Results 21-40 of 558 for long speaker:Brendan Griffin

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...has received everything it looked for in recent years. Is it, therefore, a question of the local authority's capacity to do more roads in the year? That is part of the problem and why it will take so long. The Minister is also looking for more funding. I raised this with the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, when I met him recently at our parliamentary party meeting and asked that...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (26 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 83. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development her plans to reduce the LIS list in County Kerry; if she appreciates how long it will take to clear the overall list in Kerry at the current rate of works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41328/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...to get them over the line and become homes for people. Kerry County Council is preparing a turnkey application at the moment. My parliamentary assistant, Tommy Griffin, has engaged for a very long time with the owner of these properties to try to bring this project as a proposal to the Minister's Department. Will the Minister engage with the local authority? The process seems quite...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: I thank the Minister for his response, which is very encouraging. It is one of the most exciting projects there has been in the county for a long time. It symbolises rejuvenation and a form of renaissance for what was maybe a symbol of decline and failure, and a new era for Kerry and Killarney in particular. I thank the Minister for the effort he has put in to date and for his commitment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: That is great. Of course these things take time. I remember when a bus leaving my parish took predominantly women to work in that Pretty Polly factory in the 1980s and 1990s. A week is a long time in politics but, at the same time, time goes pretty quickly too. It will take time. We have to be realistic but I have no doubt that when this project is completed, it will serve future...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Misuse of Drugs (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...among some demographics, I think the figures are far worse than those she has quoted. Among our younger population, this is something that needs to be addressed. The short-term, medium-term and long-term consequences of cocaine use and abuse in some circumstances - to be honest, I think any use is abuse - need to be a serious issue on the agenda. In my day, back in the 1990s and 2000s,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Misuse of Drugs (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...age, the idea that using cocaine recreationally might be normal was completely off the charts but it is now accepted as normal and it is a ticking time bomb. There are huge implications in the long and short term. We need to do more. A massive awareness campaign is needed nationally about this.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (21 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: My question concerns West Kerry Community Hospital and efforts to get more beds for the hospital. It has been a long-running saga to try to get more beds opened in the hospital. Given the current number of bed versus what was originally envisaged, there is quite a difference between the numbers. We need assistance in getting more beds open.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...or four meetings, in the space of five or six years. When we examine what went wrong here then that is a major component in terms of giving us the answer. Mr. Kehoe has been on the board for a long time. On self-evaluation and the Code of Practice for the Governance of State Bodies, was the decision not to hold successive self-evaluations a breach of the code in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Brendan Griffin: We had two lengthy hearings last week at the media committee and the Committee of Public Accounts has also held hearings. There is a long summer ahead. It would be helpful, with regard to any other mistruths that Mr. Kelly alleges the RTÉ executives or board members may have conveyed to the committees in the last number of weeks, if he would bring those to our attention. It would be...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Brendan Griffin: That is OK; I accept Mr. Collins's response. I ask all of the witnesses if they accept that when the most recent figures were published for the top ten earners in February, which is not that long ago, they would have all seen what Ryan Tubridy's figure was and known that it was wrong and that they did nothing and said nothing.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Budget Process (22 Jun 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...as the regular month for the budget. I remember way back coming home from school and there was no "Dempsey's Den" on television because the budget was on, and it was January. That is going back a long time ago now. Then we moved it to October. I certainly feel it would have been a very healthy practice to maintain a September budget and ask if it could be continued and that we do it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 May 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...currently classified as homeless? Will it also consider reviewing the rates paid under the scheme as an incentive to try to bring units, particularly those on the short-term rental market, into use as long-term accommodation? This could be done relatively quickly and could supply many new units for people desperately in need of housing.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (20 Apr 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 389. To ask the Minister for Health why SSWHG has not met Kerry Oireachtas members for so long; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18850/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Foreshore Issues (21 Mar 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 492. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 644 of 8 September 2022, when a long running foreshore licence application will be finalised and issued to a sports club (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13724/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Offshore Islands (2 Mar 2023)

Brendan Griffin: This is very important. We are all only passing through. The island was there long before any of us and it will be there long after all of us. It is incumbent on all of us, especially those of us who are public representatives, to try to improve the retention and preservation of our heritage while we have an opportunity to do so. It is important that we get things right, such as the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Registration of Short-Term Tourist Letting Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Mar 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...to be sent in. What we are going to have is a huge amount of collateral damage and very little gain. We know that, especially in large urban centres, there has been a massive displacement of long-term properties into the short-term market, but the crudeness of the proposed legislation will result in an enormously negative impact in regional rural costal areas, where the acute impacts of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (23 Feb 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 17. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will consider a reform of the funding model for the local improvement scheme, in view of the unsustainably long waiting lists in counties such as Kerry, notwithstanding the substantial provision of funding to County Kerry in recent years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9268/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy (Resumed): Regional Airports (15 Feb 2023)

Brendan Griffin: ...in the future? Could more be done in that regard? It is a huge opportunity and a unique selling point. Kerry Airport is also going to be the closest airport to a greenway network before very long. I have a dream that some day people will be able to disembark from a flight at Kerry Airport, rent a bike and hop on a greenway. It is very doable. Is there buy-in from Transport...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Tourist Accommodation (25 Jan 2023)

Brendan Griffin: 91. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if chalets and converted garages which are unsuitable for long-term letting will be exempted from short-term letting registration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3684/23]