Results 1-20 of 64 for speaker:Paula Butterly

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: I raise the lack of a driving test centre in Drogheda town. Louth Deputies have beaten a path to the RSA over the years and have continuously raised this issue in the Chamber. All they have ever received are generic replies stating that the Office of Public Works, OPW, and the RSA are continuing to try to find a suitable site. It is on record that a number of these sites have been...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (8 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 46. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider funding and, if necessary, entering into a public private partnership, in order to deliver a new transport hub for the mid Louth/ Drogheda area that would include a new train station, park and ride and bus facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22198/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (8 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 58. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of ongoing delays to key transport projects, if he will bring forward legislation to facilitate delivering these projects in the shortest time possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22199/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (7 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 102. To ask the Minister for Finance if the help-to-buy scheme, will be extended to include second hand homes following a revision of the scheme (details supplied). [22157/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: House Prices (7 May 2025)

Paula Butterly: 249. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if there are plans to extend the Uisce Éireann rebate considering the success and significant response to the rebate, in particular the significant positive impact it had for first-time builders who faced various rising costs and benefitted greatly from the rebate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22122/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Policies (29 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 139. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the engagement she has with other Government Departments and State agencies in encouraging private sector businesses to increase the numbers of people with disabilities employed in their organisations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20438/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Schemes (29 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 158. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount of funding envisaged to support the expansion of personalised budgets following the pilot being run by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20439/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (29 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 595. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider applying a reduced VAT rate to hydrotreated vegetable oil biofuel when used for agricultural purposes, in recognition of the need to support the farming community in reducing carbon emissions and transitioning to more sustainable fuel alternatives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20223/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: I welcome the opening statements by the Taoiseach and Ministers which recognise the threats faced by businesses and people at a global and national level. President Trump's "liberation day" did not come as a surprise to anybody. As the Minister for Finance outlined, deglobalisation has been under way for some time. One did not have to be a financial wizard to realise that the tariffs were...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to respond to correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17720/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (8 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 402. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the application process for employment permits will reopen now that the quota has been met, considering that companies have stress tested the Irish market with no success prior to making these permit applications and are at a loss now as to how to fill these vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16543/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 1008. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider reviewing the long-term illness scheme to provide financial support to people with Crohn's disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17448/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Community Safety Partnerships (3 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply on behalf of the Minister, Deputy O'Callaghan. It very much reflects my own thoughts regarding these community safety partnerships. As I said at the outset, these cannot come about quickly enough. The partnerships are part of the community and policing coming together to work for the betterment of the community. Towns like Drogheda are now on...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Community Safety Partnerships (3 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: I welcome the news that the Policing, Security and Community Safety Act will be commenced in the coming days. Following that, I welcome the news that the secondary legislation required for these regulations will also be enacted shortly thereafter. These regulations cannot come soon enough. The establishment of the chairs and the committees are sorely needed in counties like Louth. Without...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Planning Framework (3 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 209. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform considering that as based on the National Planning Framework, Drogheda and Dundalk have been recognised as regional growth centres with population due to increase by 50,000 in each town by 2030; if he will commit to meeting the associated resourcing requirements and demands for the county; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Artists' Remuneration (3 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 235. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to respond to correspondence received (details supplied) in relation to the basic income for the arts pilot programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16475/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (2 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the additional rent contribution provided through local authorities to assist people in homeless situations will be extended beyond March 2025 following a review by his Department; and if not, the other supports that will be made available as already vulnerable homeless people will be put back into the homeless services...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (1 Apr 2025)

Paula Butterly: 423. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 628 of 19 March 2025, if she will consider bringing school secretaries under a public service contract; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15677/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Paula Butterly: 64. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new strategy for the further education and training sector includes a review of infrastructure capacity so as to cater for the continued growth in demand for further education and training; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13980/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Small and Medium Enterprises (27 Mar 2025)

Paula Butterly: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to report on the work of his Department in encouraging SMEs to avail of further education and training for their staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13981/25]