Results 1-13 of 13 for cork speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...Ireland 2040. I acknowledge that there was record capital spending. A fair share of Exchequer spending should be pro rataper citizen. However, the majority of funding followed Cabinet power to the constituencies of Dublin and Cork. For example, the Dublin metropolitan population is circa 27% of the national population and receives between 48% and 64% of total national capital spend....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Services (5 Oct 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...supplied); if he has plans to increase the number of tracks from two to four on the Malahide to Connolly Station stretch of the line, similar to the improvement that has been carried out on the Cork line between Heuston Station and Hazelhatch; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43236/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Services (5 Oct 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...details are provided; if he has plans to increase the number of tracks from two to four on the Malahide to Connolly stretch of the line, similar to the improvement that has been carried out on the Cork line between Heuston Station and Hazelhatch; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (23 Mar 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...retirement and is an absolute disgrace. In the past few months, 51 recruits were in Gormanston Camp training to become soldiers but only 12 passed out. A number of them had to be transferred from Cork to make up the 51 and still only 12 passed out. In Dublin, two barracks had to be amalgamated to try to get recruits to pass out. Gormanston training camp cannot even be opened at the...

National Ambulance Service: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...and steps need to be taken to protect lives. We need to implement solutions within our entire healthcare system rather than put a plaster over one issue only for another to explode. For example, Cork University Hospital has dramatically improved ambulance turnaround times due to a strategy whereby, if the acute phase of care – initial diagnosis and management, stabilisation and...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2023)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...support its progress on Second Stage. Regrettably, already this year, we have seen a number of serious assaults on gardaí. An officer was assaulted at an anti-asylum seeker protest in County Cork on 19 January. A traffic garda had part of his finger bitten off in a vicious attack in Ballymun on Friday, 20 January. Let us not forget the arson attacks on the homes of a Dundalk garda...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Jan 2022)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...died and 214 were injured. The Stardust fire is embedded in the memories not only of the people of Dublin, but the collective memory of the nation. There was no one untouched by the fire, from Cork to Donegal, from Sligo to Louth. Everyone knew someone who was at the Stardust nightclub on that terrible Valentine’s night in 1981. It is incredible that 41 years on from the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 May 2021)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...those businesses that have already suffered greatly as a result of the lockdown and which now face another threat to their livelihood as a direct result of this legislation. The Taoiseach is from Cork and I remember years ago people from his county, as well as Limerick, Dublin and Galway going in their busloads to Northern Ireland in order to buy alcohol. Such people do not just buy...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2019)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...some of the Garda cars in Dundalk caused by high mileage and so on. Where will the €11 million be spent? The Minister mentioned the front line. Will most of it be spent in the Border areas, Dublin, Cork or elsewhere? Will many extra vehicles be provided and will many vehicles be taken off the road? Will this money be used to replace old vehicles or to pay for additional...

UK Withdrawal from the EU: Statements (Resumed) (27 Sep 2017)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...to put on record the good work done by IDA Ireland in attracting foreign direct investment to the region. Dundalk has had more foreign direct investment over the past ten years than anywhere outside of Cork and Dublin, and that investment builds on this major urban centre's great tradition of industry. A perfect example is Mullaharlin Park, a world-class science and technology space...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sport in Ireland; Challenges, Strategies and Governance: FAI, GAA and IRFU (18 Jan 2017)

Peter Fitzpatrick: How can the success of Dundalk in the Europa League in 2016 benefit the League of Ireland? I have seen children in Waterford, Cork and Limerick suddenly start wearing Dundalk jerseys. Many of those playing for Dundalk are household names. How can we take that extra step forward? I believe the League of Ireland is a better league than the Scottish Premier League because it only has Celtic...

Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (6 Jul 2016)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...of substances which the European Union has identified as being harmful and open to abuse. I am glad that the Bill includes the drug N-bomb which, as we know, was responsible for a tragic incident in Cork last year where one person died and five others required hospital attention. Drug related deaths are also a cause of concern for me. In 2012`, there were 189 reported deaths related...

Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (27 Jun 2013)

Peter Fitzpatrick: The resolution approving the development of a prison on a portion of the site used as Cork Prison was passed by the Dáil and the Seanad on 18 June 2013. This Bill seeks to confirm the resolutions. Cork Prison dates from 1849 and was originally built as a garrison prison for the adjoining army barracks, now Collins Barracks. The conditions in the prison have been described as...