Results 18,761-18,780 of 18,851 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Financial Services (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 122. To ask the Minister for Finance the work underway within his Department to strengthen obligations on regulated financial service providers to prevent and address actual or suspected financial abuse of at-risk adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39017/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Budget 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 146. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if consideration has been given to pre-Budget 2025 submission (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38871/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Disadvantaged Status (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 34 of 25 September 2024, if she will revisit her response and indicate if the school identified can be individually reviewed, with a view to increasing its available resources considering its very difficult circumstances; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39045/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 410. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to urgently review and intervene to secure occupational therapy (OT) services in the south Louth Bettystown catchment, where there are presently over 600 children awaiting an OT assessment and with no paediatric occupational therapist staff presently employed in this network; if he will provide a mitigation...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Care Services (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 413. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider amending the Health Act 2007 (Care and Welfare of Residents in Designated Centres for Older People) Regulations 2013, Health Act 2007 (Care and Support of Residents in Designated Centres for Persons (Children and Adults) with Disabilities Regulations 2013 and the Mental Health Act (Approved...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 414. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider amending the Health Act 2007 (Care and Support of Residents in Designated Centres for Persons (Children and Adults) with Disabilities Regulations 2013 to require designated centres for people with disabilities to facilitate access to independency advocacy services for adults residing in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 466. To ask the Minister for Health to review and respond to major concerns raised by a person in respect of his urgent medical requirement for insulin pump sensors (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38697/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 484. To ask the Minister for Health to review medical card eligibility (details supplied) for a 16-year-old constituent who suffers from the life-long illness, Tetralogy of Fallot disease, and is doubly incontinent, but whose medical card is being reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 493. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm receipt of the pre-Budget 2025 submission from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (1 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 602. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her views with regard to the Charities Act 2009 as amended by Charities (Amendment) Act 2024 new section 54C which provides that the Charities Regulatory Authority may issue guidelines and codes of conduct that relate to the duties of charity trustees (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39027/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (2 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to seek an interim report on the Saint Laurence's Gate appraisal being carried out by the OPW; if he will the indicate the findings of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (2 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a parent’s request (details supplied) for appropriate school transport services can be reviewed to ensure that their son can access the specialist class in an appropriate timescale; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39253/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (8 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 565. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently review the critical position of a local suicide prevention service and ensure relevant engagement is progressed with officials within the HSE (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39906/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: 566. To ask the Minister for Health to urgently intervene and ensure that a serious issue with regard to a high-tech medicine shortage (details supplied) will be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39910/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies have been received from Deputies Tully and Feighan and Sorcha Eastwood MP, Dáire Hughes MP and John Finucane MP. On behalf of the committee, I welcome our guests to our meeting today: Ms Andrée Murphy, deputy director of Relatives for Justice; Ms Orla O'Connor, director, Ms Kate Mitchell, head of development and policy, and Ms Rachel Coyle, head of campaigns and policy,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: The addresses from the witnesses were very powerful. I thank them for the hard work they have been doing in reaching out to people in their communities. I have been very impressed in particular by what the witnesses collectively say about the need for consent and representation - gender and otherwise. If we are to build a new Ireland, the issue that goes to the heart of the matter is that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: If the witnesses wish, they may reply to any of those comments at any stage. Senator Black has another function she needs to go to and asked if I could give her the Fine Gael space.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is a huge outbreak of racism. It starts in the political domain. They are using coded words and gathering negative momentum and causing strife and trouble. We are in a different Ireland now. The potential for negative outcomes is growing, certainly visibly on the streets and in our political discourse. We need to deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is a key point. The difficulty is that if we have a Border poll before the time is right, without having public buy-in, it will be hugely divisive. The consequences for relationships between people, whatever they might be before that, could be catastrophic. A negative outcome risks tearing everything apart again. That is the difficulty I see. It is so important to get it right....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely.