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Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 3: Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 4: Accountability of the Central Funding of Local Authorities. (26 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: Did it merit the situation? Did it merit it? It is a miracle nobody is dead.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Risk Management (26 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 53. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to provide details of the current allocation for flood defence schemes for 2023 and 2024; if he is considering an emergency increase due to recent devastating floods; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47035/23]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 75. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of TAMS grants that remain outstanding; to outline the timeline for these to be looked at; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47036/23]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (24 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: I support Deputy Stanton. We have worked in tandem on having a one-stop shop service to help households and businesses that have been flooded. We need the Department of Social Protection to work with the local authorities and other State agencies, which will be needed to get houses back up and running. I thank the emergency services, volunteers and community around east Cork. What they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Flood Risk Management (24 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: I join my constituency colleague, Deputy Stanton, and my neighbour, Deputy O’Sullivan, in their words on the devastation in east Cork and the Minister of State’s area of west Waterford. It caused hundreds of millions worth of damage. We have a hospital and a Garda station destroyed. Hundreds of homes are flooded. Midleton Main Street is devastated. In Mogeely, Killeagh, my...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Television Licence Fee (19 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 22. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of licence fees paid to date in 2023; how does that compare year on year with 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45802/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 45. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will outline the number of sport capital and equipment grant applications per county, in tabular form, spitting them into capital and equipment applications; if she will outline the applications per sport (i.e., GAA/soccer/rugby etc.); when she forecasts that her Department will have these assessed by; if there will be a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (19 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 30 March 2023, if he will provide an update on the position regarding Ireland's application to join the CERN programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45803/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 156. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider in fast-tracking SOLAS apprentice applications to shorten the backlog of apprentices in college; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45804/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (17 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the timeline for the publication of the school transport review; if a new system will be implemented by her Department ahead of the 2024/2025 school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45098/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when schools (details supplied) will be opened upon building works being completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45097/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 247. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the building of an extension at a school (details supplied); the timeline for this work to be started and finished; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45101/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Broadband Plan (11 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a primary school (details supplied) is still awaiting broadband connection; the timeline for when the matter will be completed; if the matter can be escalated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44398/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Services (10 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: 267. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the position regarding the Rural Water Working Group; when it is expected that their recommendations in respect of measures for inclusion for funding under the upcoming multi-annual programme will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43619/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: The issue I want to raise concerns our national development plan, NDP, and the road budget funding. I have been raising continuously the issue of the implementation of the existing NDP that was revised by the Government under one of the first acts of the programme of Government. Within the NDP, I am particularly concerned about the lack of the appointment of a design consultant for the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: The SouthDoc service in my area spans the five Dáil constituencies of County Cork and the whole administrative area of County Kerry. We have seen significant challenges with SouthDoc services and they have come down to doctor shortages. Whistleblowers in SouthDoc have described problems relating to doctors not wanting to take shifts over weekends that may be in some way awkward. There...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: I come from a family of healthcare workers. My siblings are involved in healthcare and pharmacy and one is studying medicine at the moment. I am very aware, therefore, of the importance of community-based healthcare and how critical it is for people. In the past eight years, we have seen a very steep decline in GP services in my local community. It started to erupt post 2016, when stories...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: I might just make one further point, which I also made to the Secretary General of the Department of Health. It relates to the recruitment of GPs. We understand, from previous meetings of the Committee of Public Accounts and questions I put to Mr. Watt, that there was a 1,000-GP deficit in Ireland, and that the rate of retirement just about fell underneath the rate of recruitment at the...

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: The average age is in the late 50s at present. Is that correct?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive: Financial Statements 2023 (5 Oct 2023)

James O'Connor: That is extremely alarming.