Results 741-760 of 1,318 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,...

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...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Solar Energy Guidelines (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to add my voice to this important debate. The issue of solar farms on prime agricultural land is a critical one in parts of County Waterford. We all see the advantage of solar power, including solar farms and solar on rooftops. Farmers in rural communities are in favour of this and see the advantages and benefits of it. However, we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Farm Household Incomes (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 86. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the additional supports he will put in place to support family farms in light of the recent finding that only 42% of medium-sized and large farms are economically viable. [36153/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Farm Household Incomes (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Teagasc survey might show increases in income, but let us not get carried away. We all know that these increases are coming from rock bottom. A rise on next to nothing is still not enough to live on. We have to be clear and truthful with ourselves. The stark reality is that only 42% of farms are economically viable, even after the so-called rebound. Take dairy out of the mix and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Farm Household Incomes (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The message is out there that TAMS is running low. Let us be clear: the Government has failed to address the crisis in farm incomes and, by extension, rural Ireland family farming. We can talk about surveys and percentages, but families are struggling to make ends meet. There is a cost-of-living crisis gripping communities, urban and rural, all across this State. When we look at farm...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is it €2,000 or €3,000?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: It is a multiple-choice question.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Multiple choice, Minister. Is it €2,000 or €3,000?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is concerned about staffing levels within the legal aid service nationally, its ability to meet demand, and potential impacts of understaffing within the legal aid service on the wider courts system. [36626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Wildlife Regulations (3 Jul 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 119. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the guidance and supports available to hill farmers who are unable to carry out controlled burning due to weather conditions within the legal window; and whether he will consider a flexible burning scheme or pilot. [36152/25]