Results 141-160 of 330 for children speaker:Michael McNamara

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: World Health Organization: Public Health Advice (11 Jun 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...teachers, parents or anybody else, because that is where the major potential for spreading the disease lies. Second, it is necessary to try to ensure the best possible educational experience for children. I am one of those people who has been distressed by the number of months that children of all ages have lost in their education. As to whether it will be 2 m or 1 m in school, I...

Covid-19 (Education and Skills): Statements (13 May 2020)

Michael McNamara: ...and abandon official advice if necessary. Bright students in every school have to be given their chance, notwithstanding where we find ourselves as a country. I welcome the clarification on July provision for children with special needs, to the extent that the Minister has been able to give it up to now.

Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Statements (21 Jan 2016)

Michael McNamara: ...plain labelling on tobacco has been mentioned in the House. This is of concern to me because it is one of the advances this Government has made under the Fine Gael deputy leader, the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Deputy James Reilly, who came out very strongly in favour of plain packaging and a greater unanimity in advertising for tobacco products. If we continue down that...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Abuse (22 Sep 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...Skills her views that the State has a liability, pursuant to the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in the O'Keeffe v. Ireland for abuse, whether sexual or non-sexual, suffered by school children in Irish schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30552/15]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (28 Apr 2015)

Michael McNamara: 226. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, is not in a position to administer the national lottery grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16311/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (24 Mar 2015)

Michael McNamara: 761. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an extra teacher and additional resources to cater for the special educational needs of children attending a national school (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11212/15]

Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2015)

Michael McNamara: ...that the status of illegitimacy was removed from Irish law. I suppose there were people at the time who forecast that the sky would fall in but that has not happened in any way. Now, one third of children in the State are not born within a married family. The history of the Irish Constitution and the State has been based on a family founded on marriage and the concept of a Christian...

Road Traffic (No.2) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages (18 Dec 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...week in Scariff gardaí were out issuing penalty points in the 500 m between the town and the school. They were issuing penalty points at school time because when mothers are driving their children to school, there is an issue with regard to safety belts and penalty points. Those women who were driving their children to school were breaking the law and presumably they have been...

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Oct 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...practically all her life. She was told that the easiest thing to do would be to get married. The couple got married and are still married, happily, I hope. It would seem that is the case. They have two children. One could ask whether that is a sign of a loving marriage; that the children are a result of love. I did not ask them. To all intents and purposes they are living a normal...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (17 Sep 2014)

Michael McNamara: 721. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of applications that have been made to the courts in every calendar year since 1 August 2012 to have legal costs services related to the representation of guardians ad litem taxed or measured as provided for in sections 25 (4), 26 (2) and 26 (2C) of the Child Care Act 1991, as amended; and if he will make a statement on the...

Forestry Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...piece of land, ties it up for as much as 70 years and at the end of that 70 years, when the person thinks that he or she has put this aside and the investment is there for the person and his or her children, the person could be refused permission to cut the trees. This on the basis that the Forestry Bill passed in 2014 states that if the Minister refuses such a person for environmental...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (17 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: 228. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the announcement made on St. Patrick's Day this year to the effect that Irish citizen children, children from Irish emigrant families living outside the European Union who return as undergraduates to Irish universities or third-level colleges, would no longer have to pay the full international fee applies equally to children who have...

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (11 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...risk observed by the Authority in ULH during the course of this review was the persistent overcrowding in the Emergency Department (ED). The overcrowding impacted negatively on patients (adults and children) and on staff. It impeded access to patients for care and observation, reduced privacy and dignity, increased the risk of transmission of infection and prevented adequate cleaning of...

Topical Issue Debate: HIQA Reports (11 Jun 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...my constituents are effectively told by HIQA, the body that told them the then configuration was unsafe, that the emergency unit to which they entrust their lives and those of their elderly parents and children is not fit for purpose. We are no longer being told that the problem with the health service lies with a lack of funding but with management. We are now being told it needs more...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (27 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: 213. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of special needs assistants in primary and secondary schools in County Clare; the number of children to whom they provided support in 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22323/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (27 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: 287. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the supports that are available in non-DEIS schools for children and parents of children who are hyper-intelligent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23099/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (6 May 2014)

Michael McNamara: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on waiting lists for speech and language therapy here; if speech and language therapists on maternity or long-term sick leave are replaced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20163/14]

Gateway Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (12 Mar 2014)

Michael McNamara: ...Ennis and Clarecastle. He was packing up a car to drive to England to begin to try to find work there. He was a tradesman. He was not a happy man, he was desolate about leaving a mortgage, a wife and children behind. He pointed to a common area in the estate in which he lived and said that he could not even mow that grass. There are community employment schemes in the area but they do...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Bodies (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: 181. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of bodies under the aegis of her Department in respect of Government policy for which she is responsible for answering parliamentary questions pursuant to Standing Order 34. [6996/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Ministerial Appointments (12 Feb 2014)

Michael McNamara: 182. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will provide a list of bodies to which she has the authority to appoint board members. [7011/14]