Results 21-40 of 2,072 for speaker:Joe O'Brien

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (20 Feb 2020)

Joe O'Brien: I congratulate the Ceann Comhairle on his election. I nominate Deputy Eamon Ryan for appointment by the President to be Taoiseach. On Monday, I stood in the back garden of the home of David and Sharon Shevlin of the Burrow, Portrane, in my constituency of Dublin Fingal. The Shevlins are just one of a number of families in Portrane who have seen their homes rapidly shrink and disappear...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 261. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of plans to build an appropriate facility for a school (details supplied). [3253/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the short and long-term plans to expand the capacity of a school (details supplied). [3308/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the role of his Department in encouraging post-primary schools in the same geographic area to coordinate and share information regarding applications for first years in order to ensure children are offered a place in a timely manner and that parents are not left waiting months to find out if their child will get a place (details supplied)....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 400. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for naturalisation by a person (details supplied). [3254/20]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Migrant Integration (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 409. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the annual budget specifically dedicated to migrant integration including for the Office for the Promotion of Migrant Integration and its previous incarnations since the establishment of the junior ministry with a migrant integration remit in 2007. [3343/20]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Electricity Grid (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1010. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if tenders have been issued or consultants engaged to help facilitate the feeding of electricity generation of private residences or commercial premises into the national grid. [3255/20]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1060. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of plans for electrification of the northern rail commuter line to Balbriggan; and if a related tendering or design process has been initiated. [3252/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services Funding (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1091. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the childcare providers that her Department provided with a one-off payment to assist with insurance costs by county; the amount provided per provider; and the actual amount of such an insurance bill in tabular form. [3342/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Childcare Services (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1092. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if her attention has been drawn to the situation of a Montessori facility (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3459/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Community Services Programme (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1094. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the reason for discontinuing the funding for a service (details supplied) for the Fingal area. [3340/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Safety Regulations (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether restricting escape routes from bedrooms to routes through the kitchen not including sprinklers and having a minimum distance of only 1.8 metres from escape route to potential kitchen fire are adequate safeguards in view of the revised Technical Guidance Document B – Fire Safety (2006). [3307/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (5 Mar 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 1232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of revisions being made to the social housing application form to identify the need for wheelchair suitable housing; when he expects the revised application form to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3341/20]

Health (Covid-19): Statements (16 Apr 2020)

Joe O'Brien: Bearing in mind the time allocations, I will try and make these the best 15 seconds ever. I ask the Taoiseach to consider a mechanism whereby front-line and essential workers who have died due to Covid-19 will be formally acknowledged by the State and a mechanism to ensure that the families of such workers are not left in a worse financial position after the death of their family members....

Health (Covid-19): Statements (23 Apr 2020)

Joe O'Brien: I wish to open by expressing my condolences to the family of the 31 year old carer who worked in a private nursing home in Swords, in my constituency, and whose death was announced in recent days. That underlines the issues and questions raised by other Deputies regarding nursing homes. In many respects, the virus and the State's response to it have given rise to a type of human rights...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (7 May 2020)

Joe O'Brien: I have questions and will leave time for some answers. I refer to the situation of thousands of people in institutional, communal accommodation called direct provision. I note this in the context of great national and governmental effort to tackle Covid-19 where there has been a massive communication campaign to inform everyone about what they need to do in terms of social distancing and...

Covid-19 (Transport): Statements (13 May 2020)

Joe O'Brien: I will leave time for the Minister to answer my questions. The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted travel patterns across the world in a profound way. In a variety of ways, transport will never be the same again. The 2 km and 5 km restrictions coupled with economic shutdown and the requirement to socially distance have pushed us to walk and cycle more. We need to do all we can to retain as...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Ministerial Remuneration (13 May 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 122. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the Ministers of State that collectively lobbied him for an improvement in their terms and conditions; and when this approach took place. [4145/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (13 May 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 520. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who aged out of and off the waiting lists for early intervention team assessments by HSE area in 2018 and 2019. [4229/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Waiting Lists (13 May 2020)

Joe O'Brien: 521. To ask the Minister for Health the waiting time for new applicants for early intervention team assessments in each HSE area [4230/20]