Results 1-20 of 13,285 for speaker:Joe McHugh

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 267. To ask the Minister for Health if he has considered positive health psychology and lifestyle medicine as part of an integrative healthcare strategy to prevent chronic disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37044/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 344.To ask the Minister for Finance to consider a personal tax relief for gym and swimming pool membership holders via the existing medical expense rebate structure administered by Revenue; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34740/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 345.To ask the Minister for Finance to give strong consideration to a reduction in hospitality VAT on food and beverages to 9%; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34741/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Defective Building Materials (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 652.To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if officials from her Department will respond directly to a school (details supplied) which submitted an engineer’s report to her Department highlighting defective blocks over three years ago.[35431/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 760.To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht when the sports capital programme allocations are likely to be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter.[35503/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Cabinet Committees (9 Sep 2024)

Joe McHugh: 1436.To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to consider the establishment of a Cabinet sub-committee on young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter.[34735/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Services (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of flights that have been delayed and rescheduled on the Donegal to Dublin and Dublin to Donegal route since January 2024; the reasons for delays and rescheduling of flights on these routes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26943/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Defective Building Materials (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of meetings that have taken place between his officials and officials in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss restoring the homeowner's ability to borrow/switch or sell for a mortgage-backed price under the defective concrete blocks scheme; and if he agrees with the Central Bank assertion that there has been a lack...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Laboratory Facilities (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 238. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider reopening local authority laboratories on a regional basis to test for building materials and for aggregate in general used in the construction industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27000/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (25 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 251. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the situation regarding retrospection should there be an increase in the cap under the defective blocks scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27284/24]

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

Joe McHugh: 140. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount that is allocated to all local authorities to enable the proper structural inspection of new houses; the number of new houses that were inspected by local authorities in each of the years 2018 to 2023 for each local authority area, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26610/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (20 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses that were demolished and rebuilt under the original defective blocks scheme; the number that were demolished and rebuilt under the new enhanced defective blocks scheme (2022) to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26611/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (18 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for demolition under the defective blocks scheme; the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for outer-leaf replacement; the number of houses the Housing Authority has authorised for both outer- and inner-leaf replacement (not demolition); and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (11 Jun 2024)

Joe McHugh: 379.To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider a more flexible approach to the rebuild location under the defective blocks scheme, particularly in relation to families with acute health conditions that wish to stay in their homes during construction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24746/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (29 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 117. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the recommendations made by the steering group comprised of officials from the relevant local authorities, his Department, the Housing Agency, and the homeowner's liaison officer for the first six months of the defective blocks scheme; if home owner representatives, aside from the HLO, were consulted during this six...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (29 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 148. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of outstanding TAM applications are due for payment; and to provide an indicative date for when these payments will be made. [24151/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (28 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on salary and pensions for caretakers in school settings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23577/24]

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Cuirim fáilte roimh gach éinne anseo inniu. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit agus guím ádh mór air sa phost úr. Cuirim fáilte roimh Aodán agus Aodhán. B'fhéidir go bhfuil scéal ann maidir leis an tseimhiú. Tá ceist agam i leith cúrsaí cumarsáide idir Roinn na Gaeltachta agus an Roinn...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Go raibh maith ag an Aire Stáit as sin. Tá sé sin dearfach agus guím ádh mór air maidir leis an gcóras sin. Chomh maith leis sin, tá mé ag smaoineamh faoi ráiteas a chuala mé cúpla bliain ó shin: "nuair atá achan rud ráite agus déanta, tá níos mó ráite ná atá déanta". I mo...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Tuarascáil ar Earnáil Scríbhneoireachta, Foilsitheoireachta agus Léitheoireachta na Gaeilge: Plé (22 May 2024)

Joe McHugh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as sin. Tá an ceart aige. Tá na rudaí atá á bhaint amach faoin pholasaí soiléir. Bhí an Teachta Ó Cuív ag obair ar an teanga san Eoraip in 2007 agus cuireadh deireadh leis an maolú ar deireadh in 2021. Tá na torthaí le feiceáil. Chomh maith leis sin, tá mé ag...