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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Flood Risk Management
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I am not sure if Deputy Buckley's colleague is going to turn up.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Pat Buckley: He probably will turn up. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell, for attending. We are here again to raise issues relating to flooding in Midleton in east Cork. I acknowledge the work that has been done on the rivers and so on and so forth in the Moore's Bridge area. The engagements we have had with some of the Departments and Cork County Council have been exemplary, but I have...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: Is the Deputy talking about IPP?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Pat Buckley: Yes. Lets be realists about how the long term flood mitigation plan is long term, but I wanted to flag that with the Minister of State because many people are worried they will not have enough money to even pay for those prevention measures. Gleann Fia is slightly different because of the timber-frame structures there. There were suggestions to the effect that the adjacent land be used,...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (25 Sep 2024)
Kieran O'Donnell: I thank the Deputies for raising this important issue. My colleague Deputy Stanton is here as well. It is a major collective interest for the Deputies in the east Cork area. I know Deputy O'Connor is involved in the debate as well. To recap, I visited Midleton after Storm Babet. I am fully aware of the impact that this event and other flooding events in the town and elsewhere in east...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)
Alan Dillon: I again thank Deputy O'Sullivan for this important matter and providing us with the opportunity to respond with the script that has been provided by the Minister, Deputy Foley, and her Department. While it is extremely regrettable that a number of contractors had issues delivering a service at short notice, Bus Éireann is prioritising the establishment of a new service for the small...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (25 Sep 2024)
Sports Facilities
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (25 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle’s office for selecting this and I thank the Minister of State for being here to take the debate. I am disappointed the Minister for Education cannot be here but I am sure she is very busy with other work. Of all Ministers to the House, the Minister of State, Deputy Dillon, will appreciate what I will say. We have in Carrigtwohill one of the...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Sports Facilities (25 Sep 2024)
Alan Dillon: I thank Deputy Stanton for raising this important matter. I know how passionate he is about the delivery of sporting facilities in conjunction with the schools building programme. I thank the Deputy for allowing me to provide information on the provision of sports facilities at the Carrigtwohill school campus in east Cork. The Carrigtwohill school campus project, as the Deputy said, is...
- Prelude (25 Sep 2024)
- Prelude (25 Sep 2024)
Chuaigh an Leas-Cheann Comhairle i gceannas ar 9.10 a.m.
- Prelude (25 Sep 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (25 Sep 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Sep 2024)
- Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Sep 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Collins - to discuss raw sewage leaks in west Cork. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore - to discuss State funding for the expansion of the Glen of the Downs. Deputy Christopher O'Sullivan - to discuss school transport in the Bandon...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate (25 Sep 2024)
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)
School Transport
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)
Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for attending. The matter relates to school transport in the Bandon area. There is one specific route that I want to delve into. I appreciate that the Minister of State may not have the exact details on it. I ask that he reflect what I say and that the message is delivered back to the school transport section of the Department in particular, to try to get...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Transport (25 Sep 2024)
Alan Dillon: I like to thank the Deputy for raising this matter, which I am taking on behalf of the Minister, Deputy Foley. Before I address the specific issue raised, I will provide an outline of the extent of the school transport scheme. The school transport scheme is a significant operation managed by Bus Éireann on behalf of the Department of Education. In the 2023 - 2024 school year over...