Results 1-20 of 2,648 for speaker:Malcolm Byrne

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of roof repairs at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30789/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of her Department's review of outdoor play areas in schools; the supports available to schools to enhance sports facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 185. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his response to the threat by the Russian Ambassador to Ireland that "a day of reckoning" will face Ireland as a result of our support for Ukraine; if he has called in or made contact with the Ambassador to explain his remarks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31529/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Policies (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 249. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are any regulations guiding the painting of rainbow crossings in Ireland (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools and the number of classrooms in the primary school system for the 2024-2025 school year that have 30 children or more, by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 420. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has yet acquired water cannon to address public disturbances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 427. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the long-stay join family (D) visa applications of a person (details supplied); if the visa process can be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 474. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of new service providers that are private companies that were contracted by the State in the disability sector during 2024; the monetary value of such contracts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31623/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (12 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: 573. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update as to the current status of the application by a university (details supplied) to develop its Wexford campus. [31520/25]

Proposed Approval of the Agreement Between the European Organization for Nuclear Research and Ireland: Motion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I warmly welcome Ireland's decision to apply for associate membership of CERN and want to see a strategy of us moving towards full membership. I commend the Minister personally. He has been a big supporter of this. Indeed, he and I laboured in the last Oireachtas to ensure that this got over the line. I also commend his departmental officials on the work done to join the world's largest...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: On 10 September 2024, the Cabinet in the previous Government agreed to a Bill that would provide for further regulation of nicotine inhaling products, particularly with regard to a ban on disposable vapes and restrictions on advertising, colours, flavours and imagery used on nicotine inhaling products. It is also in the programme for Government. This is a public health emergency. It has...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Is there a timeline for the Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I welcome our witnesses. Before we delve into some of the issues, I am enormously appreciative in general of the work the Arts Council has been doing. There has been a step change in terms of funding and support for the arts here. We do have some serious issues that we need to address, and I will come to those challenges, but it is important to put it on the record - notwithstanding those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I do recall it. The reason this IT system came in was because there were many complaints from artists about the application process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: By the way, I certainly share the desire to see funding extended to comedy and musical theatre, which we talked about, and broadening the remit of the Arts Council. My question is less about the governance issue and more about other aspects, including who advised on the IT system. If I am going to purchase a new laptop or have something installed in my house, I know I am not a techie. Who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: I get that. We all get the business case. I know I need advice when I need a new laptop, so who advised the Arts Council on its system and identified the one that needed to be installed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Mr. O'Sullivan gets my point, though. Ultimately, whose was the recommendation that this was the system to go with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The business case was signed but people work on the basis of the advice they are given. Ultimately, who told the director this was the system to go with?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: The reliance was on that basis and the Department was happy with that process.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Arts Council Grant Management IT System: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Malcolm Byrne: Who gave the thumbs up to the Minister to go ahead with it?