Results 301-320 of 808 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the Department’s plan to recruit US researchers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37585/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Personal Injury Claims (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 648. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has undertaken any assessment on how the proposed increase in personal injury awards may affect litigation volumes; if such a policy contradicts the intent of the 2021 Personal Injuries Guidelines and wider insurance reform programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 817. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the drug "ryeqo" to treat endometriosis; if she will be willing to consider adding it to the list of reimbursable items for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37441/25]

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: It is submitted by Forbairt Orga Teoranta. I do not have time to go into the detail.

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: This is a company that is owned by another company that is owned by another parent company, TNM Developments-----

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: -----which is, in turn, owned by a UK company. The Government is making millionaires of these shell companies that are operating-----

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: -----in other parts of the country. What does the Government do?

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: It signs over the power to the European Union.

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: The Government's immigration policy has been an absolute shambles. The Government has disrespected the people of this country. People in the community where I am from ask me every day what is happening to a particular building. I come in here and ask the Minister of State and his party leader but I get no response. I engage with property owners who tell me they are developing a hotel only...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 18. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps being taken to address overcrowding in prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Support Services (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 63. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Building Pathways Together programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36682/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 117. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to support intergenerational farm transfer through the next CAP policy cycle; whether he is considering a dedicated farm succession scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36658/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied the current badger management programme is sufficient in light of the reported explosion in badger numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36659/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (3 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: 355. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an appointment for cataract surgery; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36778/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: We have seen horrific scenes of the destruction of people in Palestine. It is difficult to pick any single moment but I was struck by a Palestinian paediatrician, Alaa al-Najjar, who fell to her knees with the pain and devastation of witnessing her own children arriving into her emergency department. Her nine children were killed by an Israeli airstrike. They were between the ages of two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome all the farm organisations and thank them for attending. This matter is one of the key priorities for me with respect to the work programme. That is because I recently attended, with some of the witnesses, a public meeting in Roundfort in south Mayo. Following the meeting, I walked the fields belonging to some farmers who had been terrorised by what was happening. This is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: No, a Chathaoirligh, we cannot talk about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: I want to be very clear. It is absolutely relevant to talk about one of the key issues in my constituency that is-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: My point is that there is an issue around illegal hare coursing in the country. It has a knock-on effect where groups of people are coming onto farmers' lands and letting their dogs off. This is a huge issue in south and north Mayo and I want to register it here in the committee. We need to do a significant amount of work on this and if we cannot talk about some of the key issues on it-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Dog Control and Sheep-Worrying: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Paul Lawless: The focus of the committee is on sheep and the perpetrators, which are dogs.