Results 21-40 of 225 for speaker:Tom Brabazon

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 43. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the engagement her Department has had with Beaumont Hospital in relation to the hospital capital projects. [34917/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 86. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the timeline for the delivery new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital. [34916/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Consultations (26 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 219. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the engagement his Department has had with supermarkets in relation to price increases. [35028/25]

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 was introduced in the aftermath of the Omagh bombing. That terrible and cruel atrocity by the Real IRA took the lives of 29 people, including a woman pregnant with twins, and injured more than 300 others. The review group tasked with examining the Offences against the State Acts stated: [W]hile the threat from republican paramilitary...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 236. To ask the Minister for Health her Department's plans to increase funding and resources for a hereditary cancer model of care. [34960/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 237. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to establish oversight for the implementation of the hereditary cancer model of care. [34961/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to ensure the development of networked services and multidisciplinary teams, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34962/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 239. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she is taking to ensure workforce development, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34963/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 240. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to ensure there is patient information and supports for those under the hereditary cancer model of care. [34964/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 241. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department is taking to provide patient information and supports, as recommended in the national cancer control programme in the hereditary cancer model of care, HSE national cancer control programme. [34965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (25 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 242. To ask the Minister for Health the actions her Department has taken to identify the IT infrastructure required to enable the implementation of this hereditary cancer model of care, including genetic counselling network and referral to national specialist genetics multidisciplinary teams. [34966/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The programme for Government contains a commitment to reduce class sizes to 19. Two schools in my constituency, Belgrove Infant Girls' School in Clontarf and Scoil Mhuire in Howth, have classes amalgamating due to falling numbers. This will result in pupil-teacher ratios of 35:1 in both classes. Can the Taoiseach expedite the programme to introduce the 19:1 ratio in these schools as soon...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Recent Air Corps Developments: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I welcome all of the witnesses. My first question is about the 2013 pension scheme that was introduced. I am on the justice committee, and we have had the Garda Commissioner before us. We have had the GRA in and it suggested that recruitment and retention in particular are a big problem, and this pension set-up is a big part of it. Gardaí are probably paid a little better than the...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank the Minister for his very detailed presentation, which underscores the Government's strong support for An Garda Síochána and the great work it is doing. The GRA came before the committee last week and spoke about the post-2013 pension scheme, which was introduced for newly recruited gardaí at that stage, as being a difficulty for recruitment and retention. It is not...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: A number of gardaí are suspended, and the period of suspension ranges from three years to seven years. Is there anything we can do to speed up the disciplinary process so that whoever is going through the disciplinary process is either back to work as a member of An Garda Síochána or the alternative option is taken under the process?

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The training allowance in Templemore is €354 per week. In the context of the recruitment age being increased from 35 to 50, between the ages of 35 and 50 people are generally established in life with responsibilities such as rent, mortgages, children and school fees. Does the Minister think he might be in a position to recruit more people within this specific age cohort with a higher...

Select Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Further Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Chair, we agreed to have a meeting in September.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Wage-setting Mechanisms (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 359. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the recommended pay increase for the contract cleaning industry will be approved by Government. [33938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 422. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it can be ensured that a child (details supplied) can avail of an appropriate school place in time for the coming school year.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33989/25]