Results 121-140 of 17,012 for speaker:Paul Kehoe

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming in before us this evening. There has been a frank exchange of views from all members but it has been a very important exchange of views. It has brought us up to date on where the Minister is on a number of topics and issues in his Department.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Current and Future Plans for Further and Higher Education: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (9 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I am going to have to suspend the meeting because we have to go to the Dáil for the vote.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Consular Services (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 23. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Irish embassy in the United Kingdom offers the facility for a landlord of an Irish property to sign a statutory declaration under supervision at the Embassy; if not, if he is aware that this is a service that the Residential Tenancies Board advises is available in their guidance notes; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Rights (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 285. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to pay for bank and public holidays accrued while receiving illness benefit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39747/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (8 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 401. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the proposed tillage incentive scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39734/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 110. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the length of time the 10% requirement for open public space in new developments has been in place; if it has been reduced to 10% over recent years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39570/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 111. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the same rights are attached to local authority gratuity payments to a former councillor as to a public servant's pension and lump sum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39572/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Public Sector Pay (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 112. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the circumstances under which a gratuity payment of an ex-member of a local authority can be confiscated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39574/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (3 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: 131. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an appeal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39475/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I welcome all the guests who have come here. Being the last speaker, I am able to reflect on other people’s questions and the contributions of the witnesses. Mr. Corrigan said this is not about personalities. I differ with him on that. I think this is about personalities. Are there any good people on the HSI board now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I do not like calling Mr. Freyne by that name because I know him, so I will call him Tom if that is okay. As a former Minister of State, I dealt a lot with Tom. He did an absolutely fantastic job in the equitation school and I am very familiar with it. I was very supportive of it when I was Minister of State. Tom, are you the only witness here who was on the board of HSI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Are there any competent people?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I was interested in what you said earlier, Tom, about the larger board of 17 members. If it went back to that make up, with a number of ministerial appointees, do you believe we might be able to fix some of the problems and issues we are chatting about this evening?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: I have a question for each of the affiliates and a one sentence reply will suffice. When is the last time they had any face-to-face interaction with HSI?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: This is the meeting you referred to earlier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Was it a face-to-face meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: Was it on a specific agenda item or general issues? Did it have to do with passports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: When HSI came before the committee to discuss licensing, I had a major go off it because it is totally not professional in the way it does its job in that regard. This is what I hear back from constituents who are involved in the sport horse industry. I am interested in Mr Hanly's exchange with Senator Boyhan. I thought it was a little frosty. I want to tease the matter out a bit more....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: When you say athletes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Horse Sport Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Paul Kehoe: They are the riders.