Results 541-560 of 1,035 for speaker:Eoghan Kenny

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline plans to increase capacity on the Bus Éireann service in Cork city; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 159. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on actions his Department or the Road Safety Authority is taking to reduce the backlog in waiting times for drivers who are booking a re-test as of June 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 160. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the introduction of next-generation ticketing on the Cork fleet for bus services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Greenways Provision (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 161. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update as of June 2025 on the Mallow-to-Dungarvan greenway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Planning Framework (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 268. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the revised national planning framework will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36944/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 269. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of positions that remain vacant in the housing section of Cork City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36947/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 270. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of positions remain vacant in the housing section of Cork County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, through his Department or local authorities, there is a policy to not allow purchase of four-bed houses through the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016; if not, the number of four-bed houses have been purchased through this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36950/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 272. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased through the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme 2016 since 2016 through Cork City Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36951/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (3 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 273. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of houses purchased through the tenant (incremental) purchase scheme since 2016 through Cork County Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36952/25]

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I welcome the motion brought forward by Sinn Féin. I begin my own contribution by welcoming all the students in the Gallery, who came out in force this evening against this €1,000 increase in the student fees. I put on the record that I have great respect for the Minister, but I absolutely think this is an argument and a fight that the Government is losing. I say that because...

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: He made that assertion.

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I appreciate that, and I would appreciate if that was taken back because he made that assertion about people like me. I am not using this as a political football. This is genuine. I am the youngest Member in this House. I came out of college and the only reason I went to college was that I had access to a SUSI grant, but 80% of people across the country do not have that same access to a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the programme for Government commitment to continue to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government, as of July 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37316/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I realise that we have just had a debate on this. I seek an update on the programme for Government to continue to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government, as of July 2025.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: I do not doubt the Minister's bona fides on this. It spans - the Minister referred to it there quite lightly - a number of Departments. We have significant challenges in housing. We have significant challenges in a different cost-of-living crises in terms of paying for groceries, for example, running a car, and the different type of relationship one has with parents at home on whether they...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Eoghan Kenny: The debate the Minister referred to in his first contribution is essential. It is important and we all need to contribute towards that. The only question I have in relation to the student support facility that is in place is that the emails I am receiving tell me that they cannot afford this new measure and this new cost. I then go back to people and ask them whether they have applied...

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

Eoghan Kenny: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for a renewed action plan to succeed the Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-2025; if the new action plan will have a focus on apprentice wages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37310/25]

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

Eoghan Kenny: I thank the Minister. He made a very important point towards the end of his reply in terms of employers and apprentices meeting each other halfway. I have an aunt who has a hair salon in Mallow and I know from her of the difficulty of taking on an apprenticeship student and trying to make that work with one's own work schedule. Are incentives for employers to take on more apprenticeship...

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

Eoghan Kenny: I have a slight difficulty with wages being negotiated between the students themselves and the employer. The State must have a role to play in the negotiations between apprentices and employers in terms of how wages are set. While it is the case that employers are not taking on a fully qualified person but someone who is moving into the trade, it is important that apprentices get a fair...