Results 1-20 of 392 for speaker:Robert O'Donoghue

Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: I welcome the announcement by the Minister of State, Deputy Dooley, of €27.75 million for capital projects at Ireland’s publicly owned harbours under the 2025 fishery harbour centres and coastal infrastructure development programme. While welcome news for our coastal communities, the way this funding is being divided is far from equitable. To touch on a point just mentioned by...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (22 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 127. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department has conducted, or plans to conduct, an assessment of the impact of avian influenza on non-avian species, including domestic animals; if there has been any evidence of transmission between species in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57548/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (22 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 144. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has been in receipt of funding from the HSE since 2008, with the first allocation amounting to €32,068, and the same allocation of funding from the HSE has been ongoing for the past 17 years; the additional steps which are required to secure enhanced support for their...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 264. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are plans to provide future interconnectivity between the DART+ North Project and the Metro once the Metro is operational, whether by rail or bus link; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 508. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the transfer of responsibility for the regulation of owners’ management companies from the Department of Justice to his Department; and if he will confirm that this transfer will be completed before the summer recess; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 512. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to clarify the eligibility criteria for the new fuel allowance payment for those in receipt of the working family payment, announced in Budget 2026; the proposed income thresholds, and any other qualifying conditions that will apply, when the measure is introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 523. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he considers it fair that parents are being penalised through reductions or exclusions from the fuel allowance and other social welfare supports as a result of the ongoing housing crisis, where many adult children are unable to secure independent accommodation and are continuing to live in the family home; if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 670. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the urgent steps he is taking to ensure that only fully weaned weanlings are entered in marts (details suppled); if his Department has conducted an investigation into the level of sickness and mortality among exported weanlings; if so, if he will publish the findings; the measures that will be put in place immediately to prevent...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 671. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the minimum export weight for calves remains 40 kg; if there has been any change in policy; if not, the reason calves were under the minimum weight permitted to be exported; if the calves actually loaded on the date stated (details supplied); if not, the reason an incorrect journey log approved by a Departmental vet; the reason...

Written Answers — Department of Health: First Aid Training (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if she will support a Fingal-based community group providing free first aid, CPR, and defibrillator training (details supplied). [56533/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (21 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 910. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of people accessing apprenticeships each year since 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57351/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: We are all aware that it is there because we all use it. However, what parents and public representatives need are results. We need a good communication channel and we need Bus Éireann to start replying to those emails. We need accountability in a system that works. It is simply not acceptable that elected representatives, who are trying to resolve issues for their constituents, are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Éireann (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: I wish to address the ongoing issue of communication, or more accurately the lack thereof, from Bus Éireann with public representatives. Numerous emails from my office and from colleagues I have talked to have gone unanswered. In other cases, I was even asked to provide written consent from constituents confirming I had their permission to contact Bus Éireann on their behalf. I...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: I want to raise the case of a child in my constituency, Dublin Fingal West. She will be nine next month. I have permission from her parents to use her name, which is Willow. She was waiting for two years for an assessment for speech and language therapy. Thankfully, she has got the assessment and it has been confirmed that she needs speech and language therapy now. However, her parents...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: Will the Minister outline the details of the new RAPID programme announced in budget 2026? Communities have been eager to see renewed investment in their areas and clarity about how the programme will operate is really important. Will he outline the main features of the new scheme and indicate when he expects it to become fully operational?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: The Minister outlined quite succinctly that the RAPID programme has been really important over the years in tackling disadvantage and dereliction and breathing life into new towns. The previous scheme made a real difference in places like Athy, where that targeted investment helped communities deal with deprivation and improve local facilities. As the Minister moves forward with the new...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rural Schemes (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: I am taking this question on behalf of my party colleague Deputy Mark Wall so I might as well use the opportunity to give my constituency a plug in the hope we can secure funding for local projects that make a difference. My hope is that the new RAPID scheme will be a funding model that will also allow smaller grassroots projects for local groups, volunteers and small-scale interventions to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will support an initiative to include CPR and defibrillator awareness training as part of the school curriculum to equip children with essential life-saving skills; if she will support a proposal for a non-uniform day on 13 February, through which schools will raise funds for local defibrillators, as part of an initiative being...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 236. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the progress on a building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56360/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (16 Oct 2025)

Robert O'Donoghue: 380. To ask the Minister for Health the number of defibrillators currently located in public buildings (details supplied), by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56318/25]