Results 241-260 of 808 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2168. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason applications for re-establishment on already planted land suffer the same lengthy delays as new afforestation applications; and the steps that will be taken to introduce an expedited decision making track for diseased stands. [41356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares approved and replanted under the re-establishment upon successful reconstitution scheme since its inception. [41355/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2187. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of hectares of forestry approved for planting by individual farmers, commercial companies and pension/investment funds; the county-level locations of those plantings; and the percentage share of each category in the overall area planted, for each year from 2014 to 2024, in tabular form. [41838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2188. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for forestry planting licences received and approved from, farmers and commercial entities that is, companies, funds and pension schemes, in tabular form. [41839/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2189. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the comparative breakdown of financial returns per hectare from forestry for individual farmers and commercial entities that is, companies, investment funds and pension schemes, by total grant payments, annual premium receipts and the revenues from timber sales, both before and after tax, based on a standard 30-year rotation plan,...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2190. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the stamp duty rates applied to commercial purchasers of forestry land including timber value and farmers acquiring the same land, in tabular form. [41841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2191. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the breakdown or map showing all lands acquired by the Irish Strategic Forestry Fund to date, with hectare totals and purchase prices, in tabular form. [41842/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2192. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of the Coillte-Gresham House Irish Strategic Forestry Fund arrangement; the total value of State-backed funding committed; the number of hectares of land acquired; and the locations of those land parcels, in tabular form. [41843/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2193. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps his Department is taking to ensure that State forestry incentives do not disproportionately advantage large investment funds over young or family farmers, in tabular form. [41844/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2595. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the gestation at delivery of all neonatal deaths and stillbirths following termination of pregnancy recorded in weeks plus days in perinatal death notification forms, which provide data for the annual perinatal mortality national clinical audit, in each of the years from the beginning of 2019 until the end of 2024 inclusive, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2656. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE and an organisation (details supplied) have come to an agreement on the endometriosis framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41259/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2796. To ask the Minister for Health if the drugs scheme minimum payment be dropped from €80 to €40 for widowed partners (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42051/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2873. To ask the Minister for Health the number of home help agencies registered in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42498/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (29 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 3328. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether technical universities, and specifically, TUS Clonmel IT, receive funding to build student accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41216/25]

Central Bank (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome this fundamentally important Bill. Aontú has been campaigning for this for a long time. The right to be forgotten is crucially important for cancer survivors. We welcome and support this right 100%. The State has effectively punished cancer survivors and victims on the double. The first way is in terms of delayed treatment and diagnosis. The Irish Cancer Society this week...

Proceeds of Crime and Related Matters Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the Bill and commend the great work of the members of An Garda Síochána and those officers who work in the Criminal Assets Bureau. It is important that we tackle criminals at source. The best way to do this is by tackling the proceeds of crime. We welcome that the turnaround time will be reduced from seven years to two years. This is something for which we in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (17 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure that children have access to summer provision and adequate supports during the summer months; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32483/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I congratulate him on his appointment. I have lots of questions, so I might just go one by one if that is okay with the Minister of State and he might be as brief as he can. First, who was responsible for bringing ash dieback into Ireland? Has there ever been an investigation by the Department? It was found in Leitrim in 2012. I understand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: Who brought the disease in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Ash Dieback and Other Forestry Issues: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: The point I am making is that it started in Asia, it was widespread all over Europe in the 1990s and was first found in Ireland in 2012, very close to a Coillte forest. We are bringing in millions of whitethorn trees as part of ACRES and hedgerows, which is obviously a good thing, but I am very concerned about the importation of this. Have we learned anything? My understanding is that the...