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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an application to the Dental Council (details supplied); the reason for the delay in processing same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57441/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to talk about the CAST pilot project in Limerick, which is ten months operational. Much credit goes to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for this. To date, this project has recorded 80 diversions from Mental Health Act detentions as well as incidents of criminal diversion for minor offences. It ensures that people get the right care at the right time in the community. The CAST...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I thank the witnesses. I want to briefly return to Baggot Street hospital. This morning at the first meeting of the Dublin south-east regional health forum, my colleague, Councillor Dermot Lacey, heard from a HSE official who was adamant that Baggot Street hospital had been offered to the Department of housing. I know the LDA came back to my colleague, Deputy Bacik, and said an approach was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I have an additional question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Obviously, we do not have a particularly accurate picture of the level of vacancy that is there at the moment. How do we get that accurate picture? Could the witnesses put a somewhat accurate figure on the number of vacant homes, as they believe them to be, in the country and the percentage vacancy rate? Will the new vacant property tax actually work? Is there any rationale, in the view...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Is there anyone who can tell?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage: Vacancy and Dereliction: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: Do we need to have some sort of legislative mechanism to force the different organisations to share the data?

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if cinemas can be included in the VAT reduction for the hospitality sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56120/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Rebates (16 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 195. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has given consideration to a draught excise rebate proposal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56138/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Budget 2026 (16 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 243. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment further to Budget 2026, if the player welfare grants available to inter-county players will be increased in line with inflation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56133/25]

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: The Government must be worried.

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: It is amazing what the Government can find time for when it wants to. The Government could not set aside time for the Tánaiste to take questions on children on waiting lists for spina bifida, yet it can find time for this motion. It is a complete waste of time designed to shield a clapped out Government from political accountability in the lead-up to a presidential election. I spoke...

Confidence in the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade: Motion (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: ----- in August of this year. I was struck by her strength and her determination to get the answers she needs in order for her and her poor husband to have closure. We need accountability. The public inquiry into this must be wide enough. It must be statutory. It must get the parents the answers and the children the treatment they need. Accountability starts with political...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: They would be targeted.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: We did say "targeted".

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: She is not playing to the Gallery.

Reform of the Defective Concrete Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I would like to thank Deputy Ward for all his work on this motion. It is very technical and I was proud to cosign it on behalf of Labour. I heard the response from the Minister for Housing, Deputy Browne, earlier and to be honest, I was shocked - even by my standards - at how bland and unresponsive his response was to the substantive issues raised in the motion. The Government has...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Building Projects (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: There are five Deputies named on this Topical Issues matter. They have 48 seconds each so I encourage them to rattle it off, please.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 39 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Michael Collins - To discuss flooding in the Bantry, Ballinascarthy and Ballylickey areas. Deputy Michael Cahill - To discuss use of the Pretty Polly site in Killarney, County Kerry, as a centre for training and education. ...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Housing Schemes (15 Oct 2025)

Conor Sheehan: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline the number of housing units realised in the cities of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, by city, that have received tax incentives under the Living Cities initiative since July 2022, all of 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55744/25]