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Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I also want to sympathise with Deputy Collins. Dia is Muire dhaoibh, agus míle buíochas to the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this motion. I welcome the opportunity to speak on it. Yet again, the fact that the Government is failing when it comes to the health service has been laid bare. Rural health services are struggling to cope - not because of the dedicated...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 37. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide, in tabular form, the dates and duration of all road closures in the vicinity and surrounds of the Curragh Camp and firing range for January to December 2023, and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8395/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 38. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the amount of compensation paid out to local residents of the Curragh due to road closures for military purposes in each of the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8396/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 39. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify why planning permission was not applied for regarding the erection of two sentry posts on land designated as green lands at the Curragh, County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8399/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 40. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will clarify whether he will reconstitute the Curragh forum, to include local residents, to discuss their concerns in relation to the Curragh; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8400/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will clarify when or if the budget will be provided to Kildare County Council to address the rapidly deteriorating condition of the road between Bolton Hill and Sheriff Hill, County Kildare (details supplied). [8403/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Coverage (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will comment on the discrimination present in travel insurance policies vis-à-vis those under 65 years of age and those over 65 years of age where the cover period - 60 days and 31 days, respectively - is dramatically different, and whether such differences are permissible under legislation and constitutionally. [8401/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will look into enrolment challenges currently being experienced by a school (details supplied) where, even though it has the physical space for the children applying to enrol, departmental regulations mean it cannot employ the necessary extra teacher required until 2025, which means it is having to turn away children who have already...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 92. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will clarify if there are any plans for the possible construction of a secondary school in the area around Prosperous-Clane-Derrinturn and south Kildare; and, if so, if her Department has identified any possible site and what stage the process is now at. [8397/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 120. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide, in tabular form, the number of arrests effected in the vicinity of the Curragh Camp and firing range, specifically arising from road closures associated with the Curragh Camp and firing range, for January to December 2024 and to date in 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8398/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: A constituent of mine, a man who was finally allocated a property in October last year after 18 years on the Kildare County Council list only to be told he cannot move in to his long-awaited home because there is no street lighting installed, may, worse still, be forced into emergency accommodation. The Tánaiste promised Housing for All and yet people waiting years on housing lists are...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: They are not getting into them.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: One cannot put people into emergency accommodation who have been allocated a house.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (15 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: They should not get emergency accommodation either.

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: We are living in historic times. The restoration of the political institutions in the North and Michelle O'Neill fulfilling her role as First Minister is a moment to celebrate. I congratulate her and her team. Challenges have been overcome to get us here and more challenges await us in the future. They are challenges such as public services being at breaking point, housing and...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Expenditure Policy (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 111. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform in view that Ireland has the fastest increasing aging demographic, predicted to hit 26% of the population being over 65 by 2051, if he considers the current 3% increase in budget to maintain existing levels of service in the health service, and in particular age related health services, to be sufficient when the aging demographic...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 207. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government with specific regard to older renters in the private rental sector, the protections/measures, if any, that are in place to protect older people who now find themselves at the mercy of ever increasing rents, no security of tenure and facing into huge income reductions, and if any consideration could be given to local...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: 208. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if HAP is now only being paid to people who enter emergency accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7027/24]

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests. Like Deputy Canney, I know people who are concerned about their businesses and may be thinking of packing in the business and going to work for somebody else. I would be concerned about that for various reasons. I will ask two quick questions consecutively, if that is okay, because it is late in the evening. With regard to the once-off measures provided to businesses...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: The first question was about the once-off measures provided to businesses post Covid, such as the deferral of rates payments. Is any consideration being given to providing those supports again, given the rising costs of material, etc? Is anything coming down the road by way of a repetition of those supports?