Results 1-20 of 1,005 for cork speaker:David Stanton

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

David Stanton: ...? Does the Department have access to the registers? Are vacant homes officers now active in each local authority area? If so, are they working exclusively on vacant homes? With regard to Cork County Council, which oversees the biggest county in the country, does the Minister of State accept that Cork needs more vacant homes officers than counties that are far smaller to cover the...

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

David Stanton: ...is that very many more could be identified and put on registers. I am told there are 100 vacant properties in Youghal alone. I am anxious to ensure that they are brought back into use. County Cork needs more than one vacant homes officer. It needs perhaps three, four or five people working on the problem full-time, such is its scale. What kind of liaison is there between the...

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

David Stanton: ..., which is fantastic. It is really good. There are two small issues I will bring to the Minister's attention to get his reaction to them. The first concerns the road infrastructure in east Cork, which is not up to standard. The problem we have now is that with all the fantastic building going on all over the place with houses, thanks to the Minister, his Department and the...

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: ...the Minister for being here this morning to debate this 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,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

David Stanton: I have raised this issue a number of times previously. Up to 10,000 people in east Cork have been subject to boil water notices on and off for almost eight years now, through no fault of their own. This could cost some families up to €500 per annum. Will the Government consider providing some compensation for families towards the cost of this given it is the fault of the State in...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes (28 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...Department plays in the repair and replacement of private housing estate walls and fences damaged by flooding; if he has given consideration to the replacement of private walls and fences in east Cork affected by flood damage in the wake of Storm Babet; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23992/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...assembly of turbines, the carrying out of maintenance so on. At the moment, there is no such place available in the Republic. The Minister of State will be aware that the Doyle Shipping Group in Cork has pulled out of this arrangement. It has a dockyard in Cork and it was going to assemble some of the material needed. There is planning permission in place in respect of the Port of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Industrial Development (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: Am I correct in saying that these demonstrator sites will all be offshore? I am speaking about an onshore centre, such as in the Port of Cork. At present, the latter is not able to operate as an onshore centre. It is not big enough. It needs to expand, and the planning permission is about to run out. The Minister of State might bring that up at the interdepartmental working group the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: 16. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department is proposing the provision of a new University College Cork dental school and hospital facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23271/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: This question relates to the need for a new dental school and hospital facility in Cork. I was disappointed to learn recently that plans for such a facility were dropped last February. There is a major need in this regard. The current facility is old. It is too small, it is overcrowded and it is located on a busy campus. My information is that funding was the issue. I am interested to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response. Will he consider visiting the Cork university dental school and hospital as soon as he can? I am alarmed to discover that funding will be invested in the old building, which has been described as frail, constrained and ill equipped. What is really needed, as I am sure the Minister will agree, is a new building. Planning permission was granted for it,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (23 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...matter and to talk to the university and his colleagues. For a relatively small amount of money, we could do a proper job and get a proper dental school and hospital in the south of Ireland. Not just Cork and UCC, but all of the south of Ireland will benefit from this. In fact, the whole country would. I ask the Minister to treat this as a priority, and when he is in Cork to go out of...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed-Circuit Television Systems (22 May 2024)

David Stanton: 126. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the funding, if any, her Department has provided to Cork County Council to fund community-based CCTV security systems; if so, the amount provided for each respective location; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23203/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Insurance Industry (21 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Following events like Storm Babet in east Cork, is he aware of delays in payouts to consumers and of the stress that can be caused if people must wait for a long period to have their claims met and indeed if they have to jump through all kinds of hoops to make a claim in the first place and have it accepted? Is there anything we can do to make...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: 11 o’clock The situation is extraordinarily serious. Planning in place in the Port of Cork runs out next year and it may be very hard to extend it or get new planning. The rubber is hitting the road very quickly because the port needs funding very soon to expand. Will the Minister of State tell me where that money is going to come from? That is the bottom line here. We...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...investment decisions to the tune of billions of euro. We need clarity here. The Minister of State said we are going to have 30% of the cost, but there still is not clarity. Can the Port of Cork enter into a public private partnership, PPP, with the private sector, if that is possible, to get the funding to carry out the essential work that is needed? Members of the Oireachtas committee...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Renewable Energy Generation (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...my question today has to do with the southern ports. The Minister will be aware that Doyle Shipping Group has pulled out of anything to do with offshore wind and assembly of turbines. The Port of Cork has planning permission in place, which runs out next year. It needs funding to carry on with the development to take part in the construction, assembly and deployment of turbines.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Ports Policy (16 May 2024)

David Stanton: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the supports he has made available to date and plans to make available in the future to the Port of Cork company to enable it to expand and develop its facilities in order that it can become a centre for project marshalling and assembly, as outlined in the recently published policy statement Future Framework for Offshore Renewable...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Work Permits (15 May 2024)

David Stanton: Thank you. I am from Cork.