Results 121-140 of 244 for speaker:Joe Cooney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Challenges Relating to the Delivery of Housing: Discussion (Resumed) (27 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: What the witnesses are saying is there are no blockages preventing developers from buying and developing zoned land for houses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming today and for the presentation at the start of the meeting. I use the word "simplify" a lot. We are trying to encourage young people to get involved in farming, but with the way things are going at the moment with the different schemes and the red tape and criteria around them, it is not encouraging them. We need to look at that going...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: Great credit is due to the Minister and I hope that will be the case going forward. As we are halfway through the five year ACRES environmental co-operation scheme, farmers with designated lands in Clare, such as the Burren and Sliabh Aughty, and hen harrier areas, that are non-productive investment should have the potential to improve their scores and payments. We find two and half years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: Some farmers have been waiting for two and half years and have not received any payments since this scheme came in. Am I correct in saying that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: That is welcome news. I hope it will be sorted out sooner than later. We are halfway through our current CAP programme. Has the Minister prepared for the next programme that will cover 2028 to 2032? We are now hearing there may be a ring-fenced CAP budget from Europe. What guarantees can we give that this important payment for rural Ireland will be ring-fenced for farmers? It is very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: I do not want to keep going over things that were already said earlier. TB is a serious issue. It is spreading rapidly. The Minister and his Department have looked into it and have plans. What can we do to curtail TB and, I hope, clean it out completely? I am aware of people who had their whole herds cleaned out completely unfortunately. There have been other discussions about TB, what...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the Minister for his response.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the revenue districts responsible for oversight of the Shannon estuary area, by quarter and by vessel, from 1 January 2024 to date; the number of days each Revenue maritime unit patrol vessel did not put to sea due to crewing or operational constraints; the number of hours and days of logged sea time, by month and by vessel, for the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 20 May 2025, if she will outline when the outcomes of the now completed review into the upper age limit of drivers, as it relates to larger vehicles-school buses, will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department still retain the six-month business target for processing join family visas where the sponsoring family member is an Irish citizen, as outlined in the policy document on family reunification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Join Family visa application by a person (details supplied) as the six-month target has been exceeded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average and median time for a join family visa to be processed where a non-EU citizen is joining their Irish citizen spouse for each visa office, Dublin, Abuja, Beijing, London, Moscow, Ankara, Abu Dhabi and New Delhi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 727. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing funding for the local improvement scheme on a multi annual basis, to ensure local authorities who administer the scheme can deliver them in a more efficient and cost-effective manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28490/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I welcome the witnesses. I have read the report and the recommendations with interest. I agree with Mr. O’Flynn that we have a serious crisis on our hands. While a lot of issues need to be sorted to get out of the emergency we are in, I wish to focus on one. Other members brought up different issues but the one I wish to focus on is intensifying reuse and retrofitting of vacant and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I would like to come back in on a point made regarding the issue I raised. Mr. O'Connor made a good point that funding should be put in place for people to carry out a survey on the costing of doing up old derelict and vacant houses. I fully agree. In fairness to Mr. O'Flynn, he also mentioned looking at the grant. There is a big difference between doing up a four-bedroom, two-storey...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received under the light duty vehicle initiative operated by zero emission vehicles and delivered by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the legislation to underpin the defects remediation schemes will be set before the Oireachtas Housing Committee for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29221/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the full legislative process on the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29222/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed amendments to the current enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme will be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29220/25]