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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (11 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The Department saw an increase last year in the number of early warning reports for FDI companies which may be experiencing trading difficulties or are ceasing operations in Ireland. The number of early warning reports for the first 11 months of 2022 is higher than the same period in 2021. We saw this in County Louth, with the exit of National Pen and the closure of PayPal and Actavis in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Foreign Direct Investment (11 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I thank the Minister of State for visiting Dundalk. It is nice to know he came to Dundalk to sit down and have a chat. I appreciate that the IDA and Enterprise Ireland have, as the Minister of State said, been involved in 800 investments. There have been 36 in Louth alone, comprising 4,485 jobs. Enterprise Ireland has been involved in the creation of 630 jobs. This is all very welcome. ...

Targeted Investment in the Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this motion on targeted investment in the health service. Although it is centred around the University Limerick Hospitals Group, the points raised are also applicable to my constituency of Louth and east Meath. The 2010 report of the national acute medicine programme alongside the 2013 framework for smaller hospitals outlined the need for smaller and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (16 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 222. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide information in relation to lighting the M1 motorway (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22604/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I receive calls weekly regarding planning permission rejections, with some people spending between €15,000 and €20,000 in the planning process before any works are done. This is not just hearsay. It was reported at the May meeting of Louth County Council that planning permission was refused for 40% of rural homes in Louth in 2022. This means that 70 out of the 177 planning...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is in County Louth

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I live in County Louth and I know what is going on there. The refusal rate in rural County Louth was 40%. That equates to 70 families that have to live in mobile homes, live with friends or live wherever they can because they cannot get planning permission. The Government is instructing local authorities to build houses on local authority-owned land. However, our local authorities are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: I know of a young girl who is married with two children. Her family has loads of land - 40 or 50 acres. What did the council tell her? It told her to build an extension onto the existing house of 50 sq. m. One cannot put a family into an extension measuring 50 sq. m.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The family already has the granny living in the house. I want the Tánaiste and the Minister to come to County Louth and have a look.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The refusal rate was 40%, meaning that 70 families were refused planning permission last year. It is not acceptable in a housing crisis. I am listening to gardaí on radio stations talking about this. We have a problem-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Let us start looking after the people in the area. I know I will see the Tánaiste on Saturday in Navan but more importantly, I ask him to look after these families with their homes. That is all I am saying. He should come to County Louth with the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Give us a few penalties and the whole stadium will be happy.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Of 50 sq. m. One would not be able to get two horses in there.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Please come to County Louth and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: There is a housing crisis.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Generation (18 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 191. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for information on why Parkwind’s Oriel Windfarm in Dundalk Bay was unsuccessful in its recent bid to generate electricity from offshore wind; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (18 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: 374. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection in relation to the recent cost-of-living bonus paid to those in receipt of certain social welfare payments; the amount the Government saved by not allowing those on adult dependant payments to receive this payment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23943/23]

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: This Government promised in the programme for Government to make home ownership affordable and accessible again to an entire generation who are locked out of home ownership. Home ownership rates among young working adults in Ireland have collapsed in the face of rising house prices and, unfortunately, the myriad of issues impeding home purchase look unlikely to be resolved in the short to...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: Previous Governments promised to rectify the errors that resulted in the CervicalCheck scandal of 2018 involving several women, including Vicky Phelan, Eileen Rushe and Lynsey Bennett, receiving incorrect smear test results for cervical cancer. For reasons that must be obvious, many women in Ireland have lost confidence in the outsourcing of lab tests to the United States. Yet cervical...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 May 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: We all know that not everyone who develops cervical cancer will have HPV found at screening.