Results 261-280 of 2,263 for speaker:Patricia Ryan

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Is the Government going to take into account the submissions of, say, Alone and Age Action such that there will be something for them?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I will ask my final question. The other questions have been answered. The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council is of the view that one-off support measures are no longer justified due to energy prices reducing. Only wholesale energy prices have reduced. Energy suppliers are only going to pass on a percentage of the reductions, on a phased basis, to ordinary customers this coming November....

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I was going to ask whether the right people will get the right amount. Can I assume that the people who do not need assistance will not?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: How do the Ministers expect the additional corporation tax receipts will be stored? Is there a preference for an easy access savings approach, short-term liquid investments, a more long-term investment process or a hybrid approach for more flexibility?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Ministers for Finance and Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (27 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: When does the Minister envisage that design will be complete?

Reversal of Planned Fuel Price Increases: Motion [Private Members] (26 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I am here to speak to Sinn Féin's vital motion on the reversal of planned fuel price increases. I thank Deputy Doherty and his team for bringing it to the floor of the Dáil. The rise in petrol and diesel prices is adding to the stress on families during the cost-of-living crisis. Workers are struggling to afford the fuel to get them to work, not to mention students and their...

Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: The report on failures to ensure the safety of already-vulnerable children at Temple Street hospital makes for shocking reading. It is no surprise that the HSE commissioned an independent external review. What is even more shocking is that the families and advocates of children affected by these failures were excluded from having any input into the review's terms of reference and have not...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Fire Stations (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures he is taking to guarantee the future of the fire station at the Curragh, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40808/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 162. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the payment for after-school studies in DEIS schools in south County Kildare has to be paid in full, at approximately €180 per term per child, causing further financial stress on families, where no option for payment in instalments is available despite requests for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40807/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason people availing of the derelict house grant are required to pay the money to the contractor up front and then claim back for the local authority, which makes the grant unattainable for most people as they do not have such funds available, and in those circumstances, the reason the local authority cannot be...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Insurance (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will ensure that PRSI, taken in the wrong from a person (details supplied) is refunded at the earliest opportunity; the position regarding payment of PRSI after the age of 66 years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40809/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 203. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason appeals for refusal of carer’s allowance are currently taking many months to process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40811/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if he will address the case of a person (details supplied). [40803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (21 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Naas General Hospital does not appear to have sufficient wound dressing for their in-patients (details supplied) and are telling patients that they must bring in their own dressings from home; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40804/23]

Mortgage Interest Relief: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I am eager to start this Dáil term by speaking to Sinn Féin's urgent and necessary motion on mortgage interest relief, and I thank my colleague, Deputy Doherty, for bringing it forward. We find ourselves at a critical juncture, where the cost-of-living crisis has reached new heights, leaving families struggling in a web of escalating costs. Families are burdened with soaring...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the witnesses. The council has been critical of the budgetary package set out in the summer economic statement, noting a potential repeat of past mistakes. Would it be possible for the witnesses to expand on that?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: What steps should the Government take in the upcoming budget?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: That brings me to my next question. Would IFAC support the introduction of a genuine living wage rate and possible changes to tax brackets aimed at lower and squeezed middle earners?

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement (Resumed): Irish Fiscal Advisory Council and Nevin Economic Research Institute (20 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Okay. I thank Professor McMahon.

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Pre-Budget Engagement: Central Bank of Ireland and ESRI (19 Sep 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests. I note that Deputy Nash spoke already about the once-off payments and the witnesses have already responded in respect of the household supports. Do they share any of the concerns expressed by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, IFAC, regarding repeating past mistakes? We talk about households and perhaps supports for them as once-off measures. I am thinking particularly...