Results 61-80 of 498 for speaker:Joe Cooney

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wind Energy Guidelines (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 131. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will outline when the new wind energy development guidelines will be published; and if the inclusion of ISO, or equivalent, standards for community engagement practices will form part of those guidelines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53422/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 50. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government given the significant challenge that coastal community members face in competing for housing within their own communities due to national and international demand for second and/or holiday homes, if he will consider developing a scheme to provide affordable long-term State owned rental properties for coastal community members...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: I welcome the Commissioner. It is great to have him here. Deputy Aird put most of the questions to him. I will not delay the Commissioner as I want to give him time to respond. What is making my blood boil is hearing and seeing what is happening in Gaza. Women have been on the phone to me crying and asking whether there is anything we can do to stop supporting Israel in whatever way we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: I welcome the Commissioner. It is great to have him here. Deputy Aird put most of the questions to him. I will not delay the Commissioner as I want to give him time to respond. What is making my blood boil is hearing and seeing what is happening in Gaza. Women have been on the phone to me crying and asking whether there is anything we can do to stop supporting Israel in whatever way we...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 40. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the progress of the national broadband plan in Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52212/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 57. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of the capital funding programmes or grants from his Department or any body for which he has responsibility for which sporting organisations are eligible to apply; the details of funding programmes or grants currently open or the date when a subsequent prospective funding programme or grant is scheduled to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 96. To ask the Minister for Health the progress on increasing the number of GPs and GP practices across the country; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52210/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: 114. To ask the Minister for Health the number of pharmacies participating in the HRT scheme, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52209/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee today. Their hearts are in the right place, fighting for farmers who are under severe pressure. I ask them to comment on a line in the opening presentation in order to address how we got into this crisis. The opening statement said the sector is in a crisis at the present time and farmers' morale is at an all-time low. It is awful...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: What do we need to do here today to see what we can do for the tillage farmers going forward?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is a sad day when someone has to go out to work at a loss in this present day.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the witnesses for coming in. As far as I can tell from listening today, we seem to have a crisis in tillage farming. Under the climate action plan, the intention was to increase the tillage area to 350,000 ha by 2025. Has that been achieved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: We are still behind the target. We are hoping to increase it to 400,000 ha by 2030.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: Mr. Carter of the Irish Grain Growers Group earlier told the committee that "poor policy support has led to long-term decline" in tillage farming. Is that true or false?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is a concern. The issue of costs was also raised. Costs are crazy. Unfortunately, tillage farmers are not able to make a living from their tillage farms because of the costs and, of course, the criteria. Could anything be simplified to try to encourage people to stay in tillage farming rather than getting out of it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: More than 5 million tonnes of grain were imported in 2024. That is an awful amount of grain to be importing. We could only provide 1.5 million or 2 million tonnes ourselves in 2024. Could something be included there to get a balance and allow us to provide more in our country rather than importing? Would that be possible or would it be far cheaper to export than to provide funding to grow...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Cooney: It is important to try to encourage farmers to stay in tillage farming if at all possible. If not, tillage farming will die in this country. I thank the witnesses for their time.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Cooney: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if public consultation is carried out in identifying local link routes or routes under the Connecting Ireland plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51614/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Cooney: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of passenger journeys on the western rail corridor each year since 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51613/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Policy (25 Sep 2025)

Joe Cooney: 27. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if there are statistics relating to the usage of the newly launched National Enterprise Hub; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50460/25]