Results 261-280 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (5 Mar 2024)

Michael McNamara: 626. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an MRI appointment as a matter of urgency in UHL or the Bon Secours Limerick as outlined in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on his Department’s plans to expand the provision of education in veterinary medicine in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (27 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 73. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if fibre broadband service will be provided to an area (details supplied) as part of the current roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (27 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department’s technical team will access a site as a matter of urgency (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8746/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: The Minister is right that under the domestic regulations, the statutory instrument, there is a right to accommodation until the humanitarian leave-to-remain application has been determined. I have outlined the delays and the difficulties pertaining to that which cannot be laid at his door - the Department of Justice has responsibility. The bottom line is that this is only a statutory...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: I am happy to supply them.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: I hope it will be stronger than strive to endeavour and that it will actually happen.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: This is a matter on which I have been trying to get information for some time now and it has been proving difficult. I asked a parliamentary question with respect to how many persons whose applications for international protection had been determined, and where there no judicial reviews of the decisions, were still in IPAS accommodation. These would be cases where determinations were...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: The hen harrier project in Slieve Aughty is now winding down, as is Burren Life. Farmers farming in designated areas are now receiving less money than they did before. Initially, the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, said they would receive as much under ACRES. It is now abundantly clear to everybody that they are getting less money. When I pointed this out to the Tánaiste towards the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: Did she? The Tánaiste must have gotten his forthrightness from his father then, I suggest.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: The other part of payments for farmers in the common areas scheme is voluntary measures. Obviously, they have to be approved in advance. They are going to be approved in April. Farmers want to know whether they will be reimbursed in this calendar year if they carry out those measures, which are going to involve up-front expenditure to pay for troughs, fencing and so on. I suppose they are...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 71. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when farmers in the CP areas of ACRES who carry out approved "non-profit investments" in 2024 will be reimbursed under the scheme; if he will confirm that it will be in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8353/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 231. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the financial supports to veterinary practitioners outlined in his Department's notice to private veterinary practitioners regarding the entry of Ukrainian pets into Ireland are still available to practitioners; and, if not, when the said supports ended. [8486/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 232. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the sum provided by his Department to veterinary practitioners pursuant to his Department's notice to private veterinary practitioners regarding the entry of Ukrainian pets into Ireland; and if the said sum was included in the sum of €808,131.51 set out in his response to this Deputy of 16 February 2024 to the commitment...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 251. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 15 June 2023, if a business case proposal has been submitted to the HSE disability services for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8470/24]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: I would like to echo what previous speakers have said. I listened to the last two contributions, in particular, and I find myself in agreement with them. It might well be because of an accident of geography as much as anything else, given that I represent a constituency which has borne a disproportionate burden. Every state has a burden to bear in accommodating recipients or beneficiaries...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: I raise the issue of the West Bank. While the eyes of the world are understandably focused on Gaza, the horror that is anticipated there and, indeed, the apparent green light the Americans have given through the use of their veto, people are not looking at the West Bank and there has been a huge increase in the number of attacks on Palestinians and their properties there. Is there a role...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Staff (20 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason a person (details supplied) who applied for the position of technical agricultural officer position in his Department, who was adjudged to have met the qualifying standard at interview, and when called for the said interview was adjudged to have met all of the requirements for the position, was not considered for the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 533. To ask the Minister for Health how many palliative care beds are currently operational at Raheen, Community Hospital, County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7557/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: 589. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Clare will receive an urgent appointment at the urology department in Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7816/24]