Results 1-20 of 25 for long speaker:Johnny Guirke

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (23 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: 498. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if any plans are in place to replace, or to find a temporary replacement for, the psychologist currently on long-term maternity leave from a centre (details supplied). [2467/24]

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...of its accident and emergency department. Hospitals and healthcare organisations should be adequately funded to recruit staff directly instead of using agency staff, which cost more money in the long run. The impact of the embargo is being felt by both patients and staff. Urgent care is prioritised over routine care, resulting in increased waiting times and a strain on scheduled...

Escalation of Violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Motion [Private Members] (14 Nov 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...it likes and to answer to nobody? You need to stop treating them like spoiled brats. It is time you got the courage to say "Stop". I say to Netanyahu and his war cabinet, I hope and pray that I live long enough to see you before the International Criminal Court, where you belong. To the Palestinian people, my heart goes out for you. You have the support of right-minded people right...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (27 Sep 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ..., making it harder to reopen to the public. It is currently propped up with an acro-jack. The issues with Loughcrew cairns were pointed out to the OPW over five years ago. Why has it taken so long before doing anything? There has been five years of continued erosion while Cairn T is propped up with an acro-jack. Not one thing has been done to protect this monument. If we wait for the...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...it hard to keep their numbers up and GAA, soccer and other sports clubs amalgamating because of low numbers. One-off planning is a critical tool for addressing these challenges and ensuring the long-term sustainability of rural communities. By allowing individuals and families to build homes on their own land, we can create vibrant and thriving communities that are able to grow and adapt...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...Minister for Education and Skills the length of time it is expected that students will spend in temporary classrooms at the school (details supplied); if there a possibility that this could become long-term alternative to the permanent build; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12609/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (21 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: 814. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has given any consideration to the long-running issue of the inclusion of Tusla-approved foster carers in State pension (contributory) contributions for the entire period of being on the approved panel; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12689/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (21 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: 1459. To ask the Minister for Health when all Section 39 staff working in long-term residential facilities who worked throughout Covid with many still awaiting the payment will be paid the €1,000 bonus; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13579/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Johnny Guirke: ...and priorities for 2023 and beyond. I have been informed that 58 school building projects are now on hold due to capital funding pressures. We need a list of the 58 schools on that list and how long the projects will be on hold. These include projects in my constituency of Meath West, including Enfield Community College. At a time when we have capacity pressures across the school...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 Jan 2023)

Johnny Guirke: 824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schedule for the commencement and completion of construction of the long-delayed permanent school (details supplied) in Enfield, County Meath, in view of the severe lack of school capacity in Enfield; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2316/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (6 Dec 2022)

Johnny Guirke: 162. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the extraordinarily long wait times for NCT tests - for example, currently six months in the test centre in Kells, County Meath, and over five months in the test centre in Mullingar, County Westmeath - if he will either put in place the resources to reduce these wait times to the original target of 25 days; if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Nov 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...houses every year. Will more help be needed from the Department to deal with such costs? Are we building one-bedroom houses? This is a big issue because the people who are on the housing list the longest, as we all know, are seeking one-bedroom houses. If we are not building one-bedroom houses, are we looking at the option of giving these people a two-bedroom house, if we do not have...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...restricted for the past 11 days and this looks set to continue throughout this week. This has caused huge distress to the people and businesses affected as they are left without running water for long periods. Irish Water communication seems to entail posts on social media platforms. The only way many older people and others who do not use social media find out is when they turn on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Facilities (25 Oct 2022)

Johnny Guirke: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the schedule for the commencement and completion of construction of the long-delayed college (details supplied) in view of the severe lack of school capacity in Enfield, County Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52956/22]

Domestic Electricity and Gas Disconnections: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2022)

Johnny Guirke: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing this motion before the House. We have known for a long time of the struggles that some households are facing when it comes to energy costs. That situation is now worse than ever given the cost-of-living crisis and the particular crisis that families and households face as electricity and gas prices continue to rise. Since the pandemic,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Sep 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...the rest of us safe. Nearly nine months later, thousands of workers who are not paid directly by the HSE, such as those working in the private sector, in nursing homes, agency staff, people working in long-term residential care, people working in home help, carers and others, have not received this payment. When will these people see this payment in their bank accounts? We need a date...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2022)

Johnny Guirke: ...will lead to poorer clinical outcomes for patients. Last month, nearly 10,000 patients left emergency departments across the State without being seen, presumably because they were left waiting too long. More than 630 of those people left the emergency department in Drogheda. This was the second highest number in the State. How can the hospital cope with more with more patients? I ask...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Natural Resources (1 Dec 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...required, be that in regard to pumps or expertise. From what I have heard, the flooding is very extensive and it has consumed large parts of the current mine and the new mining area vital to the long-term future of the mine known as Tara Deep. Tara Deep is crucial to production post 2030 as it is where vast new deposits of lead and zinc lie. I would encourage the Minister of State to...

Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...is not only morally repugnant, but it is also nonsense in a scientific sense. It is wrong that the Minister would seek to justify this botched scheme in this way. This needs to be rectified. No matter how long people spent in these places, no matter what age they were when they left, they suffered greatly and they carry the trauma and the pain with them to this day. Religious...

Regional Transport Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2021)

Johnny Guirke: ...lives away from family, due to overly packed buses and traffic congestion. This is entirely unacceptable. The people of Meath and beyond will not accept a start date of 2031 for the Navan rail line. We have waited for long enough already. This is another example, in a climate emergency, of a Government that is out of touch, out of ideas and without foresight. It will fail to deliver...