Results 281-300 of 6,058 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 37. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she accepts that there continues to be an unacceptably high level of vacancy and dereliction in many local authority areas; if she will commit to increase funding to tackle vacancy and dereliction rates in County Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26604/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: Does the Minister accept that there continues to be high levels of vacancy and dereliction in many local authority areas? In particular, I raise my area, County Offaly, where the local authority is grappling with derelict and vacant buildings. I acknowledge that €2 million in funding was provided under the urban regeneration and development fund, but I would like the Minister to look...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: I acknowledge that these schemes are positive and bring about improvements if towns and villages are lucky to avail of the funding through the application which is made by the local authority. They are very positive and that is why I am asking for increased funding to be given to our local authority, Offaly County Council. I acknowledge the work of the council's regeneration team, including...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Vacant Properties (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for her reply. I reiterate that this could work better and be even more effective than it currently is if there was a co-ordinated approach, such as ensuring businesses stay in place and thrive and that they are supported to a greater extent. To that end, I hope the Government will take on board the need to cut the VAT rate to 9% to keep some of those businesses in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Electoral Process (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 143. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline any changes in policy or legislation which were made on foot of a 2015 decision of the Supreme Court (details supplied); if the regulations examined in that case, outlining the criteria for a valid first preference vote, have been amended in any way since that judgment; if he has been made aware of the large...

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

Carol Nolan: 155. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if changes will be made to the condition regarding qualification for full carer’s allowance whereby people who are in receipt of a State pension (contributory) are only entitled to apply and claim for half-rate carer’s allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26639/24]

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

Carol Nolan: 156. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the old age pension appears to be the only payment administered by her Department which cannot be applied for online through the MyWelfare.ie portal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26641/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Education and Training Boards (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 198. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the Laois-Offaly Education Training Board youth service grant allocation is the lowest of all 16 ETBs; if he will seek to immediately increase grant allocation for Laois-Offaly Education Training Board to enable an increase in service-provision capacity; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Local Authorities (20 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 217. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding provided by her Department to both Offaly and Laois County Councils from 2019 to date for building acquisition measures to enable the local authorities to purchase buildings that they identified with local groups to convert them into community use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26605/24]

Hospitality and Tourism Sector: Motion [Private Members] (19 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: It is unclear just how many times a sector has to sound the alarm before it is taken seriously and listened to by the Government. Time and again, those working in hospitality, tourism and retail have emphatically made the point that they are facing imminent and widespread closures caused in part by the reintroduction of the 13.5% VAT rate. We know from a survey conducted last week with 180...

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: There are many people who see the adoption of this pact as the grave into which we are going to place our national sovereignty on the issue of asylum and migration. I agree with that view. In the fullness of time, we will be worse off socially, financially and politically because of it. Many also share the view, articulated some months ago by Senator McDowell, that what we are dealing with...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: In order to prevent a shortage of school bus drivers this August or, as it may be in some cases, September when schools reopen, I call on the Government to intervene immediately with Bus Éireann and the RSA, which advises on policy, to try to deal with the current policy whereby people cannot remain on as drivers after reaching 70 years of age. The policy is discriminatory and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 81. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26134/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 89. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26132/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26129/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26144/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: International Protection (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 112. To ask the Minister for Finance to clarify if beneficiaries of temporary protection working remotely in Ireland for Ukrainian employers are not subject to the payment of tax in Ireland until 2025; if there are proposals to extend this beyond 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25945/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26133/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 127. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26139/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: European Court of Justice (18 Jun 2024)

Carol Nolan: 132. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide a breakdown of the fines issued against his Department by the Court of Justice of the European Union for the period 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26131/24]