Results 41-60 of 354 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 306. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if the short term letting and tourism Bill 2025 will pass through the Oireachtas before the recess in July, in light of the passage of the Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Legislative Programme (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 310. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the protections or supports for the long-standing practice of family home bed and breakfasts that will be contained with the new short-term let legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35362/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 408. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide a timeline for construction to begin on a site (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36145/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 437. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will immediately commence section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009, in order to restore rent-setting for local authority housing to a reserved function of elected councillors, as originally intended under the 2009 Act; the reason, in the absence of commencement, each local authority chief executive...

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

Conor Sheehan: 440. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has any plans to create a tracking system with the land registry to enable applicants to monitor the progress of their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35279/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 441. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an updated list of all email and phone lines for use of Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35287/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 453. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if protections will be added for family home bed and breakfasts not to become commercially rateable properties, allowing them to maintain their family home status and be protected in legislation as non-commercial properties for the purpose of local authority rates, as has been the unofficial position since foundation of the...

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

Conor Sheehan: 464. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the transfer of responsibility for OMCs from the Department of Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to his Department will happen before the summer recess; if the regulations concerning sinking funds and service charges will be in place by the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35583/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 490. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline details of an unpublished 2023 directive from his Department to local authorities instructing them to purchase homes with tenants in situ where possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36071/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 491. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide details on a unit set up within his Department by his predecessor to engage with local authorities in relation to the tenant in situ scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36072/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 496. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide an updated list of all email addresses and phone lines for use by Oireachtas Members within his Department, including all subsidiary bodies, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36142/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Policies (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 605. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he plans to implement a ban on glyphosate use as has been done in other countries due to increasing research that it is probably carcinogenic to humans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35277/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 849. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children under 13 awaiting dental screening; the length of time they are waiting, by CHO, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 850. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people employed at the University Limerick Hospitals Group on career break, by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36144/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Tomorrow will mark another dark day when the latest homeless figures are published. The figure will be over 15,000. This is the population of a town the size of Tullamore. There were 4,775 children homeless in the most recent figures, each an individual tragedy. "The impact of homelessness and unstable living conditions on children is catastrophic" were the words of the Ombudsman for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: While the measures that the Government announced last week relating to security of tenure are welcome, they were undermined completely by allowing landlords to reset rents to market rate. The Housing Commission was clear that social and affordable housing should form 20% of our housing stock. It currently forms less than 10% of all housing stock. If the Tánaiste has huge respect for...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (26 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 282. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average wait time for a join family visa to be processed for a family where a non-EU citizen is joining their non-EU citizen spouse; if additional staff have been allocated to the visa processing department to reduce waiting times; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35033/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to ask about cancer services with specific reference to the NDP review that will be published in July and to make the case for a dedicated funding stream within that for cancer services. I wish to also ask about UHL and especially the cancer care outcomes. UHL has the worst outcomes in the January 2025 NCRI report. This is extremely concerning. There is no PET scanner, which means...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Independent Technical Group and Deputy Fitzmaurice for bringing forward this motion. We are six months into this new Government. There is no sight of the new housing plan until September. There are no new housing targets for local authorities. We expect that on Friday we will have record homelessness. There are no rural planning guidelines. They were apparently with the...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: IBEC Report on Infrastructure Ambition for a Competitive, Productive and Resilient Economy: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the witnesses. I have several questions. Do they believe the new planning and development legislation will address the legalistic nature of the planning system, which causes so many problems? Is the shortage of judges, for example, putting in place obstacles to getting judicial matters dealt with? With regard to the concept of a single entity with statutory powers to co-ordinate...