Results 41-60 of 7,024 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Insurance Industry (18 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 86. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his response to the recent Supreme Court ruling in relation to the personal injuries guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16889/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 59. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, in regard to her press release of 10 April 2024, which references that 800 school building projects have been completed since 2020 and 300 other projects are under construction, she will detail the number of school building projects that have been completed, by county, in tabular form; to provide a breakdown of the total number of projects...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the minor works funding provided for each county in each school year 2020-21 to 2023-24, inclusive, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17065/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the summer works funding provided for each county in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17066/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if an Irish citizen who graduates with a medicine degree from a Northern Ireland University can be funded and return to work in the HSE notwithstanding the fact that they are classed as a tier 2 applicant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16875/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (16 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 525. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will adopt and promote the Firearms and Offensive Weapons (Amendment) Bill 2021; and if not, the measures to increase penalties for knife crime she will introduce. [16559/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (16 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 640. To ask the Minister for Health how many public health nurses there are in the CHO6 area and the extent to which they provide care in the community as opposed to private healthcare providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16064/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I welcome the Minister and her officials. I will start with a question about the digital grant for schools. On the last occasion the Minister was before the committee, I raised the schools excellence fund. One of the issues I had with it was that priority was not given to DEIS schools. Will such priority be given in respect of the digital grant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I remember on the last occasion - I think it was in respect of the schools excellence funds - there may have been a lottery used, such were the numbers that applied. That is probably something the Department did not wish to do, but does the Minister envisage that happening in respect of the digital grant or will there be a more equitable way of doing it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: On the strategy to promote STEM in the classroom, one of the historic issues this committee and people in education were concerned about was the number of girls getting involved in and continuing with STEM. Are measures being introduced by the Department? What is the Minister's current assessment of how we are doing as a State in terms of encouraging the study of STEM by girls, particularly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister. I will raise another issue in respect of the redevelopment of the leaving certificate. I was pleased to see that there is a proposal being implemented to include drama and film studies as optional subjects for students completing the leaving certificate. Obviously, we have had extraordinary success in Ireland in recent times in respect of the film industry. It has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I will finish not with a question but an exhortation. The Minister will recall that every time she comes before the committee I urge the building unit in her Department to focus on the need for a Gaelcholáiste in Dublin 2, 4 and 6. I want to emphasise that again. I am not looking for a response from the Minister now but I think there is a huge need for such a school in the area....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Key Issues for the Department of Education: Minister for Education (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Chair.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 105. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of WTE civilian forensic photographers employed by An Garda Síochána in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15568/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 106. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if all divisions within DMR are covered by crime prevention officers; if not, the divisions currently without a crime prevention officer in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15569/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 107. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of competitions held for sworn gardaí to apply to join the Garda band in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 108. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to DMR north central divisional drugs unit as of 4 April 2024; if she will provide the same figures as of 31 March 2022, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15571/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 109. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Garda mountain bikes allocated to DMR north division as of 4 April 2024; if she will provide the same figures as of 1 April 2021, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 110. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the projected cost of every twenty five additional community gardaí; the cost of an additional two dedicated community sergeants; the estimated cost of a 25% increase overall; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15573/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Public Procurement Contracts (10 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 111. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the contracts that have been granted without having to go to public tender; the companies that were granted these contracts and nature of the work involved; the qualifying criteria that was applied to any company awarded such a contract in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15574/24]