Results 1-20 of 302 for speaker:John Connolly

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 6. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on the development of a national maritime security strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31156/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: As the Minister is aware, the Commission on the Defence Forces report proposed the development of a national maritime security strategy. I hear welcome news this morning that a public consultation process on the development of the strategy has been opened as of this morning. Will the Minister provide us with further information as to how the strategy will develop and evolve from here...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: The Minister has outlined well the potential threats that exist to our subsea cable infrastructure and to other aspects of our maritime domain, which require addressing and this strategy. One other recommendation that came from the report of the Commission on the Defence Forces was that the powers required by the Naval Service for effective enforcement in support of national security in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Naval Service (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I welcome that the Minister will engage with Defence Forces personnel regarding a base for the Naval Service Reserve in Galway. There is little coastal coverage for the Naval Service between Limerick and Donegal, which is quite a wide area. Some of the subsea cables to which the Minister referred come into the country through Galway, including some of the transatlantic ones. Indeed, some...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: National Development Plan (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 27. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the capital projects his Department is proposing for inclusion in the review of the national development plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31157/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide details of any intentions within her Department to re-engage with primary schools on the ‘keeping childhood smartphone-free’ initiative for the 2025-26 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31159/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the most recent occasion her Department provided guidance, through Department circular, curriculum guidelines or any other method, to primary schools on the allocation of homework to pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31158/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 385. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the mechanism through which funding allocations allocated to each local authority for the provision of disabled persons grant and the improvement works in lieu schemes for local authority housing stock were arrived at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31522/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 469. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and details of applicants who were unsuccessful in the applications for funding under the building blocks extension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31483/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Data (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 470. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of children awaiting an assessment of need in each of the children’s disability network teams in County Galway, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 471. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number and details of childcare facilities in County Galway providing the access and inclusion model support to children; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Calafoirt agus Céanna (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 590. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén uair a bhfuil súil aige le hiarratas críochnúil a fháil ó Chomhairle Contae na Gaillimhe, le meastachán cruinn den chostas bunaithe ar thairiscintí, maidir le Céibh Inis Oirr, cén próséas a bheidh I gceist le seo a mheas agus an t-airgead don Chéibh a...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Calafoirt agus Céanna (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 591. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht cén dul chun cinn atá déanta ag Comhairle Contae na Gaillimhe leis an deontas atá curtha ar fáil ag a roinn le staidéar a dhéanamh ar na riachtannais calaíochta in Inis Meáin, cé chomh minic a chuirtear tuairisc ar fáil ón gComhairle Contae don Roinn maidir leis an dul...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Fostaíocht sa Ghaeltacht (12 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 592. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht faoín deis atá ann i mbliaina árdú ar na rátaí pá a thuilleann mná tí faoi scéim na bhfoghlaimeoirí Gaeilge; agus an ndéanfaidh sé ráiteas ina thaobh. [30122/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (11 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 175. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of local authorities that employ an international relations officer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31128/25]

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: Ba mhaith liom caint faoi fhadhb ar leith maidir le cúrsaí tithíochta sa tír: an fhadhb atá inár nGaeltachtaí agus inár gceantair Ghaeltachta. Mar a luadh go minic sa díospóireacht seo, tá fadhb an easpa tithíochta fud fad na tíre i ngach áit. Ach is fadhb ar leith í sin i gceantair Ghaeltachta. Cuireann sí...

Housing: Statements (10 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I might say one thing, a Leas Cheann-Comhairle, about the provision of public housing. I have consistently found it frustrating that it takes 59 weeks - that is the Department's own estimate - to bring a public housing project from the initial concept to the signing of contracts to begin construction of that project. That is immensely frustrating. It is too long. There is currently a...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (10 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 118. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures his Department is undertaking to encourage public sector bodies to transition to renewable energy sources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30337/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Energy Conservation (10 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 126. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the supports available within his Department to maintain the operation of the Galway warm home hub, a project located in the Galway decarbonisation zone as part of the NetZeroCities initiative; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30336/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 311. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport about the progress being made towards the development of a bus interchange facility at a location (details supplied) as part of the proposed new Galway bus network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29441/25]