Results 121-140 of 187 for speaker:Sinéad Gibney

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has identified whether there are instances of such multi-donor instruments in which Ireland would be obliged to make up the shortfall for the precipitate cancellation of the United States Agency for International Development contribution; if he will provide an estimate of the budgetary implications thereof, including...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 12. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the actions planned to be taken at EU level to coordinate Member States’ response to the vacuum created by the effective withdrawal of the United States Agency for International Development from the international development arena; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 89. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will set out a detailed pathway for the transposition of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive into Irish law; the timeline and steps for same; the Government Departments which will be involved; if it will include a public consultation process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6783/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Corporate Governance (19 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 90. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the position of his Department, in light of the European Commission’s omnibus simplification package due to be published on 26 February 2025, regarding the re-opening the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive; if he has engaged with stakeholders on the risks to human rights and environmental protections for victims...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Neutrality (18 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 121. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade whether there is a planned mechanism to maintain Irish neutrality in the absence of the triple lock protection; if he will provide details on that mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6400/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (18 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 173. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of proposals outlined in the Programme for Government to remove the triple lock protection; when he plans to bring these proposals before the Houses of the Oireachtas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6401/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (18 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 174. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether progress has been made on Ireland's National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security regarding the protection and participation of women in the Defence Forces; to detail what progress has been made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6402/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: No, we support more progressive measures.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 64. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if reported plans (details supplied) to cease cost-of-living supports and payments in budget 2026 will be benchmarked against a reduction in the cost of living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5420/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I was deeply concerned and dismayed by reports in the media that the Government is planning to completely axe cost-of-living supports without any indication being offered about this being tied to evidence of a reduction in the cost of living. I am seeking clarity on the matter. Will any cessation of cost-of-living supports and payments in the next budget, as reported, be benchmarked against...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: I thank the Minister for his answer. While he detailed many different economic terms, I am not hearing about the real day-to-day experience of people whose cost-of-living challenges are forcing them to choose between heat and food, to make very difficult decisions and to live with the stress of these kinds of announcements that come from Government with very little regard for their...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cost of Living Issues (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: The word "progressive" was used, yet the measures such as electricity credits that we saw in the past few years were not targeted. If that is what the Government believes to be a progressive measure, then it needs to look at it again. We welcome better targeted measures. Those electricity credits, while important, should be better targeted to assist those families who most need them. I...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence whether officials from his Department have met with lobbyists from the arms industry in the past 12 months; the dates and attendees of these meetings; the agenda of these meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5450/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Budget 2026 (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 170. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if reported plans (details supplied) to not have a cost-of-living package in Budget 2026 will affect existing supports such as the one-off social welfare bonuses in Budget 2025 and the domestic energy credit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5421/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 176. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if there are plans to introduce a system of real-time oversight of public spending, in order that overspends and budgetary issues can be monitored between the reports of the Comptroller and Auditor General; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5444/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 177. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will share the priority matrix or other details of a mechanism of how capital projects will be selected and prioritised under the National Development Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment rates for primary schools in Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR, Ballinteer_Stepaside_DLR, Goatstown_Stillorgan_DLR, and Kilternan school planning areas, broken down by school, and language of instruction, in tabular form. [5451/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the enrolment rates for post-primary schools in Sallynoggin_Killiney_DLR, Ballinteer_Stepaside_DLR, Goatstown_Stillorgan_DLR, and Kilternan school planning areas, broken down by school, and language of instruction, in tabular form. [5452/25]

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: We in the Social Democrats reject this Bill. We want to rebuild public trust in the State, trust which has been chipped away and eroded over the years by scandals of misused public funds, by headlines about waste and lavish spending, by a failure to look after taxpayers’ money and by a proliferation of ministerial appointments. Creidimid, mar Dhaonlathaithe Sóisialta, sa...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Artificial Intelligence (12 Feb 2025)

Sinéad Gibney: 205. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will confirm his intentions, under Protocol 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to opt-in to the relevant 'freedom, security and justice' parts of the EU AI Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689); if he will outline the reasoning for the same; if he will confirm that the information as outlined on the...