Results 61-80 of 12,378 for speaker:Louise O'Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Pensions (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 504. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration has been given to extending the annual cost of disability support payment to persons in receipt of the State pension; the form this consideration has taken; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15127/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 525. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will provide an update on the humanitarian assistance scheme (storm Éowyn); the number of applicants who have applied for assistance by county, in tabular form; the amounts paid out; the number of refusals of payment; the reasons for refusals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15719/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 524. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he is aware that where separated couples have shared custody arrangements only one parent is entitled to child specific payments (children's allowance, qualified child payment etc); if he has considered splitting these payments so that both co-parents can benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15718/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 637. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the challenges faced by persons with debilitating conditions who are wheelchair users and who are reliant on public transport to get to appointments; if she understands that the volunteer driver scheme operated by Fingal County Council does not cater for electric wheelchair...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Service Executive (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 723. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a person (details supplied) who is awaiting an assessment by the HSE; if she can advise when this assessment will be carried out; if there is any way that this can done through the NTPF; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15123/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Meetings (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 754. To ask the Minister for Health if she will meet with a person (details supplied) as per their request; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15316/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (1 Apr 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 874. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he is further aware that a service run by an organisation (details supplied) does not cover all of County Dublin [15869/25]

Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner's Pension) Bill 2025: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome the progress of this Bill. I thank members of my own and other parties and specifically Deputy Kelly for keeping this issue firmly on the political agenda for the past number of years. I also thank the Minister's officials for facilitating a briefing with the Opposition earlier this week and for taking our questions. It is very important to remember that what brought us here was...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 73. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to address economic and social inequality in 2025 in urban and rural areas; the initiatives he will undertake within his Department; and if he plans to progress funding for same. [14510/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: My question, as is my form, is very straightforward. Will the Minister outline the plans that he has to address the economic and social inequality in 2025 in both urban and rural areas? What specific initiatives will he progress? If he could confine it to this year, I would be interested to know the scale of the ambition for the Department in terms of deliverables, KPIs and any indicators...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Minister. I do not want to be argumentative, and I am absolutely committed to working across the House to ensure that we address issues regarding inequality. While I thanked the Minister for his reply, there were no specifics in it and this is where my issue is. What we need to see is, for example, a target for the number of community centres. We all know that a community...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Income Inequality (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: This is where we might have a small disagreement, because I absolutely agree with the Minister that it has to be community-led, but setting the targets will not interfere with that in any way, shape or form. The setting of targets actually gives a focus. The Minister was not doing the communities any favours when he suggested that they could work not to a deadline or a target because they...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 90. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development for an update on the new rural development plan given that the current plan, Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021-2025, expires in 2025. [14509/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Urban Development (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 108. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the supports available for local authorities in developing 'Town Centre First Plans'; how these plans will be funded; the number that have been progressed; and how success is measured in implementation of these plans. [14508/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Public Participation Networks (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 122. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to address the need to resource and future-proof the public participation network by ensuring adequate core funding and staff resourcing to meet their workload. [14513/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: 134. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider an initiative to enhance skill building in communities without a community association or centre. [14507/25]

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank the Deputies for bringing forward this motion and giving us the chance to have this important debate. Here we have another day and another U-turn. Today's U-turn sees Fianna Fáil move even closer to Fine Gael. At some point they are going to have to acknowledge that there is virtually no difference between the two parties. We have come to expect the hawkish views of Fine...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: You might laugh, Taoiseach, but you are not in the White House now. Get up.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Obviously not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Mar 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: Give us a break.