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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Ministers for being here. I congratulate them on their new roles. I thank especially the Minister of State, Deputy Calleary, for remaining in his current role. I ask this question around the increased cost of business, ICOB, grants which were made available, about their uptake, particularly in the area of County Cork, and if this information can be provided to the House, please?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Business Supports (23 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister for that information. These, along with other measures, are extremely welcome. The costs on businesses are of great significance. When it comes to energy prices, that is something which needs to be urgently tackled because we are out of sync with the rest of Europe when it comes to the cost of energy per unit price. When one also looks at the profits which are being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. However, the reply given in the House this morning makes no reference to the location affected. Considering that the location is in the title of the question asked, that is not acceptable. I ask the Minister of State to bring that back to the Department of Health. When a Deputy comes in here from a constituency and asks a question about an...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State for being here this morning. I wish to raise the issue of speech and language services that is affecting the east Cork area. We have wonderful healthcare professionals working across the healthcare service in County Cork and Cork city and in other services in west Waterford which are used by people in my constituency. However, we have problems around...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: Do not worry. All is forgiven. I raise the issue of the potential to add units to our annual new housing stock through modular accommodation. Modular housing was looked at as an emergency response initially to the Ukrainian crisis, and there has been much debate on it in the migration space. I am concerned that it seems this is not being viewed by the Department of housing as a potential...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 20. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with transport will next meet. [21829/24]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I raise the issue of the N25 corridor between Midleton and Youghal. The Taoiseach will be familiar with this given I have been raising it since my election to the Dáil. It is a key issue for me. Unfortunately, there have been a number of major fatal accidents on and issues with that stretch of road. We have worked hard to get this issue up the political agenda in the Department of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Credits (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 77. To ask the Minister for Finance the total number of rent tax credit claims made in Cork for each of the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22688/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Reliefs (21 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 119. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of help-to-buy claims approved in Cork since 1 July 2020, along with the number of applicants associated with these claims; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22687/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I echo what Deputy Devlin was saying on home-school liaison. Some schools that were lucky enough to be included in the DEIS bands following the recent review, but others were very disappointed. There is a particular social need in Youghal in County Cork and what happened with DEIS - to which I will return in a moment - was rather perplexing. Beyond DEIS allocation, that provision of a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: What really gets under my fingernails on this issue is the fact that this applies even in a small town. It would be different if it was in the city centre where there is obviously huge difference. On any one street and there could be different financial circumstances depending on the household. I think there are two brackets of Pobal index in Youghal. Even though the exact same base of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: May I ask Ms McNally one very reasonable question, considering the circumstances? Would she visit Youghal?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I will extend an invitation. It would be good for Department officials to go there. I realise it is an unprecedented request to civil servants at a committee meeting, but it would be good to go down and see what it is like for one urban centre to have major accommodation centres for people – now asylum seekers – and how this impacts the schools, and also see the good work...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: It is. I want to take my hat off to the Department after having been in Carrigtwohill Community College last week. It involves the largest capital investment ever made by the Department in the construction of a single complex, for two primary schools and a secondary school. After many years of lobbying and campaigning by the community to get the schools built, they are now built and look...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: If I bring the case to Mr. Loftus’s attention, is it one he could look at for me to see if there is wriggle room?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: I thank Mr. Loftus.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his Department has any provision for new train stations in the east Cork area; if so, the details of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22148/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 85. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Midleton-Youghal N25 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22147/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Capital Expenditure Programme (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 122. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the most recent additional capital allocations to support transport infrastructure projects contained within the NDP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15764/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Strategies (16 May 2024)

James O'Connor: 224. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his Department's plans to publish the final papers for the biomethane strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22221/24]