Results 1-20 of 759 for cork speaker:Simon Harris

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Land Development Agency at Shanganagh later this year, while almost 600 homes in total will be built on that site, and construction is now under way at the former Devoy Barracks, in Naas, and at St. Kevin's, in Cork. Many more large-scale housing developments on State lands will start later this year and in the next few years. The Planning and Development Bill is progressing through the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 May 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Collins for raising the important issue of Cork roads funding and the condition of the roads. It is an issue I hear from my own colleagues in the county of Cork. I will look at the comparison he gave of Kildare and Cork and will ask the Minister for Transport to get back to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Constitutional Amendments (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...not have a veto regarding our peacekeeping missions. That is a legitimate debate to have in this House. As for Deputy Barry's question, we have a regular exchange on the water quality in Cork. I do not say that to be flippant because I know how serious it is to the people that he raises the issue. We discussed last week the issue regarding the task force. I have asked for an update...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: .... Particularly regarding the ongoing debates on migration in this country, his comments about the benefits that many of the people from outside the European Union and the EEA are making to life in Cork city and county are important. I want to be associated with those remarks. He referenced Indian nurses and we see the benefit of migration in all our communities. The point he made about...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...commitment to investment in our water services. I thank him for raising this important issue in the Dáil, as he did last week. Uisce Éireann is working to address the issue of water supplies in Cork city, which I accept is a real issue. There are approximately 600 km of water mains in Cork city. About 50% to 60% of them are made from cast iron and are approximately 100 years...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...Uisce Éireann has established a task force. It is an indication of the seriousness with which Irish Water is rightly taking the issues being experienced by some of the Deputy's constituents and people in Cork regarding water quality. It also very much highlights an issue we have been trying to highlight for a very long time, namely the need for decent investment plans for water and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...people in the humanitarian situations arising in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. I see the excellent use of modular or rapid-build housing in many places such as Backweston and Mahon in County Cork. I raised the use of modern methods of construction as an item at a meeting on housing yesterday. We certainly have an open mind in relation to it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (28 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...drop. We are seeing farmers do their bit and make the difference. We are seeing investment in technology through Science Foundation Ireland to help farms in the Deputy's part of the world in west Cork become carbon neutral in terms of how they deliver. We are seeing a real increase in the investment we are making in the retrofitting of our homes to get 500,000 done by 2030. This is a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education and Training Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Farrell very much for the question. As she will know, universities, including University College Cork, are autonomous bodies established under statute. All universities are required to comply with the relevant Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform guidelines, including, as appropriate, the public spending code and relevant circulars. As autonomous bodies,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...to the securing of additional placements and practice tutors in the health sector. I had an excellent meeting with him and representatives from the Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork radiation therapy programmes, as well as a number of radiation therapy professionals, last October. We discussed proposals that would see an expansion of student numbers on the radiation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Priorities (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...County Kerry. Previously, County Kerry had lacked a university presence of its own, being instead traditionally served by higher education institutions such as the IT Tralee or University College Cork. However, with the creation of MTU on 1st January 2021, my Department has ensured that the region's access to higher educational been significantly improved. MTU’s Tralee Campus...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: As the Deputy is aware, there has been extensive engagement between my Department and the Department of Health and the two education providers, Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork regarding expanding provision in Radiation Therapy programmes. These discussions are ongoing. For additional places to be made available on Radiation Therapy programmes it is essential to ensure the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (20 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...are suitable placements and personnel available. There has been extensive engagement between my Department and the Department of Health, and both Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork, regarding the expansion of places on radiation therapy programmes. I met with representatives from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) and University College Cork (UCC) Radiation Therapy...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (31 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: Contracts for public private partnership (PPP) projects at the National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) and the Cork School of Music (CSM) were awarded in February 2003 and September 2005, respectively. Both contracts were for a term of 25 years post construction. The annually published appropriation accounts for my Department contains a section on the payments of PPP projects. This table...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...am very excited about it. It is basically building on the model of the Trinity centre for people with intellectual disabilities and asking why we say it is great to have that in Trinity while it is not in Cork, Galway or wherever else. I am happy to keep in touch on that. On disadvantage, such as access to laptops and the like, we did a very big investment in the form of thousands and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Update on Key Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (24 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...for mentioning the active consent programme led by Dr. Pádraig Mac Neela and an incredible team of people in Galway; similarly, I acknowledge Professor Louise Crowley in University College Cork with the bystander programme which the Cathaoirleach also referenced. There are people who have been champions for years before others were talking about this at all. What we are now doing as...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research and Development (23 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...currently taking part in these projects: Dublin City University, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Munster Technological University, Technological University Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Galway, University of Limerick and University of Maynooth. In monetary value, these projects represent roughly 2% of the total drawdown...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...was measured in decibels, you would win the contest every time, but we do not need to shout and roar at each other. You asked me a question and I am going to answer it. You might listen. In the Cork training centre alone, there are 484 apprentices. In Munster Technological University, which is in Cork, there are 160. In Mallow College of Further Education, there are many multiples of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: No, hang on. You cannot stand up in Dáil Éireann as a representative of the people of Cork and tell them there are only a certain number of people in a programme when there are not.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (18 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: Today, I will send the Deputy the number of apprentices in Cork. I will send it to him. I will send it to the Ceann Comhairle and we can all tell the truth in this place.