Results 21-40 of 76 for speaker:Gillian Toole

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 847. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the direction being given to local authorities for balanced, common-good and needs-based planning in the areas of renewable energy production, social infrastructure and housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30421/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 848. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the professional qualifications required by local authority planners, to adjudicate on renewable energy projects submitted for planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1051. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Thornton Hall prison site in north County Dublin, Fingal, in light of recent announcements on the increase in prison spaces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30428/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1052. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the exact process of site selection for International Protection Accommodation Service centres; are local authorities using commercial rates information and approaching owners; if owners are being introduced by public representatives; the community infrastructure audit requirements that are to be submitted with prospective...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1599. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of women affected directly by the misreading of their cervical smear tests to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1600. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of women who were directly affected by the misreading of their cervical smear tests who have passed away to date. [30425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of women currently alive who have received a terminal diagnosis as a direct result of the misreading of cervical cancer tests. [30426/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (10 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: 1602. To ask the Minister for Health if the guidelines for vaccination against SARS COV 2 of infants, children and adolescents, who do not have medical conditions that increase their risk of severe illness, will be amended in light of recent research findings in the Department of Health in Australia and the FDA in the USA whereby risk of side effects outweigh any benefit of vaccination. [30427/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (29 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 162. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the improvements being made in how Government Departments “report capital spending on an annual basis to ensure greater transparency and oversight of expenditure on a regional basis”; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28806/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Functions (29 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 314. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the support his Department provides to the Irish Government Economic and Evaluation Service, to provide critical economic and value for money analysis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29166/25]

Independent External Medical Audit for Children's Health Ireland and National Orthopaedic Hospital Cappagh: Statements (27 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: In this instance, I am not going to duplicate all of the statistics and summaries of the review to date that Members have discussed. I will approach this from the point of view of what may happen next and the human impact. There must be a compassionate approach to supporting the children and families through the review process without sterile communications and an impersonal review process....

Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: As the very proud daughter, niece, granddaughter and friend of primary, secondary and tertiary educators, I very much welcome this opportunity for statements today. I will not repeat what I have heard from other contributors. The book Poor by Dr. Kathriona O'Sullivan of Maynooth University points to the importance of education as a freedom, as a gateway and as being life changing. The...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome the infrastructure cross-departmental committee, the housing activation office and the child poverty unit - tús maith leath na hoibre. I think we can do better and can aim higher. We owe that to the people of this country after their endurance and forbearance over the last five years. Several times at the Business Committee, I have raised the topic of migration, something...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: Go raibh maith agat. The Irish people have endured an incredible amount in the last five years. Every virtue has been tested in some extremely positive ways and, sadly, some negative ways. Lives have been changed irrevocably. To advance, we must reflect, review and learn. We must rethink our duty to future generations. First, we had two intense years of SARS-CoV-2, Covid-19. It is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: We are absolutely united in the spirit of getting this project progressed. Again, I would push the case in this instance based on the financial implications and the history of the project. There is no doubt of the intention in the programme for Government, where the intention is to communicate, collaborate and encourage more interdepartmental and intradepartmental collaboration. That is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the timeline for the single-phase delivery of the new campus for Dunboyne College of Further Education and Training, Dunboyne, County Meath, to be funded from as many relevant streams as possible, including but not limited to SOLAS, sports capital and national training funding. [26525/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I wish to ask both the Minister and the Minister of State the timeline for the single-phase delivery of the new campus for Dunboyne College of Further Education and Training, Dunboyne, County Meath, to be funded from as many relevant streams as possible, including but not limited to SOLAS, sports capital funding, national training funding and national development plan funding. This college...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Minister of State for the updated information. I reiterate that this college is delivering. At various times in this Chamber, we have discussed the need for occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and the development of apprenticeship programmes, as well as construction studies. LMETB colleges can deliver that. This process began in 2015, when Dunboyne was...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: 390. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a policy for corporate sponsorship of further and higher education campuses; if so, the frequency with which it is reviewed; and the stakeholder consultation for same. [26526/25]

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Gillian Toole: As a teenager, I was angered, interested and repulsed by the atrocities of the Second World War, as experienced through history classes, documentaries, Anne Frank's diaries and, in later years, exacerbated by visits to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau and Treblinka. Surely this would not and could not happen again. An end to man's inhumanity to man, morality and Maslow would ensure that we had...