Results 161-180 of 238 for speaker:Joe Cooney

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (1 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have qualified for the full amount of the jobseeker’s pay-related benefit; the proportion of the total number of recipients this is, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21745/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 124. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress at increasing respite provision to include weekends and overnights; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20436/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the work at increasing capacity in respite services to meet known unmet need; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20437/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Active Travel (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 478. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide the details of all Active Travel applications submitted by Clare County Council, whether successful or not, for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the details of the projects that received funding; the details of the prioritisation assessment policy for determining which projects were successful; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Emergency Services (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 479. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a timeline for an aviation contract transition (details supplied); If he will outline how the company will provide helicopter emergency medical support using helicopters that are not licensed to carry stretchers; how it will provide night-time search and rescue without a searchlight; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 565. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider increasing the exemption for CGT on the sale of shares from €1,270; the cost to the exchequer of such a change; if an evaluation of such a change can been made against the revenue return on the release of the equity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18904/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to increase the provision of classes for dyslexia in Clare, Limerick and north Tipperary; to outline waiting lists for classes for dyslexia in Clare, Limerick and north Tipperary, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18903/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Dental Services (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 2041. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide details of every dental service available to holders of medical cards through the dental services treatment scheme; the list of dentists that provide those services to medical card holders in County Clare; what obligations those dentists have with regard to providing all such services listed; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Departments (29 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 2323. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 791 of 1 April 2025, to provide the following data for the Model 4 hospitals (The Mater University Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital and University Hospital Waterford) for the 2024 calendar year, in tabular form: the number of patients presenting at the emergency department (ED); the number of those patients...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 285. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider reviewing the code of best practice for national and regional greenways and the greenway sustainability payment, with a view to including coastal pathways; if he will consider the development of a standalone code of best practise for coastal pathways and a coastal pathway sustainability payment; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress that has made on including 'meanwhile use' as an exempted development under the Planning and Development - Exempted Development Regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 662. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person whose employment is based around the school or academic year is excluded from the job seeker’s pay related benefit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16657/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 753. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the protections that are in place for wild animals, such as the zebras; if legislation is required in Ireland to buy, sell or keep them, or to import them into the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16659/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 884. To ask the Minister for Health for a list of all dentists in Clare that undertake dental work for those in receipt of a medical card as part of the dental treatment service scheme; the process whereby a medical card holder who cannot get treatment from such a dentist can do so; the steps that can be taken by her Department to ensure those with a medical card who are entitled to dental...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 897. To ask the Minister for Health when free HRT will be made available; if there are plans to refund those people who have paid for medicines since the beginning of the year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16725/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Labour Market (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 209. To ask the Taoiseach the unemployment figures for County Clare for 1 March 2024 and 1 March 2025; the unemployment figures for all of Ireland for the same dates; the measures his Department is taking to create jobs in County Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Trade Agreements (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 243. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to reaffirm Ireland’s opposition to the current Mercosur trade deal in accordance with the Programme for Government; to outline the details of engagement with EU partners in opposing the deal since December 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15580/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 308. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the development of the proposed West Clare Railway Greenway between Kilrush to Kilkee (Section 1), Ennis to Ennistymon (Section 2), and Ennistymon to Miltown Malbay and Miltown Malbay to Moyasta (Section 3 and 4); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15583/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Service Obligation (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 309. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department will provide financial support to Shannon Airport Group to establish a route to Amsterdam under a Public Service Obligation. [15584/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Cooney: 310. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the average waiting times for each National Driver Licence Service centre in Ireland on 31 December 2023 and on 31 December 2024, in tabular form; and the measures that have been introduced to increase staffing levels and reduce waiting times across the State. [15585/25]