Results 261-280 of 354 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (19 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider applying the refund of fees for PME graduates retrospectively in order that students who graduated prior to 2024 are also eligible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33239/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (19 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 313. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised national planning framework will be published; if he will guarantee that it will be published before the Dáil summer recess to allow for immediate debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33269/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (19 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 315. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if an application has been submitted by Cork City Council for funding for emergency funding to replace mobile homes/caravans used for Traveller housing damaged during Storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33274/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Eight years ago.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: An Garda Síochána (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Both of us are united in our concern about the volatility of the situation in Limerick as it pertains to serious crime and the absence of an adequate and visible policing presence to tackle this. Limerick is a wonderful place and a city that has come far since the dark says of 20 years ago, yet the lack of an active and visible policing presence has become a defining feature of our city....

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: An Garda Síochána (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. First, regarding the LCSP, I sat on the joint policing committee. The joint policing committee has not sat since I was a member of it, which was in May 2024. It is simply not acceptable. What I am looking for is a commitment that the Minister of State will take up the substance of the issues I raised with the Commissioner. We need at least ten...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters: An Garda Síochána (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: They still have not started.

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Independent Technical Group and Deputy Fitzmaurice for bringing forward this motion. We are six months into this new Government. There is no sight of the new housing plan until September. There are no new housing targets for local authorities. We expect that on Friday we will have record homelessness. There are no rural planning guidelines. They were apparently with the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to ask about cancer services with specific reference to the NDP review that will be published in July and to make the case for a dedicated funding stream within that for cancer services. I wish to also ask about UHL and especially the cancer care outcomes. UHL has the worst outcomes in the January 2025 NCRI report. This is extremely concerning. There is no PET scanner, which means...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Tomorrow will mark another dark day when the latest homeless figures are published. The figure will be over 15,000. This is the population of a town the size of Tullamore. There were 4,775 children homeless in the most recent figures, each an individual tragedy. "The impact of homelessness and unstable living conditions on children is catastrophic" were the words of the Ombudsman for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: While the measures that the Government announced last week relating to security of tenure are welcome, they were undermined completely by allowing landlords to reset rents to market rate. The Housing Commission was clear that social and affordable housing should form 20% of our housing stock. It currently forms less than 10% of all housing stock. If the Tánaiste has huge respect for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I have a number of different questions and I thank the witnesses for their time. In 2017, my colleague Jan O'Sullivan introduced the Housing (Homeless Families) Bill, which sought to amend the Housing Act to impose an obligation on local authorities to treat families as a unit. There was talk that the Government was going to accept this as part of the 2024 miscellaneous housing Bill but...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: My understanding is that there are variations between local authorities around the country.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I personally feel that what the Department of justice is doing is dangerous because it is pushing the bounds of community and social cohesion. I am very concerned at how some of the data the witnesses have presented today might be misinterpreted for malicious purposes. That is my concern.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Could I get an answer to my question about the PPP and bundle 3?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Given the level of homelessness, including child homelessness, which has increased in the past year, do the witnesses believe the provisions within the homeless families Bill of 2017, which the Government was minded to introduce in the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024, should be included within this year’s miscellaneous housing Bill?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I have a question about the PPP bundling and what that means for Dublin City Council's delivery. Has it paused de-tenanting because of the limbo it has been left in with that? I am asking with particular reference to Basin Lane, which is in PPP bundle 5. The planning was granted in February, de-tenanting commenced and 12 families have moved out. Has that been paused? My last question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: So that has been paused.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Key Challenges to Tackling Homelessness: Discussion (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Does Mr. Mulhern know out of that how many of them the council would otherwise be able to progress if it was funded?

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (24 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 193. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken to the US Secretary of State in the past two months. [33520/25]