Results 141-160 of 1,561 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 231. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department has assessed the impact of private landlord exits on overall rental supply and rent levels nationally; if such assessments are published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54478/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 233. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has reviewed the cumulative effect of rent controls, registration costs and regulatory compliance requirements on the viability of small-scale landlords; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54480/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (9 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the plans to introduce any targeted measures or supports aimed at retaining small private landlords in the market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (9 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 275. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide the most recent figures available from the central statistics office or his Department setting out, on a proportional basis, the number of recorded sexual assault offences across the State by the nationality of persons convicted or charged with such offences; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Can we just have one speaker at a time?

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: In fairness, Deputy, take your seat.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The Minister, Deputy McEntee, is next. Deputy Healy-Rae should conclude.

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Thank you. I call the Minister.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: After listening to the Taoiseach and his Government speak about balanced growth and fiscal responsibility, I have to ask whose balance, whose growth and whose responsibility? The ordinary worker and the small business owner feel that this budget has punished their efforts of a good, honest day's work. It is the same for the vintner or pub owner, the shopkeeper in Mallow whose electricity...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: We are not talking about-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: They will be closed by July.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Sorry, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: People are tired of being told they are better off than they were. The truth is they are not. I do not know when was the last time the Taoiseach walked into Lidl, Aldi, Dunnes or the local supermarket to do his shopping, looked into his basket, paid his bill and asked himself, "In the name of God, what did I buy?" That is the reality of people's lives today. I do not know when the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: We talk about fairness. The Government has frozen the tax band, raised the fuel cost and left families carrying the load. The Taoiseach has not answered the question about the toughness for society and the difficulty men and women have rearing children. Does the Taoiseach know what people are most afraid of? They are afraid of the postman's knock. They are afraid of the next bill that is...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: The Taoiseach says it but he is not doing it.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: National Oil Reserves Agency (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the current surplus in the National Oil Reserves Agency levy account; if the levy currently funds the holding of fuel stocks to assist in energy security in the event of a supply disruption as originally intended; if any portion of this surplus is intended to be redirected to the Climate Action Fund in Budget 2026; and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Emergency Planning (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 149. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the measures being taken by his Department, in coordination with local authorities and the ESB, to prepare for the impact of storm Amy, including flood defences, emergency response protocols, and the safeguarding of electricity supply in coastal and rural areas. [54143/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (8 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 287. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 154 of 1 October 2025, if he will provide a copy of the repealed legislation referred in the Parliamentary Question; and if changed legislation went to a vote in Dáil, to provide a list of TDs who voted in favour. [53998/25]

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Every budget tells us who matters, what matters, and who does not matter. This one tells us that far too many Irish people do not matter to the Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil, and Lowryite Administration. Yes there are some good measures in the budget, until we scratch the surface of it. There is a €10 increase for pensioners and social welfare recipients, a €5 increase in fuel...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Cybersecurity Policy (7 Oct 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 48. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to report on the recent multi-agency cyberattack exercise targeting Cork Port; to state whether any vulnerabilities were identified in port or maritime infrastructure; and to outline the actions and resources now being deployed to strengthen cyber-defences at critical infrastructure sites nationwide. [53123/25]