Results 121-140 of 392 for speaker:Robert O'Donoghue

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Sep 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1920. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will reverse the new ECCE compliance requirement, introduced on 10 June 2025, obliging providers to store children’s PPSN details for one year considering the PPSN's are not required once a child is registered in The Hive, and the requirement increases the risk of unnecessary data breaches; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Sep 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2008. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality to provide a list of early years and school age childcare services that have withdrawn from the core funding scheme; the number and percentage of services that have signed up to the scheme to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47083/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Sep 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2047. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the ongoing delays in access to timely diagnostic and consultant-led care in both public and private healthcare systems, including for patients with urgent referrals and private health insurance; if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied); if she will outline the steps being taken to improve access to diagnostics and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2523. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) to review its English language requirements for overseas-qualified nurses, particularly those already registered with the UK NMC (details supplied); if he will consider requesting the NMBI to review its policy to allow more flexible recognition, for example through a one-year...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 484. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department or the National Transport Authority collects or has access to data on footfall in nightlife areas, particularly in urban centres, for the purpose of assessing public transport demand between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m.; if he will make this data available for 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form, to inform future planning...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Proposed Legislation (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 913. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his views on the impact of dynamic pricing practices in the sale of tickets to cultural, entertainment, recreational and sporting events; his plans to support and bring forward to Second Stage the Sale of Tickets (Cultural, Entertainment, Recreational and Sporting Events) (Amendment) Bill 2024, introduced by the then Deputy Jim...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Artists' Remuneration (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1317. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the number of initial applicants for the basic income for artists payment; the number of initial applicants rejected for the basic income for artists payment; the number of initial applicants rejected for the basic income for artists payment, but were successfully able to appeal their rejection; the number of...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1364. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a contact list of all State and semi-State bodies connected with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43129/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1460. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will urgently reconsider the significant reduction in funding to the tenant in situ scheme allocated to Fingal County Council, reported to have been cut by more than 50%, and funding already allocated, given that this scheme remains one of the few effective mechanisms currently preventing families from falling into...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1816. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection with reference to the programme for Government’s commitment to ‘examine how the social protection system can better support people fleeing domestic violence’ to outline the achievements to date to support victims of domestic violence and future plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1818. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if consideration will be given to the introduction of a dedicated 'safe fund', similar to the fleeing fund in the UK, to provide immediate (non means tested) financial assistance to victims of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence who need to leave abusive situations; if this measure can be considered as part of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1817. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the numbers of recipients of the domestic violence rent supplement since it was introduced in 2020, in tabular form; the learnings from the first five years of the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42130/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Direct Provision System (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 1965. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is aware of reports that new mothers recovering from C-section surgery, and those with serious illness in direct provision (details supplied), are being required to attend communal dining areas for meals, even when medically unfit to do so; if he will outline the measures in place to ensure that new mothers in...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Court Orders (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2054. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the current use and regulation of special exemption orders, SEOs, for licensed premises; the number of SEOs granted in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, the associated costs to venue operators, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Bodies (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2208. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a contact list of all State and semi-State bodies connected with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43128/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Industry (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2236. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of people engaged in the food production industry, broken down by county and age demographics, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44110/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2451. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality given the Government’s commitment to expanding affordable and accessible early education and school age childcare, if she will outline the role her Department is playing in coordinating with the National Development Plan to ensure the delivery of public childcare facilities as part of strategic housing developments on...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Early Childhood Care and Education (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 2452. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will provide an update of any planned or ongoing review of core funding for the early childhood education and care sector; whether the review will address concerns regarding sustainability, staffing costs and capacity pressures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43116/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (29 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 3211. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has formally notified her Department that the national biological treatment service for rabies, specifically the service responsible for assessing persons potentially exposed to rabies and delivering critical biologic prophylaxis, has ceased operations as of July 2025 due to retirement; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Animal Welfare (16 Jul 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 154. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the current status of animal welfare monitoring and oversight at Dublin Zoo; the independent inspections that have been conducted by the National Parks & Wildlife Service under the Zoo Directive during 2024 and 2025; what specific welfare issues, if any, were identified and what remedial actions have been mandated;...