Results 181-200 of 6,452 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: What an example to lead by. What would that be like in government? What would the country be like? A disgrace. It is shameful. I will make my vote here today with a settled and calm conscience that this is the right thing do.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 253. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when the expected connection date of the national broadband plan to a location in County Offaly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15173/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 269. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will support the provision of capital funding to enable the development of a second platform at Clara train station in County Offaly (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15007/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 366. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application for a modular unit for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15009/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with a request to review the Phase 2 scope of works by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (1 Apr 2025)

Carol Nolan: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a person's application for a school transport remote area grant (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15812/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: International Protection (27 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 279. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to address concerns that the proposal to allow the Carna Bay Hotel in Carna, in the Connemara Gaeltacht, to be used as an international protection accommodation centre will have a serious impact on the ability to retain a culture of the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14876/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 352. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will address concerns that the proposal to allow the Carna Bay Hotel in Carna, in the Connemara Gaeltacht, to be used as an international protection accommodation centre will have a serious impact on the ability of the area to host those who want to educate themselves about the Irish language; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (27 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 353. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to clarify the status of the Carna Bay Hotel in Carna, in the Connemara Gaeltacht, with respect to its use as an international protection accommodation centre; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14877/25]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2025: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: I am delighted to get the opportunity to speak on this very important issue this evening. I am totally opposed to the scheme because it is clear that it is radically distorting the private rental market. It is essentially a form of preferential treatment that is not available to renters in other categories. The problem with the scheme is that it is divisive. From the launch of the scheme...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the decision of the Russian election commission to ban opposition candidates such as persons (details supplied) from standing in the 2024 Russian presidential election; his views on whether these bans are a contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights; the interaction he has had with his Russian counterpart or the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted any studies on the effect of the €14,000 rent a room tax relief; his views on whether it may be pushing up the rental cost of such rooms, given the preponderance of such rooms for let in the €1,100-1,200 bracket; if landlords are setting the price at this level to fully avail of the tax break; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list all social welfare payments which are currently payable to the surviving cohabiting partner of a deceased claimant after their death, in circumstances where the couple are not married; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if beneficiaries of temporary protection have had personal car repair works funded through any payment mechanism provided by his Department; if so, to provide details of costs and payment numbers from 2022 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14178/25]

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm an deis a fháil labhairt ar ráitis maidir le slándáil idirnáisiúnta agus trádáil idirnáisiúnta anseo inniu. We all want to see a settled and peaceful international order, not least because of the cost that usually occurs in terms of human life when there is no such order. I am also concerned about the blatant...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: The new report by Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, on homecare waiting lists, which was covered in The Irish Times yesterday, reveals that 5,556 older people are waiting for homecare at the end of last year. The waiting list in CHO 8, which covers my constituency of Offaly and includes county Laois, rose steeply by 31% to 932 people waiting. This represents the second-highest waiting...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Last year, the Parliamentary Budget Office published data on the number of households eligible for but not yet in receipt of social housing in my constituency of Offaly. The Parliamentary Budget Office analysis was based on what it would have cost to house the number of households on the social housing waiting lists, plus the households in receipt of the housing assistance payment. The cost...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the aftermath of the legalisation of abortion here, any policy change took place with regard to the funding of overseas abortions; if funding from the State currently funds abortion abroad; if so, the amounts donated and to whom, for the years 2019-2024; the conditions or stipulations attached to any such funding, in the event that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Abortion Services (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department or any branch of Government liaised with any aid organisations, philanthropic organisations or governments between 2014 and 2024 on the issue of abortion provision in Ireland; if any moneys were donated to this end from said organisations or governments; if so, the precise amounts of money donated and from whom; and if...

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

Carol Nolan: 337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of registered taxis and hackney drivers in operation in each county in each of the years 2019, 2023, and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11911/25]