Results 941-960 of 7,670 for speaker:Jackie Cahill

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 200. To ask the Minister for Health when patients and staff will move into the planned development at South Tipperary General Hospital, that is, to offer extra wards separate from but attached to the existing hospital; the position of the development in the planning process; the recruitment plan in place to ensure the proposed new development will be properly staffed; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (14 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 201. To ask the Minister for Health the future capital investment planned for South Tipperary General Hospital that will complement the short-term plans for the hospital in order that the hospital is properly prepared to offer existing and enhanced acute services in the medium and longer term; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7776/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I am sure the Tánaiste has a strong sense of the urgency around this issue in terms of it having been raised this morning by Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin and by members of Fine Gael. There is an urgent need to introduce legislation to protect mortgage holders, particularly families, from the vulture funds. Permanent TSB has announced that it proposes to sell off thousands of loans....

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Loan Books Purchasers (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 130. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will address a matter (details supplied) relating to the housing crisis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8064/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 131. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit of the number of residential properties now in the ownership of a bank (details supplied) will be carried out by his Department; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8065/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 132. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit of the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied) will be carried out by his Department; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8066/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 133. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied); if an audit of the number of residential properties owned by the bank will be carried out by his Department; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8067/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of residential properties owned by a bank (details supplied); if an audit will be carried out by his Department regarding same; the plans the bank has to place those properties on the market to help ease the housing shortage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8068/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Data (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 135. To ask the Minister for Finance if an audit on all residential property mortgages sold by the mainstream banks to vulture funds in recent years was carried out to ascertain the number of properties available for placement on the market to ease the housing shortage (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8069/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Banking Operations (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce legislation or regulations that would encourage the mainstream banks to make residential properties that are in their ownership available to the market to reduce the shortage of housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8070/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 584. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to introduce legislation or regulations that would encourage vulture funds to make residential properties that are in their ownership available to the market to reduce the shortage of housing (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8071/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Road Network (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 612. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the required funding will be made available to Tipperary County Council for the provision of infrastructure to provide pedestrian and cyclist access to the new ETB apprentice training centre at Archerstown, Thurles, County Tipperary from the N62 junction at Turtulla Cross; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: Given the challenges we face with climate change, at the moment we seem to be sticking our heads in the sand and hoping the issue will go away. Quotas have been imposed in Holland where cow numbers have had to be reduced because of the phosphorus production. One of our sectors has been expanding very rapidly, as has been outlined in the tillage presentation. I wish to acknowledge three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Change Issues specific to the Agriculture, Food and Marine Sectors: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: We have to face up to the challenges of climate change as I have said before, but if we think that the consumer is going to pick up the tab, we are fooling ourselves. Organic farming has shown that food can be produced to the highest standard with low inputs but the consumer will not pay the premium that compensates the farmers for it. If we think that by meeting all of the challenges we...

Supporting the Suckling Sector: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I compliment my colleague, Deputy McConalogue, for bringing forward this very important Private Members' Bill. Our suckler cow herd is a key cornerstone of rural Ireland. It is worth €2.5 billion in exports. Every euro that is earned from the sector is worth €4 to the rural economies. In my own area, towns such as Rathdowney, Roscrea, Cahir and Nenagh are dependent on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Properties (21 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 149. To ask the Minister for Health if he will request the HSE to consider the use of a site (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8933/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: On page 19 of the programme for Government, leadership on housing, there is a simple anomaly in the new rebuilding Ireland home loan scheme. An applicant cannot lodge an application or get approval in principle on a loan to buy a site and build a home without first getting planning permission on the site. This is further evidence of the bureaucracy that has caused every other housing...

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I was number 7 on the list and the Ceann Comhairle called other Deputies before me. Deputy Heydon was not next on the list.

Order of Business (27 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: I raise an issue related to the fuel allowance, which has been discussed extensively today. I refer to the delay in approving applications to the scheme. In the past week, I was contacted by a constituent who applied for a fuel allowance payment four months ago and has not yet been informed whether she is eligible for a payment. Given the extremely long winter we are having, does the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme Applications (27 Feb 2018)

Jackie Cahill: 562. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason for the delay in persons (details supplied) receiving the young farmer top up payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9911/18]