Results 161-180 of 1,415 for speaker:Michael Moynihan in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (10 Mar 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 67. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of the school transport system, including consultation; when the final report can be expected; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13494/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Civil Service (8 Mar 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Civil Service Management Board, chaired by the Secretary General of his Department, will next meet. [12883/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (22 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will detail his meetings with insurance stakeholders since November 2021. [9307/22]

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in the debate. I also welcome the Bill before the House. It is not before time. I know there has been a significant effort and work put in to bring the Bill to the House. It is a very important part of the programme for Government. The Minister of State with responsibility for disability, Deputy Rabbitte, has taken on the role with great energy,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: Issues surrounding the primary medical certificate are raised week after week by the groups who appear before the Joint Committee on Disability Matters. There is an intransigence in the system. The appeals board resigned a few months ago. There is no mechanism for appeals. A court case was taken in June 2020 and new legislation was passed but the system does not seem to be working. On...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Educational Disadvantage (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: On the capital side, I look forward to that later in the week. On the revenue side and the day-to-day running of it, what percentage of the overall higher education budget will be targeted towards people on the margins of society? There are people who have multi-generational issues whereby they have not got into third level education and do not see a prospect of third level education. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Educational Disadvantage (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: 54. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the strategic action plan for equity, participation and success in higher education 2022-2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6380/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Educational Disadvantage (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: Will the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science tell me the status of the strategic action plan for equity, participation and success in higher education for the period 2022 to 2026, and will he advise the House of his plans?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Educational Disadvantage (8 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: The Minister mentioned the timeframe. There is a great urgency with this. Even though the education system has quite rightly served the country very well over the decades, we need to look at those who are not benefiting from education, those on the margins of society and those, as the Minister has said in his response, who are not represented in it. I have a number of questions. I am...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: In view of the legislation that is due to come before the House with regard to remote working and given the changes that have been seen over the past two years, many communities are developing their own digital hubs and small community hubs. Will the Tánaiste indicate what are the Government's plans for the State to take a number of desks in those digital hubs? It would make it more...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to welcome and speak on the Bill that is before the House. Nothing has been more transformative in Irish life since the foundation of the State than the education system. We can be very proud of how the education system has developed over the years and the huge amount of effort that has been put in by many Governments and Ministers to advance education. To take...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on broadband. The issue is that broadband is the great enabler for rural Ireland. In many of the debates we had a number of years ago, we looked at broadband to try to have connectivity within rural Ireland. In the intervening two years, Covid-19 has shown us what rural Ireland can do. Despite the protests of the policymakers that we...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on social affairs and equality will meet next. [60022/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (2 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: The issue here is that dentists have withdrawn from the scheme. I gather from the Minister of State's reply, for which I thank her, that an engagement was held in June. That is almost six months ago. This is a crisis. What has happened during those six months? Extra funding has been made available in the budget. What is the commitment? I fear the words "early in the new year". There...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Dental Services (2 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the Acting Chairman and the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to raise this issue. In the past year or so in particular, many of my constituents who have a medical card have contacted me regarding their inability to access dental care. It seems that dentists have moved away from medical card patients. Obviously, dentists are overwhelmed by the volume of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill and I also welcome the Bill. The bureaucratic system surrounding planning is fundamental in blocking or stopping development. That bureaucratic system has been allowed to develop because local authorities, An Bord Pleanála or others are unwilling to take decisions. We need to strip it back if we are serious about proper planning. We have...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 71. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the way the revised national development plan will strengthen rural economies and communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55850/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: National Development Plan (16 Nov 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 110. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will provide an overview of national strategic outcome No. 3 of the National Development Plan 2021-2030; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55849/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (10 Nov 2021)

Michael Moynihan: 16. To ask the Taoiseach the Cabinet committee that deals with agriculture; and when it is next due to meet. [48297/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service (14 Oct 2021)

Michael Moynihan: Over the last decade, the ambulance service was removed and after much lobbying and negotiations, we got the ambulance back. I am talking about the time that a general practitioner, GP, arrives at a patient's door, assesses the patient and says that an ambulance is needed to get the patient to hospital immediately. It takes 2.5 hours from that call until the ambulance gets to the door. Let...