Results 1-20 of 83 for speaker:Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 292. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when applicants of the ACRES scheme will receive their long-overdue payments (noting approximately five thousand applicants are waiting for scheme pay since 2023); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24994/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 293. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in ACRES scheme payments; if a solution has been provided for this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24995/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 294. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to commit to delaying the implementation of GAEC-2 to support the farming industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24996/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 342. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the amount of funding that has been provided to Uisce Éireann in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025; where this funding has been allocated, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23002/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domestic Violence (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 350. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of people who have accessed the rent supplement for victims of domestic violence in counties Wicklow and Wexford in the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23001/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Tree Remediation (8 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to confirm the set-back rule for residential tree planting; the required distance to protect private dwellings; the body responsible for residential matters in relation to tree planting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22966/25]

Childcare: Motion (7 May 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Childcare costs are completely out of control, with many people now paying the equivalent of a second mortgage. A local man who came in to do a job in my office this week stated that most of his wages went towards the €1,400 per month charge for childcare, while his wife's income went towards the €1,600 per month mortgage. In view of the high cost of living, how are families...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: With regard to children's healthcare in Ireland and our Bill to address the scandals of misdiagnosis, I would like to briefly mention my personal experience. From two months old until two years, my son was prescribed antibiotics for throat infections. When he turned two years old, he was misdiagnosed with asthma. He was supposed to begin a lifetime of medication, steroids and inhalers. It...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Road Safety (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 496. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funds currently available for the safe routes to school programme; the number of applications received for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date including successful and unsuccessful applications, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20476/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of acres of land sold, by each local authority, for counties Wicklow and Wexford to date; in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20477/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Domestic Violence (29 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 1619. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the emergency supports currently available for victims of domestic violence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20479/25]

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

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 2361. To ask the Minister for Health if the drug entresto is included on the drugs payment scheme; the consultation given to eligible patients eligible for this scheme when a new prescription is given; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20478/25]

Tariffs: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: The economic model and approach of successive governments, whereby they put all our eggs in one basket, has today left us exposed and vulnerable. In Wicklow and Wexford, we certainly are as we have no fewer than nine pharmaceutical companies and our local struggling agricultural sector cannot afford any more cost increases. Recent governments in this State failed to properly invest in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome his acknowledgment of common sense in repurposing existing buildings. From an economic and environmental point of view, it makes sense. I also welcome his comments in relation to Gorey Hill School and the establishment of special classes in Wexford and Wicklow. As he pointed out in his remarks, five more schools will be built in other counties....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (9 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: This June, a school in my parish, Ballyfad National School, will sadly be closing its doors, as the current sixth class student will move on to second level and the remaining student has secured a place in another school for sixth class next September. The Diocese of Ferns notified the Department of Education about the impending closure of Ballyfad school in recent weeks. It is a school in...

Water Services (Repeal of Water Charges) Bill 2025: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Uisce Éireann has failed miserably so many villages in our counties of Wexford and Wicklow. Recently in Aughrim and previously in Camolin, I met builders who are ready to build desperately needed housing but Irish Water's failure to invest in wastewater treatment plants in both villages means they cannot proceed. Householders and small businesses, whether in Bunclody, Gorey, Arklow,...

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

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students in counties Wicklow and Wexford who have diagnosed special needs for both primary and secondary level, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16942/25]

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

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford that were approached by the National Council for Special Education to open a specialist class; the percentage of those schools declined; the reasons given for these refusals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16949/25]

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

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford that expressed an interest in opening a special education class in the past two years; the number of applications that were refused; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (8 Apr 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children carried on school buses entirely comprising concessionary tickets due to the change in school transport scheme policy for all schools in counties Wicklow and Wexford, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16943/25]