Results 21-40 of 13,960 for speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (7 Feb 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 164. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress with a much needed extension to a school, for which sanction was received in 2022 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4950/24]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc MacSharry: I know the process and thank the Minister of State for outlining it. I acknowledge that he is here on behalf of other Ministers to give this reply. He said the difference "lies in the different legislative frameworks" but it is ourselves who are responsible for that. Whether it was a puritanical approach by the Cabinet committee responsible for the temporary protection directive, the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (31 Jan 2024)

Marc MacSharry: I highlighted this matter more than a year and a half ago in the first instance because of the problems it would inevitably cause. Unfortunately, many of those problems have now been realised. As the Minister of State will be aware, those poor people who are fleeing war and persecution from countries such as Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and elsewhere are being afforded accommodation, food and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (30 Jan 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 256. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on progress on the provision of a much-needed new primary school on a single campus (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3703/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Work Permits (24 Jan 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 168. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when decisions will be made in respect of visa applications for nurses who have already obtained work permits to work in the State and are urgently required to fill nursing positions in a nursing home (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3287/24]

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Marc MacSharry: First, I want to express my best wishes to the victims who are continuing to recover following the attacks of two weeks ago and condemn the wanton violence and thuggery of those recent events. There is no excuse for them and they have no place in our society. I will support the Minister because, as I have said to a lot of media during the week, what I would much prefer us to focus on as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Dec 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the board of management of a primary school (details supplied) will have a decision on an application for a much-needed extension; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53765/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will have the carers allowance payment re-instated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52018/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (28 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) who was awarded the disability allowance will receive payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52019/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 588. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 444 of 24 January 2023, what stage the review of the current requirement that applicants for plumbing and electrician apprenticeships must pass the colour vision test without the use of corrective lenses is at; when he expects the review to be concluded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50525/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 566. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be reimbursed for treatment received under the treatment abroad scheme - EU Cross Border Directive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49809/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 59. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has provided to his Department to date the detailed costings and an implementation plan requested which will inform a decision in relation to the inclusion of the chickenpox vaccine in the primary childhood immunisation programme; when a decision on this is expected to be made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48926/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 264. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (detailed supplied) will receive a decision on a carers support grant application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49177/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (9 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 265. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (detailed supplied) will receive a decision on an application for disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49178/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (8 Nov 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 127. To ask the Minister for Health when a decision is expected to be made by his Department on providing the varicella vaccine to children in Ireland as part of the national immunisation programme, considering the results of the positive HTA outcome in July 2023, the response of the National Immunisation Lead from 8 August 2023 which stated that “it is currently not Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 3. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will expedite a passport for a person (details supplied) given the circumstances of the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43469/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the announced additional two modular buildings of 80 sq. m are not yet in place in a school (details supplied); the reason that in October of this school year, more urgency has not been placed on the installation of these buildings; when these much-needed class rooms will be installed and be fully functional; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: 486. To ask the Minister for Health if CMTX1 can be added to the list of conditions covered by the long-term illness scheme in view of the fact that it is similar to muscular dystrophy, which is already on the list (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43572/23]

Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Minister for not opposing and for taking a constructive approach in terms of referring it to committee. I thank the Sinn Féin Party. Other parties expressed support as well. We are all on the same page in terms of trying to achieve the outcome. Ultimately, to follow on from Deputy Ó Broin, it is all about consumers. While we are here in the presence of some of the...

Seller's Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Oct 2023)

Marc MacSharry: We are well ahead of schedule.