Results 16,161-16,180 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Illegal Dumping (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 81. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if the draft Codes of Practice for the use of CCTV by local authorities to deter and detect dumping have been submitted to his office by the Local Government Management Agency (LGMA for approval); if he will provide an estimated date when the codes of practice will be approved once submitted, which will allow local...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 431. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware of plans to locate international protection refugees in a location in Rosslare harbour, County Wexford; whether he is aware that numerous buildings in close vicinity are being used for similar purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49568/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (14 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: 432. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with a delegation from Rosslare harbour, County Wexford, to discuss proposed plans to locate international protection recipients in that location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49569/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome the witnesses before the committee. I just want to concentrate on one issue. One of the burning issues I am dealing with on a weekly basis is that of horse passports. Anybody I have spoken to either in my constituency or outside the constituency is not very complimentary of HSI, and I do not blame them. If I was applying for a passport three years ago, how long would it have taken?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I had a constituent phone me today who applied for a passport the first week in July. Is this satisfactory or unsatisfactory? Maybe the CEO will answer that for me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: What percentage of passports applied for in 2023 would have been processed in less than four weeks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I ask the witnesses to furnish the committee, through the clerk, with the percentage of passports that were applied for this year and the duration it took for them to be processed. It would be very interesting because I have not spoken to one breeder who has had their passports processed in less then two or three months, and I have spoken to quite a number of them. Breeders will be going to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I am sure Mr. Duggan is aware of Leisure Horse Ireland. Is he?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: How is that organisation able to get its passports processed through Weatherbys in a swifter timeframe of half the time it takes with HSI? Maybe Mr. Duggan will say HSI totally changed the testing regime and all that but I am sure there would have been some form of lead-in time. Presumably the organisation does not just pull down the shutters and say that now people have to wait months and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: No, what I am saking is how much the Government puts into his organisation. I presume that Government funding goes right across the organisation with regard to staffing and everything like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Why is Leisure Horse Ireland able to process its applications through the very same organisation, Weatherbys Ireland, which Horse Sport Ireland is using and Horse Sport Ireland is unable to do so. Is it because of the change in testing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: If the breeder has not filled up all his or her paperwork correctly and everything like that, would the blame or fault be then put back to the breeder?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Whose fault is it then?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Does Mr. Duggan believed that his organisation is fit for purpose to be managing the processing of horse passports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Mr. Duggan said there were a number of staff working in the passport section. How many were working in that section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: How many staff are working in the passport section today?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: So there are 15 staff members working there today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: How many of those staff members are new and needed training, and all such matters?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: Why does Horse Sport Ireland believe that staff just want to leave his organisation, where there are many other organisations competing in a buoyant economy? Is it that they were just not happy in it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Horse Sport Ireland (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Paul Kehoe: I would not condone that.