Results 161-180 of 469 for speaker:James Geoghegan

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: Investment in infrastructure is a key part of the programme for Government. Housing and water infrastructure are key in that but public transport is too. Dublin Port is carrying out an expansion plan and is going to build a new bridge alongside the toll bridge that would facilitate the extension of the Luas to Poolbeg. I ask that in the lifetime of this Dáil we get that project at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can detail the key impact of the ESRI working paper, The Impact of Deglobalisation and Protectionism on a Small Open Economy - The Case of Ireland, on policy in his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15839/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: My question relates to the policy response to tariffs that were hypothetical when I tabled it and that are now real. I am concerned about a creeping narrative emerging from certain quarters within the Opposition, and Sinn Féin in particular, which seeks to pitch Ireland against Europe in the response. Does the Minister agree that in our response to this we need more, and not less,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Trade Relations (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the Minister. There is no sugar-coating the tariff announcements made yesterday evening. We are only beginning to understand their effects. It is now the reality that the United States, which started globalisation, is seeking to bring an end to it. We in the European Union need to be proud of what we have done in developing the largest single market in the world. We need to...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 61. To ask the Minister for Finance if he can provide an update in respect of measures proposed in the report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare relevant to his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Artificial Intelligence (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 118. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his plans to use AI to support public service reform; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15840/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Artificial Intelligence (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 988 of 19 March 2025, if he can refer the question asked to the State bodies under his Department's aegis for a direct response to this Deputy given all other Ministers did in response to the same question; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16452/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (3 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide specific examples of where the HSE has been supported by external providers in accessing international candidate markets to source both occupational therapists and speech and language therapists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16495/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the Minister of State and I welcome his support for the funding of farmers' markets and organic food fairs. In all seriousness, these fairs are a very good way of bridging some of the differences and divides between rural and urban Ireland and fostering a greater understanding and appreciation of rural Ireland in urban environments but crucially, there is a real economic value to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: I thank the Minister and it is great to hear that. It is important to reiterate the importance of the funding for projects right across the country, including ones that will take place in my own constituency in Merrion Square. Ultimately, if we want to have a successful, thriving food culture and a thriving restaurant sector in Dublin, it is about promoting these farmers' markets...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will again be supporting a national organic food fair which took place in Merrion Square in 2024; whether smaller fairs might be supported in other smaller Dublin or urban parks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13804/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Organic Farming (2 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: I congratulate the Minister and all the other Ministers on their roles and wish them well in their brief. They might not see me here much but this is an issue of interest to me. It is about the farm-to-fork philosophy. A very successful organic food fair was run in Merrion Square last year. My question is on whether it will be funded again this year. Second, can the type of funding that...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (1 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 52. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure will meet next. [9827/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 105. To ask the Taoiseach for an update in relation to his attendance at the Munich security conference. [7954/25]

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

James Geoghegan: 148. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide an update in relation to the Government’s Trade Forum and the efforts that are underway to preserve Ireland’s two-way relationship in trade between the United States and Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15527/25]

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

James Geoghegan: 152. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if artificial intelligence innovation will be a key theme of Ireland’s EU Presidency; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (1 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 421. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the names and locations of schools currently in receipt of the NCSE educational therapy support service, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will identify every secondary school in Dublin 2,4,6 and 8 which has Politics and Society on their Leaving Certificate curriculum, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15710/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (1 Apr 2025)

James Geoghegan: 630. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1056 of 19 March 2025, and the letter provided from the HSE in respect of that question, if any data exists on record in respect of a matter (details supplied); if that data can provided, however incomplete it might be; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

James Geoghegan: 34. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what plans are in place to increase the number of degree courses for occupational therapy and speech and language therapy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14527/25]