Results 24,001-24,020 of 24,065 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I acknowledge the Deputy’s ongoing advocacy on behalf of sporting organisations in his constituency. We expect to open the sports facilities fund, which is for clubs up to a maximum of €200,000, next spring with announcements next autumn. It normally runs every two years. We have only ever run two iterations of the large-scale sports infrastructure fund, the first in 2019 and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I know it is something he is committed to. We have spoken about it before. Encouraging clubs to collaborate particularly with local authorities under a municipal approach could deliver significant benefits to sporting organisations and opportunities for people in local communities to engage in sport across the country and, from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: We have asked Sport Ireland to conduct an exercise to assess gaps in particular sporting facilities around the country in order that we get an overall sense of what the facilities are in different areas and are able to factor that into our future sports capital considerations and announcements. My experience, and I am sure the Deputy’s too, is that almost all clubs across all sports...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sport and Recreational Development (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: We will look at all of this. I want to ensure that our local authorities are thinking seriously about sporting facilities in their planning for an area and their use of land, particularly existing land. I also want to ensure our schools are thinking about how they can collaborate with sporting clubs. While land is a challenge, there is a lot of latent potential in the land we have. In the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I know from having spoken to the Deputy that he is very committed to the post office network and wants to see it developed. I thank him for raising the matter. As he is aware, the Government is committed to a sustainable An Post and post office network which, as we all know, is a key component of the economic and social infrastructure of communities across the country. The programme for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: We will continue to determine how we can ensure we utilise and maximise the post office network in terms of providing face-to-to face services to local communities. As he knows, in many small villages post offices are the last remaining face-to-face service. They provide important services in towns of all sizes, in particular small towns. We want to make sure that we examine how we can...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Post Office Network (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: We are very clear on the importance of Government funding and the three-year contract to make sure post offices are sustained. I have no doubt we would have seen closures over the past three years if it had not been for the Government stepping up to the mark. We are also very clear on the importance of us continuing to step up and support the network. We have received a submission from...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pools (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Carthy. As he knows, capital support for new swimming pools and the refurbishment of existing pools continues to be provided by the Department through the large-scale sport infrastructure fund, LSSIF, which to date has allocated €28.9 million to nine swimming pools throughout the country. Investment in a swimming pool for Monaghan, as the Deputy knows, is a matter for...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pools (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The first requirement is for the county council to be proactive. While I certainly will be proactive in trying to ensure we secure funding and deliver swimming pools throughout the country, we will only be able to deal with applications that are on our desk. It is highly likely we will not be able to deal with every application, given the level of demand, but we will be doing our best to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Swimming Pools (26 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: As the Deputy knows, we had a round recently in which almost 30 projects across the country were grant-aided under the large-scale support infrastructure fund, LSSIF. The focus on the short term is to work with all of those applications that were successful in the recent round, as well as with a good number from 2019, to ensure that they are progressing, that funding is getting drawn down...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The organisation referred to by the Deputy applied for a grant of €200,000 towards the re-carpeting of an artificial grass pitch from the 2023 round of the Community Sports Facilities Fund (formerly the Sports Capital and Equipment Programme (SCEP)) The club had already been allocated €150,000 towards this project from the 2020 SCEP. Under the terms and conditions of the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Sport Ireland, which is funded by my Department, is the statutory body with responsibility for the development of sport, including the recognition of sporting bodies for funding purposes. I have referred the Deputy's question to Sport Ireland for direct reply in relation to its role in the matter mentioned by the Deputy. I would ask the Deputy to inform my office if a reply is not received...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Organisations (24 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Sport Ireland is the statutory body with responsibility for the development of sport, increasing participation at all levels and raising standards. It also has responsibility for governance oversight of National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of Sport, Local Sports Partnerships (LSPs) and other funded bodies. I have referred the Deputy's Question to Sport Ireland for direct reply on this matter....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Olympic Council of Ireland (24 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Sport Ireland, the statutory agency with responsibility for the development of sport in Ireland, including high performance sport, undertakes such reviews after each Olympic/Paralympic Games. The Deputy will be pleased to note that a review into the Paris Cycle has been completed and was published last December. It is available from the Sport Ireland website.

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Olympic Games (24 Jun 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: For the Paris Olympic cycle 2021-2024, the Government provided a record-level investment of approximately €89 million towards high performance sport. This was a substantial increase on the €59 million invested for the previous Tokyo cycle. In line with the Government’s target of delivering €30 million per annum for high performance sport by 2027, as indicated in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Healy-Rae for raising this matter. I am glad to take it on behalf of the Minister for Transport, who, as the Deputy knows, has responsibility for overall policy and Exchequer funding relating to the national roads programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, under the Roads Acts 1993 to 2015 and in line with the national...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (2 Jul 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I will relay to Transport Infrastructure Ireland that the Deputy has raised this matter in the Dáil. As I said, this has been strongly considered locally through Kerry County Council. It engaged consultants to review safety and capacity issues on the N22 and its approaches and to introduce improved active travel facilities at the N22-Park Road junction. Coming out of that proposal and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Jul 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Deputy Kenny for raising this matter. I am answering on behalf of the Minister for Health. I have the details and response on the guidelines and policy around incontinence pads. I will give the Deputy these as part of my response but I assure him that I will be following this case up further, on the back of his contribution, with the Department of Health and the HSE. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Aids and Appliances (2 Jul 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: Certainly, I will. Obviously, the parents have been through several challenges and the child has had a very difficult and challenging start to life. It is really important from the point of view of the State that the health service we provide be appropriate to the child's needs. It is important that incontinence pads be appropriate to and sufficient in number for the child to meet all his...

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Charlie McConalogue: The images we see from Gaza and the horrifying humanitarian situation are truly appalling. The trajectory of displacement and disenfranchisement of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is unfathomable. More than 56,000 people have been killed in Gaza. These are the ones whose deaths have been verified. Many more bodies lie beneath the rubble. Behind each number is an individual, a...