Results 281-300 of 2,503 for speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (30 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 646. To ask the Minister for Health when the approved GP visit card extended in budget 2023 to children aged under seven years and approved from April 2023 is expected to be implemented, given that to date it is yet to take effect; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25593/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Please come to County Louth and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is a housing crisis.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I receive calls weekly regarding planning permission rejections, with some people spending between €15,000 and €20,000 in the planning process before any works are done. This is not just hearsay. It was reported at the May meeting of Louth County Council that planning permission was refused for 40% of rural homes in Louth in 2022. This means that 70 out of the 177 planning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is in County Louth

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I live in County Louth and I know what is going on there. The refusal rate in rural County Louth was 40%. That equates to 70 families that have to live in mobile homes, live with friends or live wherever they can because they cannot get planning permission. The Government is instructing local authorities to build houses on local authority-owned land. However, our local authorities are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I know of a young girl who is married with two children. Her family has loads of land - 40 or 50 acres. What did the council tell her? It told her to build an extension onto the existing house of 50 sq. m. One cannot put a family into an extension measuring 50 sq. m.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The family already has the granny living in the house. I want the Tánaiste and the Minister to come to County Louth and have a look.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The refusal rate was 40%, meaning that 70 families were refused planning permission last year. It is not acceptable in a housing crisis. I am listening to gardaí on radio stations talking about this. We have a problem-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Let us start looking after the people in the area. I know I will see the Tánaiste on Saturday in Navan but more importantly, I ask him to look after these families with their homes. That is all I am saying. He should come to County Louth with the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Give us a few penalties and the whole stadium will be happy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Of 50 sq. m. One would not be able to get two horses in there.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 42. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will provide information regarding a passport application (details supplied) needing further clarification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25058/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 89. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of claims in the education sector for short-term jobseeker’s payments from substitute teachers and all non-permanent education employees in each of the past five years to date for school summer-holiday periods; the average length of time for processing the claims; if she will review the way in which claims...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 100. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals received by the social welfare appeals office per month since 2021; the current average processing time for an appeal with the social welfare appeals office; the efforts being made to reduce appeal processing times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24671/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: School Transport (23 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 112. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the engagement that she has had with the Minister for Education on the matter of school transport since 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24670/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 114. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will consider in Budget 2024 extending the child dependent cut-off age to 24 years if the child is still attending a third-level course. [24669/23]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (18 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for information on why Parkwind’s Oriel Windfarm in Dundalk Bay was unsuccessful in its recent bid to generate electricity from offshore wind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the recent cost-of-living bonus paid to those in receipt of certain social welfare payments; the amount the Government saved by not allowing those on adult dependant payments to receive this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23943/23]

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on targeted investment in the health service. Although it is centred around the University Limerick Hospitals Group, the points raised are also applicable to my constituency of Louth and east Meath. The 2010 report of the national acute medicine programme alongside the 2013 framework for smaller hospitals outlined the need for smaller and...