Results 461-480 of 1,561 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (23 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 550. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the measures being put in place to ensure equitable access to autism and disability assessments under the private panel across all HSE regions, including rural and disadvantaged areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Data (23 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 551. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the reporting requirements that will apply to providers under the new private panel for assessments; if she will publish quarterly data on the number of assessments completed, average waiting times, and regional breakdowns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49842/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Housing Provision (23 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 597. To ask the Minister for Health the expected timeline between eviction notices being served in Cobh, the sale and transfer of the properties, refurbishment and re-letting; and if he will acknowledge that this will leave homes idle for long periods during a housing crisis. [49764/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (23 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 692. To ask the Minister for Health regarding patients, particularly young persons aged 16 to 25 years of age with multiple disabilities, who have been advised surgery or treatment is not available domestically, the criteria used by the HSE to approve treatment abroad; the number of cases which have been approved or denied in the past three years in the Cork region; the supports in place for...

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Excuse me, Minister, I am speaking. You have been longer in the House, so you know the rules the House. I am speaking now.

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The Minister of State mentioned the Garda drive and the Garda-----

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: A Cheann Comhairle, would you speak to him, please?

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Would you ask the Minister of State to have a small bit of respect for me and for the people I represent in my city? The Minister of State spoke about drives for Garda recruitment, which is all very welcome, but those gardaí have to be supported by the Government. We continually see gardaí leaving the force and going to work in Eli Lilly, Abtran or one of these businesses...

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I am speaking, please. You had your time.

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The ASBOs brought out in the nineties, championed by Fianna Fáil at the time, have not worked. Gardaí do not have the time to go and check on young men and young women with ASBOs to see if they are in their houses. We have to look at the best practice and standards of Iceland, which introduced a curfew.

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I will address the Minister of State's last point first. He and his Department are very good at misrepresenting a number of facts as well. Earlier his senior Minister stood in the Chamber and told Deputy Collins it was Ken O'Flynn's fault for securing 20 gardaí to Cork city. Getting 20 gardaí for Cork city is more than welcome, but the Minister failed to recall how many people...

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: What about the ones who retired?

Antisocial Behaviour: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: You will take the credit for it though.

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I welcome all my colleagues back after the recess. I wish them success from now until the end of the term. I was listening to the debate in my office while doing my constituency work. I have listened to the Minister’s speech. I noticed when I was entering the Chamber that my name was taken and used by another colleague, Deputy Coppinger, along with some lines. I do live rent free...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I am not mentioning the person but it was a candidate from her party who participated in that.

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: No Independent Ireland candidate ever spat in anyone’s face or made racist remarks to anyone. We only hear such stories from the far left. In a manner reminiscent of those who were warned of consequences of unbridling immigration in decades past, let us be frank: a nation that does not control its borders loses control of its future. We have witnessed in this situation the...

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: ----- but it is not true.

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: If the Minister goes down to Mallow to see what is after happening in my constituency-----

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I apologise.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: International Relations (18 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 157. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade following the joint UK-US naval transit of the Taiwan Strait and China's subsequent condemnation, if he will outline Ireland's official position on freedom of navigation operations in contested waters; the discussions which have taken place at EU level; and the way in which Ireland intends to balance its trade and diplomatic priorities in...