Results 361-380 of 476 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (1 Apr 2025)

Liam Quaide: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of social media videos posted on her Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, inclusive. [15743/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Middle East (1 Apr 2025)

Liam Quaide: 838. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he or Ministers of State from his Department raised recent breaches of international law by Israel such as cutting off food, water, and electricity to civilian populations in Gaza during recent visits to EU Member States over the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15263/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Irish Sign Language (1 Apr 2025)

Liam Quaide: 871. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the percentage of social media videos posted on his Department's social media accounts that included closed captioning or subtitling and Irish sign language translations between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2024, inclusive. [15741/25]

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: There are 150,000 cohabiting couples in Ireland who are unmarried or in a civil partnership, and half of these couples have children together. Yet currently, if one person in the couple were to unfortunately pass away, the surviving partner would not be entitled to a bereaved partner's pension. The Supreme Court ruled in January 2024 that these partners are being discriminated against under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 76. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to establish a dedicated grant scheme for the maintenance and upgrading of community playgrounds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14526/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: Will the Minister commit to funding, in a direct and integrated way through our councils, playground provision for towns and villages according to their population size and based on an assessment of existing facilities? Midleton, for example, is a thriving town in east Cork, but our playground provision nowhere near meets the needs of a large and growing local population of young...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: Playgrounds are central parts of a flourishing community - places where children get to explore, have fun, challenge themselves, and connect with peers. To provide for children in these respects, Midleton requires a much larger playground than either of the two that we currently have. Ballinacurra, which is just outside Midleton, has no playground at all for a rising population. We also...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: It can be invigorating to be part of a committee pursuing funds for playground provision. It brings people together in common purpose for their community. My councillor colleague, Ann Bambury, was central to such an initiative in Bandon for a very ambitious project there, but it should not be left to families to become social entrepreneurs and project managers, essentially spending vast...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Priorities (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 93. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures being examined by his Department to address loneliness and social isolation in rural areas and communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to establish a community ownership fund to help community groups and social enterprises to buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost, to be run as community-owned businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14529/25]

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: Our neutrality has not just been a key military stance since the foundation of the State. It is in some ways a core part of our national identity and culture. It has been a foundation of our international diplomatic status and given generations of Irish people a sense of security from wars happening on an international stage. The subject of neutrality is one of the most vexed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (26 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 and introduce a certificate formally recognising a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14358/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with representatives of the US-Jewish community during his visit to the United States of America for St. Patrick's Day and the reports from the American Jewish Committee that he indicated that the occupied territories Bill was no longer on the legislative agenda. [13395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to instigate a child protection review of the recently published ‘Understanding Behaviours of Concern and Responding to Crisis Situations Guidelines for Schools in Supporting Students’; her plans for a review of the reporting mechanism on the use of seclusion and restraint in schools, prior to their taking full effect...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for establishing town councils; the population size needed to qualify for the establishment of a town council; the role town councils will play; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on his visit to Atlanta and Savannah in the United States of America for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings he attended, the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13399/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend the proposed permanent annual cost of disability support payment to individuals who are in receipt of the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14154/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on her visit to London for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings she attended, the issues that were discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13401/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the visit of the Minister of State with responsibility for Disability to Japan for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings she attended, the issues that were discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of plans to develop a national policy on the rights of children living in informal kinship care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13882/25]