Results 41-60 of 714 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 168. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment in light of current funding arrangements ending this year, if he will commit to a strategic investment of €15 million per annum in the post office network over the coming five years, to sustain and strengthen this essential public service in communities across the State. [34827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 184. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he intends to expand, extend and retain the basic income for the arts scheme as a permanent support for artists and their work. [34826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department could assist in resolving an issue regarding a complex passport application where a four-year-old girl has been waiting for her first passport for two years and has been unable to see her extended family living abroad since her birth (details supplied). [35019/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 298. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will commit to funding a community neuro-rehabilitation team for the southeast in Budget 2026, in line with the commitment in the current Programme for Government to complete the nationwide rollout of community neuro-rehabilitation teams (details supplied). [35047/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 303. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) with severe and complex needs will receive the occupational therapy and speech and language therapy interventions they urgently require; the reason for the ongoing delay in service provision despite repeated contact from the child’s school to the relevant CDNT since November 2024; whether she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (26 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 320. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure social work qualifications from universities in EU member states are recognised by CORU; and if she is concerned that uncertainty is impacting on recruitment of qualified entrants to the profession. [32423/25]

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Earlier in the debate, the Minister of State acknowledged that the Government is not doing enough on housing, but the truth is that it has not been doing enough for decades, and from what we see it does not intend to start now. Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael benchmark themselves against their previous failures. They routinely confuse announcements with delivery and think nothing of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am the Sinn Féin spokesperson on community development, rural affairs and the Gaeltacht. I see every day in my own life and in my political practice the value of the network and the value to local communities, both rural and urban, of an accessible service that offers a level of quality and has an impeccable record of trust and recognition. In many communities, not just rural ones,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Future of the An Post Network: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: With respect, my question is particularly about new entrants and the new contracts. In an existing postal operation, when the postmaster retires, the feedback to public representatives, which I am sure Mr. McRedmond has heard, is that it is not an attractive prospect.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fishing Industry (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 12. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether Inland Fisheries Ireland has set a cap on the number of recreational salmon angling licences on the River Blackwater; and if not, whether consideration will be given to introducing one. [34838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current status of the project to deliver two modular units for St. John’s Special School in Dungarvan; to confirm precisely when her Department’s modular accommodation unit was tasked with progressing the project; if she will commit to ensuring the units are in place by September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding allocated to schools in each county, by funding scheme, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [34845/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps she is taking to ensure fairness and parity for school secretaries and caretakers; if she will engage with their trade union (details supplied) to seek a resolution to the long-standing issues affecting these workers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34846/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 93. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has undertaken a cost analysis of providing school secretaries and caretakers with public sector pay and conditions; if so, to detail the estimated cost; whether she considers that the social cost of not granting pay parity is greater in the long term; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34847/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Heritage Council (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 97. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the list of museums, universities and archives in Britain contacted by the advisory committee on the restitution and repatriation of cultural heritage in An Chomhairle Oidhreachta, requesting the return of archived material taken from Ireland, since its establishment in 2023. [34590/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 121. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his position on the removal or bypassing of man-made barriers on the River Blackwater, in line with the EU’s objectives for free-flowing rivers under the Water Framework Directive.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34842/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 152. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horse passports issued annually, by passport issuing organisation; and by year since 2008, in tabular form. [34655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 153. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the average waiting time for passport issuance by Horse Sport Ireland, by county, by year for the past 10 years, in tabular form. [34656/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Passports (25 Jun 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 154. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications for horse passports currently outstanding, by passport issuing organisations, to provide a breakdown, by county, in tabular form. [34657/25]