Results 361-380 of 29,158 for speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (20 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 137. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29267/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Commemorative Medals (20 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 179. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will consider the awarding of a commemorative medal to Defence Forces personnel involved in the Decade of Centenaries commemorations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 180. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if we will outline the actions taken to date to procure a primary radar capability for the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29774/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (20 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 181. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will set out the progress made to date in establishing a Joint Cyber Defence Command; the number of additional cyber specialists recruited to date to manage cyber defence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29775/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (20 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 182. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the progress made since the publication of the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces on the development of anti-drone or counter UAS (unmanned aircraft systems) in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29776/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 165. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the passport application for a person (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28211/23]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 164. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will ensure that the renewal of a passport for a child (details supplied) will be processed urgently by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 475. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has considered the urgent need to secure additional accommodation for a school (details supplied) who have been informed that they must use their school library and GP hall to accommodate classes for the next academic year; if she is aware that this school will have 12 children in their ASD classes from September who need a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 591. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a clear calendar of timelines in relation to the provision of ICT grants to national schools, that set out in advance the dates in which payments will issue to schools to cover the cost of ICT equipment purchased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social Welfare Benefits (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 648. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will re-examine the rates of HAP payment in the light of the experience of a person (details supplied) who is struggling to pay rent of €1,150 per month and has been offered a HAP payment of €13.76 a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27074/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 927. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 1064 of 18 April 2023, if he will ensure that an original passport is returned to a person (details supplied) who submitted it as part of a visa application in respect of their father and which they now require urgently in order to travel for medical treatment; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1155. To ask the Minister for Health if he will review the refusal of a home care package for a person (details supplied) who has a variety of obvious and serious needs but is under the age of 65 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27472/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (13 Jun 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1371. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review the SUSI grant application case of a person (details supplied) on the basis of fairness and justice where the special rate maintenance grant payable heretofore to family members whose father was in receipt of the working family payment and who last year, through illness, was out of work and in receipt of illness benefit,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: That is British Tory Party thinking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I thank the Minister of State for the presentation. I have a couple of questions. The first is a procedural one. There are only two countries – ourselves and Bulgaria – that have not ratified. I am afraid it is invariably the case that the Oireachtas is always late being asked by line Departments. I have had that out with the Department of Justice consistently. In the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: We do not necessarily have to be the last always though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: I also want to amplify the cultural links because it is a very important point that we have not really exploited. As I said in my initial remarks, we have not had much focus on Latin America. Our links with that part of the world are deep. I met a Ricardo Howlin, who spoke only Spanish, at a reception in Buenos Aires. My name is almost exclusively from Wexford. The few stray Howlins are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: All of them? Where are they now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ratification of Agreement Establishing EU-LAC Foundation: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: So we are moving farther away?

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (31 May 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 134. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ensure that a child (details supplied) will be given an assessment appointment at an early date, following commitments made in Dáil Éireann in relation to the provision of publicly funded autism assessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26478/23]