Results 21-40 of 88 for speaker:Catherine Callaghan

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (27 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Paula Butterly. She is a person of outstanding character and has a very strong work ethic. She will work very well in collaboration with the secretariat and the Cathaoirleach freisin. I wish her all the best of luck.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (27 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 554. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a child will have an assessment of need carried out (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27537/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 581. To ask the Minister for Health the service available to service users in north Tipperary that suffer from trichiasis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26749/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Like every Member, I am horrified at what is currently unfolding, and has been for months, before our eyes in Gaza. On Sunday, there was a little hope with the Israeli statement, which stated it would allow some aid to cross the border into Gaza. However, with this morning's news from the UN that no aid has reached any civilian in Gaza yet, I just could not sleep last night thinking of the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I would like to shine a light on the dire need for an increased roads budget in my constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny. The programme for Government states that the Government will invest in all road projects in the current national development plan, NDP, and consider additional important road projects as part of the NDP review. We all know we are in the midst of a housing crisis. Across...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Disability is something that touches most of our lives. We all know someone who is living with a disability or is caring for someone with a disability, be that a seen or unseen disability. This lived experience should be what directs policy. It is people living with disabilities, or those who care for them, who know best what we need to change and how we can improve. I call on the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Business of Joint Committee (20 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an gCathaoirleach on his appointment as Chair of this committee. I, too, am looking forward to working with my colleagues, including those with whom I am yet to have a good conversation. I am looking forward to a successful and progressive campaign over the next four years. I echo the Cathaoirleach's sentiments in expressing my condolences to the family of...

Committee on Defence and National Security: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an gCathaoirleach on her appointment. This is my first ever committee meeting as a newly-elected TD and it is a subject about which I am very passionate as a former member of the Defence Forces and a former UN peacekeeper. I concur with my colleagues on the committee on the importance of ensuring we get those expert, objective people in to talk to us about...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (13 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 271. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has engaged with the Israeli authorities regarding the ongoing blockade that has prevented four Irish-funded aid trucks, waiting in Jordan, from entering Gaza; and the steps being taken to ensure the urgent delivery of this and other humanitarian aid. [23582/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: My question is also about Private Seán Rooney. As the Tánaiste knows, I have a special interest in the Middle East and in peacekeeping as a former UN peacekeeper. I travelled that road from Tibnin to Beirut Airport as Private Seán Rooney did. Can the Tánaiste provide us with an update on his recent trip to Lebanon? He outlined it to Deputy Ó Murchú, but if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on his recent trip to Lebanon and, in particular, his meeting with Lebanese officials about the ongoing legal proceedings in the matter relating to the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 207. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline, in view of the strong desire to increase the number of serving members in Óglaigh na hÉireann, the steps his Department is taking as part of the recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people to join; to outline, in particular, the steps being taken to encourage more women to join and serve the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I urge the Government to support calls for pension parity in our schools. The current lack of parity is adversely affecting our school secretaries and caretakers. All parents and caregivers know the vital role our school secretaries play in schools. In the school I worked in as a SNA, our secretary is known by pupils and staff alike as Super Sue because she, like all school secretaries...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (1 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s benefit could be considered as a scheme to be transformed into a pay-related one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21765/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s benefit could be considered as a scheme to be transformed into a pay-related one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the means by which she is helping to improve salary levels in the childcare sector given the importance of the sector to society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the increase in respite services, including locations, envisaged for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20796/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 562. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending inheritance tax thresholds for individuals who have no children of their own and would like to leave an inheritance to a niece or nephew; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18831/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 1564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a visa application (details supplied); if further information is required to finalise this application; the timeframe in which this application might be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19376/25]

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I stand to say what I wrote in a letter earlier this week to the Ministers, Deputies Browne and Chambers, and to express my incredulity at the dire situation coming to light in respect of the Uisce Éireann infrastructure deficits in Carlow town. I implore the Department of housing and the Minister for public expenditure and reform, Deputy Chambers, and his Department to hold Uisce...