Results 61-80 of 1,969 for speaker:Denise Mitchell

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with the parents of a child (details supplied) who has additional needs but has been unable to secure an appropriate place in a secondary school for this coming September, despite extensive engagement with the National Council for Special Education; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (27 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 379. To ask the Minister for Health if maternity hospitals are now routinely checking for the condition vasa praevia during the 20 week fetal scan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14712/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: And Opposition.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: I want to raise the issue of policing. In Dublin Bay North, we have a very fast-growing population and Garda resources are already stretched. In 2019, the then Minister for Justice had a photo op outside Coolock Garda station, during which he announced a new station that would be a regional headquarters and would cover Belmayne, Clongriffin and the surrounding areas. This population is...

Social Housing Tenant In Situ Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: The housing and homelessness crisis has been getting worse under successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments, so this decision to further restrict the tenant in situ scheme, which has prevented so many people from becoming homeless, is bizarre. On top of these new restrictions, we also have delays on applications going back months because the Government could not get its act...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Economic Sanctions (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 131. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on whether the suspension of economic sanctions by the European Union on Syria is appropriate given the latest instances of appalling violence being carried out by Syrian government security forces and affiliated militias against men, women and children of minority communities in western Syria; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 132. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the correspondence or discussions he has had with representatives of the Republic of Lithuania in relation to that country’s formal withdrawal from the Convention on Cluster Munitions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: United Nations (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 255. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail any instances in the past twenty years of a UN peacekeeping mission in which Ireland was to partake, being blocked or not proceeding due to a vote, or the use of a veto, at the UN Security Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12308/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 650. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a new school building (details supplied); the status of the appointment of a multi-disciplinary design team; the timeline for the overall project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 686. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the commitment in the Programme for Government that an independent assessment on the feasibility of removing the exclusion of drivers aged over 70 from the school transport scheme is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 762. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to ensure that a child (details supplied) has a place in an autism class or special school as soon as possible as recommended by their local children’s disability network team; the provisions being made to ensure children in the Balgriffin and Belmayne area of north Dublin will have access to a special school in the near future; when...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 942. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the remediation scheme for fire safety defects in apartments and duplexes; when homeowners who already paid a fire remediation levy in respect of repairs to their own homes and complexes will see their remediation costs refunded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 1601. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to reduce wait times for blood testing appointments at Beaumont Hospital; if it is possible to provide auxiliary capacity to reduce the waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11211/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (6 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 326. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Community Gardaí assigned to the DMR north district, per year from 2015 to date in 2025; and the breakdown of these Gardaí by station within the DMR north area, in tabular form. [10305/25]

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

Denise Mitchell: It is a very challenging time, particularly in Dublin, when it comes to policing and justice. We hear stories every week about assaults and violence on our streets, and people simply do not feel safe. The fact is that we do not have enough gardaí. Back in 2009, in my local Garda station in Coolock, for example, there were 123 gardaí. Today, the number is slightly lower. Between...

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

Denise Mitchell: I might follow up with the Minister of State on the last point.

Oideachas trí Mheán na Gaeilge: Tairiscint [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] (4 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Labhróidh mé leis an Aire faoi Ghaelcholáiste Reachrann i nDomhnach Míde. Cuirfidh mé ar an taifead go bhfuil Gaelcholáiste Reachrann i measc na nGaelcholáistí is fearr in Éirinn. Is scoil í atá tar éis duaiseanna a fháil sa cheol, sa drámaíocht, sa pheil agus san fhiontar. Téann an chuid is mó dá...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (4 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 280. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a review into the restriction on drivers aged over 70 from operating school transport is planned; if he has engaged with Bus Éireann in relation to easing this restriction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (4 Mar 2025)

Denise Mitchell: 377. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the action she will take to ensure a student (details supplied) can secure a place in a local special school; the alternative provisions that can be made temporarily for this child who has to date been unable to secure a place in any local special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9347/25]