Results 61-80 of 2,054 for speaker:Niamh Smyth in 'Dáil debates'

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (20 Sep 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State for being with us tonight to address the very important issue of school transport. I want to talk specifically about the area of Kilnaleck in the heart of County Cavan. This is a beautiful, idyllic village in the heart of the county. There are 25 students currently having to use private transport to get to school in Cavan town. There are three big secondary...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Sep 2022)

Niamh Smyth: We sound like a broken record in the Dáil today speaking about school transport. Of course the Minister, Deputy Foley, and the Government are to be complimented on the scheme itself but it has left many families who had been concessionary ticket holders without transport to school. I will give the Tánaiste one example of a family that have been loyal Bus Éireann users for the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Jul 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 110. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the extension of parent's benefit from five to seven weeks will take effect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34928/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (7 Jul 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Collins, for coming in this evening. I raise the matter of the reconfiguration of the North East Doctor on Call, NEDOC, service that we received correspondence about in June. This is worrying for my constituents as a reconfiguration is due to come into effect from 4 August. In other words, a change to the service will come into effect within a matter...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: General Practitioner Services (7 Jul 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State. This issue is so critical that GPs in the Carrickmacross area got together and penned their own letter of concern to suggest the town needs more GPs to provide the service that is needed due to the increasing age demographic and the cultural diversity of the population. When GPs are coming together and putting pen to paper like that, it backs up what NEDOC is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Jul 2022)

Niamh Smyth: There has been much conversation in respect of the cost of living. I wish to raise the issue of school transport and, in particular, the plight of about 20 families who live in the small village of Kilnaleck in County Cavan. I have before me the petition of at least 20 families, all of which have at least two or three children attending schools in Cavan town. Cavan town is the families'...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (7 Jul 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 11. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration has been given to rolling out a national bystander intervention programme around sexual and gender-based violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36756/22]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (30 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I raise this issue on behalf of thousands of workers in the education sector, particularly personal assistants who work in further education and bus drivers, who have had to sign on for social welfare over the summer months. One query I have had, for example, concerns a lady who signed on on 20 May. To this day, she has not received one penny. That is unsustainable, considering everything...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I wish to raise the issue of public transport for the Cavan-Monaghan area and specifically the Bus Éireann Expressway route No. 30 that takes people from Donegal, through Cavan and on to Dublin. Over the past weeks it has been aired very robustly on the Northern Sound airwaves how people are being let down entirely by this service. One can imagine that in a constituency like mine we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Youth Services (2 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 8. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Foróige clubs that are supported by his Department; the number of clubs that are in operation in counties Cavan and Monaghan; the level of activity of each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28460/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (1 Jun 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 19. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the progress of the programme for Government. [26196/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I begin by congratulating Derry on its terrific win in the Ulster GAA final at the weekend and extend my commiserations to Donegal. It was a terrific game of football. With the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, in the Chamber, I want to refer to the wonderful and buzzing weekend in Clones with the excitement of the Ulster final. There were almost 30,000 fans in St....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 19. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will next meet. [24819/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for her latitude. I want to talk to the Minister of State about the hydrotherapy pool in Enable Ireland in Cavan, which I was very privileged to bring her to see. I want to thank her publicly for the time she spent in Cavan-Monaghan to visit many of our disability services. I am sure she was as shocked as I was to see a wonderful facility lying closed...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (18 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister of State for her positive response. There are questions to be answered as to why a pool has lain idle for the past four years. I know there is no point in going back and we need to be positive and look forward, but it is not good enough to say that Covid is the reason why a hydrotherapy pool has lain idle for the past four years. Covid has been going on for two years,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 25. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the public service, justice and policing reform division of his Department. [24476/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (17 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I raise the matter of the death of Shane O'Farrell in a hit-and-run accident which stole a beautiful 23-year-old son from Lucia and Jim and took a deeply loved brother from his sisters in 2011. The Taoiseach has met the O'Farrell family on a number of occasions and is acutely aware of how the criminal justice system failed Shane and continues to fail his grieving family. The man who...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tourism Industry (5 May 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 1. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline her Department’s strategy to tackle cyberbullying and harassment, particularly of children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22104/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Apr 2022)

Niamh Smyth: I want to raise the impending wipe out of the pig industry in the very near future if we do not act quickly to plug the hole in the colossal losses engulfing family pig farms around the country. Teagasc has estimated that pig farmers are losing an average of €56,000 per month, and rising. The war in Ukraine has had an impact on feed prices and Teagasc is also taking into account what...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Policies (31 Mar 2022)

Niamh Smyth: 9. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Specialist Group on Women’s Mental Health under the Sharing the Vision plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16772/22]