Results 201-220 of 228 for speaker:Naoise Ó Cearúil

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Could the Taoiseach provide a report on his attendance at the EU leaders' informal retreat on 3 February? This meeting focused on European defence, addressing critical topical issues such as enhancing defence capabilities and financing EU defence priorities. We have seen the need to improve our own defence capabilities in this country, and I look forward to hearing the Taoiseach's response.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Given the recent devastation, which was widely reported and debated in the House, caused by Storm Éowyn, which resulted in widespread power outages and damage amounting to hundreds of millions of euros, the Climate Change Advisory Council has urged immediate action to prepare for future extreme weather events. It recommends establishing a national climate damage register to track the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (19 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on climate action, environment and energy will next meet. [10807/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 81. To ask the Minister for Health for an update regarding the proposed primary care centre in Maynooth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10050/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Ar dtús báire, guím gach rath ar an Aire. I wish the Minister well with her new brief. We have seen the success of primary care. I look to my home town of Maynooth, which is yet to have a primary care centre. I have been calling for this for a long time. The population of Maynooth is 17,000, on top of which there are 14,000 students, as I mentioned previously, and a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I welcome the news about the primary care centre in Leixlip. As the Minister mentioned, it will be a significant investment by the State and a significant primary care centre in Leixlip but bear in mind that the whole idea of primary care is accessibility, that older people, young families and mums with children can walk down to a primary care centre and receive care in the community. I ask...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Primary Care Centres (6 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: The Minister has hit the nail on the head. There was a site where a health centre was to be changed into a health centre, which is ludicrous. There is a wider argument around planning, particularly how one arm of the State speaks to another. That is a wider question. I welcome that there will be a primary care centre in Leixlip. I will continue to work with the Minister to try to find an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (6 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the action she is taking to expand GP services in Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10051/25]

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Is cúis áthais é labhairt anseo inniu faoin nGaeilge, go háirithe i rith Sheachtain na Gaeilge. Tráthnóna inné, bhí mé ag ócaid de chuid Gaeilge365 i Halla na Cathrach, áit ar pléadh an obair iontach atá ar siúl ag grúpaí agus daoine aonair ar son na Gaeilge. Tugaim aitheantas do Chomhairle Cathrach Bhaile...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (4 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I also wish the Minister well in his new role. I also wish to comment on the positive recruitment campaign for gardaí that was launched recently and to encourage people to consider the Garda as a positive career choice. We are fortunate to have an excellent police force, obviously throughout the country but in Kildare specifically. Community gardaí, such as Garda Aidan McGuane,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (4 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 354. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason members of Dáil Éireann are prohibited from being members of an education or training board and, therefore, a board of management under the Education and Training Boards Act 2013, 34 (b); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9028/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 355. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of progress of the development of a school (details supplied). [9029/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (27 Feb 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 90. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans for ensuring that the social welfare system is progressive and empowers people with a disability to live full and independent lives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8462/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (27 Feb 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Fiafraím den Aire maidir lena na gcuid pleananna chun a chinntiú go bhfuil an córas leasa coimirce forásach agus go gcumhachtaítear do dhaoine faoi mhíchumas saol iomlán neamhspleách a chaitheamh agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ar an ábhar? What are the Minister's plans for ensuring that the social welfare system is progressive and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (27 Feb 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Go raibh maith ag an Aire. It is great to see the progress the Government and the Minister and his Department are making in such a short space of time. As the Minister outlined, people with disabilities face additional costs, be it in the context of healthcare, medication, transport of whatever. It is important that we provide people living with a disability with the ability to not just...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (27 Feb 2025)

Naoise Ó Cearúil: It is great to see the amount of work that is happening in the Department. I ask that those involved in dealing with this matter might look at the councils in how they approach this issue. The likes of the housing adaptation grant should be more readily available. People should have greater opportunities to apply for that grant in order to allow them to have the works it covers carried out.

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: 87. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of new baby grants that have been made to parents in Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8460/25]

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle sa ról nua atá aige agus leis an Aire chomh maith. Ba mhaith liom fiafraí den Aire Coimirce Sóisialaí cé mhéid deontas de naíonáin nuabheirthe atá tugtha anois do thuismitheoirí i gContae Chill Dara agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ar an ábhar. How many newborn...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: Naturally, I welcome the grant. In the programme for Government, there are a number of very good commitments for families and young children and this grant, for example, goes a long way towards helping with the costs that come with having a newborn. There is talk in the document of examining the extension of parent's leave and benefit and providing additional flexibility. I ask that...

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

Naoise Ó Cearúil: I thank the Minister. I also commend the fact the new baby grant is made automatically with the child benefit payment, without the need for an additional application.