Results 361-380 of 630 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I call Deputy O'Connell on behalf of Deputy Boland.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the dog breeding national register. Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss respite services at St. Mary of the Angels and St. Francis Special School, Whitefield, Beaufort, County Kerry. Deputy...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Early Childhood Care and Education (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister of State. I apologise, as I hit the bell in my haste.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I have the humble Snack bar in my hand. Its price has doubled. People used to be able to get 12 of them for €1 a decade ago. The price is now €5. It is not the farmers in Africa who grow the cocoa who are benefiting from this. Supermarkets should have to tell people if they are paying more for less. Supermarkets are gouging people. They must be forced to publish their...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 2: In page 9, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 177 of Principal Act 13. Section 177 of the Principal Act (“Duration of permission granted under Part”) is amended by the substitution of “3 years” for “5 years” in each place where it occurs.”. This was submitted as one...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I brought forward these amendments because they relate to the whole issue of use it or lose it, namely, the issue of duration of planning permissions. While I accept what the Minister is doing in terms of existing planning permissions that have commenced, I believe we need a tighter regime around duration of planning. We are seeking to reduce the normal duration of a planning permission...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Yes.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 9: In page 12, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “Amendment of section 40 of Act of 2000 16. Section 40 of the Act of 2000 is amended, in subsection (3)(b), by the substitution of “the period of three years beginning on the date of the grant of permission” for “the period of five years beginning on the date of the grant of...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 10: In page 12, line 18, to delete “2 years” and substitute “1 year”. These amendments relate to the Minister's proposals to enable an extension of three years for developments that have not yet commenced and have less than two years in the permission. I proposed these amendments because, while I believe a short extension may be necessary...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister for his response. I go back to what I asked about residential zoned land tax. When will we be able to quantify whether that tax is working to prevent land speculation and hoarding? Will the Minister come back and seriously look at this again? As I understand it, EY was tasked by the Department of housing to look at the issue of uncommenced planning and that report was...

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 12: In page 13, line 3, to delete “2 years” and substitute “1 year”.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, line 11, to delete “5 years” and substitute “3 years”.

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I support this amendment. It is extremely important because we know that, with the development levy waivers that lapsed last year, a lot of the commencement data we have at the moment is very unreliable. That is why this amendment is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in. I will be brief. The Minister obviously cannot comment on the specifics of the judicial review, but how did he not know about this before he came in here today? Why did his officials not tell him? Was he told about the risk of this before he pulled the PPP project? I understand the Minister's rationale for pulling the project. I wish...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Given the Minister cancelled these PPPs at the eleventh hour, would he not accept that because of the uncertainty that has been injected into it for developers it is now essentially unviable as a delivery route? Who is going to take a project on if a decision could come at effectively the eleventh hour? In the time remaining to me I want to ask about the changes to apartment guidelines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Priorities of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage (8 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: When will the savings be published? The Minister has mentioned €50,000 to €100,000 per unit. What sort of modelling has been done and when will this be published?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the witnesses. I want to go back to the 2023 OECD report, which recommended a 26.2% increase in full-time judges. What percentage increase has the Courts Service received since that report was published?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Judicial Review and Appeals Process: Engagement with Courts Service (9 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: The OECD report identified a need for 108 additional judges. Those increases will bring us up to about half of that number so. If we were to follow the recommendations of the OECD report, would that comprehensively deal with the backlogs in the Courts Service? Is it a question of resourcing? I will get on to the question of modernisation in a minute.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: In a reply to my party leader during Leaders' Questions on the issue of GAA Palestine, the Taoiseach said he would say no more. We need answers on this, however. This is perplexing for us in opposition too. The necessary documentation was supplied. The appeals mechanism allowed no real mechanism for the trip to go ahead due to the timeframe. The inconsistency-----

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jul 2025)

Conor Sheehan: -----applied to this by virtue of the nationality of these coaches is concerning. We need the Tánaiste to come in and have a debate on this.