Results 1-20 of 40 for cork speaker:Barry Cowen

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council and Departmental Matters: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and for Defence (17 Oct 2023)

Barry Cowen: ...and one on which he will keep in touch with the UN. I convey also our appreciation and congratulations to all concerned within the Defence Forces for their work in the recent drugs seizure off the coast of Cork. We welcome the movement towards the presentation of terms of reference to the Cabinet and the Government leading to a tribunal on dignity and equality issues. Will the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Residential Institutions (8 Mar 2022)

Barry Cowen: 404. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the context in which he made representations against planning proposals in Bessborough, County Cork; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13104/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Culls (14 Jul 2020)

Barry Cowen: ...100 CAVAN DVO 999 615 1,557 1,057 1,290 CLARE DVO 1,545 1,304 1,174 1,329 1,341 CORK NORTH DVO 886 1,453 1,668 2,226 2,292 CORK SOUTH DVO 1,042 1,098 750 785 859 DONEGAL...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Issues (30 Jun 2020)

Barry Cowen: ...(including GLAS plus) to date Carlow € 2,204,186.55 Cavan € 7,761,658.03 Clare € 13,328,113.40 Cork € 16,271,995.92 Donegal € 16,324,449.19 Dublin €   368,603.98 ...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Flood Relief Schemes Status (19 Sep 2019)

Barry Cowen: 79. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the stage the Lower Lee Cork city flood relief scheme project is at; when the project will go out for tender; when construction will commence; when the project will be completed; the estimated cost of the project; the amount spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38090/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (19 Sep 2019)

Barry Cowen: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if the Cork University Hospital radiation oncology unit has been completed; if not, when it is expected to be completed; the estimated cost of the project; the amount spent to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38033/19]

Development of Primary Care: Statements (29 May 2019)

Barry Cowen: ...would be expended on these areas. There are also astronomical waiting lists for psychological assessments for children. My constituency of Laois-Offaly now has the longest waiting list, having taken over from Cork. Other speakers have raised the lack of available and meaningful services in the mental health sectors. Communities are unable to meet the demands of their inhabitants....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Capital Programme (12 Feb 2019)

Barry Cowen: 470. To ask the Minister for Health the breakdown of the €55 million allocation for 2019 for the Cork University Hospital radiation oncology unit; the date in 2019 the unit will be completed; if it will be impacted by the cost overrun with the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6864/19]

Summer Economic Statement 2018: Statements (20 Jun 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...the economy in the forthcoming year. When it was launched, there was considerable fanfare for and advertisement of the plan, Project Ireland 2040 or whatever it is called. That fanfare is ongoing in respect of, for example, a couple of hospitals in Cork, the Luas, the underground and other transport infrastructural gains that will accrue in Dublin and other parts of the country but it is...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...sets about providing the information. I was more alarmed to hear what he said at the beginning of his reply. He said priority should be given to making an affordable scheme available in Dublin, Cork and Galway. Is that at the expense or the neglect of the rest of the country? I was in Sligo last night. I have also been in other parts of the country and spoken to colleagues throughout...

Other Questions: Housing Provision (27 Feb 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...unit for any citizen. That is a fact. Will the Minister elaborate on and clarify his initial comments in response to this question? I have no doubt that there are affordability issues in Dublin, Cork and Galway. Like everyone else with a representative role, I want to ensure the State will make adequate provision to ensure progress is made in making affordable units available for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (31 Jan 2018)

Barry Cowen: ...is not readily available to add weight to the announcement made. The Minister is simply saying that he hopes there will be recommendations made to him by the relevant local authorities in Dublin, Cork and Galway and that he, in turn, is in the process of developing the criteria that will be applicable. At this stage can the Minister even give an estimate? Is the scheme confined to...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...have heard speakers from various parts of the country and various parties in the past couple of hours, including from counties Offaly, Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin, Meath, Limerick, Galway, Roscommon, Cork, Tipperary and Kerry, and the common thread, to which I also alluded in my own opening remarks, is that this problem is prevalent throughout the country. There is no town or village not...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...there are 4,000 vacant spaces above commercial units in the city with potential for use as residential dwellings. A vacant building study completed last year by planners in University College Cork, UCC, estimated that in a typical city centre street in Cork, conversion of vacant sites and vacant upper floors could increase residential populations in urban areas by more than 260%. This...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (27 Sep 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...by many, it is just one proposal to help stimulate the greater supply of more affordable housing. To ensure that new supply translates to affordable rent and house price levels, we must incentivise the building of affordable owner-occupier and affordable rental housing. This is the only way to make housing more affordable for lower and middle-income households, in particular in the high...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Living City Initiative (11 Jul 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...to cover entire structures rather than just historic segments of a structure; to cover all pre-1963 buildings; and to extend the coverage to all areas within the entire city areas of Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Waterford in budget 2018. [32383/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Rent Supplement Scheme Data (11 Jul 2017)

Barry Cowen: 742. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the estimated cost of increasing rent supplement by 20% in counties Dublin and Cork. [32331/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payments Expenditure (11 Jul 2017)

Barry Cowen: 786. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the estimated cost of increasing HAP by 20% in counties Dublin and Cork. [32333/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Commercial Property (20 Jun 2017)

Barry Cowen: ..., Planning, Community and Local Government if his Department or a body under its aegis, including local authorities, has undertaken surveys of vacant spaces above commercial properties in Dublin or Cork, which could be suitable for residential use; if so, the results of these surveys; and if not, his views on whether a comprehensive survey should be undertaken to get a better grasp of...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Planning Issues (25 May 2017)

Barry Cowen: ...guidelines which would supersede those that apply to local authorities. I am not recommending that this happen in the suburbs but, as the Minister said, in the centre of cities such as Dublin, Cork and so on.