Results 341-360 of 2,569 for speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Previous Governments promised to rectify the errors that resulted in the CervicalCheck scandal of 2018 involving several women, including Vicky Phelan, Eileen Rushe and Lynsey Bennett, receiving incorrect smear test results for cervical cancer. For reasons that must be obvious, many women in Ireland have lost confidence in the outsourcing of lab tests to the United States. Yet cervical...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: We all know that not everyone who develops cervical cancer will have HPV found at screening.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Why then are we not testing for abnormal cells while we are testing for HPV? Is this a money-saving initiative?

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This Government promised in the programme for Government to make home ownership affordable and accessible again to an entire generation who are locked out of home ownership. Home ownership rates among young working adults in Ireland have collapsed in the face of rising house prices and, unfortunately, the myriad of issues impeding home purchase look unlikely to be resolved in the short to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Suicide Prevention (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 212. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide in detail the funding amounts that are allocated to various organisations (details supplied) and other charity groups working directly in suicide care in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26507/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (30 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will advise on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding ASD placement in Dundalk; if the family situation will be taken into consideration; her plans to approve an additional co-educational class at a school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25583/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 646. To ask the Minister for Health when the approved GP visit card extended in budget 2023 to children aged under seven years and approved from April 2023 is expected to be implemented, given that to date it is yet to take effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25593/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Please come to County Louth and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is a housing crisis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I receive calls weekly regarding planning permission rejections, with some people spending between €15,000 and €20,000 in the planning process before any works are done. This is not just hearsay. It was reported at the May meeting of Louth County Council that planning permission was refused for 40% of rural homes in Louth in 2022. This means that 70 out of the 177 planning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is in County Louth

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I live in County Louth and I know what is going on there. The refusal rate in rural County Louth was 40%. That equates to 70 families that have to live in mobile homes, live with friends or live wherever they can because they cannot get planning permission. The Government is instructing local authorities to build houses on local authority-owned land. However, our local authorities are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I know of a young girl who is married with two children. Her family has loads of land - 40 or 50 acres. What did the council tell her? It told her to build an extension onto the existing house of 50 sq. m. One cannot put a family into an extension measuring 50 sq. m.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The family already has the granny living in the house. I want the Tánaiste and the Minister to come to County Louth and have a look.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The refusal rate was 40%, meaning that 70 families were refused planning permission last year. It is not acceptable in a housing crisis. I am listening to gardaí on radio stations talking about this. We have a problem-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Let us start looking after the people in the area. I know I will see the Tánaiste on Saturday in Navan but more importantly, I ask him to look after these families with their homes. That is all I am saying. He should come to County Louth with the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Give us a few penalties and the whole stadium will be happy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Of 50 sq. m. One would not be able to get two horses in there.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide information regarding a passport application (details supplied) needing further clarification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims in the education sector for short-term jobseeker’s payments from substitute teachers and all non-permanent education employees in each of the past five years to date for school summer-holiday periods; the average length of time for processing the claims; if she will review the way in which claims...