Results 441-460 of 730 for speaker:Conor McGuinness
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 390. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total value of LEADER rural development funding allocated in each of the past ten years, broken down by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21887/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 391. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the total annual allocation to the social inclusion and community activation programme for each of the past five years; and if he will comment on any trends in funding levels over that period. [21888/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 392. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of individuals and groups supported under the social inclusion and community activation programme each year since 2020; and if he will provide a breakdown by county. [21889/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 393. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the criteria used to assess the performance and impact of SICAP-funded initiatives; and if he will publish the latest programme evaluation findings. [21890/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Programmes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 394. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the steps being taken to ensure the social inclusion and community activation programme is fully aligned with national anti-poverty and social inclusion strategies over the period 2025 to 2030. [21891/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 395. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the breakdown of local improvement scheme funding allocations, by local authority area, for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21892/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 396. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the current criteria used to assess applications under the local improvement scheme; and if he will outline any planned changes to eligibility requirements or prioritisation measures for 2025 and beyond. [21893/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 397. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of LIS projects completed annually since 2020; and if he will provide details of the average funding awarded per project. [21894/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Schemes (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 398. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of eligible local improvement scheme, LIS, applications that remain unfunded in each local authority area as of the latest available date; and if he will outline his plans to address this backlog. [21895/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 399. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he accepts that the Our Rural Future rural development strategy failed to adequately prioritise rural housing delivery; the specific measures being taken to address this failure in the next rural development framework; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21896/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 400. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his assessment of the impact of Our Rural Future on rural community safety, policing levels and public service provision in rural areas; and if he will acknowledge the concerns raised by rural communities regarding ongoing deficits in these critical areas. [21897/25]
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 401. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the extent to which the public consultation process on the successor to Our Rural Future will address shortcomings in the current policy, including issues of rural depopulation, housing, policing and access to essential services; and if he will ensure that the next rural strategy includes binding targets and timelines for delivery....
- Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Strategies (1 May 2025)
Conor McGuinness: 402. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will detail the actions taken under Our Rural Future to retain young people in rural areas through job creation and education initiatives; if he will outline whether these efforts have been successful; and if he will indicate how youth retention will be prioritised in the next rural development strategy. [21899/25]
- Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: A national planning framework should be a road map for fairness, decent living standards, balanced development and a future where no community is written off. What we have before us in the draft framework falls far short of that. It is a framework that gestures at ambition but lacks the backbone to deliver. It reads more like a vague wish list than a serious plan for action. This...
- Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: I share Deputy Rice's concerns in this regard. Whereas it might not be a question on the subsidiarity aspect, it is a political statement that may warrant being made in this forum as we are the first committee to examine these proposals. We need to write to both the enterprise committee and to the European affairs and environmental committees to ask them to take a hard look at this...
- Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: If I may clarify, when the Chair referred to the line committee, I assume we are also referring it to the two committees I previously noted?
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: This evening, we have gathered to speak about one of the most shameful failures of our health service in recent memory. God only knows how many children have undergone invasive, traumatic and completely unnecessary hip surgeries. We do not know, and that is the simple fact. We do not know exactly how many. Children have been subjected to unnecessary surgeries and families have been...
- Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: Hear, hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: How is that going for you?
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)
Conor McGuinness: What about confidence in the Minister?