Results 61-80 of 2,687 for speaker:Paul Gogarty

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 451. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the actions the OPW has taken to secure the car park and access to Castletown House from a location (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10907/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 452. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the OPW has applied to Kildare County Council for planning permission for the car park at Castletown House; the OPW’s timescale for the opening of the car park; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10908/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to proactively ensure that a preschool (details supplied) can continue to operate from a location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10866/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 622. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current timescale for opening the third primary school site with planning permission for a 32-classroom building at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11280/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 623. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for applying for planning permission for a new primary school on a site (details supplied); if this confirms that her Department will not be seeking this site for a second-level school as per the flexibility provided by An Bord Pleanála; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 624. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the expected timescale for opening the fourth primary school at a location (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11282/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the interim plans in place to expand a school’s (details supplied) Junior Cycle capacity in advance of the completion of the 32-classroom building on a third named site, earmarked for an eventual doubling of classroom space; if this will involve temporary modular buildings or any type of buildings at the fourth named site; if so, the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 626. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the third and fourth primary schools at a location (details supplied) will be designed to facilitate multiple autism classrooms as well as pre-school and after-school capacity for the local community; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11284/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Appointments (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1100. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will announce a new strategic policy committee member; if there is any guarantee that the application of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10910/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Ministerial Appointments (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1101. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how the citizenship application of a person (details supplied) can be rejected on grounds of a national security threat, when the individual concerned owns an Irish passport and had no issues arise under a personal data request from An Garda Síochána; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10911/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1322. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she is aware that a preschool (details supplied) is being forced to vacate from its current location; if her Department can liaise to ensure that this important facility remains open at this location through whatever creative means necessary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1323. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the proactive steps being taken to provide additional ECCE places in the Lucan and Adamstown area given that four businesses have closed down in recent years and given that a preschool (details supplied) is under threat; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10868/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1324. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to expedite community-based childcare in the Lucan and Adamstown and Clonburris areas, to supplement existing businesses, given the significant shortage of places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10869/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1325. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the financial supports in place to aid the parents who have children in childcare, when their crèche has withdrawn from the core funding agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10909/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the plans in place to stop the significant number of withdrawals from the core funding scheme, including several in Dublin Mid-West, which is adding unaffordable cost increases to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (19 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1363. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the core funding scheme is being reviewed in light of the significant number of operators withdrawing due to inability to operate solvently, which is adding additional costs to parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11286/25]

International Women's Day: Statements (Resumed) (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: On this occasion of marking International Women's Day, I wish all the very best to mná na hÉireann, and to women across the world. Despite this being the second quarter of the 21st century, we have so many issues that still need to be resolved. It is absolutely shocking. It needs to be called out at any level. Obviously, women are well able to do it for themselves, but there is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I said “significant”.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: We import in excess of €6 billion in energy every year. From a strategic point of view, given the dangers that we are facing in the world, energy self-sufficiency is more important than ever, yet there is nothing tangible in the programme for Government and we have done very little on wave energy investment. We are lagging behind Scotland, Australia and Portugal. There are huge...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Gogarty: In my limited time to talk about policing community safety, I will focus on a couple of key points. The first is pay for gardaí. We need to create total pay restoration to the levels before the economic downturn. As I have mentioned in respect of nurses, if we are to have gardaí posted in urban areas, they need a Dublin allowance as an incentive. Otherwise we will be unable to...