Results 401-420 of 676 for speaker:Eoghan Kenny

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I commend Cara Darmody and her father, Mark. I was delighted to meet them this morning with my party leader, Deputy Ivana Bacik, at the gates of Leinster House. I commend Cara on the wonderful work she is doing. I want to read an email I received from a parent: I am just touching base to see if anything can be done to try and progress an Autism Assessment. I have 3 year old twins who...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The Government is literally using support measures for senior cycle reform as a negotiating tool. These are essential for any reform. There will be a significant impact on students' experiences of senior cycle reform. As someone who has experience in the field, I am of the view that this senior cycle reform is absolutely destined to fail. The package includes fast-tracking permanent...

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: As the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, will be well aware, a car is an absolute necessity in any rural part of Ireland now. In a number of parts of my constituency of Cork North-Central, a car is an absolute necessity because public transport is not available. The Minister of State will be just as inundated as I am by the number of people contacting us looking for representations to get...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: As regards the Minister of State who has just left the House, Kieran O'Donnell, it would be remiss of me when speaking on an issue like this not to commend his father, Martin, one of the founding members of St. Joseph's Foundation, and his commitment to disability services in north Cork. This morning I raise a serious issue regarding residential placements for adults with disabilities. I...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I appreciate that. As regards the 2021 disability capacity review to which the Minister of State referred and the projected need for a minimum of 1,900 residential placements by 2032, which we want to get to, and if we continue in the same vein of the previous four years, which is not mentioned in the response, with 140 placements opening each year, give or take, there will be 400 fewer than...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 384 of 25 February 2025, if the application by a person (details supplied) will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24523/25]

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I thank Sinn Féin for this extremely important motion. In the majority of towns and cities across the country, there are very serious difficulties with public infrastructure and this is having a knock-on effect on the development of housing. The provision of housing is by far the greatest issue of our time and of our generation as politicians. I am a 25-year-old still living at home,...

Power of Higher Education, Research and Skills as Economic Enablers in a Changing World: Statements (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I welcome the opportunity to discuss the power of higher education, research and skills as economic enablers. My predecessor, former Deputy Seán Sherlock, was a champion of research and skills when he served as a Minister of State. It is often said that education is a great leveller, meaning that further education qualifications can enable those with the least in our society to make...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 391. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Transport Infrastructure Ireland will provide a timeline for the completion of works at a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23677/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 600. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of providing an additional assistant principal 1 post to 1,761 mainstream primary schools, for the academic school year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24107/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of providing an assistant principal 2 post to each 1,116 mainstream primary schools, for the academic school year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24108/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 602. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of recognised primary schools in the State with four or fewer mainstream class-teaching posts, for the academic school year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24109/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 603. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated annual cost of deploying a part-time for 20 hours per week cluster administration officer, based on the current executive officer salary scale, first point, to serve clusters of five such small schools, for the academic school year 2025-2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1004. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists and psychology service staff currently working at a centre (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of removing the mature dependent section of SUSI treating all over the age of 23 as independent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23574/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how many students would become eligible for SUSI if the student earnings was removed, and how much this would cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23575/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1237. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of paying all apprentices a living wage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1238. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reducing all international fees by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23578/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1239. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of allowing SUSI to cover micro credentials; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23579/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (13 May 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 1240. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing the criteria of the special rate of SUSI for all those earning under €50,000; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23580/25]