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. 112 – 2nd December – Seaweed Harvesting and Foreshore Legislation

  To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the progress the new foreshore legislation particularly in view of the impact on seaweed harvesting, with reference to the rights, often found in land register folios, of seaweed harvesters and the rights of those harvesting for domestic use, traditionally working in this sector;… Continue Reading

PQ No. 74 – 27th November – Pension Levy Proceeds and Abolition

To ask the Minister for Finance if it is under consideration or if it will be considered, as a mechanism for reducing taxation and giving back to taxpayers, to return all or portions of the pension levy, a levy which was introduced to fund job creation initiatives, particularly in the context of the improving financial… Continue Reading

PQ No. 38 – 27th November – New School Accommodation and the Increase in Enrolments

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with the increase in enrolments in 2015 and for the next number of years her plans to ensure additional capacity with particular reference to Galway city and county.. – Seán Kyne. Freagra Minister Jan O’Sullivan My Department is currently analysing the latest demographic data on a nationwide… Continue Reading

PQ No. 30 – 27th November – Progress of the Prefab Replacement Programme

To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will report on the progress of the prefab replacement programme; the number of schools that have had prefabs replaced by county; the number of schools still to be reached; and her plans and timeframe to replace the temporary structures with permanent classroom accommodation. – Seán… Continue Reading

PQ No. 162 – 26th November – Impact on Volunteer Centres of Reforms to Local Development System

To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that volunteer centres across the country are to lose funding arising from the re-structuring of the local development companies system which heretofore has allocated what has come to be known as the 1% funding for… Continue Reading

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