Results 261-280 of 26,298 for speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 821. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the breakdown of actual spending within the medicines budget from 2020 to 2024, distinguishing between off-patent medicines, including generic and biosimilar medicines and new or originator medicines; and to provide an estimate of the total savings generated for the State by the off-patent medicines industry during the same period, specifically...

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: Is it three minutes, a Cheann Comhairle?

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Personal responsibility is important when it comes to road safety but it is important for us as Oireachtas Members to feed back local projects we are being lobbied on by constituents, officials from local authorities and campaign groups who believe that investments are necessary in road safety improvements. I want to pick up on one of the issues mentioned by...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: I have to take issue with some of what the Minister of State has said in his response because it is insulting to the parents of those children. He stated, "As schools begin to enrol students and as places become available, the NCSE will advise and support parents to ensure all children have a suitable placement for September." That is not happening and there will not be places for all...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: I raise a very serious issue, one I would call a crisis, in regard to special educational needs for primary school children in Waterford city and county. Somewhere between 40 and 50 children are still unsure whether they will have a place come September. I have engaged on this, as has Deputy McGuinness, with dozens of parents of children with disabilities who cannot access a place for their...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 48. To ask the Taoiseach the progress and current status of the Covid-19 evaluation; and when a point of contact will be established for the public. [3968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 188. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of excise duty that was paid on alcohol in each year from 2014 to 2024; and the percentage of this excise duty as a total of the tax taken in by the State in each of those years, by excise duty per year, and as a percentage of the overall tax take, in tabular form. [3990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 425. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of calls made to An Garda Síochána, by month and by year, from 2016 to 2024, that would fall under the heading of 'domestic violence', in tabular form. [3988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 426. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of inspections carried out by gardaí on licensed premises in the on-trade, to ensure full compliance with alcohol licensing legislation and the number of prosecutions brought in relation to the licence breaches (details supplied), from 2014 to 2024, by year, by county, and in tabular form. [3989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 565. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1200 of 22 January 2025, the date on which the relevant posts entered maternity leave, in tabular form; the date on which maternity cover was first advertised; and the timeframe for the filling of posts. [4677/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (11 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: 688. To ask the Minister for Health the number of agency blitz days carried out in 2024 and the date by each hospital, in tabular form; the number of sessions involved; the number of staff involved; the throughput per session, by activity type; the cost per activity type and the total costs by activity type and by hospital; and the associated accommodation, travel, and subsistence costs and...

Programme for Government: Statements (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: The number of patients on hospital trolleys in the month of January alone was 13,972. This is quite phenomenal and broke all records. It seems the only thing the Government is good at when it comes to health, housing and other areas is breaking records for all the wrong reasons. All of the people left on hospital trolleys, and others sitting in chairs and corridors in emergency...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: Several times over the last number of years I have raised with the Tánaiste the need to fund the runway extension at Waterford Airport. As the Tánaiste knows, there is a reference in the programme for Government to making sure that this happens but the problem is that there is no certainty in relation to the funding and there are no specifics with regard to the timeframe. The...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: He would not answer any of the questions he was asked, of course. He ignored the questions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: We are not in government, he is.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: He does not want to be held to account.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: He dodged and dodged and dodged.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: He has refused to answer any of the questions and he is dodging responsibility.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: Yesterday, the Taoiseach accepted that 40,000 homes were not delivered last year. The truth is that the two most senior politicians in the Government, namely, the Taoiseach and Tánaiste, were running around the country claiming they would deliver 40,000 homes last year, a claim they knew not to be true. At the same time, data from the ESRI and Central Bank clearly showed that the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (6 Feb 2025)

David Cullinane: With respect, what actually collapsed is the figure the Tánaiste gave to the public of 40,000, which was instead 29,000. In fact, what has collapsed is the credibility of the Tánaiste and Taoiseach when it comes to housing matters. Their record speaks for itself. Every single month, we see house prices, rents and homelessness rising on their watch. Worse than that and to top it...