Results 1,561-1,580 of 3,425 for speaker:Emer Higgins
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Emer Higgins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Emer Higgins: Yes.
- Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Business of Select Committee
Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Dec 2022) Emer Higgins: I appreciate the clarification and I thank the Minister of State's team for all of the work they have done to create this positive and progressive legislation. Well done.
- Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: I agree. It is welcome we have such collaboration on this important issue. Vicky Phelan will have a long and lasting legacy in Ireland and we will have a long and lasting legacy in our Statute Book. I agree with many speakers that if we have to slow things down to get this right, then let us get it right. This is about re-establishing trust and confidence in our healthcare system and,...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (7 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: I wish to raise the lack of public transport in Newcastle, which is a growing town. The 68 bus is the only bus that serves the village itself. It is the only form of public transport into the village. It runs only about once an hour and of late it has not been reliable. On top of that, the express route for commuters was cancelled earlier this year without any notice. According to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (7 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has engaged with the HSE to examine if a site at Crooksling, Brittas, County Dublin is suitable for use for medium-term accommodation for Ukrainian refugees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61110/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Antisocial Behaviour (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 24. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to tackle the rise in anti-social behaviour in our capital city; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60629/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Recycling Policy (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 122. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason for the exclusion of glass bottles in the recently announced deposit return scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60562/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 124. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if extenuating priority consideration can be given to applicants for the one stop shop full grant house BER improvement scheme in cases in which a person is terminally ill and requires their home to be made warmer and more comfortable for health reasons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60588/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 260. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to Parliamentary Question No. 302 of 29 November 2022, if he will provide a sectoral breakdown as between pharmaceutical, financial services, aircraft leasing, migration-work permits, interstate adoptions, miscellaneous notarial certs and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60664/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the measures are in place to assist people who feel their pension was devalued by mismanagement through wind up, (details supplied). [60584/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 361. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider adapting the living-alone allowance criteria to allow a person to rent a room in their home to an international healthcare worker who has come to Ireland to work, without this impacting on their living alone allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [60608/22]
- Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: 392. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports that are in place to support mothers of children under three years of age who cannot find childcare before they return to work after maternity leave; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60193/22]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: I thank the witnesses for attending. I apologise, as I got the opening statements but had to duck out for another meeting after being in attendance online. I thank the witnesses for sharing their expertise. This is an important topic, first and foremost because it is about the safety of people's homes. Second, the taxpayer has had to step in to compensate people as a result of the issues...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: Will Mr. Ó Coigligh explain how market surveillance is carried out and what it achieves from the end user's perspective? Is there a register that people can check to see the results of the market surveillance? How does that information get out?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: The office has the market surveillance in place, and we have stronger legislation. Nobody has failed the production standard. We should not see a slip in that because the regulations are in place, the audits are happening, the annual checks are taking place and, up to this point, the culture has changed. Is that a fair statement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: Moving to the corrective actions taken so far, what have the reasons for and trends behind them been?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: What of the annual checks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: Yes, okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Relating to Quarries and Deleterious Materials: Discussion (6 Dec 2022)
Emer Higgins: That is 95 clients.