Results 241-260 of 7,854 for speaker:Jim O'Callaghan

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 235. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he will give consideration to the impact that the Revenue Commissioners’ implementation of a case (details supplied) is having on those businesses involved in the making of TV commercials that are now required to employ persons who provide services to them for no more than one day; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41643/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 236. To ask the Minister for Finance whether he will recommend to the Revenue Commissioners that the solution adopted in the UK in respect of the making of TV commercials and the use of self-employed people could be implemented in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41644/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 240. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when it is proposed to commence work on the Garda station in Newcastle West; if an update on the project will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40994/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the full-year cost of increasing the maximum housing adaptation grant to €60,000 based on current drawdown numbers and composition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41623/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Budget 2025 (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 422. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 325 of 8 October 2024, which made no mention of percentages but sought information as to actual numbers of recipients, if she could provide the information sought in the original question. [41614/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (15 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 655. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre device which is currently available to type 1 diabetics will be made available to people with type 2 diabetes who are insulin dependent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41330/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 21. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the recent characterisation by the United Kingdom’s foreign secretary of Russia as a ‘mafia state’; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40317/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 41. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of diplomatic staff currently accredited to the Russian embassy in Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40316/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 128. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the full year cost of all home energy upgrades supports and schemes in 2024 and 2025; and the annual current and capital funding breakdown per scheme divided between Exchequer funding and carbon tax receipts, including schemes (details supplied).; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40866/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 129. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual cost of introducing loans (details supplied). [40867/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Conservation (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 130. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the estimated annual cost of a scheme (details supplied). [40868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 131. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to outline any analysis carried out by his Department, consultancy or State body, relating to the energy poverty action strategy and enabling smart energy service providers to divert surplus renewable energy to Irish homes, with a primary focus on those in fuel poverty or those in social housing; and to provide any...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (10 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: 197. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total operating cost of town councils during their final full year of operation. [40823/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I thank the Minister and officials from the Department for coming before the committee. I welcome the €1,000 reduction in the student contribution fee. What will happen to students and their families who paid the full amount prior to the announcement in the budget? Will they be reimbursed or will it be carried over? Do they have the option?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do they have to apply for it or will it automatically be-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: There was a good announcement in the budget about the increase in the stipend paid to PhD students. I think it is up to €25,000. When will that commence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Do they have to apply or is it automatically-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: In terms of the corporate and financial oversight of the higher education sector and technological universities, the Minister will be aware some third level institutions have got into difficulty over financial decisions. Are there plans to review oversight arrangements or is the Minister happy with them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Is the Minister satisfied the existing legislation can give effect to the financial oversight?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: Grade inflation in the leaving certificate is primarily an issue for the Minister for Education but is the Minister concerned that in this and previous years we have seen students who got maximum points not able to get into the course of their choosing? Does he have any empathy for them? Is there anything he would like to see developed to ensure that does not happen in the future?