Results 121-140 of 2,145 for speaker:Emer Currie

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 591. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is undertaking to enable local authorities to identify suitable sites for urban development zones; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54808/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 592. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is evaluating to deliver higher density housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54809/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 593. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which modern methods of construction are currently being utilised to increase housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54810/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 594. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department is evaluating to promote the conversion of older buildings for housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54811/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 595. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the methods his Department is currently assessing to speed up the planning process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54812/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 596. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures his Department are evaluating to reduce building costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Construction Industry (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 600. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department will assess the amount construction costs will be reduced if planning application wait times are reduced by 25%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 597. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress which has been made by local authorities in updating regional strategies under the revised national planning framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54817/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 598. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is evaluating amendments to the housing needs and demand assessment process to assist with housing delivery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54818/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Land Development Agency (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 599. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work his Department is undertaking to ensure that there is no net decrease in land supply from rezoning by local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 687. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the work his Department is undertaking to reduce overcrowding in prisons; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54796/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 688. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the measures his Department is evaluating to reduce legal costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54797/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Services Regulation (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 690. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has evaluated the development of a development consent order system similar to the system available in England in order that major infrastructure projects can avoid the need to secure consent for different features of the project under different regimes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Judicial Reviews (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 689. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reforms his Department are evaluating to reduce the cost of judicial review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54798/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (14 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 691. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of successful applicants currently waiting to be called to begin training in a college (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54801/25]

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: The witnesses are all very welcome today. I thank them for their thorough submissions. Regarding childcare, we are all aware that access to an early childhood learning and care system is essential for tackling disadvantage, for early intervention, for bridging socioeconomic disparity and for increased economic participation later on in life. Obviously, the day before yesterday we had the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: That is an important point, as is the fact that the fee adjustment last year had a knock-on impact when the universal subsidies were increased, but then the adjustment was brought in, and it had a negative knock-on effect on income-assessed subsidies. I am not sure that got the attention it required, but I hear what the witnesses are saying today and it is essential that it be taken on board...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (9 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 117. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of cancelled trips on the 37 Dublin Bus route from January 2025 to date, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54365/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (9 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 118. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of cancelled trips on the 38 Dublin Bus route from January 2025 to date, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54366/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Dublin Bus (9 Oct 2025)

Emer Currie: 119. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the total number of cancelled trips on the 39 Dublin Bus route from January 2025 to date, by month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54367/25]