Results 41-60 of 91 for speaker:Noel McCarthy

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (6 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the current situation with respect to the payment of non-EU third level fees for Irish citizens educated outside of the EU and returning to study at third level in Ireland; if his Department has any engagement with Irish third level institutions in such instances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10307/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (5 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 55. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide an update on works at an OPW site (details supplied); if it is envisaged that the site will be reopened to the public in time for the 2025 tourist season; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9889/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on plans for the further development of the N25 between Carrigtwohill and Youghal, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (4 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 173. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on plans for the further development of the N72 road in County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9478/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (4 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider making Department land available for the development of recreational facilities for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9680/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (4 Mar 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 452. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the next round of urban regeneration and development fund funding for public realm works in County Cork to be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9681/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 21. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on a request for additional accommodation for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 20. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline the strength of the Defence Forces in each respective year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6083/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (26 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 31. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures his Department is taking to encourage recruitment to the Army, Air Corps and Naval Service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (26 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the options available to a school (details supplied) for the provision of a new PE hall and ASD unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tidy Towns (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the community insurance initiative for tidy towns announced in January 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pensions (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 350. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he is considering changes to the public service pension abatement for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7921/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 352. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform further to Parliamentary Question No. 131 of 8 October 2024, to provide an update on flood risk management measures being considered for Water Rock, Midleton, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7992/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 376. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is considering any changes to the ineligible list of occupations for employment permits such as the removal of farm workers from the list to address labour shortages in the agricultural sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7972/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the process involved in the approval of new pesticide products for agricultural use; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7160/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Pesticide Use (25 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 698. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there is a reasonable and fair turnaround time recognised by his Department for the adjudication of applications for new pesticide products; if early decisions on licensing applications for new pesticide products should be the guiding policy of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7162/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: I wish the Minister well in her new role. I look forward to working closely with her. I raise the urgent need for the upgrade of the wastewater treatment plant in Mitchelstown in my constituency of Cork East. An upgrade of the existing plant has been acknowledged by Uisce Éireann and is badly needed to ensure extra capacity is created to further housing development in the town. The...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (18 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 155. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if an extension of the Eircode system is being considered to allow farm buildings to be assigned an individual Eircode; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6118/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (18 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 268. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions being taken by his Department to prevent the advertisement and sale of illicit tobacco products online; his Department’s engagement to date with social media companies to detect and prevent such activity; if measures such as the removal of social media profiles engaged in such activity are being considered; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tobacco Control Measures (18 Feb 2025)

Noel McCarthy: 269. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide an update on the work of the Joint Agency Task Force in tackling excise fraud; the key enforcement actions undertaken by the task force in the past 12 months; the number of investigations into organised crime groups involved in excise fraud initiated through the task force in each respective year from 2020 to 2024, inclusive; and if he will make...