Results 241-260 of 413 for speaker:Barry Heneghan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Strategies (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 653. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the measures he will take to deal with the expiration of planning permissions in the next five years; the actions that should implemented to urgently activate the planning permissions that are at risk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17647/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will introduce schemes that encourage mutual home ownership model; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17648/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 655. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will deal with the significant decrease in planning permissions, specifically in the three Dublin council areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17649/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Inspections (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 656. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a memorandum of understanding or formal data-sharing agreement exists between An Garda Síochána and the Department of Social Protection concerning the transfer of personal data for social welfare investigations; whether such an agreement includes provisions governing data-sharing by An Garda Síochána...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 689. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, when an individual is making an application for an additional needs’ payment, State redress payments are considered when means are being taken into account. [17641/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Alcohol Sales (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 747. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he intends to publish the second Bill arising from the General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022, specifically dealing with the regulation of distance selling of alcohol; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 792. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will commit funding in Budget 2026 to establish a community neurorehabilitation team for the north Dublin area (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17642/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Reviews (8 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 1050. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider amending the forthcoming alcohol labelling regulations to allow for a standardised approach to wine labelling commencing with the 2026 vintage; if she will remove the requirement for per-container nutritional information, which conflicts with existing EU legislation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17645/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 9. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [15512/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Right across Dublin Bay North and, indeed, the entire country, vacant and derelict buildings are sitting idle while people are crying out for housing. Hundreds of people email me weekly. They are dying to get into these houses on the same street they are in in north Dublin. Local authorities are struggling with enforcement. I urge that there be an investigation into Dublin City Council...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: When I raised this through a parliamentary question on 10 April, I welcomed the Government's commitment to special needs assistant numbers with new posts by 2025 but good intentions are not enough. I asked the Minister of State, Deputy Moynihan, how the numbers were proposed to be distributed, and specifically for me how they would be allocated to schools in Dublin Bay North where families...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: The NPF is a critical tool in how we shape our housing infrastructure, services and communities. I welcome the revision placed before the House following public consultation and a comprehensive review. However, we need a plan that reflects the major changes our country has seen in recent years. Planning is not just about numbers and maps; it is about the kind of people and communities we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 12. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment to provide an update on the process being put in place to fulfil the programme for Government commitment to "Examine ways to facilitate people who are on work permits to move jobs more easily and legally, while protecting the integrity of the immigration system"; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21619/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: I am asking for an update on the commitment in the programme for Government to examine ways to make it easier and more transparent for people on work permits to change jobs legally. Last week, I visited the Migrant Rights Centre. I had a great discussion with it and met many people who had come to this country with the intention to work. There is a matter of basic fairness and of upholding...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: I welcome the fact there is movement on this, but at the heart of the issue is a simple question of fairness. Workers who come to Ireland on employment permits are legally present in the country, paying taxes and contributing to our essential sectors, such as those mentioned by the Minister of State, but once they arrive, they find themselves tied to a single employer under rigid rules that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Work Permits (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: I welcome the fact the Minister of State is engaging with these industries and he should continue to do that. I would also like his Department to examine the fee migrant workers are paying. Off the top of my head, it costs €200 yearly. It is an unfair fee and should be reduced because these people are struggling. They are coming here to work. Workers should not have to choose...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Táim ag labhairt inniu ar son na dtuismitheoirí, na ndaltaí agus na múinteoirí i nGaelcholáiste Reachrann i nDomhnach Míde. Tá an scoil ag feidhmiú i bhfoirgnimh shealadacha le breis agus 20 bliain. Tá sé ráite go minic ag an Rialtas go bhfuil an tionscadal ag dul ar aghaidh ach níl sé. I raise yet again a matter that...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Tánaiste agus an Aire. Yet again - and I see why people get frustrated - the Tánaiste did not answer my question. Will the Tánaiste and the Minister commit to a visit to Gaelcholáiste Reachrann before the end of the school term? Will they commit to that? That is all I am asking for - a commitment. The school is waiting. I will drive them...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (1 May 2025)

Barry Heneghan: There is a commitment, is there?

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Waste Management (30 Apr 2025)

Barry Heneghan: 10. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the steps being taken to address the situation in certain areas of Ireland where no waste collection companies are providing services, particularly in cases where elderly and disabled individuals are left without any viable means of disposing of household waste, the supports or interventions being considered to ensure...