Results 701-720 of 6,284 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (2 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how she was able to establish the basis for her recent claim that up to 80% of international protection applicants are arriving from the north of Ireland, having come from Britain; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19967/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (2 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 232. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the suspension of the vulnerability assessments conducted by the International Protection Accommodation Service resident welfare team will resume; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19981/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Referendum Campaigns (2 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 241. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1049 of 9 April 2024, to clarify when he will publish the material referred to; if it will be before the Dáil summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Deaths (2 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 293. To ask the Minister for Health if he will amend the Patient Safety Bill to include amendments to Section 9 of the Health Act, 2007 in order to widen the powers of the Minister for Health to direct a statutory enquiry in certain cases of maternal and infant deaths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20030/24]

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: - Ireland requires a migration system that is not only well-managed and fair, but also stringent, efficient, and effectively enforced to safeguard our borders and our communities; - the Government imposing large-scale immigration on a local population without consultation is inappropriate, considering the complexity and potential...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Transport (1 May 2024)

Carol Nolan: 177. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider addressing the inequality that still exists regarding the availability of transport in rural areas by making changes to the free travel scheme whereby pensioners could be given the option of obtaining a lump sum payment to cover the cost of taxis or hackney services in rural communities where there is...

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: I am happy to speak on this motion. I support the principle, but it is difficult to take lessons from a party that supports the carbon tax. That being said, the Government should consider scrapping its plans to increase the price of petrol and diesel on 1 August and 9 October and reverse the increase that took place on 1 April. Just six weeks ago, I made the same request to the then...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Business Supports (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 230. To ask the Minister for Finance if there are any options available to a company that believes warehoused debt accrued under the EWSS scheme was unfairly calculated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18955/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 405. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to intervene with the OPW and Tailte Éireann in order to obtain clarity on their plans for the preservation of old ordnance survey maps and artefacts of historical importance which are currently stored in the former Ordnance Survey office in the Phoenix Park which is now occupied by Tailte Éireann; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Heritage Projects (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 406. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if Tailte Éireann the person or body that occupies the former Ordnance Survey office in the Phoenix Park have considered moving the vast collection of old ordnance survey maps and artefacts of historical importance to the museum at Collins Barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Peace Commissioners (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 522. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to list all peace commissioners appointed by her from 1 June 2023 to date and the areas to which they were appointed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19329/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Freedom of Speech (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 523. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 241 of 18 April 2024, if she is aware that Scottish police received almost 4,000 complaints in the first 24 hours of the operation of the new Scottish legislation; if Gardaí currently have adequate resources to deal with a likely surge in complaints; and if she will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 529. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of international protection applicants who applied for legal aid advice through the Legal Aid Board for each year from 2019 to date in 2024; the number of successful applications; the number of refused applications during this time period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19402/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 533. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of applications made to her Department for a ‘change of name licence’ from persons granted leave to remain for the period 2019 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19448/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 552. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if his Department has made any efforts to seek contributions from international protection applicants from 2018 to date for their reception costs in line with article 5(2) of SI 230 of 2018; if so, the amount of contributions received during this period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 693. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1586 of 9 April 2024, to provide a breakdown of funding made under the sexual health and crisis pregnancy programme to organisations which focus on crisis pregnancy counselling, in each of the years 2019 to 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (30 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 700. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the difficulties he has identified with the independent scoring assessment conducted with respect to the new Offaly hospice; if he has engaged in consultation with any developers regarding the new Offaly hospice and if his Department has conducted any public consultation on the preferred site for the hospice; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Expenditure (25 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: 285. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the legal costs to date incurred by his Department's response to High Court proceedings brought by the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission against the Government over its failure to provide accommodation to all international protection applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18512/24]

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: I am sure the Minister is aware of the correspondence we all received yesterday from the Association of Farm and Forestry Contractors in Ireland, FCI. It outlined that the knock-on impact of the recent weather is that less than one third of the normal spring work has been completed. Against this background, the FCI is requesting that the Minister postpone the planned introduction of the...

Support for Carers: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Carol Nolan: I commend the Regional Group on bringing this motion forward this morning. I fully support it, particularly its call for the Government to establish a high-level officials group to scope out and develop a road-map for the delivery of a non-means-tested participation income for family carers. Many of us have repeatedly called for greater levels of support for carers, even while accepting...