Results 41-60 of 26,347 for speaker:Seán Ó Fearghaíl

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she will address concerns raised about childcare provision in Kilcullen (details supplied); the plans her Department has for investment in the Kilcullen area; the supports her Department has provided to childcare operators in this area to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he is aware of the success of a business (details supplied), of the number of employees working in the facility and the number of visitors the facility attracts on an annual basis; the supports his Department is providing to the business to ensure its continued success; if he is aware of the limitations of the current retail...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 425. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 74 of 25 June 2025, if the application for emergency works will be granted as a matter of urgency given that the necessary documentation has been supplied by the school (details supplied) to her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37690/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views regarding the retail planning guidelines; if there is a timeline in place for the review of the guidelines; if he is conscious of the fact that the current guidelines are proving to be an impediment to the maintenance and expansion of a business (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (8 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 532. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if capital assistance scheme funding will be provided to an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37738/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the three witnesses for their succinct and powerful presentations. I have a couple of questions but will first make an observation. We are in a unique situation in that everybody around this table has the same objective, which is to see enacted as soon as is humanly possible the strongest and most effective legislation. The comparison between what we are about here and the Dunnes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: What about the question of this being the precursor of something stronger against the State of Israel and the possible influence that may come from the United State?

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 136. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when his Department will issue a section 28 directive to local authorities to commence the review of their county development plans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36281/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in the context of the reform of the private rental sector, he accepts that an unintended consequence of changes could be the departure of landlords who have four properties or fewer from the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, in respect of those landlords with four properties or fewer, who had intended their properties to be part of a pension arrangement, said landlords are obliged to sell the properties within the tenant in situ scheme, he agrees that there is a risk of tenant n situ arrangements reducing market value of such property and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (2 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 203. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address matters concerning the mysterious deaths of a large number of the farm animals (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36593/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the Chair. I will be brief. I welcome Mr. Keown and Mr. Smyth and thank them for their assistance. I welcome that the Government is adopting this twin-track approach of trying to influence matters at European level and enact what the public will see as Senator Frances Black's legislation, no matter what we produce at the end of the day. I cannot remember any occasion over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: So we are talking about €214,000 worth of goods. Are they made of up fruit, vegetables and other items? Do we know the nature of the goods?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Do we know the value of services that would be envisaged by this Bill, were they to be included? Reference was made to the opinion of the Attorney General. We have a very eminent Attorney General, and we have had many very eminent Attorneys General over the years. I am not looking in any particular direction. It is very frustrating, given the length of time this Bill has been in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: If the value was only €10, the symbolic value of the legislation is still absolutely enormous in terms of the leadership role it allows this country to take on this particular matter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: How frequently are such infringement proceedings taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: General Scheme of Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Prohibition of Importation of Goods) Bill 2025 (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I thank the witnesses.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 25. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on his engagement with the Department of Finance on the tax treatment of Land Development Agency cost rental activity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 27. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how he intends that the Land Development Agency will support local authorities, the Housing Activation Office and his Department in master planning and infrastructure provision in new towns and districts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35637/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (1 Jul 2025)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence regarding mild general learning disability designation of schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35864/25]