Results 21-40 of 228 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 849. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his view on considering the inclusion of critical infrastructure such as water treatment plants in the new exempted development regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30445/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Measures (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 859. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the EU legislation that requires transposition into Irish law and awaiting referral to an Oireachtas committee; to provide a timeline for this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30626/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 862. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish statutory timelines for the RTB and enhanced enforcement powers granted to the RTB will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30629/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 863. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to establish a cost rental version of the repair and lease scheme will be implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30630/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 864. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the Programme for Government Commitment to launching a new, comprehensive starter-home programme across the public, private and approved housing body, AHB, sector will be realised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30631/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 866. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of WTE staff in his Department, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of vacancies, by grade, at the end of May 2024 and 2025; the number of staff, by grade, on career break; the number of staff, by grade, on career break for more than five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 950. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his views on the reintroduction of the ‘diet supplement’ payment for new applicants which was a payment to help with the cost of a special diet prescribed by one’s doctor or hospital consultant (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30416/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Programme for Government (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 966. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Developments Act 2011 will move from the Department of Justice to the Department of Housing, as set out in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30462/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 1262. To ask the Minister for Health if she will follow the lead of the NHS in England in rolling out mental health accident and emergency departments and consider the same for Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28932/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (10 Jun 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 1598. To ask the Minister for Health if she plans to reintroduce statutory schemes that ceased in 2012 to supplement the cost of existing or newly diagnosed patients with coeliac disease requiring gluten-free diets to supplement the cost of the diet; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30415/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I raise the disappointing news of 300 job losses in Limerick with the closure of Carelon. It is extremely disappointing given that the company was established less than four years ago. It is clearly profitable. It made profits of approximately €400 million over two years. What level of engagement has the Government had with the parent company and, in particular, the CEO, Ms Gail...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (29 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if weight-loss drugs such as ozempic and mounjaro will be made available to medical card patients; her views on whether they should; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28848/25]

Gaza: Motion (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to talk in particular about the issue of military flights using Shannon Airport and flying over our airspace. It is something I and others are very concerned about because successive Irish Governments have long claimed the defence of plausible deniability in relation to this. To say we did not know because we did not ask is no longer acceptable. We have already had the Irish...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I will go back to the issue of funding and the delivery of housing. Could the witnesses could contrast the level of engagement Uisce Éireann has had with the infrastructure unit of the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Services, Reform and Digitalisation with its level of engagement with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Does Mr. Gleeson think that if the housing activation office was underpinned by legislation, it would make it easier to deliver this critical strategic infrastructure?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Does Mr. Gleeson think the housing activation office needs to be underpinned by legislation?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: So Irish Water is looking for exemptions for-----

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: What parts of the new Planning and Development Act should be front loaded or commenced first in order to make it easier for Uisce Éireann to get this strategic infrastructure delivered? I am looking at the greater Dublin drainage project, which has been dripping around for the best part of seven or eight years. I am looking at the pipeline that is supposed to come from Shannon. What...

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Uisce Éireann: Future Work Programme (28 May 2025)

Conor Sheehan: So essentially it would be a one-stop-shop to get critical infrastructure.