Results 161-180 of 962 for speaker:Francis Noel Duffy

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (7 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 253. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 332 of 14 December 2023, for an update on the Department's examination of the creation of a system of holding rental deposits, which was meant to be concluded in Q3 of 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5078/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (7 Feb 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 278. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he is aware of possible instances where the Sustainable Residential and Compact Settlements Guidelines for Planning Authorities policy may be in conflict for local authority development plans; if there are such conflicts, how can they be resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5491/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (30 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 365. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 978 of 17 January 2024, the definition of qualified children; the definition of dependant children eligible for the fuel allowance; if there is an age limit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3731/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 330. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government how a developer (details supplied) was able to bulk buy homes, despite Section 28 of Guidelines for Planning Authorities “Regulation of Commercial Institutional Investment in Housing” which prevents bulk buying homes; the steps he will take to prevent the same from happening again in the future; and if he will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I thank Mr. Coleman and his team for attending. I have been listening upstairs. It has been a very interesting and open discussion. I thank them for that. I have a few short questions, one of which relates to what was said earlier. Are any of the units that have been completed to date, including social housing and cost-rental units, vacant?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: I assume that when they come on the market, they are taken up pretty quickly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: Essentially, there are none vacant. Once they are ready, they are occupied. That is great. I thank Mr. Coleman. I know things have changed in the LDA. When I met Mr. Coleman four years ago, there was a remit of 450,000 units over 20 years. That changed because of off-balance-sheet financing. It went back to 400,000 units over 20 years. Is that still the remit, or might the agency go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is great. From what Mr. Coleman just said, it is fair to say the LDA will exceed those targets.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: My final question is also a short one. Last year, Mr. Coleman noted that the LDA would be procuring 100% public housing on all the public lands it is working on and that 75% of the units would be cost rental and the remaining would be social. Is this still the objective?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: It is still around that 75%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Affordable Homes, Public Lands, Strategic Planning and Projects: Land Development Agency (23 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: That is great.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (17 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 220. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be any requirements for lighting on personally powered transporters in the Road Traffic and Roads Act 2023 regulations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57160/23]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (17 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 702. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if the two locations for the National Famine Commemoration Day have been set that is, the Leinster location and twinning location in May 2024; if so, the exact date of these occasions; if, in future, it is possible to give a year’s notice to allow the Irish people home and abroad, the community and schools and ambassadors...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (17 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 830. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department's plans for the vacant HSE-owned former St Finan's Psychiatric Hospital in Killarney, Kerry; if it will be used for the development of affordable homes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1671/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Francis Noel Duffy: 978. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection for clarity around eligibility of fuel allowance for over 70s if they still have children over 18 years living with them due to the housing crisis; and if discretion will be exercised to allow receipt of allowance in these cases. [1696/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 Dec 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: I welcome the Government's opening of the interim scheme for the full funding of the interim measures to provide fire safety in apartments and duplexes. This is an issue I have raised since the early days of my election to this Chamber. The remediation scheme, which includes water ingress and structural damage, will be funded under a statutory scheme that requires legislation. Can the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Energy Policy (13 Dec 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 16. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if there are any plans for the Government to formally endorse the call for a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55668/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (13 Dec 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport what laws are currently in place to govern the use of e-scooters and electric bikes, including any requirements for high-visibility clothing, reflectors or lights and protective head gear; whether it is permissible for them to use footpaths and-or cycle paths; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55664/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (6 Dec 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 85. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 255 of 26 September 2023, the updates on the claim lodged by an organisation (details supplied) in regard to recognising incremental credit for private post primary teaching service outside the EU; the advice given by her Department to the organisation on this matter; if other relevant updates in relation...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Diplomatic Representation (5 Dec 2023)

Francis Noel Duffy: 119. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if it is the intention of the Government to reopen our representative office in Taipei, which closed in 2012 because of austerity measures, in order to encourage greater trade and cultural links to the region. [53388/23]