Results 121-140 of 1,765 for speaker:Joe Flaherty

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (15 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 563. To ask the Minister for Health if a person (details supplied) can avail of a medical access programme licence. [43262/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (15 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 680. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if there will be an opportunity for beef and suckler farmers to access the new organic farming scheme in 2021 specifically in the case of a person (details supplied). [43390/20]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (16 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: Thanks in part to the hard work of our local authority, Longford County Council, and keen, civic-minded community groups, County Longford is awash with top-quality regeneration projects. One of these I wish to discuss with the Minister of State is the Yard Hub in Abbeyshrule, on the banks of the canal. It involves the redevelopment of a derelict site in the hope of creating a new village...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (16 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State for his comprehensive response but, needless to say, it will not fill these project promoters with enthusiasm. I accept that there are other retail players operating in the market, but the view is that Eir fibre is the gold standard. When one works on a project and develops it to the scale of €1 million of State investment, there is a reasonable...

Brexit Readiness for the End of the Transition Period: Statements (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: Brexit is foremost in our minds this evening. I commend the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Deputy Coveney, the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, when she was in her previous role, our Taoiseach, the Tánaiste, the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, the Minister for agriculture, Deputy McConalogue, and my constituency colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, for the Herculean work...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Improvement Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 49. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that will be provided in counties Longford and Westmeath under the local improvement scheme in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43609/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: National Broadband Plan (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 67. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the establishment of a network of broadband connection points in counties Longford and Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43608/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 140. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Longford and Westmeath that have availed of the Covid-19 credit guarantee scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43806/20]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 153. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of businesses in counties Longford and Westmeath that have received support under the restart grant and the restart grant plus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43805/20]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Arts and Culture Capital Scheme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 322. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when her Department will issue decisions in respect of applications under strand B of the cultural capital scheme 2020 (details supplied). [44335/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Adaptation Grant (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 341. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will direct local authorities to re-examine applications for housing grants for the elderly and disabled which were not possible to process due to the Covid-19 pandemic and reduced access to local authority offices (details supplied). [44337/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Refugee Resettlement Programme (17 Dec 2020)

Joe Flaherty: 456. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the contract will be extended for the resource worker appointed to work with the 18 families recently resettled (details supplied) in County Longford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44347/20]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister. It is very important at the outset that we state we have come on an incredible journey in a short space of time in terms of the vaccination roll-out. We have moved from being the laggards of Europe to being the top performing country in the continent, and this is the level at which we need to be operating. As of last Sunday, we had administered 94,000 vaccines. We...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Company Registration (21 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 3. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will engage with the Companies Registration Office, CRO, to resolve the issue of levying late fees to the original date for filing despite providing leeway for companies to file up until October 2020 (details supplied). [3036/21]

Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 (Covid Restrictions Support Scheme) (Percentage Adjustment) Order 2021: Motion (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: The country is tired and weary as it looks to get past Covid. There is no doubt that the crisis has utterly transformed much of everyday life in Ireland. I am conscious and deeply appreciative that a range of supports have been put in place to support businesses throughout the lockdown and that, in the main, they are proving very effective. The reality, however, is that many businesses...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who have applied for and are awaiting their driver theory test by county (details supplied); and the number waiting at 31 December 2019, 31 March 2020, 30 June 2020, 30 September 2020 and 31 December 2020, by county in tabular form. [4094/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 149. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the waiting times for each county for the driver theory test from 31 December 2019 to end December 2020 by month. [4095/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: 150. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to address the growing numbers of persons who are awaiting their driver theory test (details supplied). [4096/21]

Covid-19 (Social Protection): Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I also feel it is very important to send a message to the staff of the Department of Social Protection that underscores how appreciative we are as a nation of their tremendous work and commitment over the past ten months. While they are not directly on the battlefield, as such, they are very essential front-line workers and they responded tremendously to a national emergency, pulling out all...

Response of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to Covid-19: Statements (28 Jan 2021)

Joe Flaherty: I acknowledge the major strides the Minister has made to date in the provision of housing. It remains the biggest challenge facing the country. Now more than ever, I am reassured and convinced that we will finally get to grips with this crisis with this Minister at the helm. I raise the issue of index-shared ownership loans. In the pre-2003 version of the shared ownership scheme, the...