Results 1-20 of 25 for cork speaker:Martin Heydon

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (28 Feb 2024)

Martin Heydon: ...are connected to each other. In support of this, during the period between 2020 and 2024, approximately €366 million in Exchequer capital funding was allocated for the national road network in County Cork, which Deputy Sherlock represents. This has resulted in many improvements to the network, as demonstrated by the Dunkettle interchange project, which was recently opened....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Oct 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...across the sector. The Government is committed to the provision of additional respite as a key priority. This is reflected in the additional funds provided in successive budgets in recent years. A Cork regional children’s respite forum was established in 2022. The forum manages referrals and respite service provision in the Cork area. Children up to the age of 18 years with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (28 Sep 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...of divisions from 28 to 21. Roll out of the model is underway, as the Deputy outlined in his contribution, with seven of the 21 divisions rolled out so far. The model is fully commenced in Dublin South Central, Cork city, Kerry, Galway, Limerick and Mayo-Roscommon-Longford, which were rolled out in 2022, and Clare-Tipperary, which was rolled out in August 2023. As we increase...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: I thank Senator Lombard. I know this is an issue that is particularly close to his heart which I have heard him raise and articulate on a number of occasions, particularly how much it impacts the Cork and Kerry area, the region he is from. It is timely that we get to discuss this here today and shine a light on it. The programme for government commits to improving all aspects of CAMHS in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (1 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...necessary regarding CAMHS. I take the Senator’s point on board. Good practice has made serious inroads into waiting lists. We need to take that good practice and make sure it is implemented in Cork and Kerry. I thank Senator Lombard for raising this very important issue today.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Medicinal Products (1 Jun 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...of the six planned clinics are currently open and operational at hospital sites around Ireland. There are three clinics in Dublin, one in Galway and one in Tipperary. The sixth clinic, located in Cork, is due to open later in 2023. These clinics treat complex symptoms of menopause. In relation to the costs for HRT medications within the public system mentioned by the Senator, the onus...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Policy (25 May 2023)

Martin Heydon: The Deputy is dead right. I do not think it was a surprise for him when he saw the three main contributors to the stress. In any of his dealings with constituents, with farmers down in Cork or at the farmers' meetings that I and my ministerial colleagues have, the same points keep coming up. Farmers feel blamed when the debate about the environment comes up. As the Deputy says, farmers...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Heydon: ...without town council status. Municipal districts were also designed to improve integration between towns and hinterlands. Municipal districts were not introduced in the four Dublin local authorities or for Cork or Galway city councils, because the new system replaced town councils and aimed to extend sub-county governance to rural areas. Introducing this system in urban local authorities...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authorities (22 Feb 2023)

Martin Heydon: I appreciate the points the Senator made and I accept his frustration in that regard. In each of the Dublin local authorities and on Cork and Galway city councils, where area committees exist, decisions can be made in local areas but, as he pointed out, those decisions have to then be brought forward to the council for further discussion. He made his point well on subsidiarity. We know...

Emissions in the Transport Sector Report: Motion (16 Jun 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...the country. Other key sustainable transport projects, beyond the headline projects of BusConnects, DART+ and Metrolink that colleagues will be aware of, include, for example, significant improvements to the Cork area commuter rail programme. This is a €185 million investment in Cork’s rail infrastructure to enable the later electrification of the network. On a national...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (18 May 2022)

Martin Heydon: Does everyone want to leave Cork?

Seanad: Support to Ukraine: Motion (30 Mar 2022)

Martin Heydon: ...of Rural and Community Development, co-ordinated by Volunteer Ireland and volunteer centres, and supported by the local authority in each area. The programme is initially running in counties Cork, Donegal, Dublin, Galway, Louth, Meath and Wicklow, and roll-out is due this year in ten further counties. The Department of Health and the HSE have put in place a streamlined medical card...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (18 Nov 2021)

Martin Heydon: ...email address for GPs, which I will furnish to the Senator.Claims that can be validated by the primary care reimbursement service as being in line with the GP contract will be paid. In the meantime, Cork Kerry Community Healthcare has recently been made aware of the non-payment of claims to GPs who are providing a Saturday morning service outside the SouthDoc group. It is looking into...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: General Practitioner Services (18 Nov 2021)

Martin Heydon: I thank the Senator for raising this important issue and one which, I know from my discussions with him, is of major concern to him and his constituents in Cork. Under the general medical services, GMS, contract, GPs must be available to provide services in their practice premises or by way of domiciliary visits, as appropriate, for their medical card and GP visit card patients for 40 hours...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Animal Diseases (11 Nov 2021)

Martin Heydon: ...there are no veterinary vacancies but there are three technical vacancies. There are no administrative vacancies, so the total vacancies in Waterford RVO is three. However, I wish to include the Cork North RVO which covers a significant portion of west Waterford and which Senator Cummins referred to specifically. In regard to Cork North RVO there are no veterinary vacancies but there...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Agri-Strategy 2025 (8 Dec 2020)

Martin Heydon: ...may have. For instance, the €20 million Glanbia plant in Lisheen is taking what was a waste product and identifying potential out of it. The European Innovation Partnership, EIP, model in west Cork is making a range of uses out of the grass-fed dairy produce system, with really innovative outcomes. All of that is feeding into what our new research programme will look like, and we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Nov 2020)

Martin Heydon: ...EU funding, of a biorefinery for dairy waste in Lisheen, County Tipperary, and the development of a marine biorefinery in County Monaghan. I mentioned the carbon-neutral demonstration farm in Cork. My Department supports the small-scale grass biorefinery demonstration project in Cork, which makes use of grass in a number of new ways. It is an innovation partnership initiative that is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Industry (3 Nov 2020)

Martin Heydon: ...it. If the Deputy looks at some of the initiatives we have been involved with in the early stages, there is a development of a carbon-neutral demonstration farm in Shinagh dairy farm in County Cork that has found four different values for what was normally growing-grass for dairy cows. There are now four different values to that. There is no reason wool cannot be the same. If the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

Martin Heydon: I thank the Minister for the response. Doubling the number of train tracks from two to four through Newbridge and onto Kildare town on the Dublin-Cork line on the makes eminent sense. Planning for that accordingly and ensuring it is a priority makes eminent sense as we prepare for future demand. Reopening the Phoenix Park tunnel has resulted in considerable benefits for commuters on the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (24 Oct 2018)

Martin Heydon: ...rail services for Kildare citizens. The Kildare route project aims to contribute to meeting future demand for rail transport by increasing the capacity and frequency of commuter trains on the Cork-Dublin railway line. Phase 1 of the project has been completed from Heuston Station to Hazelhatch. Phase 2 is to upgrade the track to four lanes as far as Kildare town, covering Sallins,...