Results 41-60 of 3,059 for speaker:Paul Gogarty

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Renewable Energy Generation (5 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 59. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the procedures adopted by Ireland to transpose Article 16(5) of the RED III Directive, which requires that applicants and the public have easy access to simple procedures for the settlement of disputes concerning the permit-granting procedure and the issuance of permits to build and operate renewable energy plants; and if...

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Hear, hear.

Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: This legislation is welcome, if modest. As others have mentioned, it is a response to disruption caused by Storm Éowyn. It will allow for the creation and maintenance of forestry corridors and vegetation management, subject hopefully to environmental obligations under the Habitats and Birds Directives. I have no problem with the legal mechanism to make an additional €1.5...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Every now and again, I raise issues on behalf of constituents relating to dodgy, unscrupulous landlords who are not registered with the Residential Tenancies Board. In some cases, they are also exploiting their tenants. In other cases, they are not planning compliant and operate in a very dangerous way. However, when I ask for an update from the Residential Tenancies Board, it says it...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 265, 266 and 267 of 18 September 2025, to confirm that there is in fact no list, public or otherwise, for new potential sites for consideration as candidate terrestrial SAC sites; the only list is the currently identified sites, candidate and designated on www.npws.ie/protected-sites...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 18 September 2025, where the Minister specifically states in his reply: “There are no plans at this time to expand the number of such terrestrial sites", to confirm for the 22 sites of the 40 alluvial woodland sites monitored that are not in an SAC, that despite being...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1113. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 18 September 2025, where the Minister specifically states “There are no plans at this time to expand the number of such terrestrial sites," if he will confirm the implication in the reply is that Rathcoole alluvial Woodland is therefore not actually on a list of...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Special Areas of Conservation (4 Nov 2025)

Paul Gogarty: 1114. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 270 of 18 September 2025, where the Minister specifically states in his reply “There are no plans at this time to expand the number of such terrestrial sites," to confirm for the 22 sites of the 40 alluvial woodland sites monitored that are not in an SAC, that they are therefore...

Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. In some ways, there will be a certain amount of repetition because we have all been asked by the Movember movement to reference its report titled, "The Real Face of Men's Health", and its key findings and recommendations. If there is repetition, it is no harm because it is sending a message. I will repeat that men are dying...

Office of the President: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I welcome this debate on expanding the geographical area covered by the presidential election and amending the requirements to run for President to make it easier to do so. To start with the issue of the diaspora, we know the constitutional convention was not limited to the Northern Irish state but also dealt with the diaspora around the world. Unfortunately, whether we like it or not,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I could have listened to that for another couple of hours if we had time. I will stick to the retail angle first. I will play devil's advocate. On the comment about how the minimum wage is calculated and how it has a knock-on effect on the living wage, the reality is that in Dublin, for example, all the software companies are coming in with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: And they can avail of the working family benefit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I asked whether it should be regionalised, or how it could be regionalised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Perhaps provision could be made for an allowance without having to change the minimum wage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: I will briefly interject. A teacher in Donegal or Mayo has a much better quality of life than a teacher in Dublin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Maybe teachers in Dublin need to be paid more. Equally, there may need to be a higher minimum wage rate in Dublin. Can you get away with having a lower wage rate in the rest of the country? That is the question that arises from that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Exactly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Paul Gogarty: Ms McCabe is basically saying that the people on the minimum wage are not those who have mortgages or are looking for affordable housing mortgages. They are mainly students.