Results 561-580 of 1,561 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 226. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the projected timeline for commencement and completion of the proposed light rail system for Cork city; and if the project is guaranteed funding under the National Development Plan allocations 2026–2035. [48384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 227. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current status of the BusConnects Cork programme, including consultation feedback, revised routing, and delivery milestones; and to set out the budget ring-fenced for the scheme in 2026–2030. [48385/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 228. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will commit to delivering the full upgrade of the Cork to Limerick N20 as a motorway by 2030, given its designation as a strategic priority in Project Ireland 2040. [48386/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: EU Budgets (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the funding commitments which have been secured in the current EU budget negotiation for transport infrastructure improvements in Cork including port expansion, connectivity and rural-island link roads, and the way in which the Government will ensure that Cork's transport and connectivity projects are not underfunded in comparison with...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 300. To ask the Minister for Finance if his Department has considered the introduction of a site value tax or equivalent measures to discourage speculative landholding that withholds serviced land from development; and if he will publish any economic analysis on the potential effects of such a tax on housing affordability. [47953/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 313. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s warning that the €9.4 billion Budget package risks overheating the economy; and the means by which he intends to reconcile these fiscal pressures with the urgent need to reduce child poverty. [48350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 314. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide a breakdown of how much of the projected €8 billion fiscal gap (after excluding excess corporation tax) will be addressed by sustainable, recurring revenue sources rather than temporary windfalls. [48351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 315. To ask the Minister for Finance given the IFAC’s warning on Ireland’s fiscal overexposure to volatile corporation tax receipts, the steps being taken to broaden the revenue base and safeguard fiscal stability, in particular to sustain infrastructural investment in Cork. [48379/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 316. To ask the Minister for Finance to provide a full breakdown, by Department, of current expenditure overruns to date in 2025, including both voted and non-voted expenditure; and how these figures compare with the allocations approved in Budget 2025. [48392/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Policies (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 331. To ask the Minister for Finance to detail his Department's reservations in relation to AE supervision cited in 2024, the changes that were sought, which were accepted; and the current oversight model involving the Pensions Authority and Department of Social Protection. [48751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 332. To ask the Minister for Finance the share of VAT, PSO levy, and other taxes in Irish household electricity bills; and if he will review taxation policy to ease costs for households. [48837/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Energy Prices (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 333. To ask the Minister for Finance if the high electricity prices in Ireland are having a measurable effect on disposable incomes, consumer spending, and inflation compared with the rest of the Eurozone. [48838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Reports (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 340. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will publish corporation tax revenue sensitivity scenarios. [49938/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 363. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Office of Government Procurement will mandate enhanced pre-award checks for high-risk social care contracts (details supplied); if a clawback protocol for safeguarding breaches will be standardised across contracting authorities; and the timeframes for policy issuance. [48152/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 372. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the new infrastructure delivery unit will publish regional breakdowns of NDP expenditure and project delivery status, specifically in respect of Cork; and if he will make such reporting publicly available on a quarterly basis. [48389/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Development Plan (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 373. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if his Department has assessed the risk of over-centralisation of NDP investment in Dublin; and whether safeguards have been introduced to ensure balanced development across all three regions of Ireland. [48390/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 374. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he accepts the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council’s assessment that the credibility of the Budget process is being undermined by the concealment of spending overruns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48393/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 375. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the measures being taken to ensure that spending forecasts for Budget 2026 reflect realism and transparency, in line with IFAC recommendations. [48394/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 376. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to detail the total cost of expenditure overruns, by Department in 2025 to date; and the corrective actions, if any, being implemented to manage these overruns. [48395/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Fiscal Policy (17 Sep 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 377. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will commit to publishing quarterly reports on departmental spending variances in order to prevent the concealment of overruns and to restore public trust in the budgetary process. [48396/25]