Results 1-20 of 27 for via speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Communications Regulation and Digital Hub Development Agency (Amendment) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (22 Feb 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Minister of State is saying the amendment was recommitted via the Seanad.

Comhshuí de Dháil Éireann agus de Sheanad Éireann - Joint Sitting of the Houses of the Oireachtas (6 Apr 2022)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ..., President Zelenskyy will commence his address shortly. Before the President starts his address, I must advise Members in relation to some technical matters. The President will be addressing us via videoconference. The voice of an interpreter will also be broadcast into the Chamber. Please only use the headphones in front of you if the broadcast of the interpreter’s voice can no...

Visit of Canadian Ambassador to Ireland (10 Mar 2022)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...by her colleague from the embassy, Jackie Ellis, and by our colleague, Deputy Stanton, who is doing an outstanding job as Chairman of the Canada-Ireland Interparliamentary Friendship Group. I am hoping that via the ambassador's visit and the work of the friendship group that cultural, social, economic and political links will be strengthened in the period ahead.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Oct 2019)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...Garda Commissioner the allocation of Garda resources to the Cork city Garda division and if he will make a statement on the matter; (13) Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - to discuss relief road proposals to alleviate traffic congestion in Maynooth, County Kildare; (14) Deputy Mary Butler - to discuss diabetes services at University Hospital Waterford; (15) Deputies Anne Rabbitte and Michael...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (2 Oct 2019)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...to renewable energy; the background - this issue arises on foot of concerns that the Government will support a proposal at European level later this week to provide for the importation of fracked gas via interconnectors off the west coast; (14) Deputy Seamus Healy - the urgent need to approve the appointment of additional special needs assistants for Scoil Aonghusa, a special national...

Topical Issue Matters (31 Jan 2018)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...and Frank O'Rourke - to discuss the recent inclusion of a diabetes management device for children with type 1 diabetes only; (7) Deputies Dessie Ellis and Noel Rock - to discuss an extension of the Luas to Dublin Airport via Finglas; (8) Deputy Jim O'Callaghan - to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality to address the fatal shooting in Dublin's north inner city last night; (9) Deputy...

Convention on the Constitution Final Reports: Statements (14 Jan 2016)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...oversight would ensure that Members had access to expertise and sufficient information in the decision-making process. As the Constitutional Convention recommended, the Government could use its current powers under the Constitution and appoint experts via the Seanad as Ministers. We could revamp Standing Orders for the Dáil to strengthen individual Members' roles and create an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Jun 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...; the extent to which support services are in place, including counselling, for persons diagnosed with the condition; the extent to which the executive draws public attention to the condition, via posters, social media, and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24291/15]

Standing Order 107I: Motion (10 Feb 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...is not allowable. The public has not got a clue about what is happening at present. We need to let the public be aware that the names of certain personnel and documentation will not be made public via the banking inquiry. It is therefore not an inquiry that will be open, as I understand it, because of the restrictions placed on it. It indicates that we are in an area of legal...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...a primary online database; the reason her Department is seeking to collect data in relation to the ethnicity and religion of students; the length of time which it is planned to store data collected via the primary online database system; the places this data will be stored; the persons that will have access to this data; if her Department has engaged with the Data Protection Commissioner...

Order of Business (11 Dec 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...sought by my colleague, Deputy Sean Fleming. This information, relevant to these Supplementary Estimates, was to be supplied but, to date, despite it being requested again by Deputy Fleming and me via the Whips' office, we are sitting here being asked to approve the taking of the Supplementary Estimates without the information having been supplied. I put it to the Minister that it is a...

Order of Business (10 Apr 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...water services. The result of the dilemma currently is that local authorities, such as that in County Kildare, are not taking estates in charge at all. Will that lacuna in the law be addressed via the planning Bill or will there be a protocol brought forward by Government as a matter of urgency to address the difficulty?

Freedom of Information Act 1997 (Prescribed Bodies) Regulations 2014: Motion (29 Jan 2014)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...of the Water Services Transition Office, which is the body formed by the County and City Managers' Association and which has had something of the order of €5.7 million allocated to it. I wanted via the question to establish who had received that money. I note that while I am told in the response that €3.5 million was paid in 2013 for the recoupment of costs for an average...

Civil Defence Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Report and Final Stages (20 Dec 2012)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...be made clearly that from time to time, members of the local authority may have information that could be of use to the local authority and to the Civil Defence. It would be useful, were they in a position, via their cathaoirleach or mayor, to check the register and to verify the information contained therein is in accordance with the facts as they know them.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (5 Dec 2012)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: To ask the Minister for Finance if he will abolish the level of VAT levied on student textbooks accessed via tablet computer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54720/12]

Foreign Conflicts (22 May 2012)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...see in terms of hunger and deprivation has its origins in conflict. What the Tánaiste is doing is to be commended, therefore, but how ambitious is he to develop this initiative further? Can we, via the OSCE and our membership of the European Union, garner greater resources to put into the conflict resolution unit that was established in the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2007 and take...

Diplomatic Representation (21 Feb 2012)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...to statements that the Minister himself had made by way of written reply to Members of this House some time ago? Can the Minister brief Members as to whether he is prepared to engage actively via the new non-resident ambassador, Mr. David Cooney, with the Vatican in terms of the possibility of Villa Spada serving as a dual-purpose embassy or being divided so that part of it may deliver the...

Written Answers — Health Services: Health Services (5 Jul 2011)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Question 562: To ask the Minister for Health if he will detail precisely the budget made available via the Health Service Executive to Beechpark Services; the total number of staff employed by Beechpark Services; the number of children receiving services at each location; the way he or the HSE evaluate the services provided by Beechpark Services; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Tax Refunds: Tax Refunds (12 Apr 2011)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Question 129: To ask the Minister for Finance the position regarding correspondence (details supplied); if the VAT refund sought via the unregistered VAT repayment section will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7412/11]

Written Answers — National Treatment Purchase Fund: National Treatment Purchase Fund (7 Jul 2009)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: ...supplied) in County Kildare will be considered to be exceptional, having regard to their medical condition, and the length of time that they have awaited treatment; if they will be dealt with via the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27815/09]