Results 21-40 of 43 for speaker:Edward Timmins

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (25 Mar 2025)

Edward Timmins: 792. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the vacant health centre in Donard, which the community would like to bring the building into use as a heritage or cultural centre; if the premises has been sold, been transferred to another State body or will be going on the market; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13890/25]

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

Edward Timmins: We should all know the huge benefit international trade has been for Ireland. On a financial basis alone, of the €97 billion we take in in taxes, more than €50 billion is attributable to our multinationals by way of corporation tax, VAT and PAYE. This supports all the services that the State supplies, including health, social welfare and education. I often wonder whether this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (6 Mar 2025)

Edward Timmins: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if all receipts from pharmacies can contain a breakdown of individual medicine costs and any other costs in the interest of transparency, competition and consumers. [9740/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (4 Mar 2025)

Edward Timmins: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to increase the low number of train carriages, currently just four, on the Wicklow town-to-Connolly Station route. [9402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (4 Mar 2025)

Edward Timmins: 115. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to change the 65 bus route to Blessington in terms of much-needed increased service or route change. [9401/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: I congratulate the Leas-Cheann Comhairle on his new role. I congratulate the two Ministers and wish them the best of luck in what is clearly a very challenging role. After spending over 20 years on Wicklow County Council and having dealt with four county development plans, I would like to make a number of points on the Housing Commission report. Many aspects are good but some show a...

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: My contribution will be short. I thank the Minister and I wish her all the very best in her new role. I have no doubt she will perform very well. I raise the specific issue of pharmacies and the receipts they give to customers. This is an issue I raised many years ago and brought a successful motion to Wicklow County Council on the matter. I request that all pharmacy receipts give a...

Third Anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: I want to raise a specific issue with regard to the war in Ukraine, that is, the issue of Ukrainian children being held prisoner in Russia. A report by researchers at Yale University gives a detailed account of Russia's child deportation campaign. There is a network of 43 Russian facilities to which Ukrainian children have been moved since February 2022. Many of the camps are in Crimea and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: I raise a specific issue here today on the oversight of the various boards that are responsible for managing the spending of public money. We all know about the waste of public money that is making the headlines. Many are expressing outrage, but we are not hearing many solutions. We need to come up with changes and I offer one here today. I have reviewed many State boards and I am...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: It breeds inefficiencies.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Services (26 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: 235. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of staff resources in Naas regional veterinary offices dedicated to the wildlife programme from 2015 to date annually, detailing veterinary inspectors, technical officers, administration staff and the complement of farm relief service operatives available for the badger programme each year since 2015....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and the start date for this extension. [5355/25]

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: I have a totally new proposal here today. It is to develop an American Presidents' trail, linking all the ancestral homes of US Presidents. There have been a huge number of US Presidents, whose ancestors came from this island, North and South. It would also be a way of linking Northern Ireland with southern Ireland in a cohesive way through tourism. As I say, many US Presidents have...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (11 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: I am sure I will probably echo some of the sentiments expressed by Deputy Lahart. At the end of his contribution, he referred to something with which I will start, namely that the programme for Government is laudable and I commend it. However, it is based on the premise that we continue as a prosperous country and continue to collect taxes, primarily from foreign multinationals. For...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (11 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: 138. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether Ireland has a full complement of required air traffic control staff in all airports; and the number of such staff in each airport, in tabular form. [4109/25]

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: During my first words in the Dáil earlier this afternoon, I was restricted to one minute. Now, I have five minutes and I do not think I even need five minutes.

Government’s Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (Resumed) (5 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: First, I pay tribute to the people of County Wicklow who elected me here. I thank them for placing their trust in me. Second, I would like to say that I want to work with the other three Wicklow TDs - Deputy Whitmore has just stepped out of the Chamber - for the betterment of County Wicklow. Third, and probably more importantly, I want to work with every Deputy in this House for the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2025)

Edward Timmins: It is a great honour to be elected to represent the wonderful people of County Wicklow. I am very grateful to them for the trust they have put in me. I wish to raise the lack of funding for national roads in recent years. This has impacted the people of Wicklow, which is a commuter county. The N81 is one of the most dangerous roads in the country, as has been proven in several studies....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jan 2025)

Edward Timmins: 646. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction of the new secondary school in Blessington, County Wicklow will commence. [1837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (22 Jan 2025)

Edward Timmins: 647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when she will sanction the next stage of the building project in a school (details supplied). [1838/25]