Results 101-120 of 252 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 338. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline, in light of the ongoing housing crisis, the Government’s plans to achieve the target of constructing 60,000 homes annually over the next 25 years; and how the Government intends to incorporate modern construction methods, such as modular housing, to expedite this process. [9496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Children in Care (20 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 500. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 26 February 2025, the details of supports and services including advocacy that are provided to adults aged over 26 years that were in health board/HSE accommodation as a child, including disability residential homes; and if redress schemes or impending redress schemes to address the abuses including physical,...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: It is good to finally be able to speak. What I was trying to say earlier is that I was described as an underling, which is someone who is under someone else's order. I would love for that to be withdrawn from the record of the House. As an Independent TD, I support this Government with cautious optimism, in the hope that it will be able to listen to me. The only people whose orders I am...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Broadband Infrastructure (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the timeline for the installation of the fibre-to-the-home network (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 302. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to regulate taxi apps (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 393. To ask the Minister for Finance if he would consider allowing gym membership, or indeed any sporting membership, to be made tax deductible in the same way weight loss drugs are tax deductible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10985/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Interest Rates (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 422. To ask the Minister for Finance the reason mortgage lenders and the banks have maintained mortgage rates in the face of an interest rate environment where the ECB has cut rates six times in the past nine months; when the banks will cut their rates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 873. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of local authority access officers; if this role is filled in each local authority; whether the role is full-time or part-time; and what grade the access officer role is in each Local Authority [11335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1042. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); if he will support this query; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11902/25]

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

Barry Heneghan: 1047. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will examine subsidies for the elderly (details supplied) who cannot claim them because their children are still living at home due to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Sector Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1085. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to reviewing public sector sick leave policies to ensure greater flexibility for employees with disabilities who require extended leave due to their condition; if there are discretionary measures available to prevent employees from being placed on nil pay in such cases; and if he will make a...

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

Barry Heneghan: 1086. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures he plans to take to ensure that necessary and appropriate care is being provided to family members in the context of the planned expansion of the carer’s allowance. [12953/25]

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

Barry Heneghan: 1366. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 795 of 25 February 2025, wherein you stated that a total of €949,718.86 had been spent to end of 2024 on the administrative and staffing costs associated with the running of the Personalised Budget Demonstrator Pilot, considering that €3.5 million was made...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Correspondence (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1399. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her views on safeguarding issues at an organisation (details supplied); the specific steps she will take to ensure that such abuses are never repeated; and the mechanisms to be put in place to ensure that independent charities working with vulnerable populations are held to the highest standards of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1749. To ask the Minister for Health to address the situation in relation to the drop-off zone at the entrance to the Mater Hospital Dublin (details supplied) which is now having an impact on the safety and wellbeing of patients; if she will make a commitment that the situation will be resolved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1775. To ask the Minister for Health if the long waiting times for blood tests in Beaumont Hospital (details supplied) will be examined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1895. To ask the Minister for Health if he will urgently review and address the severe inadequacies in Ireland’s eating disorder services, particularly the lack of inpatient beds and the absence of integrated community-based supports; if he will commit to increasing the number of dedicated public inpatient beds for eating disorder treatment; and the immediate steps being taken to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1896. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of a campaign (details supplied) which calls for an end to the loophole in the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 which allows zero-alcohol advertising, using the same master branding as full-strength equivalents, in places that are restricted under the 2018 Act; if she supports the campaign; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints about the behaviour of nurses that have been made to the HSE, the Nursing and Midwifery Board and the Office of the Ombudsman in 2023 and 2024; and if she is satisfied that the current system for overseeing and acting on complaints against health and social care staff in the HSE is adequate. [12950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1898. To ask the Minister for Health the immediate steps being taken to improve the treatment of individuals presenting at accident and emergency departments with suicidal ideation, including measures to ensure they are properly assessed, monitored, and provided with appropriate crisis intervention; and if there are plans to introduce dedicated emergency mental health response units outside...