Results 901-920 of 1,039 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 118. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update and timeline for the removal of the means test for carer’s allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9860/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider extending the BreastCheck service to women from 40 years-of-age and over 69 years-of-age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9858/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the backlog of screening times for the BreastCheck national breast cancer screening programme, including the backlog in the west of Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9859/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 168. To ask the Minister for Health what measures are being introduced to recruit and retain more health care support assistants in the HSE in view of delays in certain areas (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9863/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Bodies (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of funding utilised by the Higher Education Authority from the National Training Fund; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9935/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 220. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on a study (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9993/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to the establishment of the new disability unit within his Department. [6095/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to establishment of the new disability unit within his Department. [6383/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to establishment of the new disability unit within his Department. [7953/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: I very much welcome this whole-of-government approach to disability services which is so essential to meeting needs. My question relates to recruitment and retention. The critical skills list was expanded in 2022 so that occupational therapists and speech and language therapists could get employment permits. I have received replies to questions which show the figures are quite small....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: There were 62 occupational therapists and 21 speech and language therapists. Obviously, this is a process that has worked very successfully for nurses and midwives where we recruit up to 1,000 internationally every year. Is this something the unit could look at and we could expand on further?

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

James Geoghegan: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the issue of ghost buses and inaccurate live communication of bus arrival times in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9172/25]

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

James Geoghegan: 153. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if in the context of the almost 10,000 extra people who will soon live in the Poolbeg glass bottle site development, if he will support the acceleration of the extension of the Luas red line to Poolbeg as part of the NDP review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9173/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 403. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will assist in the issues raised (details supplied) to ensure the State’s investment in a new school is not damaged and the final elements can be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9709/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Surveys (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 465. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 495 of 16 February and No. 598 of 25 February 2025, given it is possible to track journeys of individual applications, if a research sampling exercise can be undertaken to provide an answer, under each specified sub-category reflective of that research sampling, to the original question...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Programmes (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 619. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE carries out international recruitment campaigns to recruit occupational therapists or speech and language therapists; if she will provide details of such a campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9376/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 699. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE carries out international recruitment campaigns to recruit occupational therapists or speech and language therapists; if she will provide details of such a campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9377/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 707. To ask the Minister for Health if the 34 new whole-time equivalent positions for the agencies involved in the HSE’s medicines pricing and reimbursement system, as initially prescribed in February 2023, have now been successfully filled; whether they have commenced their engagement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9516/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (4 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 708. To ask the Minister for Health the actions to be undertaken regarding the Programme for Government commitment to “work towards a more coordinated approach at European level, akin to the Benelux agreement, to leverage benefits similar to those achieved during the Covid-19 vaccination programme”; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Environmental Policy (27 Feb 2025)

James Geoghegan: 167. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will provide an update in relation to plans for a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8904/25]