Results 161-180 of 269 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: It can be invigorating to be part of a committee pursuing funds for playground provision. It brings people together in common purpose for their community. My councillor colleague, Ann Bambury, was central to such an initiative in Bandon for a very ambitious project there, but it should not be left to families to become social entrepreneurs and project managers, essentially spending vast...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Priorities (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 93. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the measures being examined by his Department to address loneliness and social isolation in rural areas and communities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Development Projects (27 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 100. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his plans to establish a community ownership fund to help community groups and social enterprises to buy or take over local community assets at risk of being lost, to be run as community-owned businesses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14529/25]

Triple Lock Mechanism and Irish Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (26 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: Our neutrality has not just been a key military stance since the foundation of the State. It is in some ways a core part of our national identity and culture. It has been a foundation of our international diplomatic status and given generations of Irish people a sense of security from wars happening on an international stage. The subject of neutrality is one of the most vexed and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Measures (26 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 107. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 and introduce a certificate formally recognising a pregnancy loss before 24 weeks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14358/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 164. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with representatives of the US-Jewish community during his visit to the United States of America for St. Patrick's Day and the reports from the American Jewish Committee that he indicated that the occupied territories Bill was no longer on the legislative agenda. [13395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to instigate a child protection review of the recently published ‘Understanding Behaviours of Concern and Responding to Crisis Situations Guidelines for Schools in Supporting Students’; her plans for a review of the reporting mechanism on the use of seclusion and restraint in schools, prior to their taking full effect...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Government Reform (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 447. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timeline for establishing town councils; the population size needed to qualify for the establishment of a town council; the role town councils will play; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13531/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will report on his visit to Atlanta and Savannah in the United States of America for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings he attended, the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13399/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 531. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his plans to extend the proposed permanent annual cost of disability support payment to individuals who are in receipt of the State pension; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14154/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 646. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on her visit to London for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings she attended, the issues that were discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13401/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 647. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will report on the visit of the Minister of State with responsibility for Disability to Japan for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings she attended, the issues that were discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13402/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Rights of the Child (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 663. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of plans to develop a national policy on the rights of children living in informal kinship care; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13882/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 714. To ask the Minister for Health if she will report on the visit of the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health to Denmark and Sweden for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings she attended, the issues that were discussed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13403/25]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Official Engagements (25 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 889. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will report on the visit of the Minister of State with special responsibility for community development, charities, the Gaeltacht and the islands to New Zealand for St. Patrick's Day; the meetings he attended, the issues that were discussed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13400/25]

Young Carers: Motion [Private Members] (20 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: I also welcome the delegation that is here. I fully support this Labour Party motion. Family carers are a large group of people who have been tragically neglected by the State. They provide vital unpaid care, often under severe financial pressure and with huge personal sacrifice. In the case of young carers, this sacrifice can include losing out on parts of childhood and carrying...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (20 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 236. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will outline the work of his Department to strengthen the State’s ability to detect and sanction breaches of law relating to the carriage of munitions of war on civil aircraft in Irish sovereign airspace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13220/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (20 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 237. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a copy of the plan to restore waiting times for driving tests to ten weeks that was requested by his officials as condition of his Department sanctioning 70 permanent positions for driver testers for the RSA in September 2024; the date by which his Department has requested waiting times to be restored to ten weeks;...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Irish Language (20 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 323. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to consider policy measures, up to and including legislation, to encourage businesses in Ireland to use bilingual packaging for their products as a way to promote and increase visibility of the Irish language; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Liam Quaide: 114. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on his recent engagements with the United States Secretary of State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11059/25]