Results 141-160 of 354 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 202. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of passport applications that were delayed due to the fact that consent forms could not be verified with the relevant Garda station in 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30472/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 850. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if regulations dealing with service charges and sinking funds, which were drafted in 2022, will be implemented before the end of 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30463/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 861. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to the Programme for Government Commitment to earmark certain cost rental units for key local workers to outline the progress that has been made on this to date; to define a key local worker; the key local workers that will qualify; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30628/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 851. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Housing Agency will commence regulating the owner management company sector as promised in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30464/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 865. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when work on translating revised national housing targets into local, tenure-specific targets which was reported as ongoing and at an advanced stage will be completed and published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30632/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 860. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the income criteria for cost rental will be reviewed in line with the Programme for Government commitment to ensure sufficient cohorts of tenants will qualify for the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30627/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his view on considering the inclusion of critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants in the new exempted development regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 859. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the EU legislation that requires transposition into Irish law and awaiting referral to an Oireachtas committee; to provide a timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 862. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish statutory timelines for the RTB and enhanced enforcement powers granted to the RTB will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 863. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish a cost rental version of the repair and lease scheme will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 864. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to launching a new, comprehensive starter-home programme across the public, private and approved housing body, AHB, sector will be realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 866. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE staff in his Department, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of vacancies, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of staff, by grade, on career break; the number of staff, by grade, on career break for more than five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the reintroduction of the ‘diet supplement’ payment for new applicants which was a payment to help with the cost of a special diet prescribed by one’s doctor or hospital consultant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 will move from the Department of Justice to the Department of Housing, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 1262. To ask the Minister for Health if she will follow the lead of the NHS in England in rolling out mental health accident and emergency departments and consider the same for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28932/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 1598. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to reintroduce statutory schemes that ceased in 2012 to supplement the cost of existing or newly diagnosed patients with coeliac disease requiring gluten-free diets to supplement the cost of the diet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30415/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I raise the disappointing news of 300 job losses in Limerick with the closure of Carelon. It is extremely disappointing given that the company was established less than four years ago. It is clearly profitable. It made profits of approximately €400 million over two years. What level of engagement has the Government had with the parent company and, in particular, the CEO, Ms Gail...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if weight-loss drugs such as ozempic and mounjaro will be made available to medical card patients; her views on whether they should; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28848/25]

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to talk in particular about the issue of military flights using Shannon Airport and flying over our airspace. It is something I and others are very concerned about because successive Irish Governments have long claimed the defence of plausible deniability in relation to this. To say we did not know because we did not ask is no longer acceptable. We have already had the Irish...