Results 321-340 of 1,398 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 440. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of disqualification orders received from the Courts Service via a weekly file to date in 2025; the number that did not include the driver number of the person, to enable automatic endorsement on driver records; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 445. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 286 of 1 April 2025, the number of Irish licence holders who received a court driving disqualification, but a match could not be made; the number that remained on the shell record for the period of the disqualification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Vehicle and Driver File (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 441. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for the relevant sections of the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 allowing access by insurers and intermediaries to disqualification and endorsement data from the NVDF database at policy processing or renewal time; the date(s) that commencement orders were signed and provisions implemented in practice; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 442. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of validations that failed when an insurer attempted to validate the driver number of a disqualified driver against the National Vehicle and Driver File since 31 March 2025; the number of drivers that were advised by the insurer or broker to contact the National Driving Licence Service for the Road Safety Authority to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 443. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if insurers and brokers have his authority to cancel a motor insurance policy whereby the driver number cannot be validated against his Driver File database; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24398/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 526. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the mechanisms being put in place to allow businesses and representative organisations to make submissions to the proposed cost of business advisory forum on the regulatory and administrative costs affecting them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23458/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1087. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of speech and language therapists currently employed within CHO 9; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23654/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (13 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 1126. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the steps her Department has taken to expand IVF support to those experiencing secondary infertility; the supports currently in place for secondary infertility; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24012/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: The Minister of State's response proves my point. I thank him for it. This is heavy on regulation rather than on the rights of residents and communities. The language used is not at all consumer friendly. Meanwhile, we are seeing the fast development, growth and expansion of these deliveries and services and they are impacting communities. We have to make sure the regulations and public...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Air Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: We have seen the rapid growth of commercial drone activity in Ireland, especially in my constituency of Dublin West. Manna Drone Delivery has been piloting a delivery service from a local base in Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and another site in the vicinity at junction six at the M50, which is the subject of some dispute. The company completes more than 300 deliveries daily within a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: When the current Tánaiste was Taoiseach, he visited Castleknock village to hear directly from our local businesses about the cost of doing business. Since then, some of our vacant units have been sold or leased, and we look forward to them all opening. However, last Friday another business closed, which had been operating for more than 20 years. As a community we want our village...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: Melo.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has conducted or commissioned a value for money assessment or audit of the performance of PSO buses purchased over recent years, particularly with respect to reports that some buses may have proven not to be fit for purpose and are now in storage and not in use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22919/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 252. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 422 of 29 April 2025, to provide details on the customer demand criteria used by Dublin Bus in its service review process; whether this category refers solely to demand on existing services, or if it also includes demand for non-existing services, such as new routes or additional services on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the procurement of the electrification of bus depots to allow for the rollout of the b-spine under the BusConnects plan in Q2 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 271. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on his Department’s engagement with the National Transport Authority regarding the creation of a transport security force, similar to the airport police and customs officers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 320. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to consider expanding the remote working policy to include a specific organisation (details supplied); to clarify whether this organisation currently has a remote working policy in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Inquiries (8 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 346. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if a person who, following divorce proceedings, no longer resides in the family home but still has their name on the property title, despite having no financial stake in the property, can be considered eligible under the ‘fresh start’ principle when applying for a local authority home loan or an affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance if consideration has been given to allowing start-up SMEs to claim the research and development tax credit over a longer period of years, noting many start-ups may have low corporation tax liabilities in their early years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Artificial Intelligence (7 May 2025)

Emer Currie: 143. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he plans to enhance the promotion of CeADAR's educational supports for Irish businesses, including free courses and access to AI regulatory sandboxes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22576/25]