Results 741-760 of 29,533 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport application for a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered the urgent need to secure additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) who have been informed that they must use their school library and GP hall to accommodate classes for the next academic year; if she is aware that this school will have 12 children in their ASD classes from September who need a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a clear calendar of timelines in relation to the provision of ICT grants to national schools, that set out in advance the dates in which payments will issue to schools to cover the cost of ICT equipment purchased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-examine the rates of HAP payment in the light of the experience of a person (details supplied) who is struggling to pay rent of €1,150 per month and has been offered a HAP payment of €13.76 a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1064 of 18 April 2023, if he will ensure that an original passport is returned to a person (details supplied) who submitted it as part of a visa application in respect of their father and which they now require urgently in order to travel for medical treatment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a home care package for a person (details supplied) who has a variety of obvious and serious needs but is under the age of 65 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI grant application case of a person (details supplied) on the basis of fairness and justice where the special rate maintenance grant payable heretofore to family members whose father was in receipt of the working family payment and who last year, through illness, was out of work and in receipt of illness benefit,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is British Tory Party thinking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I have a couple of questions. The first is a procedural one. There are only two countries – ourselves and Bulgaria – that have not ratified. I am afraid it is invariably the case that the Oireachtas is always late being asked by line Departments. I have had that out with the Department of Justice consistently. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We do not necessarily have to be the last always though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I also want to amplify the cultural links because it is a very important point that we have not really exploited. As I said in my initial remarks, we have not had much focus on Latin America. Our links with that part of the world are deep. I met a Ricardo Howlin, who spoke only Spanish, at a reception in Buenos Aires. My name is almost exclusively from Wexford. The few stray Howlins are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: All of them? Where are they now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: So we are moving farther away?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be given an assessment appointment at an early date, following commitments made in Dáil Éireann in relation to the provision of publicly funded autism assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26478/23]

Respite Care Services: Motion [Private Members] (30 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this really important motion on this really important issue that unites this House. There is no division across the House regarding the need. We need, however, to reflect on exactly what we are talking about. We have a very unusual health system in this country. It grew up through voluntary provision, often by religious orders. The State has been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Offices (30 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 480. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is satisfied with the operation of her Department's central call centre when clients are seeking to make contact with individual social welfare offices; if she has reviewed the operation of this centre to ensure that all clients are speedily responded to; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26366/23]

Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I strongly support the Minister's ambition in regard to offshore wind. I welcome the result of the offshore wind auctions of three weeks ago, which was very positive for us. Nevertheless, there are two issues. We need the maritime area regulatory authority, MARA, to be established. It was to be established in April and it is now going to be July. Will it definitely be established on 17...

Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: And the south east.

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I take it we have ten minutes.