Results 4,961-4,980 of 10,577 for speaker:Barry Cowen

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (27 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 69. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a case including when the person (details supplied) will receive an appointment in the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital in Dublin 2. [8638/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Residential Tenancies Board Data (26 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 431. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide estimates from his Department or the Private Residential Tenancies Board regarding the number of landlords and tenancies which are not registered with the PRTB; and the percentage of the overall number of landlords or tenancies this estimate represents. [8098/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Funding (26 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 432. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the amount of overall funding which was recouped in 2015 by local authorities to pay for emergency homeless accommodation and other homeless services. [8099/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Election of Chairman (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I second that proposal.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I join members in congratulating the Chairman on his new role. To add to Deputy Coppinger's comments, homelessness is an emergency and must be treated as such. It is no harm that the Dáil set a short timeframe for the committee last week as it requires members to be focused and to seek to make real and meaningful proposals. As the Chairman stated, a cross-party committee such as this...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I propose that we deal with five different, targeted areas and invite relevant expertise and stakeholders from those areas. That would constitute five meetings on public and social housing, private housing, the rental sector, homelessness and issues surrounding mortgage distress respectively. I am not sure if there are any more areas. In those five separate meetings, relevant expertise and...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: It is only one aspect.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: We do not want to hear the history of each organisation, from where they have come or where they are at. We want to hear what their ideas and suggestions are to address the emergency and the immediacy of the problem.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Transport Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 282. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Sligo will receive a decision on an application for transport from the Brothers of Charity [7367/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 283. To ask the Minister for Health if School Leaver Camphill Funding for Full-time Residential Care will be made available to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly under the Health Service Executive as Day Care Services do not meet their needs at this time [7368/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 293. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Tipperary will receive a hospital appointment. [7398/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 470. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the spending allocated to each local authority for the refurbishment or regeneration of vacant social housing in each of the years from 2014 to 2015 and to date in 2016. [7638/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 471. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the reason there is a cap of €30,000 for local authority applications for funding for refurbishment of vacant social housing programmes to his Department. [7639/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Data (20 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 472. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the recent changes that have been made to the approvals process for capital funded social housing projects undertaken by local authorities. [7640/16]

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I acknowledge that there is a road one could go down in the short term in relation to different forms of construction that are barred by local authorities and the Department. We must look at other methods of construction to deliver housing at a faster pace.

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: I welcome the initiative taken by the Ceann Comhairle in putting this committee in place. It is an example of how this new and dispersed Dáil can have the desired effect. The recommendations of the Dáil reform committee outlined by the Ceann Comhairle also augur well for this committee. I welcome the fact that it has a closed timeframe, which will allow it to make meaningful...

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: -----a matter of fact that has been provided to me under FOI and I will make that information available to the Minister-----

Housing Issues: Statements (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: -----so that he can check it with his officials. If it is the case, we need an explanation as to why. Improvements must made to the way in which this issue and the issue of voids are addressed. There has to be more discretion given to local authorities in dealing with these issues, rather than the current delays, for example in the case of the €30,000 cap provision, and which...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 504. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly including when the person will receive an appointment [6775/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (14 Apr 2016)

Barry Cowen: 505. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Offaly, including when the person will receive an appointment [6776/16]