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- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) David Stanton: I will be very brief. I understand that the idea is to support a proposal to open a full border control post in the Ringaskiddy ferry terminal and that 2,000 containers per year could benefit. It could be worth a lot of money to the country. The Minister might tell me if he is aware of that and whether he is supporting that proposal from the Port of Cork to do that. That is one question....
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) David Stanton: And the Calgary issue.
- Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) David Stanton: The opportunities are enormous.
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (30 Jan 2024)
David Stanton: 94. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the way she is assisting communities across the country to organise; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3990/24]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (31 Jan 2024)
David Stanton: 85. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list, in tabular form, the number of Croí Cónaithe vacant property refurbishment grant applications and derelict top-up grant applications received to date by each respective local authority; the number of applications approved and rejected; the total funding paid out to date; the number of applications that...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I want to take this opportunity to thank the Tánaiste, the Minister for Finance, the Taoiseach and other Ministers who showed massive support to my part of the country during the floods last October and for the assistance for businesses and households. The flood relief scheme needs to be expedited. What I want to bring up today is the need for the county council to be funded. A total...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for their badly needed work in this challenging area. I visited Spring Lane a number of years when I was a Minister of State and representative for the area. I agree that it needs considerable work. I have never seen anything as demanding or bad. I wish Mr. Geaney luck with moving on in that regard. Public consultation and Part 8 have been...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Did Mr. Ó Donnabháin say "six weeks"?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I thank Mr. Ó Donnabháin. I will ask about the caravan loan scheme. We have had discussions about the scheme at the committee and it was put to us by others that a caravan rental scheme would be a better option. Given the two local authorities have a lot of experience on the ground, how would they feel about that proposal? People rent local authority houses all the time and pay...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Have Mr. Gilligan or Ms Corcoran any comment? I note, by the way, that in one submission, I read that there is demand in Mayo for a caravan loan scheme. Am I correct on that?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: There has not been.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: The council did not draw down any funding in that regard.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: That is interesting.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Local authorities are renting houses all the time.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: So, why not?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: It is the same idea.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I will ask about the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, report and work. It has made a number of recommendations to both local authorities and I am sure our guests are probably aware of that. For Cork, IHREC referred to ensuring the assessments of need for future TAPs include an estimate of the number of Traveller families and households for whom accommodation will be...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: I have two other brief questions, after which I will stop and allow my colleagues to come in. I could keep talking about this topic all day because it is so challenging and interesting. I raise the issue of Traveller-specific accommodation. IHREC seemed to indicate that the issue has not been given the attention it should be getting from both local authorities. I know it is challenging....
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Is it something the local authority would support if the Department of Education came knocking?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2024)
David Stanton: Okay, that is good to hear. I thank Ms Corcoran Are there clubs in the city council area at the moment?