Results 421-440 of 7,024 for speaker:Willie Penrose

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Recruitment (13 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 86. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made to date in terms of appointments from the panels of competitions held for clerical officer in the Civil Service in 2018; when persons who have participated in the stage 3 of the selection process and are well placed on the panels for appointment on the counties Longford and Westmeath panels are likely to be reached in...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (13 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 209. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when an application for aid pursuant to the urban and rural development fund from Westmeath County Council in respect of a project at Kinnegad, County Westmeath, will be finalised; when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7384/19]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Regeneration and Development Fund (13 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 210. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when an application for aid pursuant to the urban and rural development fund from Westmeath County Council in respect of a project at Castlepollard, County Westmeath, will be finalised; when a decision will be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7385/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Payments (7 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 254. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a carer's allowance payment for the 12-week period after the death of the carer will issue to a person (details supplied); if the matter will be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6181/19]

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute on behalf of the Labour Party to the debate. The Bill is urgently required to deal with a number of significant and relevant issues that arose over the last years. The Bill itself has been a long time in gestation. The Labour Party fully supports the speedy implementation of this important legislation. We may table amendments on Committee...

Greyhound Racing Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: I never walked in my life. I come from a constituency that has two good greyhound racing tracks in Mullingar and Longford. They have survived through recessions and downturns over the years with great resilience. We need to make it attractive for people to visit those tracks. An allocation of funds is supposed to come from the IGB to Mullingar, and it is needed. The tracks offer family...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: I am entitled to put this on the record.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: You did not apply those rules a few minutes ago. Does anybody deny a wide range of cuts to public spending were introduced before the Labour Party came to government? When the Labour Party came into government, the unemployment rate was 15% and it was 8.8% and falling fast when we left. There was €500 million per year available for a jobs fund and 40,000 training places were made...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: Perhaps Deputies were nettled because they did not formulate the idea in the motion. There is always a reason. The Labour Party's vision as outlined in the motion is for all children in Ireland to have an equal chance to fulfil their potential. That was the promise in 1919 but it has not been delivered. We must all hold up our hands, but now is the time to try to achieve that objective....

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: We did it with the marriage equality and such matters.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: If anybody was hurt by us, we apologise. We are big enough to do it.

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: We do not go around telling people to go on strike every other day or get rid of 5,600 workers from Intel, as I heard some of the Deputy's colleagues say. The most effective way to ensure long-term and sustainable economic development is to invest in early childhood education, as my colleague, Deputy Sherlock, has emphasised. That will require major planning and investment. The Labour...

Children's Rights: Motion [Private Members] (6 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: I support this important motion. I am somewhat taken aback by the rancour that it has generated. As the eldest of ten children who grew up in the 1960s when times were tough, I am acutely aware of how difficult circumstances are. I will focus on the substance of the motion. It appears that some are peeved by the fact that the motion is both comprehensive and important in the context of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (5 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason lower paid teachers, qualified post-2012 and working in a non-casual substitute position that do not get paid for holidays and so on, had incorrect tax deductions made to their salaries before Christmas 2018 and despite protestations, his Department has failed to rectify the position (details supplied); the steps he will take to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Work Permits Applications (5 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 29 January 2019, the steps she will take to have the application for general employment work permit assessed pursuant to the trusted partners programme and have same expedited due to the importance of the matter to the business (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: CLÁR Programme (5 Feb 2019)

Willie Penrose: 590. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the eligibility criteria for rural geographical areas for participation in the CLÁR programme; when the eligible areas will be reviewed and revised; the steps he will take to ensure that Ballynacargy village and its hinterland are included in the context of the socio-economic assessment of the area; and if he will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Jan 2019)

Willie Penrose: I raise the issue of lower paid teachers working in non-casual substitute teaching positions. We know they do not get paid for any holidays. They are badly treated but worse than that they do not get their proper pay at all, because since before Christmas, injury has been added to insult for them by the fact that this cohort of teachers has been subject to emergency tax deductions....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Willie Penrose: The Deputy need not worry. We know more nurses than she will ever know. She should cop herself on.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 Jan 2019)

Willie Penrose: The Deputy should cop herself on.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Defence Forces Remuneration (30 Jan 2019)

Willie Penrose: 79. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of the review taking place within the consultation procedure in respect of restoration of the allowances and so on to members of the Defence Forces which were substantially reduced; his plans for full restoration of same without further delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4692/19]