Results 81-100 of 762 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on children and education will next meet. [32402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans in place to increase the number of degree courses for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37632/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 179. To ask the Taoiseach to outline his engagements during the UN Ocean Climate Summit in Nice. [37356/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Climate Action Plan (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 180. To ask the Taoiseach when the climate action plan progress reports for the remainder of 2024 will be published. [37358/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 231. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his Department has sanctioned the expenditure of €299,000 excluding VAT to convert artillery towing Land Rovers from diesel to electric power; if such vehicles, if converted may be suitable for use in towing gun carriages at military funerals; if there are any other perceived advantages in such conversions, whether there are any...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 255. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects to finalise and publish the national drone policy framework, as committed to in the programme for Government, to ensure safe, secure and environmentally responsible drone operations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37262/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 256. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the forthcoming drone legislation will include a right for residents to opt out of drone overflights or hovering near their private properties; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37263/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider introducing temporary drone restriction zones in residential areas such as (details supplied) pending the finalisation of the national drone policy framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37264/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 265. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department intends to develop specific youth-focused road safety measures or targets under the Road Safety Strategy 2025 to 2027, given the disproportionately high number of road deaths among 16-to-25-year-olds, as reported in the European Transport Safety Council's 2025 report; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 266. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has undertaken an analysis of Ireland's declining ranking in EU road safety performance, specifically in relation to the high rate of road fatalities among drivers aged 18-to-24 years of age; if he will outline any policy responses under consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 268. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has engaged with the Road Safety Authority in response to the findings of the 2025 European Transport Safety Council Road Safety Performance Index, particularly the reported increase in the proportion of road deaths among people aged 16 to 25; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 267. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will commission an updated evaluation of the Essential Driver Training programme to determine its impact on young driver safety outcomes since its introduction in 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 293. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 30 of 2 July 2025, the steps his Department has taken to develop a new needs-based, grant-led scheme for vehicle adaptations, as proposed under the national disability inclusion strategy; when this new scheme is expected to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider making it a requirement that all taxi drivers operating wheelchair-accessible vehicles are properly certified to use the ramp and equipment, so that passengers with disabilities are not left without transport; if he will clarify the current rules in this area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37904/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 319. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 289 of 17 June 2025, if the Revenue Commissioners is under inquiry or investigation in relation to its destruction of millions of call recordings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 338. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider raising the price cap of the help-to-buy scheme given the continuing increases house price inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider extending the teaching hours extension scheme, which currently applies to post-primary schools, to include primary schools also; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37261/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to give an explanation that of the 399 new special classes due to open in September, only two are designated for students with mild general learning disabilities at post-primary level; the reason both are being established in the same school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37905/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 449. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will prioritise the establishment of additional special classes in mainstream post-primary schools for students with mild general learning disabilities, including those with Down's syndrome; if she will address the current shortfall in such provision, given the majority of existing classes are focused on students with autism; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department will develop a specific plan to support parents of children with Down's syndrome who are seeking a place in a special class in a mainstream post-primary school (details supplied); if she will respond to concerns that some students are currently not being accommodated in the existing system; and if she will make a statement on...