Results 181-200 of 2,053 for speaker:Patrick O'Donovan in 'Dáil debates'

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: EU Funding (11 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. As I said at the outset, the metrics are set out by parameters from places other than the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. I will finish where I was with regard to PEACEPLUS. The northern and western region is also able to avail of other supports. The new EU co-financed PEACEPLUS programme for 2021 to 2027 will invest...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: As Deputy Ó Laoghaire points out, I am taking this on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy O’Donnell. It is important to note that the non-availability of any particular fire station does not mean that fire risk management, including fire service response, is diminished. The systemic approach to fire risk management, which has been the policy in use in this country for a more...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Fire Stations (9 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of the Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy O'Donnell. The provision of a fire service in its functional area, including the establishment and maintenance of a fire brigade, the assessment of fire cover needs and the provision of fire station premises, is a statutory function of individual fire...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: To go back to the points of Deputies Lahart and Brophy, I reiterate that a person applying for a licence under section 254 of the Act must provide the planning authority with such plans and other information concerning the position, design and capacity of the appliance, apparatus or structure as the authority may require. I am not getting into the ins and outs of a particular planning...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Planning Issues (9 May 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Thank you for your indulgence, a Cheann Comhairle. I have two responses that overlap so I will try to condense them. I beg the Deputies' indulgence in that regard. I thank the Deputies for raising the issues. In regard to the Topical Issues before the House on 5G digital masts, two procedures are in place depending on where the telecommunications infrastructure is to be located. In...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy for raising the issue, to which I am responding on behalf of the Minister for Health. Cancer Connect was set up in 2011 and provides a free transport service for people attending Cork hospitals for cancer-related appointments, including radiotherapy and chemotherapy. The driving is done entirely by volunteers who give their time to the valuable service. Fundraising is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. My initial response would have been a good one if the question had been about the Irish Cancer Society, which, of course, it was not. It related to a totally different matter, but this is not the first time I have been asked to come to the Chamber and read out a prepared statement relating to something for which I am not responsible that is not related to an issue a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I am taking this matter on behalf of the Minister for Housing, Local Heritage and Government, Deputy Darragh O'Brien. I thank the Deputy for the question of the application of the residential zoned land tax, RZLT, to farmlands. The Finance Act 2021 inserted Part 22A, on RZLT, into the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997. The RZLT is designed to prompt residential development by landowners,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Tax Code (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank the Deputy. I know about the issues he raised and I see he feels very strongly about them. The matter has been raised previously in the House, and the Tánaiste has responded directly specifically regarding, as the Deputy said, the tiers for different zoning matrices within towns. I will ask the Minister to contact him directly to discuss the specifics he raised as I am not...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Services (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Family friendly.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Ring for raising this Topical Issue matter which I am answering on behalf of the Minister for Education who is not here tonight. It gives us the opportunity to set out for the House the position with regard to the current status of the Sacred Heart School, Westport, County Mayo. The Sacred Heart School is a Mercy all-girls school under the trusteeship of CEIST, as Deputy Ring...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (18 Apr 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: I thank Deputy Ring again for raising the issue. I know he is meeting the Minister in the morning but my Department will also bring the issue to her attention due to her absence here tonight.

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite ag an gCeann Comhairle. Gabhaim mo bhuíochas leis na Teachtaí a chuir a gcuid tuairimí ar chúrsaí Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta i láthair. Baineann roinnt de na tuairimí leis an Aire Oideachais agus roinnt eile leis an Aire Tithíochta, Rialtais Áitúil agus Oidhreachta, ach seolfaidh mé na...

Comóradh Sheachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (9 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Mar Aire Stáit don Ghaeilge agus don Ghaeltacht, fáiltím roimh an deis labhairt sa Dáil le linn Seachtain na Gaeilge faoi chúrsaí Gaeilge agus Gaeltachta. Is pribhléid dúinn é sa tír seo go bhfuil ár dteanga dhúchais againn. Is cuid dhílis iad ár dteanga, ár dtraidisiúin agus ár gcultúr dár...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Oh for God’s sake.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: The Deputy is right with regard to households and the impact flooding has on businesses and amenities. The day I visited with the Deputy, I saw first-hand the impact it could have on communities. These communities are leading through a bottom-up approach. They are being supported in no small way by Údarás na Gaeltachta, chomh maith le Roinn na Gaeltachta a bhí in aonach linn...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2023)

Patrick O'Donovan: Without getting in to the specifics of this issue, Deputies will have heard me say often that the single biggest threat to this country is from the sea. Coastal communities are living in the terrifying situation that we have witnessed in the past number of years where the Atlantic and the south seas unleash unbelievable, horrific amounts of energy on to communities. The damage it causes and...