Results 81-100 of 3,366 for speaker:Michael Lowry

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Correspondence (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 95. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her attention has been drawn to correspondence sent to her office from a person (details supplied) concerning the prestigious Polar Medal which was awarded to an Irish born Antarctic explorer; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8253/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (21 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the ruling concerning the free fuel allowance, which states that a household payment can only be paid when the residence is on an approved site (publicly or privately owned) with planning permission for the caravan or mobile home, was introduced and if this ruling will be reviewed in cases where someone lives in a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 78. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide an update on the implementation of the new pay-related jobseeker's benefit system; how this reform is improving the social welfare system for persons with a strong work history so they can receive enhanced benefits if they lose their employment; what measures are being taken to ensure its successful...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 102. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details on the steps her Department is taking in addressing the 'cliff-edges' in welfare systems; as she is aware these 'cliff-edges' in the welfare systems are where benefit entitlements and other supports are withdrawn sharply; these 'cliff-edges' disincentivise individuals from increasing their work hours or...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the measures being taken to support low-income families, such as increases in weekly social welfare payments, an increase in the domiciliary care allowance, and increases in the income thresholds for the working family payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7457/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 235. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made on the development of a new Garda station in Kickham Barracks, Clonmel, County Tipperary; if the development of Clonmel Garda station is considered a priority for Government, given that a new Garda station in Clonmel is urgently needed for the members of An Garda Síochána stationed in Clonmel and for the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Irish Language (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the recommendations of the Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, Gaeltacht and the Irish-speaking Community, specifically those pertaining to the exemption from Irish for dyslexic children and young people, if she is aware of the disappointment of The Dyslexia Association of Ireland that their points and views/recommendations...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address a matter regarding primary school admission policies (details supplied). [7568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 313. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide information on any meetings that she or her Departmental officials have had with Bus Éireann concerning the ban on school bus drivers who are over 70 years of age (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7990/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 529. To ask the Minister for Health when the guideline and calculations used to assess the qualification for the under-70s medical card was last reviewed; how can it be justified and deemed equitable that the basic allowance for a couple to qualify for a full medical under-70s medical card still stands at €266.50 per week, when the rate of jobseeker’s allowance for a couple is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (20 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 606. To ask the Minister for Health the current status of the provision of primary school dental services by the Health Service Executive in CHO5 and 3; the waiting times for the initial assessment of an individual and the subsequent waiting times for orthodontic treatment for such individuals once they have been referred; his views on whether it is acceptable that a child residing in...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: It takes initiative, conviction and courage to start a business. Those who take that leap of faith stake their future on making that business a success. No business sets out to fail. Managing a business involves hard work. It is time-consuming, demanding and full of stress and worry. It is constant, unrelenting pressure. It takes an emotional and physical toll on those who take on the...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Foreign Birth Registration (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he can review an application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7088/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 136. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a school (details supplied), and consider a request from the board of management and parents for support from her Department to establish an autism-specific special class in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6726/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 265. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding breeding waders and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6837/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding farmland birds and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6838/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding high nature value farmland and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6839/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 268. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide additional information regarding the hen harrier within the ‘current distribution and breeding distribution for hen harrier’ layer and afforestation in the new forestry programme; when will this information be released for public review and consideration; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6840/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: 288. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth for an update on the current caseload of the Nenagh Child and Family Agency Children’s Disability Network Team; the current level of whole time equivalent staff based in Nenagh’s CDNT; the number of WTE staff positions that are currently vacant, and the plans in place to address these vacancies;...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Large-scale Capital Projects: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (14 Feb 2024)

Michael Lowry: I also welcome Mr. Walsh and Mr. O'Neill to our meeting and thank them for their informative presentation. My experience of TII has been good in that it is open and approachable and we normally get very accurate information from it. The general experience with TII as regards projects, which is no fault of the witnesses themselves, is that the system is very bureaucratic and cumbersome and...