Results 3,761-3,780 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 377. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect an appointment in Beaumont Hospital. [32175/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 441. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a surgery appointment for a person (details supplied). [32602/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 446. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect a hospital appointment. [32616/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 742. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing rent supplement by 20% in counties Dublin and Cork. [32331/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 743. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of creating new rent supplement thresholds at sub-county levels for all local electoral areas that are designated as rent-pressure zones and allowing a 10% increase in thresholds in these new areas. [32332/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 746. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of households in receipt of rent supplement in each respective year since it was introduced to date in 2017. [32502/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 747. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of new recipients of rent supplement in each respective year since it was introduced to date in 2017. [32503/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 786. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing HAP by 20% in counties Dublin and Cork. [32333/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 787. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of creating new HAP thresholds at sub county levels for all local electoral areas that are designated as rent pressure zones and allowing a 10% increase in thresholds in these new areas. [32334/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 824. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of households availing of support under the RAS scheme in each year since its establishment and to date in 2017. [32615/17]
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: Will the Government be seeking an extension to facilitate that?
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: Assuming everybody pays it.
- Questions on Promised Legislation (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: I ask the Taoiseach, in the absence of the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, if the Government will realise its commitment to bring forward legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Joint Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services. 1 o’clock It was to have been brought before the House, agreed and passed prior to the recess.
- Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: In Canada?
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill, although I would much rather discuss more pressing legislation in areas of much greater concern, as alluded to by Deputy Curran. In introducing this legislation the Minister for Justice and Equality is acting on an instruction from the Taoiseach arising from the protestations of the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Shane Ross,...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: Within two minutes of the relevant Cabinet meeting concluding, a banner welcoming the reopening of Stepaside Garda station was ready. The Minister was photographed with some councillor from the area who is affiliated to him. If he had no idea what was coming, he showed magical powers by producing the banner in the manner in which he did. I heard Deputy Eamon Ryan on radio this morning...
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: They made unfair references to us in their contributions too, without interruptions.
- Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: He is not too busy in the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Application (5 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: 96. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether VAT clawback acts as a disincentive for owners of commercial properties to convert their properties to residential use; and if there are exemptions from VAT clawback conversion of existing commercial premises into residential lettings. [31816/17]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Finance for Social Housing: Irish League of Credit Unions (4 Jul 2017)
Barry Cowen: I thank both bodies for their presentations. It was appropriate that the committee acknowledge the process commenced by the Central Bank and also acknowledge and support the submission made by the Irish League of Credit Unions. We have been saying, until we were blue in the face, that there is a crisis in the provision of housing and an emergency in the provision of social housing. This is...