Results 41-60 of 384 for speaker:John Connolly

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Reviews (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 548. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an update on the publication of the review into the response of the State and State agencies into the impact of storm Éowyn; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 579. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the rationale behind the stipulation requiring disability allowance recipients to notify his Department before leaving the State; the specific function this stipulation serves; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34019/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 580. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to provide the location within the legislation where the stipulation requiring disability allowance recipients to notify his Department before leaving the State, is detailed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34020/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 581. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of times recipients of disability allowance are selected for reassessment by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34021/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 582. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria used to determine the frequency of disability allowance reassessments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34022/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 583. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection whether all disability allowance applicants are selected for reassessment on a regular basis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34023/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Services (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 584. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the factors that influence the decision to reassess certain disability allowance applicants more frequently than others; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 697. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a foreshore licence application (details supplied) submitted in November 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34356/25]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (24 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: 967. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht whether he intends providing additional funding to Galway County Council to enable it progress a backlog of local improvement scheme applications, on hand since 2021, as a result of the high volume of applications lodged and the limited funding available each year; if he accepts the need for urgent upgrading of roads that are...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I welcome the officials and I thank Mr. O'Sullivan for his presentation. I am still getting used to the Teams system and I not sure whether we got a copy of the opening statement. Did we get a copy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: My apologies.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I am sure I will figure it out as we go along. I thank Mr. O'Sullivan for the copy provided. What role or remit does the social inclusion unit of the Department have other than funding for the provision of Traveller-specific accommodation? Something that used to frustrate me as a member of a local authority, which relates to standard housing projects, was the length of time it took...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I welcome that clarity on the 48 families because my interpretation and experience are similar. This is a small number. It only represents presentations in one quarter. Cumulatively, up to that point, there could be thousands of presentations.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: With regard to the €7 million in current expenditure, €4 million of that is for the caravan scheme. The other €3 million-----

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: Will Mr. O’Sullivan give us some idea of the types of expenditure that €7 million is used for? Where does it go? My local authority has started to develop group schemes for members of the Traveller community within a broader housing scheme. When it comes to the timeframe, Mr. O'Sullivan said that given the nature of the projects, some of them take longer. I would have...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: To come back to Deputy Rice's point on the monitoring of the standards, we could increase current expenditure on that role. While we do not have any monitoring role per se, we are extending money to manage the facilities with the local authorities. Perhaps there is a greater role for the Department in making sure facilities are maintained to a better standard.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I will not take long. The questions arise out of some of the answers we received from the Department officials who were here previously. One of those is the current expenditure of the Department for the maintenance and upkeep of halting sites and the sufficiency around that. There was much commentary beforehand about how some halting sites are in poor condition and could do with more...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: Regarding the emergency scheme, that was not touched on by officials previously. Is there a particular budget allocated to the emergency scheme on an annual basis or do the local authorities have to go and look for additional moneys for that? I have a personal story. During Storm Éowyn, I tried to help a Traveller family with the humanitarian assistance scheme and it was quite...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: I will raise two more things. On the monitoring of the organisation's own Traveller accommodation programmes—--

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (18 Jun 2025)

John Connolly: It has been very interesting to observe the debate and listen to the significant criticism and disapproval on the part of Opposition Members of what the Minister is bringing forward. Those same Members then say they do not intend to vote against the measure. In a very challenging scenario, the Minister has brought balance to a situation in which it is difficult to do so. Primarily, it is...