Results 21-40 of 1,318 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a couple of questions. We will then go Deputy Mac Lochlainn when he returns as he indicated that he wished to speak. My first set of questions is for the departmental officials. They relate to the requirement that projects, particularly those to improve local authority-owned ports and harbours, be shovel-ready. It does not seem to follow logic. The shovel-ready requirement seems...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I understand. I thank Ms McSherry for her response. This may be more of a political point, but it is a false economy in many respects and it is a dysfunctional scheme. Earlier some of our witnesses described the frustration brought about by how difficult it is for local authorities to utilise this scheme. It limits what it can do. I have referred to Cé Heilbhic several times during...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Ms McSherry. To confirm, there was €55.3 million in total from the BAR allocated to local authority ports and harbours and €40.4 million was spent. A little under €15 million went unspent. The issue with a lot of the local authorities that were seeking to make applications was not the time constraint but the money constraint. It was having money upfront to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Was that for preparatory work such as the licensing and surveying work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What I am trying to establish is whether Ms McSherry is telling me that there was a facility where credit of some kind or staged payments was available to local authorities to carry out the preparatory work, specifically licensing and survey work. That is where the issue lies, in particular with the case I am talking about in Cé Helvick, but in lots of other cases as well, because the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Jesuitical.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I understand that. I am veering into the political now. I do not wish the witnesses to offer a political opinion or anything like that but my political sense of it is that the scheme needs to be reformed, as it is dysfunctional and it is not fit for purpose for those precise reasons. I have run out of time. I am not good at chairing myself. I thank the local government sector and our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: County Meath, famously, does not have a long coastline.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Carry on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Capital and Infrastructure Issues: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Sin deireadh ár gcruinniú. Everybody who indicated has had an opportunity to speak. That brings us to a conclusion in terms of the discussion for this meeting. I thank all our witnesses for being here, for their contributions and for answering our questions forthrightly. I thank the members, as always, for their conduct in the meeting and for their contributions as well. With...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 543. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if Ireland currently has, or is pursuing, any bilateral or informal arrangements with the United Arab Emirates for the recognition or enforcement of family maintenance or spousal support orders issued by the Irish courts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57273/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged, or intends to engage, with the authorities of the United Arab Emirates or other non-signatory states to the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, with a view to establishing practical channels for the enforcement of Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 545. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the options or supports currently available to Irish citizens who are unable to enforce a maintenance or support order due to the fact that the liable person resides in a non-convention country such as the United Arab Emirates; and if he will outline any policy work underway to address this gap; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 546. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has engaged with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade to address the gap in protections for maintenance recipients in cases where enforcement is not possible due to the absence of reciprocal arrangements with the country of residence of the liable person; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (21 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 842. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 336 and 337 of 15 October 2025, the reason her Department has produced documents stating transgender individuals are excluded from the scheme, despite the diagnosis of any medical condition and the prescribing of treatment for said condition being a matter for a patient and healthcare provider; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (16 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 79. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to detail his formal engagements with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage; and the outcomes of those engagements. [56317/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (16 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The rural housing crisis is the biggest single issue impacting rural communities and the long-term sustainability of rural Ireland. Previously, I asked the Minister about his engagement with the Minister for housing on this issue. To be fair, it was a number of months ago, and at that point the Minister had not been in the job all that long. Meetings had not taken place, although he...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (16 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is iontach é sin a cloisteáil, i ndáiríre, mar bhí an bhuairt ann nach raibh cainteanna ag dul ar aghaidh. Mar sin, cuirim fáilte roimh sin, ar a laghad. It is great that those engagements have taken place and I thank the Minister of State for his answer and for detailing the level of engagement and the issues that have been discussed by the Minister with the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Policy (16 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Chun mo cheart a thabhairt dom féin, níl sé i mo nádúr a bheith soiniciúil ach tá sé deacair gan a bheith i bhfianaise an méid nár thit amach thar na blianta. Mar is eol don Aire, tá géarchéim tithíochta sna ceantair Ghaeltachta agus níor sholáthar an buiséad, in ainneoin an méid atá ráite ag...