Results 21-40 of 6,282 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 183. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the decision of the Russian election commission to ban opposition candidates such as persons (details supplied) from standing in the 2024 Russian presidential election; his views on whether these bans are a contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights; the interaction he has had with his Russian counterpart or the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (25 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has conducted any studies on the effect of the €14,000 rent a room tax relief; his views on whether it may be pushing up the rental cost of such rooms, given the preponderance of such rooms for let in the €1,100-1,200 bracket; if landlords are setting the price at this level to fully avail of the tax break; and if he will...

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

Carol Nolan: 513. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to list all social welfare payments which are currently payable to the surviving cohabiting partner of a deceased claimant after their death, in circumstances where the couple are not married; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13695/25]

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

Carol Nolan: 535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if beneficiaries of temporary protection have had personal car repair works funded through any payment mechanism provided by his Department; if so, to provide details of costs and payment numbers from 2022 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14178/25]

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Tá áthas orm an deis a fháil labhairt ar ráitis maidir le slándáil idirnáisiúnta agus trádáil idirnáisiúnta anseo inniu. We all want to see a settled and peaceful international order, not least because of the cost that usually occurs in terms of human life when there is no such order. I am also concerned about the blatant...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: The new report by Home and Community Care Ireland, HCCI, on homecare waiting lists, which was covered in The Irish Times yesterday, reveals that 5,556 older people are waiting for homecare at the end of last year. The waiting list in CHO 8, which covers my constituency of Offaly and includes county Laois, rose steeply by 31% to 932 people waiting. This represents the second-highest waiting...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: Last year, the Parliamentary Budget Office published data on the number of households eligible for but not yet in receipt of social housing in my constituency of Offaly. The Parliamentary Budget Office analysis was based on what it would have cost to house the number of households on the social housing waiting lists, plus the households in receipt of the housing assistance payment. The cost...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 133. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, in the aftermath of the legalisation of abortion here, any policy change took place with regard to the funding of overseas abortions; if funding from the State currently funds abortion abroad; if so, the amounts donated and to whom, for the years 2019-2024; the conditions or stipulations attached to any such funding, in the event that...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Abortion Services (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 134. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department or any branch of Government liaised with any aid organisations, philanthropic organisations or governments between 2014 and 2024 on the issue of abortion provision in Ireland; if any moneys were donated to this end from said organisations or governments; if so, the precise amounts of money donated and from whom; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 337. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of registered taxis and hackney drivers in operation in each county in each of the years 2019, 2023, and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Data (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 537. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to state or estimate the total value of imports originating in the Xinjiang province in China in each year from 2020 to 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Standards (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 684. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department monitors the number of children who complete either primary school or secondary school but who remain illiterate or functionally illiterate; to provide a summary of the most recent findings in that regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 685. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a policy in relation to allowing or prohibiting male students to compete in female-only sports; whether she is aware of this practice having been allowed in Irish schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 714. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps being taken to ensure that a school building project (details supplied) will be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 758. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person with 18 years’ instruction experience (details supplied) will be allowed to claim incremental credit with respect to his teaching salary; if she will accept that the incremental credit scheme as currently defined is inflexible and may result in the unwillingness of experienced persons from taking up a teaching position; and...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 921. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the projects funded to date through the urban regeneration and development fund, by county and location, the total amount allocated to each project, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11922/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1028. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have received the HAP under Stage 1 and Stage 2 of the emergency humanitarian assistance scheme operated by his Department from 31 January 2025; the average payment; the average length of time before people had to wait for payment; the number of outstanding applications to date; if additional...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1093. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for a funding from an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10682/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1119. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will establish a new permanent stakeholders forum for licensed firearms holders to ensure ongoing consultation and transparency in decision-making; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11348/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Control of Firearms (19 Mar 2025)

Carol Nolan: 1120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will take steps to ensure that there are no disproportionate restrictions on licensed firearms holders, ensuring that any policy changes are based on evidence, not arbitrary measures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11349/25]