Results 261-280 of 6,185 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The trolley crisis has become an all-year scandal on the watch of this Government. A total of 98 patients were counted by nurses on trolleys and chairs at Cork University Hospital this morning, many of them elderly and quite unwell. This is a record, according to the INMO. A total of 118 were counted at University Hospital Limerick, which continues to be a disaster zone. In the five...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of recipients of the carer’s support grant who qualify on account of receiving domiciliary care allowance only and who do not receive either carer's allowance or carer's benefit. [40247/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 340. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of recipients of the carer’s support grant; the number of recipients of the grant who receive it on account of receiving carer’s allowance, carer’s benefit and domiciliary care allowance; and the number of recipients of the carer’s support grant who do not receive any of these...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 342. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the cost estimate range for abolishing the carer's allowance means test, which she put on the record of €600 million to €2 billion, if she will clarify if the €2 billion is based upon the assumption that all persons who self-declared themselves to be carers in Census of Population 2022...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason her Department's costing estimate on the proposal to abolish the means-test for carer’s allowance was based on the assumption of 146,046 recipients of the carer's support grant, when that payment is received by 132,523 carers. [40279/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 344. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of carers in receipt of carer’s allowance in total, and of that figure, the number in receipt of a half-rate payment. [40280/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 387. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time that a person who has received a deportation order remains in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40305/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (8 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 388. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No.35 of 26 September 2024, the location of those immigrants who have received a deportation order that have not been actioned to date. [40306/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This afternoon, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, is picketing outside Cork University Hospital, CUH. Its members are seriously concerned about the situation we are facing into this winter. Yesterday, in October, there were 73 patients on trolleys in CUH and nine patients on trolleys in the Mercy hospital. There was an increase of 50% in the number of people on trolleys...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Gabhaim buíochas. Is buiséad agus cáinaisnéis é seo a léiríonn easpa físe, nach bhfuil uaillmhianach agus, i ndáiríre, nach bhfuil aon chrot air. Tá sé gan tuairim nua mhór agus gan phlean mór agus nach mbeidh aon rian de nó tionchar aige go fadtéarmach. Budget 2025 has shown us that this Government is out of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Make or take?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (26 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of deportation orders effected to date in 2024, including the number of people who have voluntarily departed, as well as enforced deportations and assisted deportations. [38188/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (26 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 50. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in Cork city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38189/24]

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be very familiar with some of the commentary that has existed for years around the HSE and the health service. The kind of things one hears when in conversation with people is that there is too much administration, there are individuals with clipboards and things like that. Some of that commentary is unfair and maybe people do not necessarily understand that a person with...

Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We have had this discussion time and again, and several words emerge time and again. Recognition and respect are a great deal of it, but not just recognition and respect. The fact is that when one looks at people in poverty or at risk of poverty in Ireland, three categories of people, namely, people with disabilities, single parents and carers, are consistently up near the top. I...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 75. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for a breakdown of the total number of deportations to date in 2024, including a breakdown of enforced deportations and assisted deportations, in tabular form. [38190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 76. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the review of the family reunification policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38191/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 77. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of fines and cautions imposed on airlines carrying passengers with inappropriate travel documentation. [38192/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 78. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the total number of passengers who have arrived in Ireland with inappropriate travel documentation since the start of 2024, in tabular form. [38193/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: International Protection (25 Sep 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 79. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of international protection applications to date in 2024, in tabular form. [38194/24]