Results 21-40 of 218 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Facilities (6 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: 121. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be made available to businesses and clubs such as (details supplied) whose facilities were seriously damaged as a result of Storm Éowyn; if there are any other funding streams they can avail of; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3814/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Sports Facilities (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 123. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the decision-making process concerning the retendering of the Cork event centre project, with particular emphasis on five detailed aspects (details supplied). [3808/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 141. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the total amount paid out in tenant-in-situ funds to local authorities for the year 2024; the date of the last allocation made to local authorities in 2024; if there have been any subsequent allocations and payments made since October 2024, specifically in November 2024, December 2024, and January 2025; if not, what is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 157. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for an update on when a final decision will be made on an application for domiciliary care allowance and the associated travel pass for the son of the person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 160. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he can explain the decision to decline disability allowance for a young lady (details supplied) who has been receiving domiciliary care allowance for over ten years, despite no change in her medical condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3745/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 181. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the expected timeline for a decision to be made on a visa application (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3738/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (6 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 211. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to outline her comprehensive plan to address this significant concern on the availability of childcare places (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3740/25]

Response to Storm Éowyn: Motion [Private Members] (11 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: I am very conscious that today, on day 19, some people in my constituency remain without electricity. I do not think anybody can comprehend the difficulty of going without power for two and a half weeks unless they actually experience it themselves. It is desperately difficult for people who have faced extended periods without electricity and that needs to be recognised and compensated for...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: I thank the Labour Party for bringing forward this motion. As a young person in my mid-20s, I know all too well the impact of the housing crisis and Government inaction and the suffering it has caused for those who are homeless or in insecure housing situations. When I look the Government's record in my own constituency, it is little wonder we are in this situation. Not one affordable home...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I am disappointed I see the Government benches are so empty today but equally those who waxed lyrical not so long ago in this House, who chastised the Government in their speeches, I see their benches are also empty for what is the biggest crisis facing this country. While I agree we need to fix the housing crisis, the plan put forward by the Labour Party - I thank my colleagues in the...

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: -----but it does not want to explain how it will be replaced. Will it increase taxes or simply borrow more? I listened to some of the Labour Party speakers. One would almost think Labour was not in the Government in the last couple of years but the Labour Party held the portfolio not so long ago.

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: In my constituency of Cork North-Central-----

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The truth is bitter, lads.

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: In my constituency of Cork North-Central, my constituents are struggling with rising rents, long waiting lists and lack of accommodation. People are talking about who we are going to blame. Ae we going to blame Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or Independents but until we get together in this House and work on solving this crisis without blaming or attacking one another-----

Housing Policy: Motion [Private Members] (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: -----without shouting one another down - that will do nothing for the father living in his car tonight, depending on Wi-Fi from a hotel while working 50 hours a week. It is not going to help the constituent who came to my office last week, who spoke to me about the full-time job he is doing and yet living out of a car. It is not helping the mother in Cork city who is going into the...

Programme for Government: Statements (Resumed) (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I will talk about the programme of Government 2025 vis-à-vis my city and constituency of Cork North-Central. To my mind, this plan does not go far enough. With the exception of Luxembourg, Ireland is the richest country in the European Union but the plan does not show ambition. It does not go far enough for the people of Cork and certainly does not go far enough for the people of Cork...

Ministers and Secretaries and Ministerial, Parliamentary, Judicial and Court Offices (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Feb 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I welcome Ryan McKeowan and his partner here. I have no doubt they will sit here one day. They are welcome to Leinster House. I turned on the TV recently in my house and purely by chance saw a rerun of "Oprah". I immediately saw what happened in the programme for Government. Instead of it being "You get a car, you get a car", it was "You get a ministry, you get a ministry, you get a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Park-and-Ride Facilities (11 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on any new proposals for future park-and-ride facilities in Galway city and county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Trade Missions (11 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: 245. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if IDA Ireland plans to have a trade mission to Australia during 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4459/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (11 Feb 2025)

Louis O'Hara: 441. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the estimated cost of increasing the number of Garda Síochána to 16,000 between now and end of 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4458/25]