Results 181-200 of 11,687 for speaker:Roderic O'Gorman

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (5 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 129. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current processing times of citizenship applications; the roadmap to the stated goal of a one-year processing time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (5 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 130. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the citizenship application status of a person (details supplied); and if he will provide an expected decision date. [10063/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (5 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the citizenship application status of a person (details supplied); and if he will provide an expected decision date. [10064/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 100. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of the poor performance of many bus services provided by a company (details supplied) recently; the way he and the NTA will ensure a better, more reliable service for travellers in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9417/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: In recent weeks the performance of one company, Go-Ahead, which operates bus routes across Dublin, has been widely criticised. At the same time Go-Ahead is being rewarded. It has successfully tendered to operate new bus routes. Does the Minister understand the frustration commuters feel at not getting the service that should be delivered, and at new services being awarded to that same...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The reputation of this company has taken a real pounding because it is not meeting the services it committed to. The commuter experience is a key part in determining demand for public transport. People are telling their friends and family that they cannot rely on route X or route Y. It is negative in terms of encouraging people to make that shift to public transport. I have always felt...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Sticking on that idea of the commuter experience, one proposal I welcome in the new programme for Government is the proposal for a transport security force. Many of us who have had a negative experience on public transport, particularly because of the location as you can be isolated in a train or Luas carriage, know it can be hard to get out of those situations. That is why we need a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update and timeframe for the introduction of dedicated transport police; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9418/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will use my time to focus on a few of the recommendations of the Housing Commission’s report. I note there have been some important policy changes in recent years - the introduction of cost rental housing, the vacant property refurbishment grant and the new land hoarding tax – but we still have a dysfunctional housing market. People are still struggling significantly to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 91. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of children who have benefited from the baby boost triple child benefit payment to date; the number his Department estimates will benefit from it in 2025; the estimated additional cost in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8526/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his election, and I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. Last October, the Green Party and I championed the idea of a baby boost payment of an additional €280 when a new child is born. I was happy to see it included to see it included in budget 2025 and it was implemented in late 2024. Will the Minister give an update on its...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Getting this idea over the line was surprisingly pretty hard. It was a long negotiation to get full agreement to get this into budget 2025. That surprised me considering that it is quite a small overall cost of €15 million compared with €180 million to do the double payment on child benefit. In light of that fight to get it over the line, I want the Minister's assurance that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Payments (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I appreciate the Minister's clarification that the baby boost payment is here to stay. It is an initiative that the Green Party and I are proud to have led in introducing. A universal payment that is targeted at a particular time in a family's life where almost every single family is under pressure financially when a new baby arrives is a meaningful step the Government and the State can...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 122. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications in total for domiciliary care allowance (DCA) made in 2024; the number granted at first instance; the number granted at appeal; if he is satisfied with the criteria used for determining the grant of DCA at first instance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Children in Care (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will give consideration to the provision of foster carers with a State pension as per the Programme for Government Commitment; when he expects to have made a decision on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a timeline for the implementation of the Programme for Government commitment to “Explore a targeted Child Benefit Payment”; his views on whether this would result in eligible families getting additional financial support or would the new payment simply replace the working family payment and the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Child Poverty (27 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the new child poverty target will be set; the future process to establish that new figure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8524/25]

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: This week, we mark a grim milestone for Ukraine, which has withstood three brutal years of invasion, occupation and displacement. Millions of lives have been turned upside down. We speak today during another dark chapter in this story, namely, the faltering support of the United States and President Trump's shameful capitulation to Putin's agenda. I remember this week three years ago....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: We are now in the last week of February and, as yet, the climate action plan for 2025 has not been published. Under the climate action Act, the Minister has to present the climate action plan annually. The draft action plan for 2025 was ready for publication in December last year but Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael took a political decision not to publish it until the new Government was...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I notice the Taoiseach is not answering the question.