Results 881-900 of 3,337 for speaker:Patrick Costello

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 102. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will amend the legislation for the energy credit under Budget 2023 to include the removal of the exclusion of ‘low usage’ homes in cases whereby new tenants/owners move into a previously vacant unit. [57332/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Usage (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 83. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how persons can get access to their personal data usage having installed a smart meter without signing up to a smart meter plan. [56961/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 182. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the recent toll road increases and the specific effect it has on areas such as Inchicore, Chapelizod and the Phoenix Park with cars using those areas to avoid toll roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56565/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 270. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions being taken by his Department to reduce waiting times for driving tests in the Dublin area; the current waiting times, by test centre in Dublin; his Department’s target wait time for each; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1338/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 272. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the NTA will receive its 2024 funding allocation; and the reason for the delay to date.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1346/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 274. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the eSPSV grant is due to reopen for applications in 2024; and if so, if the eligibility requirements will remain the same as in the 2023 round of the scheme. [1361/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Safety (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 291. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department and the DAA have liaised in relation to the safety and quality control procedures of Boeing aircraft following recent incidents with their 737 Max plane; if either have liaised with the US regulatory body (FAA) in relation to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1678/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the NTA in relation to recent route changes that have left elderly residents (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1722/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what action his Department is taking to ensure that all motorway stop off petrol stations are fitted out with both fast charge and type 2 EV charging points, recognising the fact that many EV users only have type 2 connections; and if he will introduce minimum standards to ensure that all stations are required to facilitate type 2...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 336. To ask the Minister for Finance if, given the ongoing housing crisis and the precarious nature of many renting arrangements, renters in non-registered tenancies can access the renter’s credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57329/23]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 403. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform given the recent announcement that exhumations are to take place in Mountjoy Prison to recover the remains of executed prisoners buried on site, if his Department will commence a similar scheme of exhumations to take place at Kilmainham Gaol. [1687/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 659. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide a list of second level education institutions aided by her Department, that did not provide applied mathematics for the Leaving Certificate in 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2022, in tabular form. [1588/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 680. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason STEM grants were allocated on a lottery basis; the reason no preference was given towards DEIS schools over fee paying schools; the reason the grant application process was not advertised in advance nor noted that schools would be competing or operating under a lottery system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1877/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Community Development Projects (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 820. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that a community centre is included in the plans for the redevelopment of the Oliver Bond complex in Dublin 8, given his Department’s funding for the project. [1418/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1019. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of hate crime and hate incident reports to gardaí broken down, by month for the past 24 months. [56617/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1020. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of charges and convictions under section 5 of the Protections for Persons Reporting Child Abuse Act 1998 in the past ten years. [56618/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child and Family Agency (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1067. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of cases notified by An Garda Síochána to Tusla under the joint working protocol, broken down by Garda district, for 2021, 2022 and 2023. [57392/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Child and Family Agency (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1068. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of specialist interviewers under the joint working protocol with Tusla currently in An Garda Síochána. [57393/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide an update on the Programme for Government commitment to establish a Penal Policy Consultative Council to advise on penal policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1684/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (17 Jan 2024)

Patrick Costello: 1127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the Mountjoy Prison Museum; when it is open to members of the general public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1685/24]