Results 2,521-2,540 of 7,412 for speaker:Neasa Hourigan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: What does Mr. Morton mean by "most".

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Is it 90%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Ambulance Services, Recruitment and Retention of Personnel, and Response Times: Discussion (22 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the Chair.

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I very warmly welcome the establishment of the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use and the good work of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the former Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, on pushing forward with it. When we first got it into the programme for Government we viewed it as a way to allow the complexity of the drugs debate to be on the table but not under the consistent...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 234. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has reviewed the possible introduction of an accommodation tax for tourists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8791/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide additional places in a special reading school (details supplied) and in special reading schools generally throughout the Dublin area for children with severe dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8198/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 659. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 918 of 8 November 2022 and 299 of 19 January 2023, if he will provide the information already sought and not provided in the response to the latter parliamentary question, namely, a breakdown in tabular form of all costs associated with the removal of a row of trees outside Cork University Hospital on 22 October 2022;...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 715. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of matings in the greyhound racing and coursing industries that involved surgical artificial insemination in each of the years 2019 to 2022, in tabular form; the number of those matings that involved the use of semen obtained from a sire deceased at the time the surgical artificial insemination occurred; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 716. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reasons greyhounds trained by a person (details supplied) were allowed to compete at coursing competitions in Loughrea, County Galway and Clonmel County Tipperary, resulting in a win in the coursing derby final, considering that they received jail terms and very large fines in court following searches for illegal substances...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 717. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the effective date and duration of an exclusion order imposed by Rásaíocht Con Éireann (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8070/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number and registered names of Irish greyhound sires that are used to breed both racing greyhounds and coursing greyhounds as confirmed by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8071/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 719. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the greyhound derby semi-finals on a programme (details supplied) on 17 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8072/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (21 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 720. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide Greyhound Racing Ireland's costs to sponsor the Greyhound Derby final on a programme (details supplied) on 24 September 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8073/23]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Business of Select Committee (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Apologies have been received from Deputy Durkan. All those present in the committee room are asked to exercise personal responsibility to protect themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. I propose we go into private session to deal with some housekeeping matters. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I welcome Ms Mary Murphy and Dr. Nat O'Connor from Age Action Ireland; Ms Bríd O'Brien and Mr. Robbert Lynch from the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed; and Dr. Seán Healy, Ms Susanne Rogers and Ms Colette Bennett from Social Justice Ireland. Before we begin, I wish to explain some limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of the Houses as regards...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. I will invite members to ask questions, following our usual rota. As I do not see anyone from Fine Gael here, I call Deputy Mairéad Farrell.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Is that question for a particular witness or for all three?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, go ahead.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: I thank Dr. Healy.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Low Pay (15 Feb 2023)

Neasa Hourigan: 41. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment further to Parliamentary Question No.50 of 08 February 2023, if his attention has been drawn to a Low Pay Commission report (details supplied) whose recommendations include that an interdepartmental working group be established and legal advice sought regarding the establishment of a universal basic income pilot scheme; his plans to...