Results 21-40 of 7,350 for speaker:Darren O'Rourke

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1165. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to introduce legislation compelling county councils to request self-employed individuals seeking to join the social housing list to provide minimum of two years’ accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or self-assessment acknowledgement letter for the preceding 12-months....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1341. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason widows who work full-time and are in receipt of a widow's pension and pay PRSI and all other taxes are not eligible for normal illness benefit. [44954/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1348. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the contributory widows pension is taken into consideration as an criteria for eligibility for widows seeking a social benefit such as illness benefit; and if there are plans to remove the contributory pension from being considered when seeking said benefits. [45069/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1349. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason the contributory widows pension is taken into consideration as an criteria for eligibility for widows seeking back to school clothing and footwear allowance; and if there are plans to remove the contributory pension from being considered when seeking said benefits. [45070/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1362. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of whole time equivalent network cyber security ICT specialists at the grade of executive officer working within his Department as of 18 August 2025, in tabular form. [45527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1399. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the responsibility that is on his Department to ensure that citizens are appropriately educated and informed about the terms of individual social welfare payments and the potential implications of availing or not availing of a particular payment, for example that some count as credits for a State pension and others do not;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2306. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons awaiting surgical removal of their wisdom teeth in CHO8, in tabular form. [45529/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2307. To ask the Minister for Health the full year cost to fully staff three extra perinatal mental health teams. [45530/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2308. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole time equivalent staff by job title in HSE adult safeguarding teams within CHO8; and the timeframe for filling each of the vacancies, in tabular form. [45538/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2309. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated full year cost to recruit two additional WTE senior pharmaceutical technicians; and two additional senior pharmacists to work in the Public Health Services. [45539/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2366. To ask the Minister for Health the number, category and response time for ambulance call-outs to addresses in Ashbourne, County Meath in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45693/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2367. To ask the Minister for Health her plans to improve ambulance services serving Ashbourne, County Meath; if she intends to provide a dedicated service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45694/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2473. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultancy rooms for doctors practicing privately in the new Children's Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46223/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Appointments (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2710. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to visit the east coast of the United States before year end 2025. [45540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2728. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are plans to increase the compensation of Board members who sit on ETB interview panels boards. [46478/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 2760. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the next Séala Creidiúnaithe d'Aistritheoirí exam will be; if he plans to increase the frequency of these exams, perhaps to two exams each year given the scarcity of translators and the volume of work available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46224/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: The Minister and I share a constituency. She must be aware of what is happening and she must have been contacted. Earlier, she referenced a school that is moving to digital. I have been contacted by parents with children in that school and by parents across the State who have been part of a consultation but whose opinion is not reflected in the policy of the school. They simply cannot...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she recognises that the introduction of one-to-one digital policies in schools can put an impossible financial burden on some parents; the measures she is taking to support parents and students who are unable to afford digital devices in one-to-one digital schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40113/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Information and Communications Technology (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I have heard the response repeatedly. There needs to be an acknowledgement by the Minister and within the Department that there are two things happening here. The first is a funding crisis in our schools overall. There is a massive shortfall. There is an expectation, because the Government is saying it will not bring in a cost-of-living package, that next year will be worse than this...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Transport (17 Jul 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: We waited a long time for the review. To be clear, it stated that reducing the distance criteria would enable more children to be eligible for transport, increasing uptake and thus facilitating greater access to the labour market for working parents. This is mainly women. There are obvious benefits in terms of the environment, socialisation and meeting our climate action targets. The...