Results 721-740 of 2,017 for speaker:Anthony Lawlor

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 785. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if additional funding will be made available for the building of additional classrooms in a school (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11495/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Funding (24 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 884. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the process behind the allocation of funding, per county, under the LEADER Programme; the criteria to determine the level of funding allocated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11486/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (24 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 938. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the proposed Maighne Wind Farm in north County Kildare, the model that was used to forecast the wind speeds for the midlands project; if the data used was based on actual data from weather stations in the midlands or on a computer model for the British Meteorological Office; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (24 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 939. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources with regard to the proposed wind farms in the midlands, the plan that a organisation (details supplied) has in place for the future dismantling of obsolete turbines; in the case where the developer has moved on or is no longer trading, his plans for the future decommissioning of turbines to prevent them from becoming a...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Wind Energy Generation (24 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 940. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide, in tabular form, a breakdown of the subsidies received by Irish wind farms and wind developers for the years 2011 to 2014 and 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11384/15]

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the reply and there is a little bit of positivity in it. I hope SENOs will be given much more authority in future planning for post-primary school placements for some of these kids. There are 626 special classes but only 152 are in the post-primary setting, so sometimes the numbers do not add up. I have highlighted a case where kids will potentially be travelling 65 km. Even if...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (12 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome the opportunity to speak. I have submitted this matter several times over about five weeks, but it seems that when the House is due to close down for a week one has a better chance of being selected. The Minister is not here, but I will welcome the reply of the Minister for Health, Deputy Varadkar. I am speaking on behalf of parents in north-west Kildare, but this is a...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (12 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Ní bheidh mé ábalta labhairt as Gaeilge anocht mar níl ach beagán Gaeilge agam. I welcome an Aire Stáit. I understand the issue of apprenticeships is really a matter for the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Damien English, but the Minister of State, Deputy Joe McHugh, also has a role to play. Given that many semi-State...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Accommodation Provision (11 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 108. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the current overcrowding issue in Naas General Hospital, County Kildare, the steps he is taking to address the problem; if temporary buildings could be put in place to alleviate the overcrowding until a longer-term solution can be found; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10715/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Teachers' Remuneration (10 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 237. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view of the ongoing discussions with regard to pay increases, if consideration has been given to revisiting the Haddington Road agreement, with a view to improving the rates of pay for new teachers who are currently receiving much lower salaries than their colleagues for the same work; if he will prioritise this particular group in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Autism Support Services (10 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to address the significant shortage of post-primary school places for children with autism in north west Kildare for September 2015; her views that transporting children upward of 50 km for suitable post-primary school places is unacceptable for children on the autism spectrum; the plans in place to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 477. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the new junior cycle student award, the way she will address concerns expressed by teachers of English that they have received incomplete and inadequate continuing professional development training and support material; that there are practical issues still to be addressed regarding the introduction of the oral component of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (10 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 492 of 30 September 2014 the progress made with regard to the introduction of a politics and society module to the leaving certificate curriculum; if she will provide a brief outline of the outstanding issues highlighted by the National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, as outlined in her response to...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Swimming Pool Programme Status (10 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 603. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport regarding the allocation of funding for local authority swimming pools, if all of the allocated funding has been drawn down to date; if there is a deadline, beyond which funding, not yet drawn down, will be re-allocated; and if so, if he will consider the north Kildare area, in view of its young and growing population, as a suitable...

Gender Recognition Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I welcome this legislation. For a Government such as ours, it is enlightening that we are introducing legislation that we would not have considered or discussed 20 years ago. Like my colleague, Deputy Keating, my first encounter with transgender people to discuss these issues was a couple of days ago. I was moved by that discussion. I spoke with a father who believed that we were not...

Select Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (5 Mar 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: More than likely I will be tabling an amendment to section 40 on Report Stage regarding the fact that, under the guardianship provisions, even married fathers do not have an equal right to custody of the child if the relationship breaks up. I have to have further discussions with some legal people on this. It has partly to do with how, even in marriage, guardianship does not entail equal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Many of us have been fighting for a safety net, particularly for the self-employed. Those who decide to set up their own businesses are the real risk-takers in society. We do not have a safety net for them, which makes it difficult. We must look at an overall package. As Mr. Fielding has said clearly, it is not just about wages. The well-being and happiness of a society is also about the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport Provision (24 Feb 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: 615. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures in place to ensure that private bus operators who have been found to use illegal fuel are disqualified from tendering for Coras Iompar Éireann bus routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7669/15]

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: From the Seanad (19 Feb 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: I have a general question.

Irish Collective Asset-management Vehicles Bill 2014: From the Seanad (19 Feb 2015)

Anthony Lawlor: Will there be a charge on the fund by the Central Bank of Ireland for providing this service?