Fine Gael TD for Galway West & Mayo South

Category Archives: Parliamentary Questions

Parliamentary Questions (PQs) may be submitted by a TD for oral answer in the Dáil or, as in the majority of cases, for written answer. TDs may put questions on any topic to the Taoiseach or any minister, subject to conditions and procedures as outlined in standing orders.

By convention Ministers do not usually table PQs. As Minister of State for Community Development, Natural Resources and Digital Development I answer questions in the Dáil on issues relating to Communities, Natural Resources and Digital Development.

PQ No. 709 – 14th January – Nursing Home Vacancies and Acute Hospitals

To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Service Executive has identified the reasons some 1,200 nursing home beds are unoccupied, as confirmed by a survey conducted by Nursing Homes Ireland, which also confirmed the existence of 178 vacancies at 23 nursing homes in County Galway; and if so if the HSE has compiled… Continue Reading

PQ No. 707 – 14th January – Reform of Organ Donation System

To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the organ donation process with reference to the proposals for a new system based on presumed consent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. – Seán Kyne T.D. Reply: Minister for Health, Leo Varadkar TD The HSE’s Organ Donation and Transplant Ireland (ODTI)… Continue Reading

PQ No. 276 – Wednesday 14th January – Creating Regional Enterprise Strategies

To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when it is planned to launch the creating competitive regions strategies; and if, with particular reference to the west of Ireland, there has been stakeholder consultation and engagement in creating the strategy. – Seán Kyne.   Reply: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD… Continue Reading

PQ No. 1,063 – Dé Ceadaoin 14 Éanáir – Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge

Chun a fhiafraí den Aire Ealaíon, Oidhreachta agus Gaeltachta an dtabharfaidh sí tuairisc ar an dul chun cinn atá déanta i dtaca leis na bearta sa Straitéis 20 Bliain don Ghaeilge, ós rud é go bhfuil an ceathrú cuid de thréimhse na Straitéise istigh in 2015; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. – Seán… Continue Reading

PQ No. 1,028 – Wednesday 14th January – Western Rail Corridor Status

To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport in view of the exceptionally positive passenger numbers for Iarnród Éireann, and particularly on the western rail corridor, his views that the future continuation of this line would consolidate such increases and contribute to sustainable regional development; and if he will make a statement on the… Continue Reading

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