Results 41-60 of 12,577 for in 'Written Answers' speaker:Brendan Howlin

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 153. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade why there is a difference in duration in the validity of a card passport and a book passport; why both cannot run for a full ten years, which would reduce the necessity of renewal applications and the workload of the Passport Office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3593/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 193. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will set out the number and location of fast electric vehicle chargers currently available in the country; the number expected to be in place in each of the next three years; if it is his intention to have a common pricing system for chargers across the country in order to encourage greater E.V usage; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 384. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering the excluding of maintenance payments made by social welfare recipients in the calculation of weekly means in determining eligibility for the free fuel allowance; if she considers it fair and reasonable to include such regular outgoing payments as means; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Asylum Seekers (23 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 421. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the supports available to enable international protection applicants, long-time resident in direct provision centres, to undertake courses of study to acquire skills that will be useful to enable them to find employment if their applications are approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2440/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 435. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the new minimum salary requirements for general employment permits announced by his Department will also apply to existing permit holders when they apply to renew their permits to work in this country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1213/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Qualifications Recognition (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 1679. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time it normally takes between the registration of an application with CORU for professional recognition as an occupational therapist and the verification of such an application by CORU; the number of such applications currently awaiting verification at present; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1331/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: 1681. To ask the Minister for Health when a registration with CORU for a qualified occupational therapist (details supplied) will be determined; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1345/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (5 Dec 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a bus driver licence will issue to a person (details supplied) who has passed all relevant tests and is urgently required by their employer to begin work as a bus driver; the length of time, on average, it takes to issue a bus licence following the successful completion of all test; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (30 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 229. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware of the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Pakistan as a result of the decision of the Government of Pakistan to deport 1.7 million Afghan refugees, many of whom face persecution in Afghanistan; the action he has taken to date to highlight this issue; if he has made contact with the Pakistan authorities to set out his concerns...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 327. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50519/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (21 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 328. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a social welfare appeal for a carer's allowance in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50520/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 282. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 449 of 26 September 2023, if it is his intention to appoint members of the Social Economic Environmental Association (SEEFA) to the Forestry Programme Consultative Committee, since SEEFA is the largest private sector representative association; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1215. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a person (details supplied) who has a full medical card, is being charged for blood tests by their GP surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48086/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 1412. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the current position in relation to providing a public service contract and access to an incremental salary scale for tutors employed by ETBs on an hourly paid rate; the outcome of discussions his Department has had with trade union representatives on this issue; when an improved contract will be offered; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will set out the supports his Department offers to students living in the Republic of Ireland who are studying in universities and colleges of further education in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45810/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (19 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review an application for a SUSI grant for a person (details supplied) who returned to third-level education as a mature student; if he will review the requirement that a three year gap occurs between leaving a course and commencing a further course to qualify for a SUSI grant, regardless of personal circumstances; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 211. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that an additional needs class is provided for a school (details supplied) for the 2024/2025 school year, that this class has been sanctioned and funded by the NCSE but has yet to be opened; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44634/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 212. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will set out the additional supports her Department will provide to a school (details supplied) which is in an area of obvious economic and educational poverty; if there are any other supports available to this school other than rural DEIS status; the reason this status is of less support than the urban DEIS band 1 status; if she is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 49. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence following the successful operation of the Joint Task Force in interdicting a huge drugs consignment off the Irish coast, and acknowledging the importance of having members of An Garda Síochána and the Revenue Commissioners on secondment to the Maritime Operations Centre in Lisbon, if it is intended that an Irish naval officer would...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Oct 2023)

Brendan Howlin: 315. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the ceasing of the payment of the State pension to a person (details supplied) who suffers from dementia and did not respond to questions posed by her Department due to the condition; if she accepts that the questions asked have now been responded to; if she acknowledges that any delay in restoring this...