Results 341-360 of 3,398 for speaker:Pa Daly

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (18 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary school classrooms of 30 pupils or more in County Kerry in each of the past five years; the measures she is taking to reduce the number of very large classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6183/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (18 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 412. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the application for a gold mine by a company (details supplied) in the Sperrin Mountains, County Tyrone; if he has plans to publish a transboundary consultation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (18 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 413. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an update on the commitment in the Housing for All policy to introducing minimum BERs in the private rental sector from 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (18 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 490. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive their humanitarian claim; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5761/25]

Road Safety: Statements (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: When we discuss road safety, we must remember the many families that have been left devastated by the large number of tragedies and deaths on our roads, especially in the last year. In the opening weeks of 2025, the country watched in horror as 19 people on the island died in January alone. In 2024, 174 lives were lost in the Twenty-six Counties alone. Every one of those was a daughter,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 14. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider reviewing and amending the Ireland Strategic Investment Fund for companies that operate in illegal Israeli settlements. [5223/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: I note the Minister said that ISIF considers a variety of factors. I presume genocide, killing civilians and facilitating illegal settlements are included in that. I acknowledge that there has been some divestment from illegally occupied Palestinian areas and the Golan Heights but this is not the entire story. It is important to realise that it had been reported that ISIF still had a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: It seems that some of the direct investments that were mentioned, which are controlled by ISIF, are not pooled investments. They are in banks such as Bank Leumi-le Israel BM, which is one of the largest banks in Israel. For decades, this bank has facilitated the expansion of illegal settlements. It granted a loan for a construction project in the Palestinian village of Azzun and bankrolled...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Climate Change Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 24. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on climate financing as part of the planned Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5222/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 84. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will report on the amount of funding for retrofitting as part of the revised NDP; if this remains unchanged as part of the new Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5221/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Nuclear Safety (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to report on his engagements with the British government on its plans to build eight new nuclear power stations in Britain; what measures are in place to ensure that there is no safety risk posed to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 135. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to a recent case in which a car that was dangerous and not road worthy passed the NCT (details supplied); if he has engaged with the NCT on this and to report on these discussions; if he has considered revoking the licence of the private company that administers the NCT; what measures he plans to take to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 136. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the problems with the bus route operated by a company (details supplied) whereby busses are either severely delayed or cancelled entirely; if he believes their licence should be revoked if they cannot operate the service to a specific standard; if he has considered bringing these routes back under...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 137. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown on active travel funding drawn down, broken down by local authority, in each year from 2020 to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to expand active travel in rural towns, villages and counties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 139. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to report on the bike schemes operating throughout the country; if he plans to expand those schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety Authority (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 140. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the RSA has resumed sharing collision data with local councils; if not, the reason for the delay; and to outline an expected timeline for when this data will be shared again. [5284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Programme for Government (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 160. To ask the Minister for Finance to report on carbon tax increases planned as part of the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5220/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (13 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: 254. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí in the roads policing unit in each of the years 2010 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5320/25]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Pa Daly: There is not a great deal to this Bill on paper. There are only two sections to it. In relation to super junior Ministers, rather than saying “appoint not more than 20 persons” it states “appoint not more than 23 persons". Rather than “not more than 3 specified holders of the office of Minister of State who regularly attend meetings of the Government” it...