Results 121-140 of 208 for speaker:Paul Lawless

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: I was referring to senior management, a Cheann Comhairle.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: Senior management are not listening to gardaí.

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: I wish the Minister of State well. There is a massive amount of work to be done. There is a significant drug problem in our communities. I recently spoke to several gardaí who told me they do not have the manpower or time to deal with drugs. Those drug issues include underage kids taking drugs, which is a major issue. Theft, violence and antisocial behaviour are all on the rise. ...

Policing and Community Safety: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: That is what is happening. Many years ago, gardaí would be on the street and would know what was happening before it even happened. That is no longer the case. We need to return to proactive community policing. In 2023, the Garda Representative Association voted no confidence in the Commissioner. A total of 98% voted no confidence. I recently met the Commissioner at Mayo County...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: 207. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the amount that has been paid out to companies engaged by the SEAI to conduct feasibility studies for enabling grant funds to be allocated to community groups trying to get renewable energy generation projects off the ground in each year since the enabling grant was introduced. [9095/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (4 Mar 2025)

Paul Lawless: 764. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive an orthopaedic surgery appointment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9684/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: I welcome that the Minister is in the Chamber for this discussion. I welcome the comments made by the Minister of State about the modular developments. It is a positive, practical solution and something that should have happened a very long time ago. I ask the Minister to expedite that. At the moment, according to the Minister's comments 40 sq. m is the maximum size but I think sizes of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: We are now almost five weeks on from Storm Éowyn and many communities in County Mayo are still without communications. Ballinamore nursing home, for example, is still without a landline. There are many elderly people without a landline and it is causing difficulties around accessing emergency services and accessing pendant alarms, which run off the landline. Many people in Mayo are...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (27 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will cease the promotion of transgender ideology in primary and secondary school curricula, given the extensive research from comprehensive studies such as the Cass report, which provides stark warnings on the issue, and the fact that it is being implemented without consultation with parents, teachers, or consideration of school ethos....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (27 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will allow a school (details supplied) to adopt a blended Irish-English approach instead of a solely Irish-language approach, enabling the school to address pupil numbers while maintaining a strong Irish-language ethos; and if she will meet with the principal and management to discuss these issues and grant the school the necessary...

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: We should also focus on preventative healthcare from the earliest stages, from children upwards. Sport is of critical importance. One in five children stops participating in sport in the transition from primary school to first year. There is another massive drop off in terms of participation in third year among those who are 15 and 16 years of age. It is important that the Minister...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if his Department collates statistics on the number of SMEs that have closed down in County Mayo in the past five years; and if so, to outline the figures that reveal how many SMEs closed in Mayo over each of the past five years. [6361/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Small and Medium Enterprises (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: I thank the Minister of State for the response. I am surprised by the lack of data on insolvencies in recent years. The issues and the crisis facing the SME sector are getting increasingly worse. A Deloitte study recently found that almost 900 insolvencies occurred in 2024, an increase of almost a third on 2023. It predicted that the increase will continue, as will the issues affecting...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: The crisis in gender-based violence continues to devastate our society. The number of domestic violence cases rose by 20,000 in the past four years alone. Women and children are bearing the brunt of this crisis, the impact of which is being felt in every constituency across the country, including that of Mayo, which has experienced its highest number of domestic abuse cases in over a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: 194. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the abolition of the means test for carers will occur as families are depending on this pre-election promise being fulfilled promptly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8339/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (26 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: 285. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a copy of the report produced as a result of the review of the operation of the revised model of care for termination of pregnancy services undertaken by the HSE's National Women and Infants Health Programme. [8356/25]

Disability: Statements (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: There is no point in discussing disabilities unless we can address the core issues relating to the disability sector. The core and fundamental issue is recruitment and retention. The CEO of the Disability Federation of Ireland stated that this issue is having a catastrophic impact. The reason that it is having such an impact and that there are so many difficulties is because two thirds of...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: Ballinrobe has paid a very high price for poor Government policy in recent weeks and months. The practice of placing very vulnerable and high-risk individuals in emergency accommodation has been a recipe for disaster. What is happening at the Railway Inn in Ballinrobe has caused major difficulties for the town. Crime is rising in the area. Garda numbers in Mayo are falling. Gardaí...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: ----- in the town to cease and end the practice of emergency accommodation in Ballinrobe-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Feb 2025)

Paul Lawless: ----- particularly at the Railway Inn.