Results 741-760 of 774 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 878. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail all business cases received for capital works in each technological university, including the date received, the current status of each and the timeline for progression, in tabular form. [35964/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 879. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail all options papers received from technological universities in relation to the development of student accommodation, including the date received, the current status of each, in tabular form, and the timeline for progression. [35965/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 880. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s plans to address the shortage of affordable student accommodation in Waterford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35966/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 881. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative basis by which technological universities, including SETU, may borrow to fund capital expenditure; if the relevant provisions have been commenced; and if not, the timeline for giving effect to them. [35967/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 882. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail his engagement to date under the National Development Plan in relation to capital works at SETU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35968/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 883. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail the capital funding allocated to each technological university in each year from the date of their establishment to date, in tabular form. [35969/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Housing Delivery, Service and Supply: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Rural communities are being hollowed out right across the State because of the housing crisis. Towns and villages are facing demographic cliff edges in many cases. Young people cannot buy or build homes where they grew up right across rural Ireland. In many cases, this is down to inaction by the Government, but in many other cases, it is down to a lack of critical infrastructure,...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire. Tá sé cúpla uair a chloig ó bhíomar ag déanamh an jab céanna i dtaobh cúrsaí Gaeltachta agus Gaeilge. Tá mé fíorbhuíoch as a chur i láthair. Tá cúpla ceist agam. In the introduction to the Revised Estimates briefing that has been prepared, the Minister speaks of excellent...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Or will I just put my questions?

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Super. Thank you. In addition, there seems to be a €5 million decrease in rural capital on 2024 in terms of the rural development LEADER programme. That is very worrying in light of what is happening in rural Ireland and in light of the administrative and governance costs on the LEADER companies. There seems to be a 5% drop in the community enhancement fund as well, if I am...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Chair, may I ask one more question? I do not have a clock so I do not know whether I am over the five minutes.

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: On the statistic the Minister gave about population increase in rural communities, for my understanding, do those rural communities include towns such as Midleton, Clonmel and Carlow, that is, larger county towns, or are we talking about smaller towns, villages and countryside areas? There is obviously population growth taking place across the State, but my concern is that it is concentrated...

Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (Revised) (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I accept that entirely. We need these towns. They are very important. Every town, every urban rural community, is under pressure for housing, but larger urban towns are under huge pressure. It seems that public policy, that of local authorities and the State, is driving people from rural communities into these larger towns, heaping demand on demand while hollowing out the rural...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Rural and Community Development Matters: Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Despite not being terribly familiar with this committee as I am substituting, I have questions for both the Minister and the Minister of State. Should I address them all at the beginning?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Rural and Community Development Matters: Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: This question is to the Minister, Deputy Calleary. The social inclusion forum was mentioned briefly earlier in this meeting. As he knows, the target in the area of poverty was to reach 2% by 2025. We were starting at 5% and we are still at 5%. What is the strategy?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Rural and Community Development Matters: Department of Rural and Community Development and the Gaeltacht (2 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: That is no problem. We discussed earlier and briefly the CLÁR review. I welcome the fact it is being reviewed, although it is not before time. Will the Minister set out the timeline for that so we know and the local authorities are aware when that will have changed and when the findings of that review will be enacted or put in place? With regard to the LEADER rural development...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Fishing Industry (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I am asking this question on behalf of my colleague Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is aware that only 52 persons have availed of fish assist across the State as of 31 May 2025; and if the Minister of State with responsibility for the marine and his Department officials will now engage with the representative producer organisations, POs, for inshore and islands fishermen to discuss a financial support or subsidy...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Minister. The figures are glaring. There are 13,000 active fishermen in the State and the idea that only 52 of them are need in of support is absurd. There is a disconnect. No one can seriously claim the sector is not under pressure. My understanding and sense of it from the figures, which back this up, is the fish assist scheme is too restrictive and limited. It is not that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Fishing Industry (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Minister. To his credit, I know he is engaging with the sector and he has heard from fishermen around the coast. However, the figures still speak for themselves, notwithstanding that some may be disqualified on income grounds. Some may not need the scheme but we know there is great hardship in the sector. This is not necessarily about creating a new subsidy from EMFAF...