Results 261-280 of 18,296 for speaker:Brendan Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Minister of State will have heard me speak previously about the value of enterprise centres and the development of workspaces. Grant schemes are available to help develop such centres but they are not adequate, particularly for local authorities that have a low rates base. I appeal to the Minister of State to ensure there is an additional scheme of assistance to help those local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. The point I have been trying to get across to successive Ministers in the Department is, in the case of Cavan and Monaghan where we have a great culture of developing enterprise centres, typically the local authority or community group buys the site and develops the services at major cost because of the drumlin topography and soil in the area....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the development of hubs, but I am specifically talking in this case about centres and workspace for manufacturing and processing. We have a great tradition of engineering in Cavan and Monaghan. I have worked along with companies that started with two or three employees in an enterprise space and now are huge employers, having developed their own space. We need the space to enable...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 20. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proposals there are to provide additional childcare places in Cavan and Monaghan, taking in to account difficulties incurred by parents in obtaining placements for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43432/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 30. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of capital grant-aid that will be made available to assist in the provision of additional childcare places through community providers and private providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) will not lose a teaching post in view of the extreme difficulties such a loss would create for the arrangement of classes, resulting in a very high pupil-teacher ratio; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43820/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a proposal is progressed without further delay which would ensure the best school provision for an area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43821/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 305. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress to date in providing new and much needed accommodation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43822/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 371. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that a healthcare facility is facilitated with the allocation of personnel (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the progress to date in advancing new accommodation at a healthcare facility (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43819/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (23 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when PGI status will be approved in respect of a food product (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43475/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 11. To ask the Taoiseach to report on his recent meeting with the prime minister of the United Kingdom. [36705/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the fact that there has been much more active engagement at heads of government and ministerial level between the Irish and British Governments. This needs to continue. The Taoiseach will recall that when the British–Irish Parliamentary Assembly met in his constituency of Wicklow, members of the British and Irish delegations, including me, spoke about the need to intensify...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: There is an urgent need for more flexibility by the Department of Education in applying the criteria for the retention of teaching posts where there is a short-term drop in a school's enrolment on 30 September but this drop in enrolment is reversed within a very short period of time, particularly by the end of that school term, bringing the school's enrolment up to the required threshold for...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I raise the need to have medical interns assigned to Cavan and Monaghan hospital, which is a large level 3 hospital. Interns have not been allocated to the hospital despite its services expanding over the years. Cavan General Hospital has been approved as an intern training site. The vast majority of level 3 hospitals have interns but Cavan and Monaghan hospital, despite promises, has not...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: They are not being assigned to it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Decisions need to be made by the workforce planning people to assign people to Cavan and Monaghan. They would be very well trained and well looked after, as the Tánaiste knows.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome that the Minister agreed to my earlier question that he would raise with the National Transport Authority and Bus Éireann the possibility of introducing early morning and late afternoon direct services between Cavan, Virginia and Whitegate and Dublin. That would ease a lot of the problems in relation to the disappointment so many commuters have on an ongoing basis in not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (17 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister for his reply. I must say I am disappointed that the performance review does not recommend some changes to the Dublin-Cavan route. What I am talking about, in particular, is the need to introduce, in the morning time leaving Cavan, direct services from Cavan, through Virginia, Whitegate, which is on the Cavan-Meath border, then to Dublin. Similarly, in the late...