Results 181-200 of 2,165 for speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the project’s progress within her Department’s building programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49643/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 661. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the provision of dialysis services at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Longford, to reduce the need for elderly patients to travel up to three times per week to Tullamore Hospital for treatment; if her Department has carried out any assessment of the potential patient demand for such a service in County Longford; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 662. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the number of patients from County Longford and surrounding counties who are currently receiving dialysis treatment in Tullamore Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50258/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (23 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 663. To ask the Minister for Health if any feasibility studies, capital plans, or service reviews have been carried out in relation to expanding dialysis provision beyond Tullamore Hospital, specifically in the midlands region including County Longford; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50259/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 62. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if consideration is being given to holding specific recruitment campaigns for people in other sectors and in mid- and later-career stages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (18 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 366. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider the introduction of a free shingles vaccine for older people, in particular those over 66 years-of-age, in line with best practice in other European countries; if her Department has carried out an assessment of the health and cost benefits of a national shingles vaccination programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: This strategy sets out a whole-of-government approach to disability. Individual Departments and State agencies are responsible for delivering on these commitments. I am just going to read into the record these individual commitments. They are that: We will create a more inclusive educational system for disabled children and young people that will respect the rights of everyone to choose...

National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People 2025-2030: Statements (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We as a Government will be judged on delivering each one of these commitments. I ask that the Government put every resource possible into doing so, and I know it will. I know the commitment is there to ensure we deliver on all these commitments.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I apologise for being late but I was listening in on Teams. I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. It is great to see that there has been a significant reduction in the number of children waiting for school places in September. I look forward to the full roll-out of the model where applications are done up to two years in advance so that parents can know six months before...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We should take those schools. They belong to the taxpayer and should be open.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I want to read something out, which is why I am looking at my phone. This message from two weeks ago is from a child doing rapid prompting method, RPM, therapy who had never communicated.: One day I went to see a shark with school. It was fun swimming in the shark tank. The shark nibbled my toes. I screamed and the shark swam away. The shark threw the nine students in the tank. The...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for People with Disabilities: Discussion (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I refer to the connection between the AIM programme for the preschool being in a different Department and the Minister of State in special education, the crossover and knowing the numbers coming into the system. Regarding the Middletown Centre, I was just speaking to its representatives at the Autism Europe Congress 2025, we had them in at our committee and we visited the centre. I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will engage with the National Transport Authority and Íarnród Éireann to extend the Leap card system to Mullingar, Edgeworthstown and Longford stations given the significant fare discrepancies that currently exist for commuters; if he will acknowledge that this situation places an unfair financial burden on these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing a reduced toll rate or commuter discount scheme for regular users of the M4 motorway (details supplied) similar to the arrangements in place on the M50, given the significant financial burden on daily commuters travelling to Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 603. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to examine the case for reviewing the current level of State funding to intercounty GAA players (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Psychological Assessments (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 988. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting an assessment of need in primary care in County Longford for 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1263. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to reduce current waiting times for children requiring orthodontic treatment, given reports that waiting times are now estimated at up to four years; her plans to introduce a specific initiative to address these delays; if she will confirm whether vacant dental and orthodontic posts are being actively recruited to; if agency staff...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1261. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases in County Longford which have been moved from disability services to primary care in 2023 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48454/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1262. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for transferring cases from disability services to primary care in County Longford in 2023 and 2024; the impact on waiting lists and service delivery for both disability services and primary care in the county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48455/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (17 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 1408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will urgently review the case of a Leaving Certificate student (details supplied); if flexibility or discretionary measures can be applied in such exceptional cases; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47957/25]