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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response and acknowledge the good work in this area. I agree with him that there is great potential to provide homes for people in buildings that already exist, which is the easiest approach. Is there a register of vacant and derelict properties in each local authority? If so, are they publicly available? Does the Department have access to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: The Minister of State commented that local authorities have access to a register of vacant and derelict properties. Is it being made available to his Department? In other words, is the Department being copied with the information regularly? I understand there is an ongoing process. If the Department is being copied, will the Minister of State make the information available to Deputies?...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Housing Provision (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: I support my colleague and the Minister on the great work is going on. The Minister came to Midleton a little while ago and told us of the local infrastructure housing activation fund, LIHAF. That is now complete and thousands of houses will be built on that particular site in Waterrock, which is fantastic. It is really good. There are two small issues I will bring to the Minister's...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: 61. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of vacant and derelict properties recorded in each local authority area for each respective year from 2019 to 2023 inclusive, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24398/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the supports and incentives he has put in place to encourage vacant properties across the State to be brought back into use; if he is satisfied with the progress being made in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24386/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Vacant Properties (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: I wish to give the Minister of State an opportunity to outline the number of vacant and derelict properties that are recorded in each local authority, from 2019 to 2023, in tabular form. I am interested in whether the number of vacant and derelict properties is being recorded. Is there feedback coming to the Department on that? I also want to find out what we are doing with that information.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for the work he is doing. I support him in possibly obtaining funding from other sources to purchase land and properties. That is crucial. As my colleague said, to get on the first rung of the ladder is a big step. In my part of the country, there is a huge athletics community. Those involved are trying to build an athletics track but cannot get the land to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Sports Funding (30 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I congratulate him on the work he is doing in this area and the changes he is making. I will raise two issues with him. In some difficult cases, part of the blockage is that there is no hall or land available to communities. Clubs do not have the money or wherewithal to purchase land or buildings to do their thing, whatever it is. Has any...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and for the work that he is doing in his Department and that TII and Cork County Council are doing as well. I note the point that it is still part of the National Development Plan 2018-2027 and it is also part of Project Ireland 2040. I also want to point out that a lot of work has been done on this 5 km route. As the Minister said, the preferred...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...with me. When I was elected here for the first time 27 years ago, when I was a lot younger with a lot more hair, the big campaign in east Cork was about opening the railway line to Midleton and I got involved in that campaign. I raised the issue a lot here and I debated it with the then Ministers, Mary O'Rourke and Noel Dempsey, and others. Nearly 15 years ago, on 30 July 2009, it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: I apologise for being late. I was in the Dáil Chamber speaking on road safety, which I understand AI can also play a part in by looking at traffic flows and so forth. I thank our guests for coming in, for their presentations and for the work they are doing. This has been described as the fourth industrial revolution. It is moving so fast, which is an issue with which I intend...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. Meade. I want to address the next question to Mr. McCorry. I thank him for his presentation and the work he is doing here. Mr. McCorry pointed out in his presentation that a quarter of all jobs worldwide will change by 2028, and 60% of employees will need reskilling by 2027, which is not that far away. Mr. McCorry might let us know what kind of reskilling he has in mind there....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank Mr. McCorry. I will address my final question to the representatives from Amazon. They said that businesses of all sizes must have access, and currently AI skews towards the larger companies, 51% versus 31%. What can we do about that? How can we address it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: .... My sense is that AI could assist people with disabilities in a huge way in overcoming the disabilities we put in their way. This is also the case for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and others. I see there is a fund here to help with that and for people to get in there. I am involved in the Open Doors Initiative, which I think Amazon is involved with as well. It focuses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...impression that this AI is bordering on that in some ways; it is extraordinarily powerful. We talked about the AI Act in Europe. That covers Europe. There is also regulation in other OECD states and they are moving on that. However, a lot of this can be accessed through a smartphone, tablet or indeed a PC. The three companies in front of us were founded not so long ago by individuals,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Businesses: Discussion (Resumed) (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: You do not need a government or a state. An individual can access this, in a back garage possibly, and do all kinds of stuff here. I will move on because my time is limited. The issue of super-intelligence, moving beyond human intelligence and even consciousness, has been raised on some occasions because this technology is moving so quickly. I know some people have disagreements about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: 95. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 330 of 21 May 2024, to outline the ownership of the property referred to in her reply as the "former technical school"; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24409/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

David Stanton: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current regulations with respect to students availing of school transport to a school which is their second-nearest school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23858/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: School Transport (28 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...That is one question. Has the Minister looked at a similar situation applying to primary school students? That is my second question. I think I have time left to put a third question. I understand that where a student applies to a school and is told there is no place or is not offered a place but, rather, put on a waiting list, that is a de facto refusal. In such cases, the student...