Results 201-220 of 7,065 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 283. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of occasions since January 2018 that his Department has sanctioned a financial package for an individual leaving the public service on foot of the provisions of circular 9 of 2018 issued by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform; and to identify the individual departments/agencies and the costs involved in each...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 357. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in the tender process and construction of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11630/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown, by county of the 212,000 students enrolled in approximately 670 post-primary schools who will benefit from the new scheme to provide free schoolbooks, in tabular form. [11794/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 614. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the breakdown, by county of the 39,900 homes, in the context of planning measures introduced in 2021, with some 39,900 homes granted planning permission with conditions prohibiting the bulk purchase by, or multiple sale to a single purchaser between May 2021 and December 2023. [11767/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 636. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the regulations restricting short-term lets in rent pressure zones. [12097/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Road Safety (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 804. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality how many prosecutions for dangerous cycling were taken in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11637/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 827. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the deployment of body cameras for Gardaí in the DMR north central. [12098/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 886. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when the new statutory instrument extending Garda retirement age from 60 to 62 years will be signed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12291/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 941. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the resources that were allocated in 2023 by An Garda Síochána to providing daily security outside the Russian Embassy; the cost of this security; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12692/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1191. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide the rationale for capping the amount of funding for the Early Learning and Care Building Blocks Capital Grant Stage 2 at €100,000 to include professional fees and VAT, while not allowing early learning and care services the use of their own reserves; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 1356. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the patient discharge policy operating in St. Vincent's Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12219/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The violations of human rights in Russia and the stamping out of political opposition are important because Russia as a country exerts significant influence throughout the world. There are very many other countries around the world which do not comply with the principles of human rights that we respect in this country but they are of limited influence. Unfortunately, globally, Russia's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: A number of weeks ago, I raised with the Tánaiste the plight of Alexei Navalny, the Russian opposition figure who at that time was incarcerated in an Arctic penal colony. We now know tragically that he was killed in that colony and his funeral has taken place. What is the Tánaiste's response on that? Other political prisoners have also been incarcerated by President Putin, in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Human Rights (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Six weeks ago, that we discussed the plight of Alexei Navalny and his incarceration in the Arctic penal colony. At that time, I said that President Putin deals with his political opponents by either imprisoning them or poisoning them. 10 o’clock I should also have mentioned at the time that when those two options do not work, he takes a further step and kills him. It gives me...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 58. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for a report on his Department's meeting with the Russian Ambassador following the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10817/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (7 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 66. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the discussions with Yulia Navalnaya at the recent EU Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10818/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (6 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when construction work on the four new classrooms for an ASD unit at schools (details supplied) which was sanctioned in June 2020, will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10896/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 137. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide the number of applications received in 2023 to the SEAI one-stop shop for home retrofits; and the number of these projects which have commenced. [10709/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 138. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment how many contractors are registered with the SEAI to undertake work as part of the one-stop shop retrofitting scheme. [10710/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (5 Mar 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 139. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what the current wait time is for retrofitting under the one-stop shop. [10711/24]