Results 9,101-9,120 of 19,411 for speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Resent away, God love you. The Tánaiste took the decisions, not me.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: She is encouraging me again, God love her.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:— condemns the choices made by the current Government and its predecessor to force lone parent households to disproportionately shoulder the burden of cuts in the wake of an economic crash that was not of their, or their children’s, making; — recognises that the entirely foreseeable consequences of the series of social welfare...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I acknowledge the Minister's answer but since budget 2011, there has been, in total, a 5% cut in capitation grants to primary schools, which has had a negative impact. I support the call not only for that cut to be reversed but also to bring the primary capitation grant up to the secondary school level, as the INTO has sought. We should also be examining a capitation grant system to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: What happens in the meantime? We would all like our schools to be replaced by modern, super-efficient ones but that will not be the case. Some schools may build gardens, while others do not have money for heating or simple things like fixing light bulbs. While some schools can find money when necessary, not all schools have the same spending outlay. Given that it is far cheaper to run a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Will the Minister consider changing the capitation grant system to provide a reliable system of payment to schools most in need, which would take account of a school's age, location and student composition?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The intention is to ask the Minister to further elaborate on her proposal to collect and store data on primary schoolchildren, and the fact that there is a proposal that non-co-operative schools may be defunded if they do not co-operate with the primary online database, despite its changes.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether the Minister is aware that the Data Protection Commissioner's office confirmed only two weeks' ago that even after the changes she introduced in April to the primary online database, that it still might not be legal. Could the Minister confirm whether further legislation is required to underpin her proposals on the primary online database, if a further review is to take...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Primary Online Database (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know whether that captures the concerns of the Data Protection Commissioner's office which were outlined on 18 June. Having investigated the primary online database, POD, the Data Protection Commissioner's office still had concerns, as did parents who had objected to the storage of sensitive data, that were valid even following the changes made in April. That is the key point....

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 160. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if consideration will be provided to retitle payments under the community employment scheme and the Tús work placement initiative as social welfare allowances and not as wages, thus saving these very low-paid workers on pay related social insurance payments; and the amount it would cost the Exchequer to do this, by year. [25825/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 210. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide an update on the status of an application for a carer’s allowance in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12; and when a decision will issue. [26377/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Insurance Data (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 212. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated revenue that would be raised in 2016 if the rate of employer's pay related social insurance was increased by 1% on pay up to €100,000 per annum, and increased to 15.75% on pay exceeding €100,000 per annum. [26385/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 460. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be made available to the Cuan Dara detoxification unit in the Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin 10 to upgrade the toilet and shower facilities for wheelchair users, given that the unit is not currently wheelchair or disability compliant; and when will these upgrades be implemented. [26236/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 461. To ask the Minister for Health the supervised detoxification facility that is available to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 10 who is wheelchair bound, due to suffering a stroke. [26237/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 498. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of increasing funding to the school books grant scheme by 30% in 2016. [25885/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: An Teanga Gaeilge (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 619. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cén fáth nach bhfuil dualgas reachtúil ar chomhairlí contae nó cathrach a chinntiú go bhfuil cártaí vótála eisithe go cruinn acu i nGaeilge. [25945/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: An Teanga Gaeilge (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 620. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government cathain a chuirfidh sé dualgas reachtúil ar chomhairlí contae agus cathrach a chinntiú gur i nGaeilge amháin nó go dátheangach a bheidh gach ainm atá crochta in airde ar eastáit nó foirgnimh nua amach anseo; agus an bhfuil scéim aige chun iachall a chur ar...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 689. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason a person (details supplied) in County Dublin was informed that he could drive under his Brazilian driving licence of 14 years for a year from when he received his work permit in July 2014, but that he must then sit the full Irish driving licence test without any acknowledgement of the years of driving experience both here...

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Scéimeanna Teanga (30 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 705. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén fáth nach bhfuil aon scéim teanga daingnithe ag a Roinn leis an gCoimisiún um Chaighdeáin in Oifigí Poiblí agus cathain a bheidh ceann aontaithe. [25946/15]

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2015)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is an insult.