Results 281-300 of 413 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1898. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps being taken to improve the treatment of individuals presenting at accident and emergency departments with suicidal ideation, including measures to ensure they are properly assessed, monitored, and provided with appropriate crisis intervention; and if there are plans to introduce dedicated emergency mental health response units outside...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Foras na Gaeilge (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason the Government has chosen to reduce funding for Foras na Gaeilge, given its crucial role in promoting and sustaining the Irish language and culture, particularly at a time when engagement with Irish is growing through education, music, literature, and film; and whether he will commit to reversing these cuts and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 111. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 has not been commenced; the timeline for its expected progress; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10189/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 373. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will provide assurances that her Department’s exclusion of the only disabled persons’ representative organisations (DPRO) specific to visual and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), will not be reflected in its advice on DPRO participation to other public bodies; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 375. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she has any concerns over the credibility of the National Disability Inclusion Strategy due to the exclusion of an organisation (details supplied), from the DPO Consultative Framework, these are the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing the key constituencies of...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 376. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will explain to the UN Committee why the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual impairment and physical impairment (details supplied), have been excluded from the DPO Consultative Framework since its inception in 2023; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 377. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she considers the exclusion of two organisations (details supplied), the only disabled persons’ representative organisations specifically representing visual and physical impairments, from her Department’s disabled persons’ representative organisations-specific consultations to be case...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 378. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how the ongoing exclusion by her Department of the only specialised disabled persons’ representative organisations in visual impairment and physical impairment, respectively (details supplied), is compatible with her Department’s obligations under Article 29 (b (ii)) of the UNCRPD to incentivise...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 379. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps her Department has taken to ensure that the disabled persons’ organisations/disabled persons’ representative organisations her Department is currently closely consulting with on strengthening DPOs/DPROs meet the criteria for being DPROs considering General Comment No. 7, paras. 10-4;...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of People with Disabilities (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 374. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she accepts that General Comments of UN Conventions are “legally persuasive” documents as per citations in the Irish Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights, and that as such, their definitions and clarifications are of utmost importance to the implementation of the UNCRPD in Ireland;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (6 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 391. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on ongoing projects at Beaumont Hospital, extension to radiation oncology, the 100-bed ward block, the 64-bed ICU block and the new emergency department; and if all these projects could be expedited for rapid construction. [4520/25]

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Ba mhaith liom rud éigin a chur amach ansin. Tá scoil i mBaile Átha Cliath Thuaidh darbh ainm Gaelcholáiste Reachrann agus níl foirgneamh buan aige. Tá sé uafásach go bhfuil daoine i mBaile Átha Cliath ag iarraidh oideachas a fháil trí Ghaeilge agus níl foirgneamh ag an scoil. Tá siad fós i prefabs. Tá siad ann le...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Go n-éirí leis an Aire Stáit ina phost nua. The presence of community gardaí is not just about enforcing the law, it is about building trust and, in north Dublin, creating the safer neighbourhoods I want to see. It is about fostering real partnerships between gardaí and the people they serve. In recent years, we have seen progress in Dublin and I can stand here...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Céard atá an Rialtas ag déanamh leis an laghdú de 40% ar bhuiséad Fhoras na Gaeilge le 20 bliain anuas, nuair a thugtar boilsciú san áireamh, a chur i gceart agus cothrom na Féinne a thabhairt d'fhorbairt na Gaeilge fud fad na tíre? Sa tréimhse chéanna, d'éirigh buiséad an Chomhairle Ealaíon ó €40 milliún...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 20. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine whether people with disabilities are being adequately represented on the board of management of State transport companies, disability advocates are still concerned that these regulations are still not being enforced and therefore many companies are breaking the rules which clearly state that people with disabilities must be...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to examine the representation of people with disabilities on the boards of management of State transport companies; to provide a list of what companies are following the Department of Transport’s own regulations on this specific issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10167/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: State Bodies (5 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 30. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures he is taking to enforce regulations which aims to have adequate representation for people with disabilities on the boards of management of State transport companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10168/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 30. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education and disabilities will meet next. [7738/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 12. To ask the Taoiseach to provide more information on the role of the new unit focused on disability that will be established in his Department. [6435/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will outline the main priorities for the new disability unit within his Department. [7739/25]