Results 21-40 of 140 for speaker:Paula Butterly

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 94. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend the free travel pass to children in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; the number of children who would benefit; the estimated cost of this extension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32745/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister. I will go back over the criteria for free travel. One can get a free travel pass if one is in receipt of disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance or invalidity pension. Leaving out the domiciliary care allowance is an anomaly in itself. It is quite unfair. The domiciliary care allowance is provided to parents and guardians of children under 16 who have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I welcome all of these changes but I will go back to the issue. These children are under 16 years of age and have severe disabilities. Their parents and carers are put to the pin of their collar both financially and emotionally. Allowing them a free travel pass would not only ease the financial burden, but ease the transition. As I was saying previously, this is particularly the case in...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 128. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to provide increased flexibility to local CE, TÚS and rural social schemes to retain participants for longer, as committed to in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32744/25]

Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (18 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister of State for his opening statement. I have two relatively net questions for him. He spoke a lot about competitiveness. The Draghi report has highlighted how Europe invested €270 billion less than the US in research and development in 2021 and that Europeans are practically flocking to the US in search of funding. I think the report stated that up to 30% of the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: That is absolutely fine. I thank the Cathaoirleach. It is fair to say that there is no fan, other than the Garda Commissioner, of the operating model as it exists. I work closely with the gardaí at all levels in my own area of County Louth. Everything I have heard today has been said to me time and again at county level. I had a meeting with the Minister, Deputy O’Callaghan, a...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Can I ask a quick, sharp question?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: Do the witnesses believe the next Garda Commissioner should be Irish? Mr. Hodgins said that the essence of the Garda and its culture has been eroded. In light of the current Garda Commissioner, should the next Garda Commissioner be Irish?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: No, not at all.

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: There is no doubt that everyone has come into the Chamber to talk about the RTÉ programme. As a daughter who had a father in residential care, and as a sister who has a 55-year old brother in residential care with Lewy body syndrome, I actually could not watch the programme. Like many people who have a parent or a member of the family in residential care, we are often overridden by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (12 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 180. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when works on the LMETB headquarters will be completed in Drogheda town, given the building work commenced in 2017 with the contractors on site but was halted (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30154/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (11 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a response will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30911/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I apologise that I was not here to hear the opening statements. I have listened with interest and every question I had has gone out the window or another Deputy has asked it. I might go around the houses a little bit but I ask our guests to stick with me as I try to form my questions. First and foremost, I will go back to the different steps that we must take and to address this as an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: I want to go back to the point about the viability of apartment buildings. If travelling to London or New York, we can see how they demolish a skyscraper in seconds and if we go back within a couple of months, a new one will be up. It is astonishing. I am confused by this density issue because Dublin is as flat as a pancake. It should be four times the height that it is in certain areas....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 121. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of home energy upgrades completed to date this year; how this compared to the same periods of the last five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wind Energy Generation (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 135. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of electricity generated by wind farms in each of the last five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30238/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 255. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will report on the implementation of the National Biomethane Strategy as it pertains to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Jun 2025)

Paula Butterly: 358. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if, given the further delays to the DART plus for Drogheda project as a result of An Bord Pleanála seeking a further extension, he will intervene and bring forward legislation to ensure it can be delivered in the shortest time possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30188/25]