Results 801-820 of 914 for speaker:Michael Cahill

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Okay. There are some great companies just in my own county, including Quinlan's Fish in Reenard in Cahersiveen, which has shops all over counties Kerry, Limerick and Cork. In my own parish, there is a small but successful and thriving business called Glenbeigh Shellfish. Then there is Cromane Seafoods down the road in Cromane, a port that once upon a time was the third largest exporter of...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Lastly, I turn to the issue of aquaculture licences. This has been going on for years and livelihoods are at stake here. I ask the Minister of State and his officials to look at this matter. There are cases where people are waiting to apply for European funding and cannot because the licences are not being renewed or processed.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: Yes.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Extension of EU-UK Trade Agreement and Implications for the Irish Fishing and Seafood Industry: Discussion (12 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I thank the Minister of State for his detailed response. I cannot emphasise strongly enough the importance of expediting the processing of aquaculture licences. I also thank the Minister of State because earlier this year he announced funding for smaller piers like in Kilmakilloge, County Kerry. Finally, I cannot stress enough the importance of Dingle Harbour and the investment there.

Emergency Action on Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: We need to zone land and open up planning permission for people, especially for one-off houses. We need to provide affordable houses and social houses. We need to provide private housing, low-cost sites and good-quality modular homes. We need to give choices to our people. I am convinced that good-quality modular homes are part of the solution here. Four or five modular homes can be...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: The Business of Seafood Report 2024: Bord Iascaigh Mhara (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I welcome the CEO of BIM and her colleagues. The importance of the seafood sector and indeed the aquaculture sector cannot be emphasised strongly enough. I live near the fishing village of Cromane in County Kerry. Fishing for wild salmon was the norm once upon a time. They have moved on to mussels. We used to export mussels to France, Holland, etc. They were the third-largest in Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 509. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the time it takes, on average, for each local authority to turn around, or clean out, vacant properties and make them available to qualified housing applicants, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32191/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Waterways Issues (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 535. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 823 of 30 May 2025, if he will advise on a timeline for the required investigative works (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32700/25]

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Aquaculture Licences Appeals Board: Chairperson Designate (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I too would like to congratulate Dr. McCarthy and wish him well in his new role. I suspect the Cathaoirleach is tired of me at this stage but at every opportunity I get I raise the delays in the processing of aquaculture licences and I have to raise it again today, along with the carrying out of appropriate assessments. I understand that it is delicate process. I live near Cromane, County...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 841. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address the lack of support and information on alternatives to abortion being offered to women facing unplanned and difficult pregnancies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32332/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 908. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to assess all playing fields, whether owned by sports organisations or part of national or secondary schools, for their suitability for the landing of emergency helicopter flights when accidents occur at a distance from a hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32688/25]

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: I welcome the delegation to the committee. How seriously is the use of CCTV cameras taken? I have been a member of the joint policing committee in Kerry in the past. Killarney is probably the busiest town in Ireland for a town of its size, if not one of the busiest in Europe. Killarney has been campaigning for years for CCTV. I am aware a CCTV system was in operation in Killorglin but...

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: What type of budget is available for CCTV systems?

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: In relation to drugs and education, drugs are in every corner of the country now, as we all know. They are in every village, town and city, and County Kerry is no different. Regarding primary, secondary and third level education, how often do gardaí visit schools and colleges? I know of individuals whose lives have been ruined and whose families have had to pay off major drug debts....

Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: In an ideal world they should be visiting every school, maybe even once a year.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 41. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration will be given to a proposal for road improvements (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33080/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 86. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will urgently review and allow the retention of two teachers in a DEIS school (details supplied) in County Kerry as their removal will mean class sizes of over 40 pupils which is unacceptable, and will the Minister make; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33140/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 472 of 8 April 2025, why the enrolment threshold for an administrative principal is 136 pupils in Dublin, while in Kerry it is 169; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33144/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if she will allow for payment of fair deal to a person (details supplied) as the family is very anxious that the person be placed in a Caherciveen hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32958/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Cahill: 18. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of jobs in Kerry currently supported by Enterprise Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32983/25]