Results 1-20 of 1,673 for speaker:Patricia Ryan in 'Written Answers'
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (6 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach the details of the distinctions between a promised Covid-19 inquiry and an ‘evaluation’, following recent statements by the Tánaiste. [45455/24]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (6 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the actual commencement date for the promised Covid inquiry. [45456/24]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (6 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 8. To ask the Taoiseach the measures being put in place to ensure that the Covid-19 inquiry is conducted completed impartially and transparently and is carried out by individuals and or entities with no vested interest. [45457/24]
- Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Inquiries (6 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach the set of powers and extent of same under which the Covid-19 inquiry will operate, in tabular form. [45458/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (6 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 146. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting replacement hip surgery at the National Orthopaedic Hospital Dublin, by the length of time those people have been on the waiting list for that surgery, in tabular form. [45459/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 157. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 23 October 2024, with regard to the Curragh, County Kildare, and to the Curragh Rangers being tasked with litter removal on the Curragh plain, if he can clarify why there is a private firm engaged to clear litter from the Curragh plain; and the cost of same. [44560/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 158. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence further to Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 23 October 2024, to detail the enforcement measures for any breaches of the Curragh by-laws referenced, in tabular form.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44561/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 159. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how many illegal encampments the Curragh Rangers have engaged with and reported for the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form. [44562/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 161. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to detail the enforcement measures for any breaches of the Curragh by-laws referenced in Parliamentary Question No. 46 of 23 October 2024, in tabular form. [44564/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 160. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence how many encroachments by horses from outside the Curragh area, that is, Curragh racecourse and other associated permitted areas, have been reported in the years 2020 to 2024 inclusive, in tabular form. [44563/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 162. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide a detailed list of every animal type, whether livestock, equine-sporting or domestic, currently authorised to be exercised on the Curragh Plain, County Kildare. [44565/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 163. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to set out the process or method used to obtain authorisation to exercise animals, including horses, on the Curragh Plains; if the said authorisation is subject to renewal; and, if so, the timeline set out for renewal. [44566/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Industry (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 275. To ask the Minister for Finance the measures, if any, being taken by the Government to end insurance companies’ discriminatory time limit cap on holiday insurance for the over-70s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44570/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 672. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on how the State pension payment is being protected, as set out in the Programme for Government, in circumstances where the recent €12-per-week increase has resulted in the weekly pension payment dropping to just 30% of the average weekly wage from 32% prior to Budget 2025. [44567/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 673. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection what plans the Government has to benchmark the State old-age pension, as recommended in the Commission on Pensions, in order to protect elderly citizens from falling into poverty. [44568/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (5 Nov 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 674. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide a detailed update on the implementation of the recommendations of the Commission on Pensions, specifically on the creation of a separate account within the social insurance fund to fund State pensions. [44569/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (23 Oct 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 34. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment regarding Dublin City Council’s pilot programme to bring bin collection services back under public control, if he will provide the number of local authorities intending to run the same pilot scheme, the parameters of the scheme, and the length of time it is intended to run for, in tabular form. [43495/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Grazing Rights (23 Oct 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide the acreage of the Curragh, County Kildare. [43496/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Grazing Rights (23 Oct 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 44. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide the number of sheep grazing on the Curragh, County Kildare, for the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [43497/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Defence: Grazing Rights (23 Oct 2024)
Patricia Ryan: 45. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify the system, if any, in place for identifying who owns any particular sheep or flock of sheep currently grazing on the Curragh, County Kildare. [43499/24]