Results 541-560 of 5,679 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 359. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has considered any proposals for flood relief works at Ballinhassig, Cork; and, if not, whether he will now consider same. [47779/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 633. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government what guidance has been given to local authorities regarding variable rate mortgages provided by the local authorities and whether the Department agrees with local authorities passing on said rate increases to the mortgage holders. [47784/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 635. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether his Department has considered providing funding to local authorities to absorb the increased cost of mortgage interest applying to mortgage policies they have provided. [47786/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Tax Reliefs (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 634. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government whether the mortgage interest relief scheme proposed by his Government will also include those on local authority mortgages that are affected. [47785/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1073. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and his Department have mapped the existence of youth focused community projects and staff across the State; if his Department is aware of gaps in coverage or large and populous areas without or with inadequately resourced projects and how the Department will resolve this. [41412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1176. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children and adolescents on the waiting-lists of the south Lee primary care services and the north Lee primary care services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47780/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1177. To ask the Minister for Health the current number of children and adolescents on the waiting-lists of the south Lee primary care services and the north Lee primary care services in excess of one, two, three, four or more years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47781/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of in-person client sessions offered by each grade of psychologist - assistant psychologists, staff grade psychologists, senior psychologists and principal psychologists in the south Lee child and adolescent primary care services and the north Lee child and adolescent primary care services for each month to date in 2023, in tabular form; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 1179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children removed from the assessment of need waiting list in each of the Cork and Kerry primary care psychology services for each month from 1 October 2022, in tabular form; the length of time the child was waiting for an AON in each case and the process of clinical decision-making involved; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Cosúil leat féin.

Electricity Costs (Emergency Measures) Domestic Accounts Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: We support the Bill but would prefer to see a price cap. That is an argument we have consistently made and will continue to make in order to provide the certainty that families and businesses require. Having said that, we welcome the Bill. We also welcome the fact that some of the things Sinn Féin outlined last year which were ruled out have now, one year on, been incorporated,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 125. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide details of her Department’s plans for a permanent so-called voucher scheme for the Deaf community under section 9 of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017, in 2024; and to confirm if funding has been allocated to provide this scheme on a permanent basis from 1 January 2024. [46875/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: This is a very useful engagement because it is very useful to tease these issues out. Generally, I very much accept and believe what the Department is stating in terms of the objectives here in ensuring that the low rate of people with disabilities entering into employment is increased by the provision of supports, that no one will see a reduced payment and that the objective is not cost...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Before we move on, can it be said that, allowing for demographic changes, we will be looking at a broadly comparable number of people in receipt of payments in five years’ time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Mr. Hession. I will not go so far as some members and say I support this, but I will approach it with an open mind. I am listening as much as I can and will be engaging with as many people as possible. Two places where the tyre hits the ground in terms of people’s concerns are assessments and what happens if they do not engage with Intreo and other work supports. I will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That sounds like a very significant increase in the number of medical assessments. Currently, there is a gate in and there is no categorisation into what would be tier 3, so I imagine the increased number of assessments would involve considerable recruitment. Is that fair to say? Surely, the capacity to do this does not exist currently.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Green Paper on Disability Reform: Department of Social Protection (25 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Dr. Singh. That information is useful. To give the witnesses the opportunity to nail it down, can they categorically say that medical assessments will not be outsourced?