Results 521-540 of 6,508 for speaker:Ruairí Ó Murchú

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 750.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to extend the building at a secondary school in County Louth (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32373/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 751.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress being made to provide additional autism units at primary and secondary schools in County Louth for the September 2024 intake of students; if she will outline plans for additional autism units to come on stream for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32374/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 752.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department intends to develop a strategic plan for the provision of SEN at primary schools over the next three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32375/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourism Promotion (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 968.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the work her Department has done to increase cross-Border tourism in 2023; if there is any work underway to market the Newry, Mourne, Gullion, Cooley and Dundalk areas as a tourism destination within Ireland’s ancient east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33368/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Film Industry (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 969.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for an update on the work of the stakeholders’ forum, one of the recommendations of the recent report on section 481 produced by the Oireachtas Budget Scrutiny Committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33369/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1163.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to conduct a local authorities-based review of estate management issues and solutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33188/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1161.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount spent in each local authority area on the housing assistance payment (HAP) from January 2024 to June 2024, by county; the number of tenancies in each local authority area that these HAP figures are sustaining, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33186/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1157.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the recommendations from the review into the adaptation grants scheme will be actioned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33181/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1158.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people waiting for all types of housing adaptation grants in County Louth, to include the length of time they have been waiting, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33182/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1159.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has reviewed why the Cois Farraige affordable housing scheme offered by Louth County Council was not successful; if any aspect of the scheme will be changed following review; if any further affordable housing is due to come on stream in Louth in the next 12 months, in tabular form; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1160.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an assessment has been or is being carried out on the modern methods of construction used at a housing project at Grange Drive, Dundalk, County Louth; if there are plans for further use of this technology in similar schemes in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33184/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1162.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on the fact that new three-bed houses in Dundalk, currently as of 18 July 2024 available for sale, are all over the €375,000 first home scheme limit for Louth; if there are plans to move Louth into a higher property price ceiling in this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33187/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1164.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason retrofitting targets in Louth local authority are lower this year than last year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33189/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1165.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total number of properties purchased through Louth County Council under the tenant-in-situ purchase scheme; the total amount spent on this scheme in Louth to date; if additional targets will be set for this local authority under this scheme until the end of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33190/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1331.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work being done to resolve the problem of bogus self-employment in the building sector; if she will provide an assessment of how the building sector is being impacted; how it is intended to resolve this issue; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32377/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1386.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the process by which her Department contacts the British work and pensions department seeking contribution information about persons who have made social protection applications based on their British contributions; the current average waiting times for this information to be received; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Consultations (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1387.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the nature and extent of engagement her Department has had with other Government agencies and departments in relation to the problems faced by workers, who live in the North and who work for Southern-based companies, who wish to work from home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33325/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1388.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the work to operationalise the recommendations in the review of the reasonable accommodation fund and the disability awareness support scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33326/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1389.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current stage of legislation that will allow for the enactment of the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a cohabitant to claim a widow's pension in certain circumstances; when she expects it to be in operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33327/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Jul 2024)

Ruairí Ó Murchú: 1390.To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the current waiting times at the Appeals Office; if additional resources will be allocated to it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33328/24]