Results 4,401-4,420 of 12,773 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps his Department has taken to prepare schools with onsite shops for the introduction of the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63395/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if funding for reverse vending machines as part of the deposit return scheme will be made available for schools to enable them to fully participate in the deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63396/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 195. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the exact nature of the state aid changes made and approved recently by the European Commission to the Irish scheme to compensate airport operators in the context of the coronavirus outbreak; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63108/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 729. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to school place shortages in a school (details supplied); and if she has plans to address the situation. [63291/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Registration of Births (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 881. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason women who were previously married but subsequently obtained a divorce are being asked to secure the signature of their divorced partner when they attempt to register the birth of a child with their new partner; if she will raise this with the General Register Office; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Louise O'Reilly: 1627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses that underwent training to skill-up in order to work in an ICU setting since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in tabular form. [1135/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (16 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional resources will be provided for a school (details supplied) to allow for an increase in the student population, specifically in order that additional first-year students can be taken in for the academic year 2022. [62857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (16 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason self-employed workers cannot claim illness benefit; if there are plans to change this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62729/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (16 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is considering offering accredited apprenticeships for tiling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62620/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 170. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1136 of 9 September 2021, if he will provide an update on strategic action 1.4 of the Healthy Ireland Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025, to establish a second Healthy Ireland Council; the actions that have been taken to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62014/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 171. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details, including the names, grades and Department of members, as well as external representatives of, the recently established Food Reformulation Task Force; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62015/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 172. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on Get Ireland Active - the National Physical Activity Plan; the status of the review of the policy; when a successor will be put in place; the process for putting a new policy together; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62016/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: 173. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on actions arising from Action 2.1 of A Healthy Weight for Ireland the Obesity Policy and Action Plan since the stakeholder forum was held on 21 November 2018; the steps that are being taken by the physical activity group and the Obesity Policy Implementation Oversight Group to progress this; and if he will make a statement on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for coming in today and for the evidence they have given us. I have three questions. The first relates to the reform in the shape of the legislation on worker co-operatives. I have a question about why it has taken so long. The reason I am asking this is because we know that right across Europe, the co-operative model has been found not only to be productive, but to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: Is the Department a bit tougher than the Fine Gael press office then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses. That is very encouraging. I honestly believe that this cannot come quick enough. I appreciate the need to get it right and I understand 100% that it is complex. I sincerely hope that when we see it, it does not fall into the trap of trying to make co-operatives companies, because they are not. While issues relating to responsibility and governance are important,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: That is good to know. I want to briefly touch on the area of bogus and fake companies. Mr. Newham will be aware that my colleague, the Chair of the committee, an Teachta Quinlivan, has written to the Department about the CRO’s response to this. It is an area that I know the Chair has done quite an amount of work on. I ask Mr. Newham to outline what the Department has done since...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to come back in. I will refer to a newspaper article that referenced companies that have been in receipt of pandemic subsidies and have subsequently paid out dividends. One company in particular - it is named in the article so I will name it here - O'Flaherty Holdings, which made operating profits of €10 million in 2020 through MML...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Companies Registration Office: Discussion (15 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I mentioned the specific name because it is mentioned in the article, but I would be very grateful for a reply. I also have a view about this practice. I am sure my view is shared by the vast majority of people, perhaps not those in the Isle of Man, but certainly those who are paying their taxes here. I will leave it at that.

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Extension of Notice Periods) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Dec 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: I extend my thanks to my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, not just for this Private Members' business, which I know he has worked on with other Members of the Opposition, but also for his continued work in this area, which I think we can all agree is very valuable. The Minister and I know that this is sensible legislation. It is, I imagine, legislation that will be relatively easy for him...