Results 181-200 of 2,564 for speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: One of the commitments in the programme for Government is to invest in sporting infrastructure. I was delighted to see the successful European Championship athletes visit the Taoiseach recently. It was important that he spent time with them. Ireland had an incredible European Championships. Ciara Mageean won a gold medal, as did the mixed 4 x 400 m relay athletes, and Rhasidat Adeleke won...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Programme for Government (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 11. To ask the Taoiseach for an update on the programme for Government. [25608/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: From Rediscovery Ireland I welcome Dr. Sarah Miller, chief executive officer, and Ms Claire Downey, director of policy and research. From Community Resources Network Ireland we have Mr. Chris Mooney-Brown, executive director, Ms Una Lavelle, director, Ms Bernie Connolly, chair, who is from my neck of the woods, and Ms Emma Kavanagh, network director. Before we continue I must read the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Downey very much. I call on Mr. Mooney-Brown to make his opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Mooney-Brown and all the witnesses for their opening statements. We will now continue with questions. I will go first because I will be relieved of the chairmanship in a moment. It is important that we have gone ahead with this session because the witnesses have come a long way. This is an important topic. It is something that is close to the hearts of the witnesses and many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: The regulations are there for a reason, to ensure the standard of product. Obviously the witnesses cannot do that because they are working with people on minimum salaries and schemes with a lack of core funding. Would that enable them to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Ms Downey mentioned textiles and the tonnage of them that Rediscovery Ireland is trying to reuse or recycle. Will she give us more information on that? When products are ordered online, which might then also be sent back, there is the carbon footprint of delivery drivers going around. Items that have been worn a few times might be disposed of. I know this is a big part of the circular...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: What are the methods of retaining textiles? Is it to go into new products like mattresses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: We had three or four clothes repair shops in Clonakilty. I am not sure if there are any now. There might be. It is kind of dicey.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Circular Economy as it relates to Consumer Durables: Discussion (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: It is clear they need to be put on a sustainable footing and secure their future. My last point before I go to Deputy Bruton is that in Garrettstown, there is an amazing initiative in the toy library, where basically people have brought their used toys. Perhaps their kids have grown out of their toys. They bring them to the local beaches. There are little brackets hanging on the beach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the witnesses from Uisce Éireann for attending the meeting. I do not sit on this committee but I have come in here because of some very important issues in my constituency. First and foremost, I am unsure if the witnesses are familiar with the village of Shannonvale. It is a beautiful picturesque village on the outskirts of my home town of Clonakilty. The beautiful River...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Is that really the case? Does Mr. Gleeson face issues where there is excrement coming up through a children's playground all of the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I do not mean to sound smart because I know Mr. Gleeson is very familiar with the different issues facing Uisce Éireann but is it dealing with another situation where a children's playground has sewage seeping up through the surface? Honestly, is there another such situation in the country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: My concern is that I became a councillor in 2007 and I have been hearing the phrase "preliminary business case" for 13 or 14 years but it does not seem to have progressed. I am asking Mr. Gleeson to please look at it again and to prioritise it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank Mr. Gleeson and Ms Attridge for the update. It is very important that this is progressed. There are a couple of other issues I wish to raise. In Castletownbere, there is an issue with drinking water supply. It is right on the west of my constituency, on the Beara Peninsula. The council is not granting planning permission at the moment, not even for one-off houses, because of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Current Progress and Future Projections of Uisce Éireann Objectives: Uisce Éireann (18 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I appreciate the need for environmental designations. They are important, as is saving a species on the brink. Having said that, we need to come up with solutions in order to allow places like the Beara Peninsula to develop, grow and flourish. To go back and say there will be no more planning permissions is not good enough. That brings me to another point. I appreciate that this is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (12 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the national reform programme 2024 published by his Department on 10 May last. [23896/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: Dunmanway and Clonakilty are two of the most important towns in my constituency. They are separated by about 20 km. It takes just over 20 minutes to drive from Clonakilty to Dunmanway, for example, but if I want to take a bus there tomorrow, it would take me about two hours because I would have to go via Bandon. What the people of Dunmanway and Clonakilty need is a direct bus service...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: In a slight departure from the triple lock, I will bring the Taoiseach back to Bere Island off west Cork. The Department of Defence has an important training facility there for naval personnel. Unfortunately, there is an issue with Department of Defence-owned infrastructure there, namely, a slipway at Lawrence Cove. It is an important slipway used by naval personnel but also by a car ferry...