Results 61-80 of 225 for speaker:Tom Brabazon

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 703. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of WTE dietitians working at Coastal children's disability network team in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [32163/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 816. To ask the Minister for Health when she next intends to visit Beaumont Hospital. [32166/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 817. To ask the Minister for Health the podiatry services currently available to medical card holders aged over 65 within the Dublin 5, 13 and 17 areas. [32167/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 818. To ask the Minister for Health If she will provide a copy of staffing levels at Kilbarrack primary care centre, Dublin 5. [32168/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 819. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant WTE staff, by job title, within the accident and emergency department of Beaumont Hospital; and the expected timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [32169/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will subsidise graduate entry medicine in line with undergraduate medicine; if new financial support mechanisms are being developed for graduate entry medicine applicants; and the timeline for implementation of same. [32173/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I welcome all the additional promised investment in the Air Corps. When the Garda Commissioner was before the justice committee earlier this week, he pointed out that one of the main methods for tackling the scrambler scourge in the city is through deploying the Garda helicopter, which principally operates out of Casement Aerodrome. In circumstances where it is only operational half of the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I welcome that last contribution and I look forward to seeing the fruits of that work.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions his Department is taking to ensure that Casement Aerodrome is fit for purpose in terms of infrastructure, capacity, and operational efficiency. [31286/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Like other speakers this morning, I wish to raise the issue of the aerodrome at Baldonnel and the problems that have manifested in respect of air traffic controllers. We note that there have been problems with air traffic control on three occasions since 2010 and that a report was done internally in 2021. It does not appear to have been acted on in a meaningful way to date. I know the...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I thank the witnesses for their valuable and erudite contributions. In riposte to Senator Kyne's point about the truth and so forth, it would be my experience, as a legal practitioner, that witnesses who come before the courts regularly espouse the fact that they have a duty to tell the truth before the courts. It would not find it at all unusual in that regard. I ask Professor Murphy...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: The presumption there is that the Government has a majority. We have already seen in this term, and we are only six or seven months in, one, two or three Government TDs going overboard for different votes. On something extraordinary and controversial, such as the deployment of troops, a Government majority could be lost. Dr. Devine mentioned in her presentation that she could see...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: When Dr. Devine says "a stateable case", it is not by any means a slam dunk?

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 35. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the actions his Department is taking to improve recruitment and retention rates within the Defence Forces. [31255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 65. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department will consider engaging with the Defence Forces to utilise military driving schools as a means of assisting in the reduction of civilian driving test waiting lists. [31256/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Legislative Process (12 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 284. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish the Attorney General's legal advice on the Restrictive Financial Measures (State of Israel) Bill 2025 or a section of the Attorney General's advice detailing the potential for legal challenges against the proposed legislation. [31417/25]

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: Like other members of the committee, I pass on my condolences regarding Garda Kevin Flatley's untimely passing in tragic circumstances. I have read the Commissioner's statement, which is really positive. From my experience as a city councillor for 21 years and now as a newly elected Deputy, I know of a number of issues where there is a gap between what the Commissioner is saying and the...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I welcome that opportunity. I will move on to the issue of scramblers, scooters, e-bikes, etc. As I am sure the Commissioner is aware, these vehicles are being used and employed by criminal gangs to have underage people mule drugs around the city. When I raised the issue at my local joint policing committee while I was on Dublin City Council, the line we were given by senior gardaí was...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: I wholeheartedly endorse what Senator McDowell said regarding the Garda Reserve numbers. It makes eminent sense that we have additional visible bodies on the street, whether they are full-time attested gardaí or part-time reservists. It does not really matter to the public, as long as they feel safe. My question relates to rank and file morale. I have not met every member of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jun 2025)

Tom Brabazon: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the tender process will begin for a new school building for a school (details supplied); when it is expected that the tendering process will be completed; and when it is expected that construction on the new school building will begin. [29712/25]