Results 41-60 of 2,557 for speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the discussions between her Department and the Irish Dental Council in relation to the treatment benefit scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9721/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (27 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 599. To ask the Minister for Health whether the recent decision in the parity claim of medical scientists with biochemists, which has put both categories on the same payscales from January 2024, will also apply to recent retiree medical scientists; and whether their pensions will also be brought to parity, particularly given the attempts to secure parity have been ongoing since 2002. [9212/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 85. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she has considered whether illness benefit can be extended to self-employed persons. [7913/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (20 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 88. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether she has considered the situation of those providing kinship care, and the discrepancy between the financial supports provided to kinship carers by comparison to non-familial foster carers. [7915/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 97. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will review the fact that standard disregards for maintenance that apply in the means testing of other payments do not apply in the means testing of the guardians payment non-contributory. [7914/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (7 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 72. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that the 220 and 220X bus service in Ballincollig, Cork is experiencing significant delays, with buses only turning up every 90 minutes regularly on what is supposed to be a 15 minute interval service at peak times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5175/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: School Transport (1 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 175. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the application process will open for the Safe Routes to Schools Programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4698/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Policies (30 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 104. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will provide an update on the roll-out of the Towns First policy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4037/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (30 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 105. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there will be another round of the Community Recognition Fund in 2024. [4039/24]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (30 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 114. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development how her Department will work with local authorities to encourage them to apply for new funding for the town and village renewal scheme; if there will be a minimum submission requirement for each local authority; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4040/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average, median, maximum and minimum primary school class sizes for the Cork city and Cork County Council area from 2019 to date in 2024, in tabular form. [3312/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pensions Reform (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 150. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on the proposed auto enrolment scheme. [3306/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 151. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the actual number and the percentage of working family payment claimants, respectively who are also claiming the one parent family payment. [3307/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 152. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the percentage of claimants over each of the past five years of claimants who lose the working family payment due to the claimant moving from the one parent family payment to the jobseeker’s transitional payment when their youngest child reaches seven years of age. [3308/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 153. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for a breakdown of the average wait time for a decision on an appeal, for each social welfare payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3309/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (23 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport whether he supports the provision of electric trains to Cork in early 2024 for the purposes of expansion of the Cork area commuter rail; and if he has had discussion with Iarnród Éireann in relation to this. [3018/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 998. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost to the Exchequer to provide ten additional Garda youth diversion programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56412/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Youth Services (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 114. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he and his Department have mapped the existence of youth-focused community projects and staff across the State; and if they are aware of gaps in coverage, or large and populous areas without or with inadequately resourced projects, and how they intend to resolve this. [49716/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 359. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of a €1 increase in each of the social insurance schemes, social assistance schemes, other weekly schemes and other scheme payments, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55959/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (14 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 360. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the estimated full year cost of introducing a child benefit double payment. [55960/23]