Results 61-80 of 2,450 for speaker:Kevin O'Keeffe

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (28 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 140. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will receive a prosthetic limb in view of the length of time the person has been waiting to date. [49470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Provision (28 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 152. To ask the Minister for Health if additional therapy will be arranged for a child (details supplied). [49521/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (28 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 221. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the breakdown of funding allocated to each category of sport under the sports capital programme 2019; and if a schedule of the total amount applied for in each sports category and the total funding requested for each sports organisation that was unsuccessful will be provided. [49469/19]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic Legislation (28 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 234. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the position regarding the consolidation of road traffic legislation. [49499/19]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: The Government gave a commitment that 40% of foreign direct investment would be allocated to regional areas. In 2002, the Fitzgerald army camp in Fermoy closed and the lands were handed over to IDA Ireland. To this day they have remained unoccupied apart from a few stray horses. Is it possible to get employment into this site? It is a rural part of the country and Fermoy needs some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I monitored the deliberations with the departmental officials on the screen. I welcome them here. I also thank Deputy Noel Rock for acknowledging that it was Deputies MacSharry and Troy who initiated proceedings to push this legislation forward. The TRL report is where I pulled most of my questions from. When I googled them, I learned more about these scooters than I did from the TRL...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: No insurance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Are we in a quandary until the enactment of this new legislation the members are sponsoring?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We are making slow progress. The public consultation submissions are still being assessed. We have no core recommendations on maximum speed requirements. I concur with Deputy MacSharry on the TRL report. It is like match boxes. The report does not even tell us whether they should be used, and have access to footpaths, bicycle lanes or even roadways. We have no idea what way we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I have a question about enforcement and compliance. At one time, gardaí were able to use their discretion in common sense cases. Now, when a garda leaves the barracks, he or she is subject to mandatory checkpoint sign-off by the sergeant in charge. If those gardaí put up a standard checkpoint on St. Stephen's Green to stop everyone, when scooters approach them, do they just look...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: Have there been seizures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: That has been raised several times in the past 24 hours.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I beg to dispute those comments.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I know we have to stick to the agenda for the committee. Following an RTÉ programme a few years ago, I did not see the Minister or any departmental officials contradicting the comments made on television regarding violent car crashes that may have involved serious drink-driving. I did not hear officials saying the Road Traffic Act was solid enough. To this day, I get complaints from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: That is the point I have been making for three years. The Road Traffic Act 1961 has been amended repeatedly over the past 50 years and has now been left open to question within the judicial system, from the District Court up to the High Court. I know of specific cases of people getting off charges in my own back yard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Personal Powered Transportation: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: We just go ahead and penalise the ordinary person further, instead of consolidating road traffic legislation and working from there.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Provision (26 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 261. To ask the Minister for Health if an application for additional home help hours for a person (details supplied) will be expedited in view of the medical condition of the person. [48544/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Guardian's Payment (26 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: 486. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if arrears of payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [48920/19]

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: I support my colleague. It is 12 months since we initiated this tax increase. As the Department will be aware, bookmakers are closing office in small towns and so on in rural Ireland. It is hard enough to lose post offices and other facilities in our towns and villages but it is also hard when one sees towns being hit with the closure of other businesses and premises. These businesses...

Finance Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (20 Nov 2019)

Kevin O'Keeffe: With regard to the closure of bookmakers and not seeing an immediate effect, the Minister will be aware that when a business is going down, it does not just shut overnight. It tries to pull through the storm and perhaps can leave it too late to close down and end up in a worse position. Hopefully, that is not happening. Mention has been made here about behavioural change, behavioural...