Results 3,921-3,940 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1303. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27776/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1308. To ask the Minister for Health when the chemotherapy services at the Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore will resume in view of the fact that this service has not been available since March 2017 (details supplied). [27809/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1551. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and when the person concerned can expect an appointment. [28905/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1568. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied). [28959/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Licences (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 1732. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 725 of 28 February 2017, the status of the application. [26570/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Land Availability (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2190. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has examined proposals to further sanction the non-use or hoarding of residentially zoned land; his views on whether the vacant site levy is unlikely to be an effective sanction against land hoarding; and his further views on whether the process of identifying and entering vacant sites onto the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Staff Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2176. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department has conducted a review of planning personnel capacity in each local authority; if his attention has been drawn to the shortages of specialist staff; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27183/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason his Department makes the assumption that 400 new housing units are converted each year when estimating annual completion statistics; and his views on whether this is a wholly outdated statistical practice in view of the fact that there are a number of more accurate measures for counting or estimating...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if it is a statutory requirement for all design certifiers and assigned certifiers to have professional indemnity insurance. [27305/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2181. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department or a body under its aegis or professional bodies retain or have access to statistics on the number or percentage of assigned certifiers that have professional indemnity insurance and on the number or percentage of assigned certifiers that have latent defects insurance; and if so, if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2182. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will clarify household eligibility for affordable housing that local authorities are to provide under the land bank plan in view of his decision not to reinstate affordable housing schemes; and the way in which local authorities are to define eligibility criteria for affordable housing. [27307/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2183. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the eligibility criteria for affordable rental housing to be provided by local authorities under the land bank plan; and the income levels, housing need and other criteria households will have to meet in order to be considered eligible for affordable rental housing in these new schemes. [27308/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2184. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to revise the guidelines for planning authorities on sustainable residential development in urban areas in view of the severity of the social housing crisis and very slow pace of delivery of local authority housing. [27309/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2185. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether an over-rigid application of planning principles is impeding delivery of much needed social housing (details supplied); and his plans to implement a review of the reasons local authorities used for rejecting properties offered by NAMA. [27310/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2186. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he will issue a circular that reverses the decision to stand down all affordable housing provision made in 2011; and if not, the way in which he expects local authorities to provide affordable housing. [27311/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2187. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the decision made in the Urban Regeneration and Housing Act 2015 to reduce the Part V obligation to 10% and remove the ability of developers to provide 10% affordable and 10% social housing in new developments will by definition make all new housing developments less mixed in terms of tenure...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2188. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the reliance on HAP for the majority of social housing provision rather than on new builds is having an impact on inflating rents in the private rental sector; and if he has commissioned research on the effects of reliance on HAP for social housing provision. [27313/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2203. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the number of homeless households that were offered participation on the homeless HAP; and the number of households that refused to participate on the scheme. [27505/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2204. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government further to the ministerial direction to local authorities on HAP recipients which instructs local authorities to take the necessary steps to ensure that households benefitting from HAP can avail of a move to other forms of social housing support via a transfer list, his views on whether there is a perception...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Data (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: 2205. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason HAP or homeless HAP recipients should be placed on transfer social housing waiting lists as opposed to the general social housing waiting list; and his views on whether this is done to make statistical reports of social housing waiting lists appear less severe rather than for substantive policy reason....