Results 1-20 of 260 for speaker:Shane Moynihan

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 16. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if new EE-zoned land will be identified in tandem with industrial land rezonings for housing to enable relocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35806/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Will the Department issue guidance on the need for enterprise and employment zoned land to be identified in tandem with the industrial land rezonings that are being rezoned to enable further provision of housing and if that will then be used to enable relocation?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank the Minister of State for that reply. The context for this question is in the fact the Dublin local authorities are advancing development frameworks that involve the rezoning of existing industrial land to residential or mixed use to meet housing supply targets. As the Minister of State said in his reply, that is a function of the local authority but done under the auspices of the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Planning Issues (1 Jul 2025)

Shane Moynihan: One of the reasons I am raising this is the shortage of land. If we want to promote compact growth, or initiatives like 15-minute cities, it is important with large-scale housing developments we have adequate amounts of industrial and commercial land there as well. While I fully take the point that planning authorities do set their own development plans, we are also familiar with instances...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 7. To ask the Minister for Health if the Belgian model is being examined in the context of the programme for Government commitment to investigate early access schemes for rare disease treatments; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34617/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: The Minister is no doubt aware of the cases of those who suffer with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a matter which has been raised in the Dáil a number of times, as well as with the Minister directly, not least because of the Thompson boys in my own constituency. This has brought into focus the need for an early access scheme for rare disease drugs. I know there is a commitment to this...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: It is great to hear about the progress that has been made in implementing the recommendations of the Mazars report on this subject that was published some years ago. That goes to the heart of the extra resourcing that the Minister spoke about. She is right; there needs to be a partnership between industry and the State to make sure that these applications are put through immediately and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Medicinal Products (26 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I appreciate the efforts of the Minister in this regard and I have conveyed that to the families involved. I am very grateful for the Minister's proactive approach. The beauty of getting an early access scheme right is that it does not necessarily rely on the proactivity of the State to be involved in that process but, rather, the partnership is hardwired into every piece of the system and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Clinical Trials (26 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the measures being taken to increase clinical trials and better support clinicians, researchers and staff to focus on clinical trial activity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34618/25]

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank the Minister and his team for coming in. I have a few topics. I will start with something that will not surprise the Minister, which is light rail, the Luas and generally. Going through the Estimates I did not see a line item on the number of new trams. Maybe that is covered under one of the headings. I would like clarification on that, because this is in acute demand in my area....

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Okay.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I move to cycling and active travel. I am encouraged by the commitment to active travel I see in the Estimates laid before the committee, and which have been detailed in the Minister's brief. I am particularly encouraged to hear about the Minister's support for the safe routes to school programme. That is an important programme. One things that brings that into more acute focus is that...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Absolutely. I compliment them on their public transport safety action days that they have been pioneering recently as well. Moving to the area of roads, I am pleased to see the increase in expenditure on roads. Public transport needs good roads to operate on, which is often lost in this debate about the false dichotomy between public transport and roads. With regard to roads...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: On the area of driver testing, I have been encouraged by the Minister’s leadership on this in the past few weeks in making sure that we get the RSA up to the space where it is. I note the data in the in the Estimates that was shared with us is only up as far as 2023, so it is before the Minister became Minister. There was a reduction in the issuing of penalty points and the issuing...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Finally, I am very happy to get the good news about the judicial review on the DART+ West being withdrawn this week and very happy that the Minister was able to announce the start of tendering for enabling works for DART+ South West. In a constituency like mine, where bus is the predominant mode of public transport, opening up access to things like rail and light rail is really important to...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Great. It is encouraging to hear that. I am encouraged to hear about the Minister’s commitment to the transport security force. That was a core commitment of our party in the recent election and it is good to see it held up as priority in the programme for Government. It is great to hear about the progress, especially in the past few weeks, in furthering that. Does the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 185. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34592/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the recruitment of the six WTE public health nursing posts in the Dublin midlands region as allocated under Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34593/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, on his advocacy for Finglas Luas. The Minister will know Luas Lucan is very important to me. I am keen to know about the overall set of plans identified by the NTA for extension of Luas lines around Dublin. Will he consider putting a standing Luas project office in place to think of continued expansion of light rail? It is fair to say we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: We have often discussed the importance of policymakers recognising the effort and energy that goes into running a business and sustaining high levels of employment. The plight of SMEs in particular has been raised on the floor of the Dáil, as has the need for policies to make sure we encourage and incentivise SMEs to scale up to be able to pursue research and innovation for their own...