Results 661-680 of 2,627 for speaker:Noel Grealish

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Grant Payments (10 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 58. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if a grant can be paid out in respect of a person (details supplied) who was not able to carry out the works prior to the grant expiry due to Covid-19 restrictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54889/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (10 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 67. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Dublin Port will be used for cruise liner traffic in 2022 and 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54886/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (10 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 68. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline his strategy for utilising Ireland’s ports as a tourism development tool in the years ahead and in particular Dublin Port; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54887/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (10 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 69. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the options he has investigated for cruise liners in view of the unavailability of Dublin Port for tourism traffic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54888/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Treasury Management Agency (10 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 75. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 224 of 22 June 2021, the position regarding the amount of negative interest charged to any money held on deposit including current accounts by the banks including the Central Bank on behalf of the National Treasury Management Agency since negative interest rates were introduced (details supplied); the amount of negative...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (2 Nov 2021)

Noel Grealish: 274. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated timeline for drafting the insurance (miscellaneous provisions) Bill now that it has been approved by Government; if the title of the Bill will remain the same; the issues to be covered in the proposed legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52781/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (21 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 167. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person with a truck and bus licence from Ontario, Canada can exchange that licence for an equivalent Irish licence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51871/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (20 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 87. To ask the Minister for Finance if State supports are taken into account when assessing eligibility for the employment wage subsidy scheme (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51583/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 88. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a two-tier stamp duty rate for land with a reduced rate applying to active farmers who work the land directly in order to increase output and production; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51584/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (20 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 89. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will introduce a tax incentivisation scheme that facilitates owners and purchasers of town centre commercial buildings convert them into residential properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51585/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 105. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will temporarily suspend the limitations of usage on holiday homes in order to permit prospective tenants to reside in them in order to alleviate the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51586/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 307. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there is now no plan to construct a MetroLink southern route towards Terenure and Rathfarnham or towards Belfield and Stillorgan (details supplied); the reason these routes are not being proposed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51223/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he will introduce a Bill to make e-scooters legal on public roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50385/21]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Measures (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 367. To ask the Minister for Finance the status of the central bank (individual accountability framework) Bill; when it will be available for pre-legislative scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50727/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 397. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the reason an accommodation provider cannot avail of the tourism accommodation providers business continuity scheme grant due to the fact that it is not registered with Fáilte Ireland despite the fact that it has suffered the same losses as those registered with Fáilte Ireland; if there is another means by which this...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 456. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has made a decision on whether social housing allocated under Part V housing provisions can be purchased by tenants under the tenant incremental purchase scheme; when a decision on this policy is likely; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50650/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her plans for the former Technological University of Dublin Conservatory of Music campus in Rathmines, Dublin 6; if space at the buildings will be made available to the adjacent Rathmines College of Further Education following the current temporary allocation of the buildings to a school (details supplied); the steps she will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: In 2016 I raised the question of our bail laws in this House when I told the Taoiseach's predecessor how more than 250,000 offences had been committed in Ireland in the previous ten years by people who were out on bail at the time. The only element that has changed since is the numbers have gone up. In the decade from 2011 to 2020, offenders out on bail were found responsible by a court for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: I mentioned the inadequacy of the bail laws earlier and the impact they have on people in this country. There is another related matter to which I would like the Taoiseach to turn his attention. Not only are people getting bail and going out to reoffend but they are costing the taxpayer millions of euro at the same time. In the past five and a half years, criminal legal aid has cost the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Commercial Rates (13 Oct 2021)

Noel Grealish: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if veterinary practices, dentist surgeries, physiotherapy clinics, holistic healing centres and other such services are entitled to apply for a Covid-19 commercial rates waiver from their local authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49933/21]