Results 61-80 of 113 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (6 Mar 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE nursing staff working in the UHL accident and emergency department Dooradoyle; the number of vacant nursing posts; when these posts will be filled, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10322/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Departmental Inquiries (4 Mar 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 332. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will examine the recent legal action threatened by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9042/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Data (4 Mar 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 431. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list all the agencies and organisations that he has met with in his first thirty days in office, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9041/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Legislative Reviews (4 Mar 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 464. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection how he intends to progress the measures contained in the Industrial Relations (Provision in respect of Pension Entitlements of Retired Workers) Bill 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9177/25]

Housing Commission Report: Statements (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I very much welcome this debate, which is long overdue. I also welcome the Deputy Browne to his new role as Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I wish him well. We should have had this debate months ago, before the election. The Housing Commission's report is as clear as it is stark in relation to the Government's failure on housing. It is abundantly clear that we do...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 337. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Government intends to provide increased funding for animal welfare groups to provide them with the resources to intervene and provide care in cases of animal cruelty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8700/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 338. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he intends to strengthen the enforcement of existing animal protection laws to ensure real consequences for perpetrators of animal cruelty in cases of neglect and abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8701/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will introduce stricter regulations on animal ownership, including mandatory microchipping and licensing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8702/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 340. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will establish a Government-funded veterinary services and an education programme to promote responsible animal care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (27 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 341. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will outline his engagement and that of his Department with An Garda Síochána in relation to animal cruelty in Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8704/25]

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (26 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank Deputy Coppinger and her group for bringing forward this important motion. I welcome the survivors are in the Public Gallery. They should not need to come here to see this issue addressed. I pay particular tribute to Natasha O'Brien, one of my constituents, for her advocacy in relation to this work. As a man, I am very conscious of the fact that we are the problem because we...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and I welcome it. The community needs complete certainty as to when exactly this post will be filled because there has been a lack of faith here because the post has been vacant, as I have outlined, for more than three years. It is very clear that the HSE's pay and numbers strategy is not working. Officials in the HSE have told me that they were...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Services (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I add my congratulations to the concerto of congratulations. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for coming to the House this evening. I am sorry to subject the Minister of State to this at this ungodly hour but let it never be said that she does not work hard. I rise tonight to raise the issue of the lack of a consistent and permanent full-time speech and language therapist,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Vacant Properties (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 178. To ask the Taoiseach the progress made by the Central Statistics Office in developing an indicator of vacant properties in the country; if the ESB has provided them with consumption data; the reason the number of vacant properties are not being accurately centrally tracked; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7652/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 520. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions that will be taken by Government and local authorities to ensure the housing completion targets of 41,000 by the end of 2026 and up to 60,000 per year by 2029 and 2030 will be reached; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7643/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 521. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status and locations of the over 10,000 applications under the vacant homes renovation scheme; the reason there were only 867 applications in 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7644/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 529. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant home refurbishment applications received and drawn down in 2024, broken down by local authority, in tabular form; the total spend on this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7653/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: State Bodies (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 522. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the status of the creation of the Building Standards Regulatory Authority; the role and powers of the authority; if it will be part of An Bord Pleanála; when the legislation will be scheduled for debate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7645/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 523. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of people who have taken up a cost rental equity loan, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7646/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Homeless Persons Supports (25 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 524. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the underspend of €120 million in Exchequer spending on homelessness in 2024 after the supplementary budget increase of €143 million; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7647/25]