Results 121-140 of 14,090 for speaker:Marc MacSharry

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (25 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 260. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, given the unseasonably cold and wet weather throughout April, May and to date in June, and the consequent necessity for heating to be on and open fires to be lit in the period, she will consider the reinstatement of the fuel allowance for eligible people back dating it to the date of the final payment of the fuel...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: And a full house.

International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: I thank the Government for facilitating this time. Whenever the vote is, I will be back to vote against the pact or our opting in at this time. As other Members have said, we are putting the cart before the horse. Some of us are old enough to remember the Amsterdam treaty in 1998, which we voted for, and our two outings on Lisbon in 2008 and 2009. It is worth noting that we looked for...

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (19 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: I appreciate that the Government was prepared to allow me to speak. I very much appreciate that. In fairness to everybody here - a lot of us have been around these Houses for a long time - it is clear what is happening. It is tactical. Numbers are tight. Let us get on and have a vote. If there was interest in giving me time, I would have preferred for that to have been decoupled from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 311.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a child with autism (details supplied) who cannot get a place in any local primary school with an autism unit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25158/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 341.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department with meet with representatives from the Board of Management of a school (details supplied) as a matter of urgency to progress an application for temporary accommodation which was granted in 2022 and tendered for in March 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25456/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (11 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 347.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will direct her Department to expedite an application for additional accommodation for a school which is required urgently (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25505/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (11 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 661.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will explain the basis for the 180 days' residency requirement in a scheduled institution as a child in order to be eligible for benefits under the mother and baby institutions payment scheme (details supplied); if, in the interest of fairness, he will review this requirement with a view to removing same,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jun 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 763.To ask the Minister for Health when he will sanction funding for an increase in optometrists' fees, which currently do not meet the actual cost of providing a modern eye examination, given that the fees having not increased for over 20 years; and the timescale for the implementation of a national over 8s public eyecare programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25034/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Employment Rights (22 May 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 66. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are any legislative measures in existence or planned to provide for employment rights for contract workers within the film industry where substantial tax incentives are provided to boost profitability, yet many workers and service providers are only being provided with temporary and/or rolling contracts with no employment...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (14 May 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will review his Department’s operational practice of pushing the target issue date out for a passport submitted online by two weeks, where a new photo is requested by the checker near the end of the checking process; taking on board the fact that the initial passport photo was accepted by the Department’s IT system and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 471. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a person (details supplied) will receive a response to their enquiry regarding the methodology for the calculation of means in the case of their application for a disability allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (23 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps he and his Department have taken in the past 12 months to use surplus renewable energy to help reduce energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17506/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Fuel Poverty (23 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 121. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment what steps ESB, SEAI, EirGrid and the Commission for Regulation of Utilities have taken in the past 12 months to use surplus renewable energy to help reduce energy poverty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17507/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: National Minimum Wage (23 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 250. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when it is proposed to transpose the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive into Irish law; when he proposes to publish the required relevant action plan for the promotion of collective bargaining; when legislation is likely to be before Dáil Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17449/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Rates (23 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 412. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when it is proposed to reduce the weekly social support payment for those already here under the temporary protection directive, and currently in receipt of €232 per week, to the same level as all other refugees, that is, €38 per week; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17749/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Supports (23 Apr 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider the provision of meal vouchers in light of the impact of the inordinate weather on the farming community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17750/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (20 Mar 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 346. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 259 of 5 December 2023, the updated position with regard to an application for an extension for a primary school which has taken on a new urgency (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 685. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of the concerns of middle earners and families in the north west region, that the ceiling price for the first home scheme (FHS) is insufficient and that there are no new homes currently in Sligo town eligible for this scheme; if the ceiling price will be reviewed at the next scheduled review of the FHS...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

Marc MacSharry: 266. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review her Department's decision in relation to an application for emergency works by a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9988/24]