Results 81-100 of 244 for speaker:Joe Cooney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is a serious concern. We are aware of where land is zoned and capacity is not in the infrastructure, particularly wastewater. I would welcome if something could be moved forward to see if it is was possible, with all sides working together, to get this land made useful for development. We are all looking for the development of houses. If we do not get this land up and running, more so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: That is welcome news. I hope this means we could see more housing developments going ahead in rural parts of the country. The other issue is the shortage of skilled construction workers. I want to touch on apprenticeships. I do not know whether this is part of the agencies' work but it is important to highlight it here today. There is a shortage of skilled construction workers. Some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: Mr. Whelan and I discussed social and affordable houses as I was finishing up in the first round. The failure to deliver more social houses over the previous years has unfortunately led us into the housing crisis we are in now. My concern is that the delivery of affordable houses is exclusively focused on the large urban areas, unfortunately, and coastal communities are completely...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 245. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the names of external auditors that the Department have used to carry out works on behalf of the Department in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [32602/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: State Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 367. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of vacant WTE staff currently at the Health and Safety Authority, by job title; the expected timeframe for filling each of those vacancies, in tabular form. [32600/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Industrial Development (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 368. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to outline all capital investment made by the IDA in County Clare since 2022, in tabular form. [32601/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 485. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the percentage of Exchequer funding that was provided to each State agency under the remit of his Department in 2024 for its capital and current funding, in tabular form. [32607/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: State Bodies (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 486. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he expects to fill the post of Chairperson for the National Concert Hall. [32608/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 638. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide a breakdown of the age profile of the Garda vehicle fleet within the Clare-Tipperary division. [32609/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 896. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will run an international recruitment campaign to recruit a suitably qualified senior dental surgeon, with a special interest in special needs, for the CHO3 area. [32603/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 897. To ask the Minister for Health the number of applications that were received for ceiling hoists within CHO3 in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32604/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 898. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dental nurses based in each primary care centre and health centre within county Clare in 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [32605/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 899. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the training provided to haemodialysis patients to carry out their own haemodialysis at home; whether self-administered homecare is best international practice. [32606/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank everyone for attending today. Having listened to the various statements, I would like to ask the Department officials about the possible use of the data available to them under the Act. Data is a highly valuable commodity, as they well know, and while it can be used in a proactive and positive way, it can also be used in a way that users may not have foreseen when the gathering...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: The Department is confident enough that the data will not be given to other public bodies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is a concern that has been raised with me on several occasions. I can see why it would be raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impacts of the Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Act 2023: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is good to hear that. I hope that is the way it will be because there is serious concern that it may happen in certain cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I welcome the witnesses. I have read the report and the recommendations with interest. I agree with Mr. O’Flynn that we have a serious crisis on our hands. While a lot of issues need to be sorted to get out of the emergency we are in, I wish to focus on one. Other members brought up different issues but the one I wish to focus on is intensifying reuse and retrofitting of vacant and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I would like to come back in on a point made regarding the issue I raised. Mr. O'Connor made a good point that funding should be put in place for people to carry out a survey on the costing of doing up old derelict and vacant houses. I fully agree. In fairness to Mr. O'Flynn, he also mentioned looking at the grant. There is a big difference between doing up a four-bedroom, two-storey...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received under the light duty vehicle initiative operated by zero emission vehicles and delivered by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30417/25]