Results 21-40 of 6,452 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: Tá ceithre nóiméad agam.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: Nach bhfuil níos mó ama ná sin agam?

Finance (Local Property Tax and Other Provisions) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: I welcome this debate and many of the provisions of this Bill. I am aware that my local authority, Offaly County Council, generated approximately €4.9 million in local property tax revenues in 2024, but also that our baseline was €11.2 million. This means we received about €6.2 million in that 2025 distribution of equalisation funding. While that is welcome within the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 354. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of work permits issued to persons from outside the UK or EEA intending to take up position as doctors, nurses and other positions in the health service, in each year from 2020 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32075/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 461. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address serious and ongoing health and safety issues with a prefab unit at a school which is used as accommodation for a special class (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32731/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 603. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number of people incarcerated in Irish prisons as of 31 December in each year from 1990 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 604. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total number currently being detained in Irish prisons; the total number who are Irish citizens, citizens of the UK or EU/EEA, and from the rest of the world; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32077/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Deportation Orders (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 605. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if the State has a policy of issuing deportation orders against non-nationals on completion of a prison sentence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 777. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to expediting the approval process for a medicine that assists in the treatment and progression of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Inquiries (17 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 960. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address concerns regarding the lack of supports for persons seeking to complete a part-time masters degree while employed; if there are any plans to increase supports in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32326/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Exchequer Deficit (11 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 81. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide the annual cost of interest payments on the State’s national debt for each year during the period 2000 to date; the total interest payments made during that period, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31052/25]

Vacant Council Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the motion and the opportunity to once again place a spotlight on the extraordinary levels of vacant housing. The motion is pragmatic and I will support it. When I think of housing vacancy rates, I think of a man dying of thirst while a giant pool of water remains within his reach. There is a stupidity and recklessness to this issue that is mind-boggling. In the middle of a...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: Over-regulated, underdelivered and a catastrophic social disaster that is resulting in the untold misery of thousands of people who are trapped in a bleak housing nightmare. We are witnessing an epidemic of incompetence when it comes to housing. We are witnessing the third Government in a row that has shown no real, dynamic leadership on this issue. We have the third Government in a row...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: Caretakers in our schools are committed, dedicated and very hard working people. Along with school secretaries, they are the engine of any school. My question relates to the delivery of a package for caretakers. I acknowledge that there is a commitment to deliver a package for caretakers similar to the one delivered for school secretaries in the near future but at this point, caretakers...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Birth Registration (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade when a decision will be made on an application by a person (details supplied) for the foreign birth register; the reason for the delay in processing the application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether is a connection between the huge increases in absenteeism at primary and secondary schools and the increase in working from home in recent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 878. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of divorces granted in each year from 2015 to date; to provide a breakdown of the number which are opposite-sex couples and same-sex couples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28997/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 972. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of requests or complaints received by the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) under Articles 17 and 19 of the GDPR (the "right to erasure / right to be forgotten") in each year from 2018 to date. [28995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Responsibilities (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 981. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality ; if he will provide an outline of engagements in his Ministerial diary and that of any Minister of State at his Department for the period 1 March 2025 to the week ending 28 March 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29155/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: 989. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to clarify if his department has conveyed any concerns to the Department of Health regarding the Assisted Human Reproduction Bill 2024, which includes provisions to allow domestic and international surrogacy, regarding the potential for human trafficking; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29213/25]