Results 301-320 of 3,337 for speaker:Patrick Costello

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 559. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current levels of staffing in the Data Protection Commissioner; the current number of vacant positions; and the total target workforce. [29866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Courts Staff (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 560. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the current levels of staffing in the Courts Service; the current number of vacant positions; and the total target workforce. [29867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 700. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new National Children’s Hospital is fully lit up at night once construction has ceased for the day; the estimated number of electrical units currently being expended outside the operation of construction; and the cost of same to the State. [29228/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 804. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the national gender service's past and current involvement with the Northern Ireland gender identity service review. [29941/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 805. To ask the Minister for Health if the national gender service has accepted the offer to provide training to paediatric clinicians in the UK [29942/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 806. To ask the Minister for Health the patient data of the national gender service that was shared with the Cass review; and the anonymisation that was performed. [29943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Gender Recognition (9 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 807. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that clinicians with extensive experience have found serious methodological flaws in the Cass review (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29944/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (4 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the efforts being made by her Department to ensure play areas in co-educational settings are catered to allow for girls to play, and not dominated by male counterparts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28676/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Probation and Welfare Service (4 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 372. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons enrolled on community return schemes, by area, to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28681/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: The Minister of State said community safety is everybody's responsibility, and it is, but when something is everybody's responsibility, it can quickly become nobody's responsibility, particularly with Departments passing the buck from one to the other. That is why we need a multiagency task force to pull everyone together, as has worked effectively in other areas facing similar problems....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: Last week, Deputy Ó Snodaigh and I attended a protest with the community outside the community centre on Donore Avenue, which was burnt down in a fire three years ago and has been sitting empty since. Now, that is a problem for Dublin City Council and not one for here, but it is a major one and is emblematic of much of what is happening in the south-west inner city. Even when services...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 55. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of court cases in which the Defence Forces were a party in each of the past ten years; the length of time the cases have taken to be resolved; and if his Department has a policy of delaying cases as a legal strategy. [28535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 56. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of court cases in which his Department was a party in each of the past ten years; the length of time the cases have taken to be resolved; and if his Department has a policy of delaying cases as a legal strategy. [28536/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 125. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to meet with representatives of an organisation (details supplied) to avoid the disruption that will impact on persons, including the victims of crime, those accused of criminal offences, juries and others involved in the administration of criminal justice.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29266/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 140. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of death-in-custody reports that have been submitted by the Office of the Inspector of Prisons to her in each on the past three years, broken down by prison; and the number from each year that still await publication. [28537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 141. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will list all reports from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons that await publication, providing details of date received by her Office and by the type of the report. [28538/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: 142. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reasons for the delay in publication for any report her office has received from the Office of the Inspector of Prisons for more than four weeks. [28539/24]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: There is a significant problem with how we are building and providing schools. This is not just an issue in Dublin South-Central, but the major problems in that constituency are emblematic. Our Lady of Hope School has no PE hall. Setanta Special School was due to be completed in 2020, but the latest date given is now quarter 3 of 2025. It shares rooms with Riverview Educate Together...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: I will defer.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Patrick Costello: I welcome all our guests. There is a lot of respect in these Houses for their office and the work they all do. Theirs is a voice such that, when they speak, we should really be listening. For me, that was highlighted by the very positive engagement we had with the youth advisory panel. The witnesses are quite right with their title. These are uncertain times. I look at the recent NYCI...