Results 101-120 of 202 for speaker:Aisling Dempsey

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend social welfare payments, benefits and allowances to foster carers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 248. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason a legal executive officer cannot currently apply for a secondment to another role like all other staff grades; and the reason that some grades can apply for secondments, and some cannot, contributing to a loss of opportunity based on ambiguous rules. [33246/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 308. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide an update on the intentions of Government to bring forward new guidelines to replace the 2006 guidelines on wind energy; and if further changes to the planning process are being considered in respect of the need to ensure that the views and concerns of local communities affected by large scale wind farms...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 362. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when the community neuro-rehabilitation team that has been promised since 2019 for the midlands northeast will be funded and put in place. [33243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (19 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 388. To ask the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure that givinostat is available at the earliest opportunity to sufferers of Duchenne muscular dystrophy. [33245/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht – Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Meath West commuters eagerly anticipated the new commuter fare zones being announced but they were disappointed in April to find out those only related to rail fares. We were disappointed again in recent weeks when the bus fares were announced. My own town of Trim only saw a minimal decrease in the fare but towns like Navan and Athboy saw an increase. The rationale given is that these...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the Minister and her officials for being here. The first thing I would like to raise concerns the special classes. I acknowledge the work the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, have done in this area. I believe it is most important to have special classes in primary schools. I know there has been a focus on this aspect this year and there is also a...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: Moving on to the school bus transport scheme, this is critical and crucial for many parents and guardians. Gone are the days, rightly or wrongly, of mammy having to drive five minutes or 15 minutes to get the bus. A lot of us rely on that bus to get the kids to school. I think we are finding out too late when the routes are agreed, who is getting the concessionary tickets, who is on the...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I had Colin McElroy, the principal from Kiltale National School, in today. He spoke about being a working principal and the difficulties it brings. There will be emergency works done at the school. He will be working throughout the "summer break". Is there a policy change likely where principals can be just principals?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: This is a local issue, but I imagine the experience is probably replicated nationwide. We have the former St. Mary's national school building in Trim, which has been vacant for more than a decade. Previously as a councillor, and now as a TD, I have asked about it numerous times. The answer to a question in February was that it was being divested to Meath County Council. We are in dire...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Tolls (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 232. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to remove the tolls from the M4 when the franchise period finishes in 2033. [32359/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 641. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the properties that are under construction or contract to provide IPAS accommodation in Meath west. [32694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 642. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the invitations to the next citizenship ceremony will be issued. [32695/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 770. To ask the Minister for Health the reason all provisions of the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 must be commenced together; and the length of time the process take. [31929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 771. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the previously agreed schedule for the commencement order for the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 was changed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Decision-Making (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 848. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the appointment of the chief executive of the Assisted Human Reproduction Regulatory Authority, given the closing date is 19 June; and once appointed, whether the chief executive will have the authority to extract sections of the proposed legislation and implement them individually. [32356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if pay increases for section 39 workers, under the recent agreement reached at the WRC to fund health, social care and homeless sector employers, will automatically take effect, or if the organisations concerned need to reapply for funding. [31931/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 846. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to review all age-based exclusion criteria regarding spinal muscular atrophy treatments, given that adults were excluded from treatments as they were over 18 at the time of the original HSE approval. [32354/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (17 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: 847. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to extend reimbursement for spinal muscular atrophy treatments to adults. [32355/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Aisling Dempsey: I thank the Minister and her officials for being here today and for their engagement with the committee to date. I thank her for her briefing last week and her personal engagement with me on questions and issues I have raised. I was delighted foster care was the first issue she mentioned in her opening statement. It is a topic I am very interested in and that is very close to my heart....