Results 41-60 of 6,525 for speaker:John Lahart

Ceisteanna - Questions: Child Poverty (8 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 8. To ask the Taoiseach to report on the work of the child poverty programme in his Department. [13734/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 663. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to adding inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, to the list of conditions eligible for disability allowance, given that it is a lifelong illness with no known cure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16662/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 664. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will consider removing the means test for disability allowance, to prevent financial dependence and vulnerability among people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16663/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 1051. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns among students sitting the Leaving Certificate in 2025 regarding the impact of grade inflation from previous years on CAO competition; his views on measures such as ring-fencing places or adjusting grade calculations to ensure fairness for all applicants; and the steps being taken to support...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 80. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the category A threshold under capital acquisitions tax and expanding the range of individuals that can qualify under this category; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (3 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will be reviewing the qualifying conditions for tax relief on oxygen tanks for those who suffer from lung fibrosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 161. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Whitechurch Stream flood alleviation scheme, including expenditure and timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16316/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (3 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 169. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the River Poddle flood alleviation scheme, including expenditure and timeline for completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16315/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (3 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 232. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht his views on whether ten weeks’ notice for the town that’s hosting the National Day of Famine Remembrance is acceptable given the amount of preparation that must be put in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16372/25]

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: The Ceann Comhairle was elected by secret ballot by a majority of Members. She is the first woman to hold this office.

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: It is already easy to forget that one of her first duties was to chair the election of a Taoiseach. The people who took a wrecking ball to process in this House sit on the opposite benches. Getting down to the business of last week, it is difficult, as anybody here can testify to the fact, for the public to appreciate the visceral and toxic atmosphere pervading the Chamber last week and to...

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: It is almost 100 years since W.B. Yeats rebuked the audience in the Abbey, berating them saying, "You have disgraced yourselves once again."

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: Those words came to mind last week. While the tagline "You cannot be in Government and the opposition at the same time" is an easy and actually lazy chant-----

Confidence in the Ceann Comhairle: Motion (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: -----and this point was made in the Dáil reform committee, it does not reflect our evolving democracy. The truth of these episodes is Ireland elects a disproportional number of independents by international comparison. In other parliaments, there are cross-benchers; those who waive the designation of opposition or government and choose to be designated as other. There are Deputies who...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 329. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider tax relief on oxygen, electricity costs and travel expenses for those who suffer from pulmonary fibrosis, in the context of Budget 2026, similar to those received by kidney dialysis patients (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15082/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 343. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on the Poddle and Whitechurch stream flood alleviation schemes, including expenditure and timeline for completion. [15013/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the protocols for Garda when a member of the public can track their stolen items to a specific location as a consequence of GPS or mobile tracking of devices (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15014/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Charges (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 700. To ask the Minister for Health to review hospital car-parking charges for certain cohorts of patient (details supplied) [15036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Procedures (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 703. To ask the Minister for Health is she aware that once cancer treatment is completed, some patients are prescribed high tech medication for which the HSE can only allow a three-month script, meaning patients have to go into the hospital every three months just to get a prescription; and if she sees any practical way of overcoming this costly and time-consuming inconvenience. [15039/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (1 Apr 2025)

John Lahart: 714. To ask the Minister for Health the progress of allocating the historic funding for pulmonary fibrosis in Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15078/25]