Results 201-220 of 6,136 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 127. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons eligible for the carer's support grant by virtue of being in receipt of the carer's allowance, carer's benefit and domiciliary care allowance, respectively, in tabular form. [40423/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of persons in receipt of the full rate of the carer's allowance, the half rate of carer's allowance and the number in receipt of a payment increase for a child dependent, respectively, in tabular form. [40424/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 149. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí attached to the Garda National Immigration Bureau, by rank, as of 4 October 2024. [40591/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Staff (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 150. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of full-time staff working in the border management unit of her Department, by grade, as of 4 October 2024, in tabular form. [40592/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2025 (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 185. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of the money allocated to Programme E - Local Authority Integration Team Community Integration Forum in Budget 2025 that is for new measures. [40589/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Budget 2025 (9 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 186. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of the money allocated to Programme E - Child Supports in Budget 2025 that is for new measures. [40590/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The response identifies something I have already acknowledged-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: -----in terms of the internal work. We informed residents about this. However, this is tinkering around the edges until the fundamental issue is grasped, and I urge Cork City Council to grasp it. I also believe, however, that one of the obstacles to this is the lack of a clear funding stream for the regeneration of flat complexes. Obviously, general funding is available for maintenance...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That will not be fixed as an "as and when" issue. There are still issues with cold, damp and water. I hope the Minister of State will bring this matter to the Minister. I will certainly continue to raise it because the tenants of these flats deserve a lot better than what they are getting at this time.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Housing Provision (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I bring to the attention of the Minister of State six blocks of flats in the Togher area. They are all of the same type, and I will come to that in a while. These flats at Cherry Tree Road, Hazel Road, Sycamore Place, Maple Place, Togher Road and Clashduv Road were built in the 1970s by what was then Cork Corporation. The flats are part of a very strong community in the Togher area, but on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to flag an issue with the Minister of State, which I have raised previously with his colleague, the then-Minister of the Department and now Taoiseach, Deputy Harris, in relation to the craft certificate. Since the craft certificates have come on stream, I have been dealing for almost one year with an issue a constituent of mine, Paschal Ryan, has in this regard. When he applied for...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The trolley crisis has become an all-year scandal on the watch of this Government. A total of 98 patients were counted by nurses on trolleys and chairs at Cork University Hospital this morning, many of them elderly and quite unwell. This is a record, according to the INMO. A total of 118 were counted at University Hospital Limerick, which continues to be a disaster zone. In the five...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the carer’s support grant who qualify on account of receiving domiciliary care allowance only and who do not receive either carer's allowance or carer's benefit. [40247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of the carer’s support grant; the number of recipients of the grant who receive it on account of receiving carer’s allowance, carer’s benefit and domiciliary care allowance; and the number of recipients of the carer’s support grant who do not receive any of these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the cost estimate range for abolishing the carer's allowance means test, which she put on the record of €600 million to €2 billion, if she will clarify if the €2 billion is based upon the assumption that all persons who self-declared themselves to be carers in Census of Population 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department's costing estimate on the proposal to abolish the means-test for carer’s allowance was based on the assumption of 146,046 recipients of the carer's support grant, when that payment is received by 132,523 carers. [40279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance in total, and of that figure, the number in receipt of a half-rate payment. [40280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time that a person who has received a deportation order remains in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.35 of 26 September 2024, the location of those immigrants who have received a deportation order that have not been actioned to date. [40306/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This afternoon, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, is picketing outside Cork University Hospital, CUH. Its members are seriously concerned about the situation we are facing into this winter. Yesterday, in October, there were 73 patients on trolleys in CUH and nine patients on trolleys in the Mercy hospital. There was an increase of 50% in the number of people on trolleys...