Results 161-180 of 201 for speaker:Cathy Bennett

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 392. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that the free HRT scheme announced under Budget 2025 is delayed; the timeframe in which she intends for it to be in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (27 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 428. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the supports available to those undertaking apprenticeships; if any specific support is available to assist with the purchase of tools and equipment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8764/25]

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: -----including more pharmacies, rehab care and sport, housing and the environment.

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I ask the Minister-----

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: -----as a starting point that if she will not implement Sinn Féin's plan, will she please-----

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: -----do her very best to cause no further harm?

The Future of Healthcare for Longer, Healthier Lives: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I wish the Minister and the Minister of State well in their new roles. I hope they can change healthcare in this country. I have been listening to and taking part in Dáil debates over the past few weeks and it seems easy for the Government to portray that the increased demand for public services has just come out of the ether. Population modelling seems to be only considered as an...

Driver Test Waiting Times: Motion [Private Members] (25 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: In April of last year, the then Fianna Fáil Minister of State at the Department of Transport, and now Minister for public expenditure, described the prior hiring of 30 testers as not enough. He assured us that we would see significant progress between October and the end of the year and that we would get back to a ten-week waiting time early in the following year. It is now early...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (25 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline her proposals to ensure that every child without a suitable school place, and those due to start in primary or secondary school in September 2025, will have access to a suitable school place within a reasonable distance from their home. [7877/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (25 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 792. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the current vacancy rate in children's disability network teams; and her proposals to recruit sufficient staff to ensure that children have access to the therapies and services they require. [7876/25]

Importance of Agrifood to the Irish Economy: Statements (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: Comhghairdeas, a Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We all wish to see an environment of co-operation fostered between the Department of agriculture and farmers in order that farmers would feel that they, as the primary producers, were viewed by the Department as its primary stakeholder. All too often, however, the relationship is antagonistic. Part of the reason for this is that the Department is...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: In counties such as Monaghan, rather than tar as a new dawn, as one Minister described it, people instead continue to damage their suspension and blow out tyres following yet another false dawn. Despite all the bluster of Ministers, maintenance and road repair funding in County Monaghan will not increase significantly to improve road repairs. That is because 43% of the additional funding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Exports (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I understand the Department's position is that the officials provide a thorough risk-assessment to ensure that, in the Minister of State's own words, as far as possible, items are only used for their stated purpose. The Government has intervened in a case before the International Court of Justice where Israel is on trial for the crime of genocide. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Exports (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: In 2022, Ireland's dual-use exports to Israel amounted to €10.7 million, yet in the first eight months of the genocide, those exports ballooned to €32.1 million. Now, the Minister of State tells us that over the period of the genocide, seven licences have been approved from Ireland. At a time when Israel's economy is struggling, does the Minister of State not find this in any...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Exports (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 9. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of and value related to dual-use export licences granted to end users based in Israel, by quarter, since Q3 2023; and his engagements with Cabinet colleagues in relation to such. [6708/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Exports (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: I would also like to congratulate the new Ministers, especially the Minister of State, Niamh Smyth, from my constituency. Well done and congratulations to you all. Will the Minister outline the total number and value of goods and services with military applications that have been sanctioned with Israel since the onset of its genocide in Palestine?

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 24. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to storm Éowyn and the supports available to local businesses adversely impacted as a result. [6707/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 79. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his intentions to improve local electricity infrastructure and ensure increased redundancy to mitigate the impact of adverse weather events. [6706/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on his engagements with Eirgrid. [6705/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Official Engagements (20 Feb 2025)

Cathy Bennett: 293. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will outline the official engagements in his Ministerial diary, and that of any Minister of State in his Department, for the week ending 16 February 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/25]