social care staff in the HSE is adequate. [12950/25]