Results 101-120 of 2,165 for speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Yes, a briefing with the Department officials would allow us to tease out that and other questions.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I want to raise the issue of the indicative timeline for the housing plan. A number of members talked about additional money being put into the vacant property grants. I come from a rural county, Longford. On every boreen in the county I am beginning to see housing come back into use but unfortunately, in some of the towns, I still see a lot of derelict properties not being utilised. I...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Minister of State. This is slightly straying off the subject matter of the meeting, but on building regulations and building apartments, in Scotland they build timber-framed apartments in half the time. Under the regulations we have, we cannot do that. We were looking at alternative ways of building. From a climate action point of view, carbon is being sequestered by using...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Yes, but it is just that we have Irish companies building timber-framed housing in Scotland and we cannot build them in Ireland.

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Further Revised) (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Minister of State. He mentioned his constituency of Waterford. Those buildings are all one- and two-bedroom. We are building a lot of three-bedroom places. Even in rural areas, we have single people going into three-bedroom houses. If we built more one- and two-bedroom apartments, it would free up more of our stock. That is the figure I was given for timber framing. It...

Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Message to Dáil (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: In accordance with Standing Order 110, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage has completed its consideration of the following Further Revised Estimate for public services for the year ending on 31 December 2025: Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage. Under Standing Order 109(2), the message is...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 49. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if core funding for national governing bodies (NGB) of sport in Ireland and local sports partnerships (LSP) will be increased by ten percent for 2026, as per the pre-budget submission by an organisation (details supplied), if the Minister understands the urgency of this funding requirement to continue the work of NGBs...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: 55. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if core funding for national governing bodies of sport in Ireland (NGBs) and local sports partnerships (LSPs) will be increased by ten percent for each of the next three years, as per the pre-budget submission by an organisation (details supplied), if the Minister understands the urgency of this funding requirement to...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the witnesses. I apologise, but I was listening in for most of the morning. I am a parent of a young autistic son. I was also the Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Autism. I met some of the witnesses previously, when they were before that committee. It is good to hear there is engagement with the Department. I remember at the time that there was no engagement with any of...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am not looking at anyone in particular. I will leave it to yourself.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I am looking for an answer to the question about RPM that I asked earlier.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I totally agree. I am not focusing on one. We have used AAC devices to help speech. However, where a proven, internationally used method works, we should be supporting it. I feel IASLT as an organisation should be supporting it. We have had witnesses in this Chamber who actually gave testimony to the NCSE only a number of weeks ago that-----

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: -----it works. I am disappointed that the organisation cannot come out more strongly to support it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: We have received apologies from Senator Pat Casey. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. The serious financial and governance issues at the Peter McVerry Trust are matters of considerable concern to the public and the Oireachtas and have given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Thank you. I will now give members the opportunity to ask questions. I remind them that the time allocated is for both questions and answers, so they should allow time for the answers. Depending on numbers, we may have time to go around again, but I note that we received apologies from only one member.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Just be careful, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Please provide Deputy Stanley with the breakdown for his own constituency.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: I wish to advise that Deputy Eoin Ó Broin is taking Deputy Thomas Gould's spot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Peter McVerry Trust: Discussion (30 Sep 2025)

Micheál Carrigy: Before we go back around I just have a couple of questions myself. Will the witnesses give me a breakdown on the site in Longford - perhaps they can send this on to me - in terms of costs, staffing, contact details for the IPAS centre in Longford? A comment was made on the number of properties and the vacancy levels. It is important. Prior to me being the Chair, in the previous...