Results 1-20 of 700 for long speaker:Michael Creed

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Creed: 756. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of the designation of long-Covid as an occupational illness. [12533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Creed: 1403. To ask the Minister for Health the current situation regarding negotiations for public health service employees diagnosed with long Covid; if he has considered best international practice with regard to dealing with this matter both from a medical and a financial point of view for the employees diagnosed; the state of negotiations with an organisation (details supplied) regarding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Road Projects (30 Nov 2023)

Michael Creed: Like previous speakers, I am very familiar with this stretch of road. It is 24 km long but a lot of it is not as wide as the Minister suggests and there is no hard shoulder on about a third of it. There are 25 significant right-turning junctions on a route that has more traffic on it than sections of the M8 between junctions 3 and 4. I heard the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, make the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (18 Apr 2023)

Michael Creed: 1652. To ask the Minister for Health the plans, if any, he has to review the qualifying criteria for benefit under the long-term illness scheme; if he believes it appropriate that persons suffering with ADHD should have their circumstances covered under the benefits of the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17600/23]

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Foster Care Issues: Discussion (28 Mar 2023)

Michael Creed: ...work but across a whole range of disciplines in social care, whether speech and language therapy or social work, even in mainstream medical areas. Given the fact that that issue is at best a long-term fix, is there any interim, innovative, outside-the-box thinking as to how we can resource this area better in respect of the required level of care, observation and attention to the...

Climate Action Plan 2023: Statements (18 Jan 2023)

Michael Creed: .... If the power goes out, how are those homes going to be heated if they are entirely dependent on electricity? This action plan, unfortunately, is not technology neutral and it should be, as long as it is delivering in terms of decarbonisation. HVO is delivering an 88% reduction in carbon heating. The plan, unfortunately, is entirely silent on agriculture. Farmers can deliver and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Oct 2022)

Michael Creed: ...regards the revised arrangements under the fair deal nursing home support scheme as regards the treatment of working farms and the way this asset is assessed in circumstances where the farm is in a long-term lease as part of a farm partnership arrangement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51500/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (22 Feb 2022)

Michael Creed: 876. To ask the Minister for Health when long term residential care will be provided for a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [10047/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (19 Jan 2022)

Michael Creed: 1653. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale for the requirement to renew prescriptions for long-term medical conditions every six months under the medical card and drug refund scheme; if he will consider extending this period for lifelong conditions such as asthma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1220/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Creed: ...cost of reducing the pension age from 66 to 65 rather than increasing it. I do not know if the witnesses have the answer to that question. Second, I want to make an observation. I am around long enough to remember the reduction in the pension age from 70 to 66, which happened in the 1970s and was a staggered reduction every year over four years. It is a different kettle of fish to go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Report of the Commission on Pensions: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Nov 2021)

Michael Creed: ...the lead-in time envisaged in the original legislation to raise the pension age to 67 and 68 in 2021 and 2028, respectively? These are difficult issues. We must all face up to the realities. People are living longer, which is a fantastic achievement in our lifetime, and, consequently, they are active and healthier in society for much longer. That brings challenges with it. Meeting...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Oct 2021)

Michael Creed: ...Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) who was self-employed is entitled to the carer’s benefit in respect of the care provided for their infant child who has life-long disabilities. [49684/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Site Acquisitions (23 Jun 2021)

Michael Creed: ..., Deputy Madigan, is taking this debate. I wish to express my disappointment, but also my understanding, that the Minister, Deputy Foley, is not in a position to take it. She is familiar with this long-standing issue. The opening of a new school in any community is an important milestone, particularly for younger generations. In Ballincollig, we have a fantastic network of education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (3 Jun 2021)

Michael Creed: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has data regarding the number of students from a location (details supplied) in County Cork who are presently travelling long distances to access special schools; the consideration her Department is giving to the establishment of a special school in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30288/21]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Michael Creed: ...itself the outline of the challenge but it is the framework within which the challenge of climate change will be addressed. It is important in that context, no matter what position we come from as long we are not climate change deniers, that we are open to debate and consideration. There is a great deal of prejudice, propaganda, misinformation and ideology. There are also many instances...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (13 Oct 2020)

Michael Creed: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the long delay by the Teaching Council of Ireland in registering an application for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30210/20]

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: ...thank the Deputies. If I can paraphrase Deputy Nolan, she said that farmers deserve credit where credit is due. I echo that. I made the point earlier before the Deputy came into the Chamber that long before it became popular to talk about sustainability, farmers were on this journey, referenced by the fact that the much-lauded previous environmental scheme, the rural environment...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: ...Irish agriculture has been abundant for many years now. There has been a lot of commentary in recent times about a REPS-style support in the environmental scheme. That, in itself, tells a story. Long before the current debate around targets began, farmers were acutely aware of their role in landscape management and sustainable agricultural product and in many ways were indicative of...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: I am very pleased to be before the House to present the annual transition statement for the agriculture sector. The long-term challenge for the sector, as outlined in the climate action plan, is to meet the national policy objective of an approach to carbon neutrality which does not compromise our capacity for sustainable food production. That plan goes on to set out sectoral greenhouse gas...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Common Agricultural Policy (9 Jun 2020)

Michael Creed: I have long been opposed to the original Commission proposals for the CAP budget, announced back in May 2018, which proposed a 5% cut to the CAP budget post-2020. I have worked tirelessly with my European colleagues to successfully build a broad alliance to support the maintenance of the CAP budget for the next programming period. Much of this has focused on the increased environmental...