Results 9,421-9,440 of 9,678 for speaker:Jack Chambers

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 94. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the budgetary allocation under the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools action plan in each of the years 2006 to 2016, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18736/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Early School Leavers (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the statistics on early school leavers in each year of the years 2006 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18737/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: RAPID Programme (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding under the RAPID education programme in each of the years 2006 to 2016, to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18738/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Substance Abuse Prevention Education (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools that have a substance misuse strategy; if he liaises with schools as to the way to implement and manage their substance misuse strategies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18739/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the teaching of social, personal and health education and its progression as a subject on the curriculum for the senior cycle; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18740/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act 2009 requires the Health Service Executive (HSE) to place the cost of care in long-term residential care and for the components that make up the cost before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and why this has not happened since March 2011 when the HSE last published the fees payable to its nursing homes...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 168. To ask the Minister for Health if he has concerns regarding breaches of competition law by his Department and the Health Service Executive in relation to the cost of care in State run nursing homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18665/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Administration (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 169. To ask the Minister for Health why a report promised in a reply to a Parliamentary Question in February 2015 has not been published; his views on the review of costs undertaken and its conclusions; and if he agrees with the former Minister who stated the review would lead to good practice and value for money actions being embedded within spending for care in Health Service Executive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 172. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the prevention pillar of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18741/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 174. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the efficacy of the national drugs strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18743/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Drugs Strategy Implementation (29 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 175. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the working group that was meant to be established to enhance the prevention pillar in non-school settings in the national drugs strategy. [18744/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (28 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 170. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to immediately suspend the planned charge system for waste collection until there is clarity on the outcome of the changes for families and households; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18012/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (28 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 171. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to prevent an increase in the cost of domestic waste collection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18013/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (28 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 172. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to order waste collectors to outline the justification behind increases in charges and to outline where customers' money is going; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18014/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (28 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time and part-time consultants specialising in children's arthritis currently practising in Crumlin Children's Hospital; his views on whether this is an adequate number and if there is provision to increase this service at Crumlin Children's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18006/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme Data (28 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: 440. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of loans that participants, their estates or next-of-kin have repaid under the nursing home support - fair deal - scheme in each of the years 2009 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18407/16]

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: The events of the past few days have been deeply disappointing and, on a personal level as someone who has lived my whole life with Ireland as a member of the Europe Union, I feel particularly disappointed for the young people in Britain whose future is now shrouded in such uncertainty. It is truly saddening to see a vote driven in so many ways by a campaign based on fear, hatred,...

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: I will conclude now.

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: We have pooled our sovereignty over time, but it is important that we democratise the core of the European Union so we can dilute the worrying anti-European sentiment that is apparent in many member states. It has been stated that when people work together it can show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries lies a common interest.

United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership: Statements (27 Jun 2016)

Jack Chambers: I will conclude now.