Results 41-60 of 130 for speaker:Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Cathaoirleach for the opportunity. I wish the Minister of State well in his important brief. I am Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin from Wicklow-Wexford, which is a new constituency. I am on the education committee but have an interest in this committee too. I welcome the Minister of State's comments on Gaza. It is important that this State leads...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Likewise, I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on her elevation to this position. It is a great honour for her, I am sure, to hold it. My background is that I was a primary school teacher for almost 35 years. The education and training board, ETB, in the south east and the South East Technological University that will come on stream shortly are big areas of interest to me. Like previous...

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: As someone who was in my 35th year of primary teaching when I finished up in December, having taught in the area of special education for most of the past decade, it is an area that I am quite familiar with. A shockingly high figure is that of 2,314 children still waiting for an assessment of need in the Wicklow-Kildare HSE area, which is the highest number outside of Dublin. A smaller but...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Maritime Jurisdiction (20 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 742. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will revisit the case of a fishing boat (details supplied) which has had cross-party agreement to resolve the long-drawn-out case for the family. [25994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (20 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 853. To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve the outstanding service level agreement for a meals-on-wheels group (details supplied); if funding will be provided as agreed in 2024, noting that no funds have been received since September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25762/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applicants of the ACRES scheme will receive their long-overdue payments (noting approximately five thousand applicants are waiting for scheme pay since 2023); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in ACRES scheme payments; if a solution has been provided for this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to commit to delaying the implementation of GAEC-2 to support the farming industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (13 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1013. To ask the Minister for Health the number of cases of spiking that have been reported in the past five years, per county; including reports to hospitals and gardaí, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Meals-on-Wheels Services (13 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1183. To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve the outstanding service level agreement for a meals on wheels group (details supplied); if funding will be provided as agreed in 2024, noting that no funds have been received since September 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that has been provided to Uisce Éireann in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; where this funding has been allocated, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have accessed the rent supplement for victims of domestic violence in counties Wicklow and Wexford in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the set-back rule for residential tree planting; the required distance to protect private dwellings; the body responsible for residential matters in relation to tree planting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22966/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Childcare costs are completely out of control, with many people now paying the equivalent of a second mortgage. A local man who came in to do a job in my office this week stated that most of his wages went towards the €1,400 per month charge for childcare, while his wife's income went towards the €1,600 per month mortgage. In view of the high cost of living, how are families...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: With regard to children's healthcare in Ireland and our Bill to address the scandals of misdiagnosis, I would like to briefly mention my personal experience. From two months old until two years, my son was prescribed antibiotics for throat infections. When he turned two years old, he was misdiagnosed with asthma. He was supposed to begin a lifetime of medication, steroids and inhalers. It...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funds currently available for the safe routes to school programme; the number of applications received for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date including successful and unsuccessful applications, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20476/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of acres of land sold, by each local authority, for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the emergency supports currently available for victims of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20479/25]

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

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 2361. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug entresto is included on the drugs payment scheme; the consultation given to eligible patients eligible for this scheme when a new prescription is given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20478/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: The economic model and approach of successive governments, whereby they put all our eggs in one basket, has today left us exposed and vulnerable. In Wicklow and Wexford, we certainly are as we have no fewer than nine pharmaceutical companies and our local struggling agricultural sector cannot afford any more cost increases. Recent governments in this State failed to properly invest in...