Results 161-180 of 24,382 for speaker:Seán Barrett

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Barrett: 357. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered an appointment at the ophthalmology clinic in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2908/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Transfers (23 Jan 2018)

Seán Barrett: 358. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can be transferred from Monaghan General Hospital to either Drogheda or NRH, Dún Laoghaire, to continue their treatment. [2909/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2017)

Seán Barrett: Mr. Drummond is very welcome. I wish to congratulate him and his 9 million members around the world who are doing such wonderful work in helping the underprivileged and the poor. Irish people are extremely generous. When I was a young boy, there was a box in the classroom where one put money for the black babies. We were brought up with a concern for Africa and the poor. In terms of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2017)

Seán Barrett: On a personal note, I was born in the early 1940s and have seen a huge transition in Ireland as a result of improvements in education. I lived in the days when my parents had to pay for me to attend second level school, never mind third level. In my lifetime education has been a huge answer to Ireland's many problems. I firmly believe that if one asks people for money for a given thing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Dec 2017)

Seán Barrett: Anything that is project-based, the selling of the concept of contributing a certain amount of money, is far easier to sell from a politician's point of view because people can see something. I appreciate Mr. Drummond's good work and thank him for it.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Dec 2017)

Seán Barrett: 213. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the ECCE scheme can be extended in special circumstances for children with disabilities who are not ready to start school at five years of age and need a further year in preschool to develop intellectual and communication skills (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52405/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Administration (5 Dec 2017)

Seán Barrett: 362. To ask the Minister for Health if persons with haemochromatosis can be treated in outpatient departments when suitable in order to save the €80 charge being imposed on persons when they must attend as inpatients for venesection to reduce the iron overload in their blood; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51783/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: I apologise for being delayed. My short contribution, because I do not want to repeat what has been said already, will be on the overseas development aid and all the targets, such as the one of 0.7%. The committee has just heard from Deputy Crowe about what can happen when we get hung up with targets and find empty factories being built just as a contribution is being made. Only that...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. I would like to follow on from what Deputy O'Sullivan has said. I say this because of my respect for the Defence Forces and the work they have done over the years and as a former Minister for Defence. We must be extremely careful here. There is a constant need for attention which worries me that we are not being dragged into something...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: Yes, but it was passed.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: My apologies.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: Well then I am wrong and I apologise.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: I understood that it came to us because we were looking for things but it should automatically come here. I am open to discussion and I appreciate the Minister of State and his staff are doing the best they can in terms of what the demands are but we cannot be careful enough. It is not about being a wimp or being afraid of being with the big boys. It is important for us, with Defence...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: On a separate matter, is the peacekeeping college still operating in the Curragh?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Ireland's Participation in European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (29 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: One of the most pleasant things I encountered when I was in the Minister of State's position was a visit I received one day from the US military attaché to Ireland. He came to see me to find out if he could recommend to his superiors in the United States that they send some key officers to Ireland's peacekeeping college. He said to me, "You know, Minister, we do not know anything about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (22 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: 172. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase annual funding to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49616/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has given consideration to introducing compulsory oral testing for junior certificate students who study a foreign language (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48864/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: 235. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his plans to introduce powers to revoke passports in circumstances in which a person is charged with paedophilia offences here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48691/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: I welcome both ambassadors. I am old enough to remember the introduction of free education in this country. That was the one single change that transformed Ireland. The ambassador spoke about smallholdings and large families trying to make a living from an impossible situation. Free education in Ireland allowed the children of those families to move on and get involved in other activities...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (14 Nov 2017)

Seán Barrett: 477. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the community employment scheme launched in December 2015 (details supplied) on a pilot basis will be continued following the pilot; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48044/17]