Questions asked 17 total

• Education 5 questions

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if enrolment spouses and the children's pension scheme operated by her Department is mandatory (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42510/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if she will support the urgent need for improved physical education facilities at a school in Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42622/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education the amount provided through the interim special transport grant to parents or individuals who have to access private school transport from 2021 to date; if the amounts can be provided on a county-by-county basis; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42658/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education to address ongoing concerns raised by a school in Offaly (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42732/24]
  • 2024-10-23 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education if she is aware that a number of schools within the Laois-Offaly constituency have no mainstream ASD units or classrooms at all; the measures she is taking to improve the situation for families of children with special needs in Laois and Offaly; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43478/24]
• Children 3 questions

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 565 of 15 October 2024, the costs paid to the service provider before his Department was made aware that they had not obtained permission from the owner and the owner sought the return of the property; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42766/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 566 of 15 October 2024, the specific number of such instances where a current or potential service provider was not the outright owner of the property where beneficiaries of temporary protection were residing, and who had not obtained permission from the owner before entering a contract with his Department; the cost paid out to each provider prior to the discoveries; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42767/24]
  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an address is registered with IPAS as an accommodation centre (details supplied); if IPAS is inquiring into what is happening at the location given reports that the owner cannot remove the occupants, who are refusing to vacate; if payments for the provision of accommodation at this address are being paid to a company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43105/24]
• Health 2 questions

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health if gene therapy is available for persons diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; if there are plans to make it available, as per the situation in the United States, the United Kingdom and a number of other jurisdictions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42744/24]
  • 2024-10-24 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the Health (Amendment) (Licensing of Professional Home Support Providers) Bill; the measures taken to date to provide a licensing framework for home support providers, while making it an offence to operate a home support service without a licence and incorporating transitional arrangements for existing home support providers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43722/24]
• Taoiseach 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Taoiseach to provide details of all social enterprise organisations or bodies funded by his Department in each year from 2021 to date in 2024; the amount allocated in funding to each during this time period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42280/24]
• Environment 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications when high speed fibre broadband will be made available at an address (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42691/24]
• Transport 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Transport the amount collected by the national car testing authority in testing and retesting fees from 2021 to date; how much of this related to VAT imposed on the fee for a test and retest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42668/24]
• Finance 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Finance to confirm that the VAT applicable to an NCT test and retest is 23%; if he can reduce this VAT rate, and if he will do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42669/24]
• Enterprise 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the work of the retail forum; the number of times the forum has met to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42416/24]
• Tourism 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media to provide an update on the work of the night time economy taskforce; the number of times the forum has met to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42417/24]
• Further and Higher Education 1 question

  • 2024-10-22 Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to detail the oversight, if any, his Department has relating to the content of the graduate diploma in social, personal and health education and relationships and sexuality education course at DCU to date; if the course material or objectives are approved by his Department prior to delivery; if any officials in his Department have any input into the course content or course objectives; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42990/24]