Results 201-220 of 2,022 for speaker:John Brassil

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all new apprenticeship programmes developed since 2017 will receive the same allowances for apprentices attending college as apprenticeships developed prior to 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29172/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Data (3 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of apprentices enrolled per apprenticeship programme developed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29170/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 75. To ask the Minister for Health the action he is taking to reduce outpatient waiting times; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the number of patients waiting more than 18 months in Kerry University Hospital has increased by 1,878, 2,347.5%, since May 2016 and stood at 1,958 at the end of May 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27810/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmaceutical Sector (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 115. To ask the Minister for Health when financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, cuts for pharmacists will be reversed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27811/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Gaeltacht School Recognition Scheme (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of national schools implementing the Gaeltacht education policy, Polasaí Thumoideachas, that are in danger of losing a teacher in the coming academic year 2019-2020; the number in the Gaeltacht areas of County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27484/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 281. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the SUSI grant rate of payment was last reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28008/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Data (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 285. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the full rate of the SUSI grant in each of the years 2008 to 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28062/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Drugs Payment Scheme (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 423. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 112 of 28 March 2019, the length of time he expects the review will take; when the results will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27711/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Provision (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 425. To ask the Minister for Health the assistance that will be given in the form of funding for the training to advance nurse practitioner level for a nurse (details supplied) in view of the general practitioner contract agreement that recognises that there is need for 247 new practice nurses here to support the contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27727/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 431. To ask the Minister for Health if the case of a person (details supplied) will be reviewed in order to sanction funding for therapy via CAMHS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27789/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the free travel pass will be made an automatic entitlement for persons deemed unsuitable to drive by the national licensing authority (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28002/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 659. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the assisted technology grant for partially sighted and blind persons will be reviewed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28005/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Funding (2 Jul 2019)

John Brassil: 675. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if an equipment grant will be made available to community employment schemes to aid in the employment of blind and partially sighted persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28133/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: In the context of the programme for Government and providing a fair and equitable welfare system, I was briefed yesterday by the National Council for the Blind of Ireland concerning an anomaly that exists with respect to people who are partially sighted and fail to acquire a driving licence, in that the criteria for the awarding of a free travel pass for those people are different from the...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: I welcome the entire Healy-Rae family here today; his sons, Michael and Danny, who sit in the Dáil with me, Denis and John, his daughters Rosemary and Joan, his partner Kathleen and all the extended family including grandchildren, brothers and sisters. Jackie was co-opted onto Kerry County Council in 1973 following the death of Michael Doherty but was elected to it in 1974 on the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee and giving us their statements. As I understand it, the vast majority of members of the public believe they ring up the local dentist if they have a problem and they attend and pay accordingly. To whom is the public dental system available? Is it medical card holders only? Is it the general public, even if most of them are not aware...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: Are those services free of charge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: In the case of a sixth class student in respect of whom an extraction or a filling is needed, is that service provided free of charge?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: People who are outside of those schemes have to go to private practice.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Jun 2019)

John Brassil: I ask Dr. Kavanagh to elaborate on the Smile agus Sláinte strategy.