Results 661-680 of 3,315 for speaker:Malcolm Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Civil Service (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 339. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total number of civil servants employed across all Government Departments, by grade, for each of the years 2015 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason that capitation payments per secondary-school student are significantly higher than those per primary-school student; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32748/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students that left school during each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 without completing the Leaving Certificate or Leaving Certificate Applied; if there are any figures as to where those students went next; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on programmes to improve media literacy in primary and secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32750/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 488. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the process used within his Department when directors/chief executives of agencies in the aegis of his Department seek re-appointment or an extension to their term of employment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32754/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Same-sex Marriage (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 723. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on the ten years since the Marriage Equality Referendum; and if the Government intends to mark the anniversary. [21854/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (17 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 796. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the planned new ambulance base for Gorey, County Wexford. [32026/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of roof repairs at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30789/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her Department's review of outdoor play areas in schools; the supports available to schools to enhance sports facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the threat by the Russian Ambassador to Ireland that "a day of reckoning" will face Ireland as a result of our support for Ukraine; if he has called in or made contact with the Ambassador to explain his remarks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31529/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any regulations guiding the painting of rainbow crossings in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools and the number of classrooms in the primary school system for the 2024-2025 school year that have 30 children or more, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has yet acquired water cannon to address public disturbances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the long-stay join family (D) visa applications of a person (details supplied); if the visa process can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new service providers that are private companies that were contracted by the State in the disability sector during 2024; the monetary value of such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31623/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update as to the current status of the application by a university (details supplied) to develop its Wexford campus. [31520/25]

Proposed Approval of the Agreement Between the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Ireland: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I warmly welcome Ireland's decision to apply for associate membership of CERN and want to see a strategy of us moving towards full membership. I commend the Minister personally. He has been a big supporter of this. Indeed, he and I laboured in the last Oireachtas to ensure that this got over the line. I also commend his departmental officials on the work done to join the world's largest...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: On 10 September 2024, the Cabinet in the previous Government agreed to a Bill that would provide for further regulation of nicotine inhaling products, particularly with regard to a ban on disposable vapes and restrictions on advertising, colours, flavours and imagery used on nicotine inhaling products. It is also in the programme for Government. This is a public health emergency. It has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Is there a timeline for the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I welcome our witnesses. Before we delve into some of the issues, I am enormously appreciative in general of the work the Arts Council has been doing. There has been a step change in terms of funding and support for the arts here. We do have some serious issues that we need to address, and I will come to those challenges, but it is important to put it on the record - notwithstanding those...