Results 1-20 of 329 for cork speaker:Denis Naughten

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on the Social Welfare System: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...and looks forward to seeing the results of this review and collaborating with the Department on the system to ensure it is equitable for all. I welcome the witnesses: from University College Cork, Dr. Fiona Dukelow and Dr. Tom Boland; from Trinity College Dublin, Dr. Joe Whelan; and from South East Technological University, Dr. Ray Griffin. They are all very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: Does Mr. O'Mahony wish to come back on that? He does not have to admit that he is from Cork either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...on the islands with representatives of Comharchumann Fuinnimh Oileáin Árann Teoranta, Aran Islands Energy Co-operative; housing and sustaining communities on offshore islands with academics from University College Cork's school of applied of social sciences and representatives of the island communities, namely, Comhar na nOileán and Comhdháil Oileáin na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: ..., which is housing and sustaining communities on our offshore islands. I welcome to the meeting today one of the authors of the new report on this topic, Dr. Conor Cashman, from University College Cork's school of applied social science. The report was commissioned by Comhar na nÓileán. We are joined this morning by Máire Uí Mhaoláin, CEO of Comhar na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Operation and Effect of National and Local Policy on Island Communities: Discussion (22 Sep 2023)

Denis Naughten: Taking on from that, does Dr. Cashman think it would be possible for University College Cork to take one of the islands with a large dereliction rate where there has not been an uptake of the Croí Cónaithe scheme to see how big an issue title is, or what the issues are? If we can crack this nut on our islands, we can also crack this nut in other rural communities. It would be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (28 Jun 2023)

Denis Naughten: Will Mr. John Walsh update the committee on the second iteration of the University College Cork, UCC, housing report? The committee would be very anxious to receive a copy of the report and a briefing on it as soon as it is complete. Mr. John Walsh is next. The final contributor will be Ms Tuuli Rantala, who will have the last word.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...from here, I note the evidence we have heard today, pointing out that we have an estimated 337,000 people who cannot afford to heat their homes adequately. We are talking about the population of Cork city, Limerick city, Galway city and Dún Laoghaire saying they cannot afford to keep their homes warm at the moment. It is a phenomenal number of people. It is an issue that needs to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Creating Our Future Report: Science Foundation Ireland (3 May 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...is getting contractors. Much of the deficit is in rural communities more so than in urban communities, although there are plenty of contractors located in rural areas who travel to Dublin, Galway and Cork to get employment, while there is all this potential employment locally for them. They could be servicing not only their own community but regions across the country. I thank the...

Future of Regional Pre-Hospital Emergency Care: Motion [Private Members] (1 Mar 2023)

Denis Naughten: ...to improving retention of personnel; and — there is no ready supply of paramedics in Ireland, nor indeed in the international setting, therefore the NAS for the most part must educate its workforce in its own college, and currently the NAS delivers a BSc (Honours) Paramedic Programme and an MSc Specialist Paramedic Programme in affiliation with the School of Medicine in University...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (23 Feb 2023)

Denis Naughten: Although IDA Ireland is achieving its target of 50% of its jobs being outside Dublin, we all know the big difficulty is revealed if you take the likes of Cork and Galway, the latter of which is in my region and that of the Minister of State, out of those figures. The figures are very skewed outside of the major cities. The Minister of State mentioned the town of Roscommon, which has not...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...Vincent's University Hospital Dublin, as Deputy Brady said. While those waiting the longest after a referral to St. Vincent's hospital are those in Tallaght, who are waiting for 26 weeks after referral, in Cork University Hospital the wait is 20 weeks and the wait in University Hospital Galway is 16 weeks after referral. Long Covid is costing at least €500 million in lost work...

Energy Security: Statements (27 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...local community and go towards a local environmental benefit fund. The Government needs to acquire, through Gas Networks Ireland, a floating liquefied natural gas, LNG, terminal to be located either in Cork Harbour or the Shannon Estuary. It would be ensured that the sourcing of fracked gas would be banned for that facility. It should use compressed LNG that can be imported from other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Flooding of Lough Funshinagh: Lough Funshinagh Group (26 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ..., cross-agency task force to address the emergency climate adaptation measures to protect homes across this country. It is this community we are talking about today, but we already saw last week in Galway, Cork and locations here in Dublin that this issue is going to arrive at someone else's door again and we must get ahead of it. In fairness, when I put this specific proposal to the...

Sex Offenders (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (19 Oct 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...on an earlier amendment, which concerned the issue of a high-risk sex offender who is released from prison and is residing in some rural part of the west being able to go to Wexford, Waterford or Cork, present there and he or she will have complied with the legislation. Having only three days for a member of An Garda Síochána in the west to go through the volume of...

Special Educational Needs School Places: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jun 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...with in activities that are relevant and meaningful to them. I note there are 25 special classes in mainstream schools for children with multiple disabilities throughout the country. There are two in Clare, five in Cork, two in Donegal, four in Galway, eight in Kerry, one in Louth and three in Mayo. Not one has been sanctioned for County Roscommon. Despite the fact that the board of...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Apr 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...this project in Ireland to develop our offshore renewable energy then we can be to the fore, not just in Europe but globally, in offshore wind technology. Earlier this week the German ambassador went to Cork to meet the researchers involved in this and to meet some of the businesses investing in this. Germany sees the huge opportunity we have in Ireland and it is about time that we took...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (31 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...to reduce costs here. However, we have no way of storing natural gas in the short term. We cannot capitalise on this Council decision, even though we have two potential facilities off the Cork coast, namely, the decommissioned facilities in Kinsale and the Seven Heads gas fields. This is because Ireland has failed to plan for such an eventuality. The Minister's Department has been...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: ...possibility of block-purchasing natural gas, which has the potential to reduce our electricity costs. However, we have no way of storing the gas, even though we have two potential facilities off the Cork coast — the decommissioned Kinsale and Seven Heads gas fields. When I was Minister, I asked my Department to assess the potential of these wells for carbon capture and storage and...

Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Denis Naughten: .... It has not led to a reduction in the supply of loans. A report on interest rate restrictions on credit for low-income borrowers by the Centre for Co-operative Studies in University College Cork says: [T]here is no empirical and undisputed evidence that interest rate restrictions result in an increase in illegal moneylending. In the UK, it was feared that the price caps on payday...