Results 541-560 of 6,944 for speaker:Michael McNamara

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 215. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to outline details of the investment that has been made in the development and management of the OPW sites at Scattery Island and the Ennis Friary in County Clare since 2018; what investment, if any, is planned for the sites for the remainder of 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52004/23]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Telecommunications Infrastructure (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 244. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the amount of Exchequer funding allocated towards the Eirsat-1 project; to outline the total amount paid to the European Space Agency to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52001/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on advances in her announced plan to introduce a foreign language in primary schools across the State; when it will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52288/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the funding allocated to Met Éireann in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52003/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 329. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of permits that his Department has granted for decoy crows in each of the years since 2020; the number of applications that have been received for such permits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52204/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Regulations (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason decoy crows cannot be used without a permit by farmers to protect crops and animal feed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52205/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 406. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of members of An Garda Síochána who have been redeployed or retired from the Clare Garda division during the first nine months of 2023; the number of members of An Garda Síochána that have been assigned to the Clare Garda division for duty during both years; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 439. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine how many applications for funding have been received to date under the reconstitution ash dieback scheme 2023-2027; how many applications have been successful; the total funding allocated and the number of grant recipients per county to date, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52029/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 440. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if it is permitted to export stone from Borrow Pits, for which no licence or permit is required, out of the forest in which the pit is located, onto public roads to another, different forest in accordance with the licence/permit requirement exemption; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52049/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 574. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline the ongoing works at Raheen Community Hospital, County Clare; the reason these works preclude the provision of palliative care at the facility; when the works commenced; when the works are scheduled to conclude; how many palliative beds will be operational in the facility at the conclusion of said works; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 582. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients recorded on trolleys at each public hospital in the State in the period from January to September 2023 and for the same period in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52005/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (28 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 641. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department will give consideration to introducing primary medical certificates to all individuals with physical disabilities (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52451/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Tánaiste for his engagement, which is greatly appreciated. He is right that there are many projects under way in Limerick. There are also other projects under way across the State. In St. Vincent's University Hospital, for example, instead of having elderly people coming into the hospital, the hospital is sending out teams. I wonder whether something like that could be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: It does not work.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: It is a long way from Kilmeedy to Gurranabraher.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: I want to revert to an issue I have raised with the Tánaiste on a number of occasions, namely overcrowding in the accident and emergency department of University Hospital Limerick, UHL. This morning, there are 90 people on trolleys in UHL. That is a good day now. It would have been unthinkable a number of years ago but there are 90 people on trolleys this morning. Almost one quarter...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: The Minister of State is not answering the question I asked.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: Where is the proof that we are talking about patients with a greater complexity? That is my question to the Minister of State.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: This morning, Deputy Marian Harkin and I organised a meeting for representatives of the nursing home sector. They are under pressure. They are small family-run, community-owned and not-for-profit nursing homes. While the Government provided some additional supports, they were nothing like the increase in the cost of living and energy costs they have to meet or the additional labour costs...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 67. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how many Irish Defence Forces personnel deployed on 14 November 2023 are on the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon; of that number, how many of them were filled through “mandatory selection”; and how many were already in Lebanon as part of the UNIFIL deployment who were asked to stay on; and if he will make a statement on the matter....