Results 3,021-3,040 of 9,147 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (28 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail for each individual public/voluntary hospital the number employed in wholetime equivalent terms in each category (details supplied) in each hospital in May 2023, in tabular form. [31448/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (28 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 165. To ask the Minister for Health if the funding for counselling trainees will be equivalent to the amount offered to educational psychology trainees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31525/23]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the motions. I know we have this debate annually and contributions can sometimes be repetitive but, notwithstanding that, it is a worthwhile debate. We have it annually because, after the Omagh bombing in 1998, the Oireachtas decided that as it was introducing 12 significant new sections through the Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act, those...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 397. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the implementation of the programme for Government commitments in relation to local government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31257/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how many additional carers are now qualifying for the carer’s allowance on the basis of the changes to the means test introduced in 2022, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31061/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 453. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality whether diplomatic passport holders from non-EU countries are permitted to access Ireland without a visa; if so, to identify which countries are so permitted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost if 1,500 new gardaí were recruited in both 2024 and 2025, in tabular form. [30665/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions held for sworn Garda members to apply to join the Garda National Immigration Bureau in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [30666/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 456 of 9 May 2023, if she has received the necessary information from the Garda authorities to have this PQ answered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30667/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 460. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of threat-to-kill incidents reported to gardaí within the R and J districts of the DMR in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 461. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents that the Garda water unit was requested to attend in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30669/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 462. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the contract for the issuing of a new ballistic vests to frontline gardaí has been put out to tender and if so, the closing date for receiving tender offers. [30670/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 463. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost of providing one additional detective inspector, one additional detective sergeant and two extra detective gardaí to each divisional protective service unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30671/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 464. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated full-year cost to recruit two additional WTE senior psychologists and two additional psychologists for the Irish Prison Service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30672/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 465. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of incidents that the Garda armed support unit was requested to attend in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30673/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 466. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if a new contract for the provision of new Garda roads policing unit vehicles will be put out to tender during Quarter 3 this year. [30674/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 467. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of training an extra 750 gardaí in public order level 2 training in 2023. [30675/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 468. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the amount An Garda Síochána has spent on vehicular recovery services within the DMR north division in 2022 and to date in 2023; the name of the company awarded the contract; when this current contract is due to expire; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30676/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 469. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the percentage of Garda personnel authorised to carry tasers when on duty; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30677/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Equality Issues (27 Jun 2023)

Jim O'Callaghan: 536. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth what steps can be taken to ensure that persons with disabilities claiming under the Equal Status Act 2000 and/or the Employment Equality Act 1998 have fair hearings; if he has any concerns about those with disabilities seeking justice before both the Workplace Relations Commission and/or the Labour Court; and...