Results 241-260 of 962 for speaker:Francis Noel Duffy

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Infrastructure Provision and Residential Developments: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: There is a local area plan where I live, it has been there for ten years and nothing has happened with it. The developer on that site is finding it hard to start building because it has to pay out all that money and it questions whether it is worth it. It is bizarre that the local authority would create that plan and then take the attitude that its job is done at that point. You would...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Expenditure (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 324. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if additional funding will be awarded to South Dublin County Council in the coming years for active travel/cycle infrastructure. [28478/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the decisions being considered by the Teachers' Conciliation Council to award incremental credit to teachers who have carried out service in post-primary private schools outside of the EU. [27420/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to request the NCSE to outline the total funding per annum for the past five years for assistive technology to support blind and vision impaired students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27760/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to seek detail from the NCSE as to how many functional vision assessments visiting teachers are completing assessments on blind and vision impaired students per annum for the past three years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27761/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Data (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 613. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost to run the north inner city multidisciplinary team each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28479/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 748. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when legislation will be brought forward to provide tenants facing a no-fault eviction the right of first refusal if the landlord is selling; what other provisions will be included in the legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27934/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (13 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 749. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is considering increasing the household income threshold for the cost-rental scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27935/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (1 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason NCT certificates are being given for six months instead of twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26851/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicles (1 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 158. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if supports are available to senior citizens to assist them in buying electric bikes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27028/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (1 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if further consideration will be given to the expansion of the north east inner city multidisciplinary teams model to include a cluster of schools (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26852/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (1 Jun 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 204. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any consideration has been given to supporting education programmes surrounding alcohol and drug misuse in schools which can be delivered by the local alcohol and drug task force team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27027/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: I always say it, but I thank the witnesses for the work they do. All of the services the organisations provide are priceless in helping families and individual people when they find themselves homeless. I have a few questions. The first relates to international protection, IP, applicants, and where they sit within the DRHE. If they are homeless, where do they fit in the system, or do they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: That leads onto my next question. I welcome anybody coming to Ireland from a war-torn country, but has the Ukraine war affected our capacity to house people? We have accommodated 80,000 people. Has that affected our capacity to house the homeless? My question is for all three delegations.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: Is there anything relative to our population increase? Last year, the population of Ireland was recorded as 5 million people. While my son was studying for his junior certificate examined, he learned that in 1997 there was only 3.7 million people living in this country so the population has increased by 38% in 25 years. Has the increase in population stretched our capacity? I ask because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Homelessness Issues: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: Can the witnesses from their collective knowledge tell us whether there are countries that have experienced what we have experienced? Scotland's population has not increased and Italy's population is decreasing. Ireland's population has increased and will continue to increase because, as Mr. McCafferty has said, this country is empty. Have we learned from how other countries have dealt...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 63. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures being taken to alleviate the high rates of vacancy across children's disability services which is affecting the role of children's disability network teams. [17097/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (30 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 85. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the cost to accommodate individuals at the IPAS centre at Richmond Street, Dublin 1 from November 2022 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25772/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: There appears to be a disconnect between the Dublin Region Homeless Executive, DRHE; the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth; and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with regard to the housing of international protection applicants. My understanding is that these Departments are not formally working together, therefore is it possible to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review of Part B (Fire Safety) of Building Regulations: Dublin Fire Brigade (23 May 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: I am grateful to the witnesses, as I think we all are, for giving of their time and knowledge. It always helps us move forward with whatever agenda we have. My question is partly timber-related and concerns the effective prohibition of mass timber over three storeys. Considering that most of the First World is constructing for mass timber buildings of up to eight storeys, why are we so far...