Results 1-20 of 59 for speaker:Catherine Callaghan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: My question is also about Private Seán Rooney. As the Tánaiste knows, I have a special interest in the Middle East and in peacekeeping as a former UN peacekeeper. I travelled that road from Tibnin to Beirut Airport as Private Seán Rooney did. Can the Tánaiste provide us with an update on his recent trip to Lebanon? He outlined it to Deputy Ó Murchú, but if he...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Official Engagements (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on his recent trip to Lebanon and, in particular, his meeting with Lebanese officials about the ongoing legal proceedings in the matter relating to the death of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18043/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 207. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline, in view of the strong desire to increase the number of serving members in Óglaigh na hÉireann, the steps his Department is taking as part of the recruitment and retention strategy to encourage more people to join; to outline, in particular, the steps being taken to encourage more women to join and serve the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I urge the Government to support calls for pension parity in our schools. The current lack of parity is adversely affecting our school secretaries and caretakers. All parents and caregivers know the vital role our school secretaries play in schools. In the school I worked in as a SNA, our secretary is known by pupils and staff alike as Super Sue because she, like all school secretaries...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (1 May 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 108. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s benefit could be considered as a scheme to be transformed into a pay-related one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21765/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (30 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 104. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if carer’s benefit could be considered as a scheme to be transformed into a pay-related one; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21652/25]

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

Catherine Callaghan: 110. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the means by which she is helping to improve salary levels in the childcare sector given the importance of the sector to society; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20797/25]

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

Catherine Callaghan: 151. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the increase in respite services, including locations, envisaged for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20796/25]

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

Catherine Callaghan: 562. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider amending inheritance tax thresholds for individuals who have no children of their own and would like to leave an inheritance to a niece or nephew; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18831/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 1564. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the position regarding a visa application (details supplied); if further information is required to finalise this application; the timeframe in which this application might be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19376/25]

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I stand to say what I wrote in a letter earlier this week to the Ministers, Deputies Browne and Chambers, and to express my incredulity at the dire situation coming to light in respect of the Uisce Éireann infrastructure deficits in Carlow town. I implore the Department of housing and the Minister for public expenditure and reform, Deputy Chambers, and his Department to hold Uisce...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Bus Éireann school bus route supplying a school (details supplied) which has been in place for a long period of time, has recently been changed without any notice to parents along this route; if the service will be reinstated as soon as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support the development of a pilot project in a small number of DEIS primary schools in order to gather empirical and scientific evidence, in data form, of the benefit of reading rooms in primary schools in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17156/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will sanction the provision of additional time and additional supports for dyslexic students sitting State exams in secondary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17157/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Many families I represent in rural counties Carlow and Kilkenny have been granted home support services for their relatives, due to illness or advancing age. In theory, these families in Kildavin, Callan, Bagenalstown and Bennettsbridge have State support to care for their family members at home but in reality, in many cases, there are zero HSE staff to fulfil these home support hours....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the measures that have been implemented. A lot is often made of the insufficiency of the public charging network. I do not share that criticism myself because I have a home charger and rely solely on that. The Government decision to reduce VAT to 0% on solar installations in 2023 was hugely beneficial to my family and others like mine. It allowed us to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 8. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on how taxation measures could help arrest the decline in the uptake of electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16104/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: Will the Minister give his views on how taxation measures could help arrest the decline in the update of electric vehicles?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Electric Vehicles (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: I thank the Minister for his response. I have been an EV driver since 2015, a so-called early adopter, and I am on my third EV. When I purchased my first EV, there were a number of incentives such as the SEAI grant that covered the entire cost of the charger. That has been greatly reduced in the intervening years. There was also free public charging and low road tax, as the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (3 Apr 2025)

Catherine Callaghan: 23. To ask the Minister for Finance the progress of the agri-taxation measures relating to farm safety to encourage capital investment to reduce accidents and make farms a safer workplace; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16103/25]