Results 41-60 of 986 for speaker:Catherine Ardagh

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 294. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to confirm when the special education needs litigation unit was established within her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 295. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff that work within the special education needs litigation unit of her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 296. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount spent annually, since 2020, defending legal actions taken on behalf of special needs children and their families, including all costs associated with both internal and external legal fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 354. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the total number of live animal exports from Ireland to Morocco, Israel, and Singapore, broken down by species and age, including the total duration of travel from farm and date of export, since 1 January 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 360. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the actions taken by her or by the Decision Support Service to implement the commitment contained in the Programme for Government to create a solicitors’ portal to simplify enduring power of attorney applications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33223/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 361. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps a person must take in order to create an enduring power of attorney in an emergency situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33224/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (19 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 429. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the status of the proposed primary care centre at a location (details supplied), including a timeline for when the project will progress to completion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33486/25]

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: It is very difficult to listen to my friend's sanctimonious rant on this issue. We all know from junior cert economics-----

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: I am sure the Deputy is familiar with this. I think he is a lecturer in economics. We know from junior cert economics that when supply is increased in the market, prices stabilise, if not come down. This is something we have probably all studied and it is really the basics of economics; it is economics 101. I am very glad to speak on this Bill. It is about ensuring fairness, certainty...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Regarding the restrictive new conditions that are being imposed by the legislation, is there a precedent for this in other legislation? Is it saying that parties should have exercised their conjugal rights? Is that how far it is going? I am really flabbergasted by that.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Free Legal Advice Centres (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Is there anything in the Schedule to the legislation that gives guidance to the Department? It just seems bizarre.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: The statistics and the research the ESRI has done show how important the in-cash child benefit model is. This is a position paper, a research paper. How quickly do witnesses think this can be introduced? Is there draft legislation? I know they have to work with the Minister, but it seems like something we have to prioritise as a matter of urgency.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: People are watching. When we hear discussions in the media around child benefit, people think some of it is going to be taken away from some people. Obviously, there is anxiety around that given the history of the child benefit payment in Ireland. To be clear, the proposition is that the universal child benefit will remain. This is a second, top-up child benefit to those families who...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Effect of Child-related Benefits on Child Poverty and Deprivation: ESRI (18 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: I am following on from my colleague's question about the profile of recipients. Does the research take into account the urban and rural divide, the age of the children, whether they are lone parents, or if someone in the family or that child has a disability when assessing who is eligible for the second tier?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: 14. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Disability will next meet. [27572/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Disability Services (10 Jun 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: I rise again to discuss therapeutic supports for children. As the Taoiseach said, the in-school therapy programme has been a huge success. Even people in the Department were blown away by how many applied for the positions. Therapists like working in the school environment. It is the best place for therapies to be delivered to children and for their parents, the majority of whom work....

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank everyone for coming in and bearing with us as some of our questions will probably be a bit repetitive. I will start from the beginning again. The decision to procure a new IT system we heard was because the Arts Council had five systems it was trying to merge. Why did the Arts Council not consider an off-the-shelf system from the beginning and why was a custom-made system picked?...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: The Arts Council is putting a business case to the Department for an off-the-shelf system. Was it the board which made the original decision to procure the new IT system? Who brought that to the board?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: Ms Kennelly made the point that the original decision to procure the IT system was before her time and she came in when there were no IT experts in the organisation. Whose decision was it to go down the road of a custom-made system when there was very little IT expertise available to the Arts Council?

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Financial Statements 2023: Arts Council
Financial Statements 2023: National Gallery
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2023
Chapter 10 - Measuring the Performance of Arts and Sports Spending (29 May 2025)

Catherine Ardagh: In her presentation, Ms Kennelly said that it became clear early on that issues were apparent with the system. It has also become clear that Ms Kennelly made a cry for help to the Department to try to resolve matters. I am curious as to why the plug was not pulled earlier by the Arts Council. This question is probably also one for Mr. Ó Coigligh. Was anybody screaming stop the train...