Results 101-120 of 146 for speaker:Conor Sheehan

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]

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

Conor Sheehan: 525. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the work and remit of the central housing supply unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7648/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 526. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the progress made by the local authority stock management policy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7649/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 527. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason most of the projects approved under the local infrastructure housing activation fund have not been delivered; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7650/25]

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

Conor Sheehan: 528. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for the delay in the completion of projects under the local authority mortgages and that local infrastructure housing activation fund as evidenced by only 15 of 24 projects being completed since 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7651/25]

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. It is very disappointing, yet again, that we do not have even a Minister of State from the Department of housing. I tabled a housing motion in the Dáil last week with my Labour Party colleagues. The Minister for housing was, unfortunately, not available last week and did not even have the courtesy to contact me or my colleague, Deputy...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (19 Feb 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 116. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant property refurbishment grants drawn down in 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6486/25]