Results 21-40 of 146 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (12 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when local authorities will receive their local authority tenant-in-situ allocation for 2025; the amount that has been allocated to each local authority for 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4988/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the successor housing plan to Housing for All will be published as outlined in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4989/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will publish a social housing Act; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends to revise the income limits for social housing eligibility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4991/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (12 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 209. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when he will review sentencing guidelines, particularly with regard to the issue of concurrent and suspended sentences for violent offences; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4992/25]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: We showed up.

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Hear, hear.

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is very disappointing, yet again, that we do not have even a Minister of State from the Department of housing. I tabled a housing motion in the Dáil last week with my Labour Party colleagues. The Minister for housing was, unfortunately, not available last week and did not even have the courtesy to contact me or my colleague, Deputy...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant property refurbishment grants drawn down in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6486/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I add my congratulations to the concerto of congratulations. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for coming to the House this evening. I am sorry to subject the Minister of State to this at this ungodly hour but let it never be said that she does not work hard. I rise tonight to raise the issue of the lack of a consistent and permanent full-time speech and language therapist,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and I welcome it. The community needs complete certainty as to when exactly this post will be filled because there has been a lack of faith here because the post has been vacant, as I have outlined, for more than three years. It is very clear that the HSE's pay and numbers strategy is not working. Officials in the HSE have told me that they were...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank Deputy Coppinger and her group for bringing forward this important motion. I welcome the survivors are in the Public Gallery. They should not need to come here to see this issue addressed. I pay particular tribute to Natasha O'Brien, one of my constituents, for her advocacy in relation to this work. As a man, I am very conscious of the fact that we are the problem because we...

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I very much welcome this debate, which is long overdue. I also welcome the Deputy Browne to his new role as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I wish him well. We should have had this debate months ago, before the election. The Housing Commission's report is as clear as it is stark in relation to the Government's failure on housing. It is abundantly clear that we do...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Vacant Properties (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 178. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the Central Statistics Office in developing an indicator of vacant properties in the country; if the ESB has provided them with consumption data; the reason the number of vacant properties are not being accurately centrally tracked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that will be taken by Government and local authorities to ensure the housing completion targets of 41,000 by the end of 2026 and up to 60,000 per year by 2029 and 2030 will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7643/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status and locations of the over 10,000 applications under the vacant homes renovation scheme; the reason there were only 867 applications in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7644/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant home refurbishment applications received and drawn down in 2024, broken down by local authority, in tabular form; the total spend on this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the creation of the Building Standards Regulatory Authority; the role and powers of the authority; if it will be part of An Bord Pleanála; when the legislation will be scheduled for debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who have taken up a cost rental equity loan, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the underspend of €120 million in Exchequer spending on homelessness in 2024 after the supplementary budget increase of €143 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7647/25]