Results 6,921-6,940 of 6,949 for speaker:Cian O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 779. To ask the Minister for Health when work is due to commence on the new emergency department at Beaumont Hospital; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5192/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Pricing (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 780. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to commence legislation on minimum unit pricing provisions of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5195/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rare Diseases Strategy (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 781. To ask the Minister for Health the supports in place for those with epidermolysis bullosa; the efforts being made to support nursing care and care packages for persons living with the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5197/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 782. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to update the Dentists Act 1985; the steps he is taking to allow dental hygienists and clinical dental technicians to work directly with the public as recommended by The Competition Authority report of October 2007; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5201/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 783. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the consideration of the scientific advisory committee of the Health Protection Surveillance Centre of the report of the lyme borreliosis sub-committee October 2019; the steps taken to improve testing, treatment and management of lyme borreliosis based on its consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5203/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 784. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for dedicated Huntington's disease clinics, staffing and funding; if his attention has been drawn to the inappropriate placing of younger persons with neurological conditions in nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5204/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 785. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he is taking to make kuvan available through Temple Street Children’s University Hospital and the Mater Hospital for phenylketonuria patients; if his attention has been drawn to the distress caused to such patients and their families over a lack of testing in public hospitals providing children's and adult metabolic services to establish if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 786. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to restore funding to the baby friendly hospital initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5217/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 940. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to strengthen the laws on animal welfare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5194/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers Maintenance (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 941. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans for the dredging of Howth harbour; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5219/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action Plan (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 961. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he will take to implement the Climate Action Plan 2019; if his attention has been drawn to the considerable need to allow small generators to share or sell extra power generated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5214/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Pension Provisions (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1066. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding deferred pensions affected by the State Airports Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5198/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Abuse (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1127. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of child sexual abuse reports received in each of the years 2016 to 2019; the number referred to An Garda Síochána; the number deemed unfounded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5184/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1205. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to introduce legislation to protect workers' right to disconnect outside paid working hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5186/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1298. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he is taking to establish a redress scheme to assist homeowners with latent defects for those affected as recommended in the report of the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government, Safe as Houses?: A Report on Building Standards, Building Controls & Consumer Protection of December 2017;...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Museum Projects (13 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: 1305. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans for Mariner's Hall on the West Pier, Howth, Dublin 13; if her attention has been drawn to local interest in establishing a maritime museum and experience to record the history of Howth and the seafaring maritime culture and traditions of the area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5208/20]

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: In the current circumstances, when we look at all the pressures on housing, including the issue of homeless people being at a higher risk and the problems with mortgage arrears and the private rented sector, I do not think we could have more clarity that we need to develop strongly alternative models to housing provision beyond the private and for-profit sector. That is why it is critical...

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: In respect of the level playing field, the Tánaiste said it does not matter what it is called, that it is the substance that matters and that it may be an issue of different language around it. This misunderstands what Brexit is fundamentally about for the people who supported it. Effectively, it is a strategy to undercut European Union standards and conditions in terms of climate and...

Brexit: Statements (7 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: I am quite surprised that the Tánaiste has welcomed the fact that the UK has stated it will respect all its legal undertakings under the withdrawal agreement. It is a sign of how serious this has become that we are in the position of welcoming something that should be a given. It should be an absolute given when entering an agreement that people will respect the legal undertakings....

Covid-19 (Housing, Planning and Local Government): Statements (7 May 2020)

Cian O'Callaghan: With regard to overcrowded accommodation in the private rental sector, it is a particular area that will need more focus. With regard to homeless people, I am not just talking about rough sleepers but also about people who, despite supports and services being put in place currently, are spending a lot of their time, for whatever reason, on the streets and people who are being advised to...