Results 61-80 of 108 for speaker:Joe Neville

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Joe Neville: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment. As a fellow Kildare man, we are obviously having more success off the pitch than on it but well done to him. Have the Departments of agriculture and local government considered a policy on land use development due to the increased competition for arable lands in areas such as north Kildare - I use my own rural constituency as an example -...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Joe Neville: I welcome the Minister's response. He mentioned a number of topics and the very positive innovation introduced in the previous Dáil, which means there is no need for planning permission for the installation of solar panels on barns and sheds around the country. That has been really positive. Through the TAMS process, a lot of people continue to take advantage of that. That is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (2 Apr 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister again for his response. This Government and in fairness, this country, has always had a very strong agricultural backbone. It is hugely important to our name around the world and that is why we are here on both sides of the House to support it. In this time where renewables are changing and the world is changing around us, we have to take every positive step both from...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Neville: As someone from a Garda family, my father having served in the force and my brother currently serving, I know at first hand the vital role that an effective and well-resourced Garda service plays in keeping our community safe. However, in north Kildare, where towns like Kilcock, Maynooth, Celbridge, Leixlip and Naas are experiencing rapid growth, Garda numbers have not kept pace. Celbridge,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: 15. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department has plans to ensure that more student accommodation in university towns such as Maynooth is made available for students in desperate need of it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14624/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (26 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: I am the first speaker since yesterday's events. It is nice to be able to speak in a proper forum. After what happened yesterday, business continues. The item I will speak about is local to me. It is Ryevale House, which is a period house in Leixlip and in the past two years there have been major issues surrounding it in the locality. I will give a quick timeline to give the Minister of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (26 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I will focus on the planning issues and the ongoing work. This is a beautiful area with a big house and beautiful old trees that were destroyed for no reason. The pictures before and after show a development in a quiet area that has ultimately been destroyed from a conservation perspective. Matters have got out of hand in the area on that...

International Security and International Trade: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: It is a great opportunity to speak again. I must be getting used to being in the Dáil, as this is the third time in two days. The issue we are speaking about is important to the country. The St. Patrick's Day festivities really brought home to us the opportunities we have as a country to discuss and to use our soft power. It was important and potentially very beneficial. As we know,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: We all saw last weekend the worst of toxic masculinity with Conor McGregor being invited to speak on the world stage on our national day of celebration. People like Conor McGregor, the Irish version of Andrew Tate, promote hyperaggressive, misogynistic and often violent forms of masculinity. As a parent and as someone who coaches underage teams, works with local schools and is a director of...

Report of the Housing Commission: Statements (Resumed) (19 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: I am delighted to be able to speak on this extremely important topic. It has been the major national issue for a number of years. As a county councillor in Kildare, I saw that at first hand. I saw it from the point of view of the person who could not get a house, obtain zoning for land or build a house. We have seen planning permissions come in. In some locations, the people have been...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: 1049. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if child benefit payments can be backdated in a case in which a parent (details supplied) did not register their child at birth; and if missed payments can be backdated given the child is now registered. [12050/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (19 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: 1180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of Gardaí stationed in Kilcock, Leixlip, Celbridge, Naas and Maynooth Garda stations in 2008, and as of 11 March 2025, in tabular form. [12101/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training (6 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: 259. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there is a shortage of Home Economics teachers currently; how her Department plans to address this issue as schools have been left without teachers for Home Economics classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10260/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: International Protection (6 Mar 2025)

Joe Neville: 364. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 311 of 20 February 2025, how a decision was made to award the contract in question since demonstrating compliance with planning law was a mandatory requirement of his Department’s own request for tender and as it would have been evident to his Department that this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: I refer to the regular water outages we are having in north Kildare. Following the bursting of a pipe, there has been chronic low water pressure in Leixlip, Celbridge, Maynooth and even in Naas. This is a daily struggle for people living all around Kildare North. The population has exploded but the water infrastructure is buckling. We see it every day. There were even outages on...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: Withdraw that remark.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: 206. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the L58 bus which runs between River Forest and Hazelhatch Station; and his views on why the service has been so unreliable, when so many locals rely on it. [8948/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Rail (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: 207. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will consider building an overflow carpark for the Sallins and Naas train station, which now is causing issues to commuters who cannot find a parking spot near the train station leading to parking in non-designated spaces and blockages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8949/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in a case in which two ASD classrooms for a school have been approved, one earlier than the other, if the work on both classrooms could take place simultaneously in a ten-week period rather than one after another causing six children in need of a classroom, a 20 week wait (details supplied). [8960/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Joe Neville: Is mór an onóir dom é a bheith i Dáil Éireann as a Member of the Thirty-fourth Dáil following in the footsteps of those elected to the First Dáil in 1918. I thank the people of north Kildare who placed their trust in me, the people of Leixlip who supported me as a councillor and my wife, children, family, friends and parents for their unwavering...