Results 1-20 of 147 for speaker:Joe Cooney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I welcome the witnesses. I have read the report and the recommendations with interest. I agree with Mr. O’Flynn that we have a serious crisis on our hands. While a lot of issues need to be sorted to get out of the emergency we are in, I wish to focus on one. Other members brought up different issues but the one I wish to focus on is intensifying reuse and retrofitting of vacant and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Report of Housing Commission: Housing Commission (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: I would like to come back in on a point made regarding the issue I raised. Mr. O'Connor made a good point that funding should be put in place for people to carry out a survey on the costing of doing up old derelict and vacant houses. I fully agree. In fairness to Mr. O'Flynn, he also mentioned looking at the grant. There is a big difference between doing up a four-bedroom, two-storey...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 365. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications received under the light duty vehicle initiative operated by zero emission vehicles and delivered by Transport Infrastructure Ireland, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30417/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 756. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the legislation to underpin the defects remediation schemes will be set before the Oireachtas Housing Committee for Pre-Legislative Scrutiny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29221/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Inquiries (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 757. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects the full legislative process on the Apartment and Duplex Defects Remediation Bill will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29222/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 755. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the proposed amendments to the current enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme will be enacted; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29220/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 759. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government , if he will confirm that the ongoing National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) review and its findings of the IS465 standard relating to deleterious materials will form part of the proposed amendment to the Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Act 2022; if so, the mechanisms that...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 758. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the current enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme and proposed amendment, homeowners/applicants who may have missed the appeal timeline and have not yet commenced works have the option of withdrawing their application; and making a re-application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29223/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 760. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of appeals awaiting decision under the current enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; the length of time taken for appeals to be decided to date, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29225/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Defective Building Materials (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 761. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if, given the length of time the appeals process is taking, a homeowner/applicant who has made an appeal under the current enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme can progress with works while that appeal is underway; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29226/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 762. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to put in place a defective concrete blocks grant scheme for social housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29227/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 1375. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultants in emergency medicine based at the Mater University Hospital, Tallaght University Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, St. James’s Hospital, St. Vincent’s Hospital, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Waterford, in the years of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (10 Jun 2025)

Joe Cooney: 1419. To ask the Minister for Health if projects (details supplied) in University Hospital Limerick, as outlined in the HSE Capital Plan 2025, will be completed and fully operational in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29596/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 48. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will outline the revenue districts responsible for oversight of the Shannon estuary area, by quarter and by vessel, from 1 January 2024 to date; the number of days each Revenue maritime unit patrol vessel did not put to sea due to crewing or operational constraints; the number of hours and days of logged sea time, by month and by vessel, for the same...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 345. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 20 May 2025, if she will outline when the outcomes of the now completed review into the upper age limit of drivers, as it relates to larger vehicles-school buses, will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Agreements (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 456. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department still retain the six-month business target for processing join family visas where the sponsoring family member is an Irish citizen, as outlined in the policy document on family reunification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 457. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality for an update on the Join Family visa application by a person (details supplied) as the six-month target has been exceeded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 458. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the average and median time for a join family visa to be processed where a non-EU citizen is joining their Irish citizen spouse for each visa office, Dublin, Abuja, Beijing, London, Moscow, Ankara, Abu Dhabi and New Delhi; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Schemes (29 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: 727. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if he will consider providing funding for the local improvement scheme on a multi annual basis, to ensure local authorities who administer the scheme can deliver them in a more efficient and cost-effective manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28490/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Engagement with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (28 May 2025)

Joe Cooney: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming today and for the presentation at the start of the meeting. I use the word "simplify" a lot. We are trying to encourage young people to get involved in farming, but with the way things are going at the moment with the different schemes and the red tape and criteria around them, it is not encouraging them. We need to look at that going...