Results 21-40 of 5,717 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the breakdown of the funding allocation made available under the free travel scheme to all private transport operators. [22570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 397. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current number of recipients for each social welfare scheme. [22796/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 398. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average, median, maximum and minimum number of recipients for each social welfare scheme in 2023. [22797/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will outline, with regard to the jobseeker’s benefit pay related scheme, noting the revised estimates, what the full-year cost of the proposed scheme will be. [22798/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the qualified child increase by €1 for children under the age of 12 years and €1 for children over the age of 12 years, respectively. [22799/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other scheme payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22800/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 402. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the current young jobseeker’s rate of €129.70 by €1 per week. [22801/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 403. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of introducing a child benefit double payment. [22802/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 404. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost to the Exchequer of the JobPath scheme for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023. [22803/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 405. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of including the working family payment as a qualifying payment for fuel allowance. [22804/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 406. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of increasing the annual carer’s support grant by €1. [22805/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 407. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full-year cost of extending carer’s benefit to the self-employed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22806/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the total number of social welfare recipients, by social welfare type in 2023; and the projected number of social welfare recipients by social welfare type in 2024, disaggregated by social welfare type, in tabular form. [22908/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 413. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the maximum weekly rates of social welfare payments, by social welfare type, in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the average payment received, by social welfare type in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22909/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 539. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any expressions of interest have been received for the purchase or leasing of turnkey properties in accordance with the comprehensive accommodation strategy; the number of submissions received; the average accommodation capacity; and the average cost per unit of properties contained in the EOIs received, in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of State-owned reception centres currently in operation; the number of units delivered, by year; and the average capacity and the average capital cost of units delivered in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22995/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 541. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to specify the average per-night cost of accommodating an IP applicant in privately owned accommodation, providing a breakdown of the average per-night cost in private accommodation contracted in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22996/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 542. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the average per-night cost of accommodating an IP applicant in State-owned accommodation, providing a breakdown of the average per-night cost in State-owned accommodation delivered in each of the years 2021 to 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [22997/24]

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: GPs in Cork have raised a concern over the removal of some 13,000 people from the waiting list on foot of a National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, validation exercise. While I appreciate that checks of the waiting list have to be made and we all want to see the waiting list come down, we want to see it come down on the basis of people not needing treatment. It is our experience and the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teacher Training (15 May 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am used to generic responses to Topical Issue matters, and I am not blaming the Minister of State for this one, but the question I raised was to discuss the need to provide primary teacher training in Cork. The Minister of State's reply must add up to a few hundred words, none of which is "Cork" and none of which deals with the specific issue, namely, the location of teacher training,...