Results 121-140 of 163 for speaker:Keira Keogh

Committee on Children and Equality: Business of Joint Committee (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: It is a pleasure to take over the reins from Deputy Kerrane. I know she was the last person in this seat.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students from County Mayo who applied for SUSI grants in the past three years; the number of those applications that were approved; the breakdown of the type of SUSI supports awarded to students from County Mayo; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will consider working with higher education institutions to expand access to remote learning with a view to increasing accessibility to further education for students in rural and isolated communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Technological Universities (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 88. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if his Department plans to expand the ‘Learning in the Hubs’ initiative to other technological universities; the number of technological universities that will be eligible for the initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26279/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 101. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way in which his Department is supporting inclusive community development in County Mayo, including initiatives targeted at older people and people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26278/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 279. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision on an application for carer’s allowance will issue for a person in County Mayo (details supplied). [26477/25]

Assessment of Need: Statements (20 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle and the Minister. When I worked for 19 years with the neurodiverse community, I was often the first point of contact after a parent acknowledged a concern for their child, or was potentially nudged by a relative, a childminder or a preschool teacher to talk to their GP or public health nurse. It takes real courage for a parent to do this when they notice...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (20 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 856. To ask the Minister for Health if she will revise the long-term illness scheme to include persons diagnosed with primary biliary cholangitis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Grant Payments (15 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 42. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if any grants can be expected for those who wish to build a modular and ‘cabin-style’ home; when these grants can be expected; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18587/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps being taken to relax planning restrictions in respect of modular and ‘cabin-style’ homes in an effort to provide more housing; to provide a timeline in relation to these restrictions being relaxed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18586/25]

Report of the Farrelly Commission: Statements (Resumed) (7 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: This case goes to the very heart of trust in our public institutions. It fills me with a deep sense of sorrow but even more than that a deeper sense of responsibility to speak here on the final report of the Farrelly commission. Grace's case, or story we might better call it, casts a dark shadow over how we cared for one of our most vulnerable citizens. She is at the centre of the deeply...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: School transport is causing frustration and stress for many families across rural Ireland. I refer specifically to the eligibility criterion for nearest and second-nearest schools. This requirement fails to reflect family circumstances, school preferences and logistical realities on the ground. It is simply too rigid and does not reflect modern Irish society. To give an example, the Bus...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (7 May 2025)

Keira Keogh: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when correspondence from her Department will issue to a person in County Mayo (details supplied). [22225/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: We will go to Deputy Ó Murchú for a supplementary question.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Children in Care (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: Thank you, Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: I thank the Minister. We now move to question No. 91 in the name of Deputy Cathy Bennett. Deputy Claire Kerrane will ask this question on Deputy Bennett's behalf.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: Thank you, Deputy. Minister?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: Thank you, Minister.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: 1375. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the review of the rural social scheme which was launched on 24 July 2024, what the updated position is with regard to the six specific recommendations, out of the overall nineteen that the Department had stated they would endeavour to expedite; when the Department hopes to implement same; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (29 Apr 2025)

Keira Keogh: 1981. To ask the Minister for Health when the list of dentists for County Mayo will be updated in respect of medical card holders; if she is aware of the issue for medical card holders in sourcing dentists; what steps are being taken by the HSE to source more dentists for medical card holders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18538/25]