Results 9,641-9,660 of 10,432 for speaker:Niamh Smyth

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of an application by a school (detail supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18117/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Garda Stations (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 434. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the status of the new Bailieborough Garda station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17559/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 492. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address waiting times for persons who potentially may be diagnosed with Parkinson's disease to see a neurologist regarding changes to medication and diagnosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17569/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Support Services Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 493. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that 12,000 persons are living with Parkinson's disease here; the reason there are only five specialist nurses to deal with the condition; his plans to increase services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17571/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Voluntary Sector Funding (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 494. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an association (details supplied) does not receive State funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17577/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services Provision (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 518. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a request for full-time residential care for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 596. To ask the Minister for Health his views on an issue (details supplied); if there is anything being done at present by his Department to encourage more persons to carry organ donation cards; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18121/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Services for People with Disabilities (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 622. To ask the Minister for Health if funding at present is allocated to services (details supplied) in counties Cavan and Monaghan; his plans for investment in either county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18194/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: North-South Interconnector (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 720. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if a scenario (details supplied) is correct in view of the passing of the Fianna Fáil Oireachtas motion concerning same and the stay currently imposed by the judicial review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18158/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Industrial Disputes (11 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 735. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will meet with Bus Éireann staff in counties Cavan and Monaghan regarding the resolution of the ongoing strike; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17560/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I support my colleague in calling on the Minister to approve this project. It is a unique and important school for Cavan and Monaghan that caters for pupils between the ages of four and 18 years and is located in Cootehill, which we like to call the hub of education, given how it lies on the Cavan-Monaghan border and provides for that catchment area. Its pupils have severe and profound...

Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects Status (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I thank the Minister for his positive response. It was not long ago that he was in Kingscourt visiting our new ETB school, Coláiste Dún an Rí, which we look forward to being open, so he knows that we make good use of money when it comes in our constituency's direction.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: What I wish to say is more of an observation than a question. I represent the Border constituency of Cavan-Monaghan. The wonderful relationship we have built up over the years is of huge concern to anyone who lives in the Border area. We do not even think about the Border, which is completely invisible and intangible in comparison with what it was historically. I can empathise hugely with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I would like to go first because I have a meeting to attend. I thank Ms McIntyre for her presentation. I am very familiar with the Special EU Programmes Body's Castle Saunderson project and obviously the wonderful work the peace links are doing. That is a real tangible result of PEACE funding. She mentioned eight capital projects to come on stream relating to shared spaces and derelict...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I am thinking of spaces which may provide activity for young people. Monaghan County Council has big plans for a peace campus. Is Mr. Greer talking about such projects in that stream of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: The two projects in which the Special EU Programmes Body has been involved with the peace links and the Castle Saunderson have been game-changers and are wonderful places for young people, in particular, to go. They may not carry the baggage that the older generations may have done in the past. They are making significant inroads on improved relationships across our communities in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Development and Co-operation in Border Counties: Discussion (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: I look forward to that. I congratulate the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Heading (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 29. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the progress being made on reducing the social housing waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16799/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 41. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will address the inadequacies with the new housing assistance payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16800/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (6 Apr 2017)

Niamh Smyth: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the concerns of a group (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17169/17]