Results 161-180 of 2,486 for speaker:Patricia Ryan

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Over two weeks her pay-as-you-go meter cost her €500 just to run an air-to-water heating system. How affordable is this on an old age pension? The Minister of State and I both know it is not. A young mother with the same heating system was left paying a bill of more than €3,000 to keep her house warm. It is no wonder we have food banks, and we have the Minister of State's...

Affordable Electricity: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Fair point, thank you.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (25 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this matter. I recognise the work that went into the review on the modernisation of our criminal justice laws, but to be brutally honest, there is little or no point in doing this until this Government provides sufficient garda numbers to enforce the laws. It is a missed opportunity. The Government has had this, but it has continued to sit on its hands...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Covid-19 Pandemic (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 2. To ask the Taoiseach the date for the commencement of the Covid enquiry; if it will be before the Dáil Éireann summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26411/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 14. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he plans for funding to upgrade buildings on the Curragh military campus, which are in extremely bad condition. [26408/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if lighting will be installed at junction 11 at Kilcullen, southbound on the M7, as this junction is extremely dangerous, and it is only a matter of time before there is a fatality. [26414/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the location for the new special school in Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26407/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans being put in place for a school (details supplied) in Monasterevin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26412/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills who is responsible for the portacabins still in a school (details supplied) in Monasterevin; who is paying for those cabins; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26413/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 74. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is aware that in many cases, bereavement grant applications are taking six to eight weeks to be paid to those who are in dire need of it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26409/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 75. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she plans to abolish the means test for those applying for carer's allowance. [26410/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 141. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of people under 18 are currently waiting on audiometry tests in CHO7. [26405/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 142. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time appointments for ADHD assessments in CHO7. [26406/24]

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach, and I thank Deputy Tully for bringing this motion to the floor today. I would like to say I am shocked by the figures in the Family Carers Ireland report, but in all good conscience I cannot say that. As Sinn Féin spokesperson for older people, I know only too well how much these selfless people do and how poorly valued they feel, especially...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: For hundreds of years, Ireland's people have been immigrants, leaving our shores for other countries, both near and far, whether driven by famine, unemployment, as in previous years, or, more recently, because they cannot find or afford housing. These immigrants faced rules and regulations at their destinations because the countries in question put in place controls and requirements....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: This week, Deputy Ward, who is the Sinn Féin spokesperson for mental health, arranged a meeting with Families for Reform of CAMHS, which I attended. These families report that 70% of parents surveyed were unhappy with the handling of complaints relating to their children in CAMHS, saying that they were not listened to and were worried about how the complaint would adversely affect their...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (12 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 141. To ask the Minister for Health when the 1,500 people living with lupus in Ireland can expect to be given access to belimumab and anifrolumab for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus when the 1,500 people living with lupus in Ireland can expect to be given access to belimumab and anifrolumab for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus; and if he will make a statement on the...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I wish to share time with Deputies Buckley and Mythen.

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Clarke for bringing this very important issue before the House and for the opportunity to speak on it. I cannot over-stress the panic and worry that parents of children with special needs in my constituency of Kildare South are going through at this time of year, as they try to find an appropriate school place for their child in the coming term. We can imagine how the parent...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (11 Jun 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 156.To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the details of the road budget provided to Kildare County Council for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [25318/24]