Results 41-60 of 7,082 for speaker:John Paul Phelan

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Small and Medium Enterprises (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 82. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if Budget 2025 included any additional supports for small businesses seeking to develop their digital skills or their use of AI. [40411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the response to Parliamentary Question Nos. 128, 129, 130 and 131 of 2 October 2024, to provide a breakdown of the funding paid to the third parties listed in the response in lieu of each of the individual bird surveys conducted since 2022. . [40413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 107. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the funding, governance and accountability provisions in place for the Irish Wetland Bird Survey, including the amounts of money paid to non-State agency partners in the survey in each of the past ten years; the details of how non-State agency partners are selected; and the details of any independent assessments...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the Budget 2025 announcement regarding ‘€20 million for a skills package in employment-focused skills and training’ is to be deployed; and if the funding will include supports for small businesses seeking to develop their digital skills or their use of AI. [40412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Animal Welfare (9 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 227. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the position Ireland is taking in relation to the European Commission proposals for a regulation on dog welfare; and if Ireland will seek amendments to the currently proposed threshold for definition of a breeding establishment which may inadvertently draw Irish farmers and persons involved in hunting, who own multiple dogs, into a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 611. To ask the Minister for Health if, in the context of Ireland’s target to achieve cervical cancer elimination by the year 2040, he will consider removing the requirement of a GP prescription for the provision of the HPV vaccine in pharmacies by adding it to the Eighth Schedule of the Medicinal Products (Prescription and Control of Supply) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015, as is...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (3 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 78. To ask the Minister for Finance whether the amount of VAT raised from sports streaming services in any of the years 2021, 2022 or 2023 has been calculated; the totals calculated in each of these years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39580/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 128. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of third-party bodies who conduct counts of bird species in Ireland on behalf of his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service; the details of how these bodies are selected; when further selections are planned; and the criteria for selection. [39200/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 129. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how the National Parks and Wildlife Service conducts counts of bird species in Ireland, including the standards and scientific basis underpinning the count process; and whether counts are subject to independent peer review. [39201/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 130. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures put in place to ensure consistency and alignment in the methodologies used for counts of bird species in Ireland with those used in Northern Ireland. [39202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Protection (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the methodologies and agencies and external bodies involved in conducting assessments on the status and trends of bird species as required under Article 12 of the Birds Directive. [39203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 214. To ask the Minister for Health the logic of allowing a 17-year-old bring tobacco and alcohol into the country through duty free, but banning the purchase of tobacco until the age of 21 in their local shop; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39204/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Tobacco Control Measures (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 215. To ask the Minister for Health if he acknowledges that there are significant loopholes when it comes to the duty-free purchasing of tobacco and alcohol by those under the age of 18, while his Department intends to prohibit the sale of alcohol to 18- to 20-year-olds in the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 231. To ask the Minister for Health that actions that are being immediately taken to ensure that a person (details supplied) can have access to their prescribed medication within the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39276/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (1 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 265. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of the long-proposed updating of the planning guidelines for wind turbine development; if he plans to make the new rules statutory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38760/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (1 Oct 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 332. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the recent developments arising from the establishment, a number of years ago, of an office on Capel Street in Dublin which was staffed by police officers of the People's Republic of China with the apparent aim of monitoring Chinese citizens in Ireland; and if the Government is monitoring any attempts to establish other such...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 103. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that the Republic of Iran has stepped up the number of executions of those convicted of offences arising from protests against its regime; and to outline what communications the Government has had with the Iranian government in relation to this practice. [38384/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 104. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the reason he made no public statement in relation to Hezbollah attacks on northern Israel, which have been ongoing since October 2023, but commented immediately on the apparent Israeli retaliation against those attacks on 18 September last. [38385/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Contracts (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 111. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the total number of applications for tenders for military contracts received in each year from 2010 to date; and the number of such applications which were received from companies or individuals in Israel, per year, in tabular form. [38386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (26 Sep 2024)

John Paul Phelan: 121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if sufficient clarity exists in legislation in relation to whether motorists or cyclists have priority or right of way at traffic junctions; and to specify what regulations he or his predecessors have put in place in relation to this matter. [38387/24]