Results 41-60 of 258 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the transitional supports being put in place for the 380 people whose one-parent family payment and half-rate carer’s allowance are both due to end this year; and whether he accepts that the sudden loss of these payments risks plunging vulnerable families into financial hardship and uncertainty. [21009/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Schemes (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the Minister's comments on the nutritional review of the school meals programme. I acknowledge and commend the great work of the companies right across the country, including in Mayo, in delivering school meals. Companies like Steak Out catering, for example, are delivering high-quality nutritional meals to hundreds of children across east and south Mayo, in particular. My...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: The legacy Act gives an amnesty to murderers and blocks the families of murdered civilians from achieving justice. It is the son and heir of the cover-up by the British Army and RUC for some of the most heinous crimes in the North. It is unilateral action that actually undermines human law and human justice. It turns Britain into an outlier and indeed a rogue state. It is heaping more...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: 140. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the average waiting times for disability allowance appeals and the steps being taken to expedite this process for applicants. [21008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Financial Services (1 May 2025)

Paul Lawless: 277. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial measures the Government is taking to support parents who wish to stay home with their children in light of a poll (details supplied) that showed 69% of mothers with children under 18 would prefer to stay home with their children if their financial situation allowed it. [17167/25]

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the national planning framework. I welcome any attempts to future-proof infrastructure in this country. I am very disappointed, however, in reading the report. It is high on vision but it is almost like the report is detached from reality. I do not have long but I will give just one example. The report references the value and importance of the...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: The framework rather. There is not even a mention, or hardly a mention, of it. That is hardly progress. We need real delivery. I do not have any longer but could go on to speak about a litany of things in relation to this. I ask the Minister of State to focus on the delivery.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion and I welcome the parents here in the Public Gallery. They are the warriors who have been fighting so hard. They have been fighting, taking legal action and pitching tents outside Leinster House. What are they fighting for? They are fighting for their basic rights and their constitutionally enshrined rights for access to education. I...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will increase funding to the CIS scheme substantially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the budget allocated to the programme for roads and repairs and maintenance specifically including rural roads; in each local electoral area in County Clare in each of the last five years; the amount of the budget that has been spent in each of those years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21449/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 276. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated to the LIS scheme each year over the past ten years. [21098/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 278. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will increase funding to the LIS scheme substantially; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Rural Schemes (30 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 277. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount of funding allocated to each Local Authority each year over the past ten years, in tabular form. [21099/25]

Unnecessary Hip Surgeries at Children's Health Ireland: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion. I first want to acknowledge the pain and heartbreak that this has brought to so many families and children, particularly children who went through unnecessary and needless surgery. I cannot imagine the pain and suffering that those families have gone through. We think of medical professionals as people we can trust and we entrust our...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: The new policing model is not working. One of the main aims of the model was to increase community policing. In fact, the opposite has happened. One of the main reasons for that is manpower. The regular units have been depleted. In many stations across Mayo, the regular units are half what they were a number of years ago. Internal competitions are pulling from regular units and, because...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: Go raibh maith agat.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: You promised to enact the occupied territories Bill before the election.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 115. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps she is taking to address the increasing number of children in emergency accommodation; and whether she accepts that this constitutes a breach of children’s rights. [21011/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Budgets (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 140. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the proportion of the Department’s budget that is allocated to private service providers in the disability sector; and if she believes the outsourcing of vital care to for-profit entities is in the best interest of children and families. [21012/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Collection (29 Apr 2025)

Paul Lawless: 561. To ask the Minister for Finance the current threshold rates for PAYE tax; if there are plans to raise the lower threshold; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18781/25]