Results 1,481-1,500 of 9,147 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I call Deputy Pringle.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Regarding the International Protection Office on Mount Street, I welcome the fact, as the Minister has told us previously, that applications can now be made in Citywest. As the Minister will be aware, though, there has been a significant increase in the numbers of people applying. Yet all of them, aside from those people who go to Citywest, must apply in Mount Street. If we look at the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: It is demonstrably the case that the Mount Street office needs further assistance in terms of dealing with the numbers of applications being made to it. I thank the Minister very much for coming before the committee. Would the Minister like to come back in on anything?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 20 - Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Supplementary)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice (Supplementary) (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister and her officials for attending late on a Thursday evening. That concludes the committee's consideration of the Supplementary Estimates for Votes 20, 21, 22 and 24. The Minister and her officials are free to go. We have a very short private meeting to attend to.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Message to Dáil (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In accordance with Standing Order 101, the following message will be sent to the Clerk of the Dáil: The Select Committee on Justice has completed its consideration of the following Supplementary Estimates for public services for the year ending 31 December 2024: Vote 20 - Garda Síochána; Vote 21 - Prisons; Vote 22 - Courts Service; and Vote 24 - Justice.

Maternity Protection Bill 2024 [Seanad]: Second Stage (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I commend the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, on bringing forward this legislation into these sittings of the Oireachtas. It may be recalled that on 20 March this year, I introduced the Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2024. It sought, in effect, to do exactly the same as the Minister is seeking to do in this legislation. Obviously, I am...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Departmental Budgets (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 113 of 18 September 2024, if his Department has made any projections of its likely required budget out to 2029 especially in the context of reaching LOA2, as set out in the capability framework devised by the Commission on the Defence Forces; and if so, whether he will provide the details of same; if his...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Heritage Sites (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 179. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the cost of giving a free heritage card, which currently costs €30 for access to all OPW sites, for those aged 60 and over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42209/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 185. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation to the IDA in each year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; the proposed allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42300/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 186. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the budget allocation to Enterprise Ireland in each year from 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form; the proposed allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42301/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of the expenditure on new school buildings, and the refurbishment of existing buildings, since 27 June 2020; the number of projects completed; the number of projects currently in construction; the number of projects currently in design, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42294/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 212. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the refuge units delivered by her Department since 2020, and to provide in tabular form the cost of each unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42254/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 213. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details of the cost of delivering 150 more refuge units; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42258/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 230. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a table detailing the rate of all welfare payments in the years 2019 to 2024, and any increases due in 2025; the total increase in this period; the percentage change in payments in those years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42202/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 231. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of benchmarking the State Pension at 34% of average earnings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42203/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Reviews (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the broad review her Department is undertaking of means testing; if any findings, provisional or otherwise, can be made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42204/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of allowing those who are carers and in receipt of a full carer’s allowance retain the full carer’s allowance; the full State pension when they reach State pension age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42205/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 234. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on deliberations being undertaken by her Department following a landmark judgment by the Supreme Court in relation to entitlement to the widow's pension, including preparations for legislative changes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42206/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 235. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost of giving the telephone support allowance to all those entitled to the household benefits package; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42207/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 236. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the cost in 2025 of increasing the qualified child increase in each age category by €5; €10; €15 and €20; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42208/24]