Results 1-20 of 23 for cork speaker:Emer Higgins

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Local Authorities (30 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...,985.98 357,380.00 477,365.98 Cavan 130,896.00 318,158.00 449,054.00 Clare 90,675.00 290,695.00 381,370.00 Cork City 303,822.64 266,051.00 569,873.64 Cork South 690,869.62 151,468.00 842,337.62 ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (25 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ... 613 40.76% Cavan County Council (102) 2385 634 26.58% Clare County Council (103) 3474 1113 32.04% Cork City Council (104) 9333 2786 29.85% Cork County Council (105) 6404 3238 50.56% Meath County Council (106) ...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Regional Development (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...the development, implementation and oversight of nine Regional Enterprise Plans (REPs). The South-West REP is implemented at a regional level by a Steering Committee made up of stakeholders from Cork and Kerry. Patricia Quane is Chair of the South-West REP Steering Committee and is supported by a Programme Manager based in Cork County Council. The South-West Steering Committee last met...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Business Supports (18 Apr 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...408 25.84% Cavan County Council (102) 2063 325 15.75% Clare County Council (103) 3115 838 26.90% Cork City Council (104) 9074 2118 23.34% Cork County Council (105) 12094 2304 19.05% Meath County Council (106) ...

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Emer Higgins: ...consensus is that applied research can only come off the back of years and years of fundamental research. The most popular example often cited of this is George Boole, the mathematician from County Cork who studied algebra and created Boolian logic, which decades later underpins computing. It is the 1s and 0s of computer programming, the ABC of computer language. It was possible only...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Future of the Maritime Area Regulatory Authority: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...and I am curious to find out a little bit more about that and whether that would have potential when it comes to the likes of flood mitigation. I am conscious that homes in Wexford and are Cork currently under water after Storms Babet and Ciarán in the last number of weeks and those coastal areas are often worst affected. My main question relates to the actual organisation but if...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (9 Feb 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...the need to discuss the out-of-hours service in the midlands and north west; and (12) Deputy David Stanton - the need to discuss the urgent need to upgrade the N25 between Carrigtwohill and Midleton, County Cork. The matters raised by Deputies Aengus Ó Snodaigh, David Stanton, Bernard J. Durkan and Chris Andrews and have been selected for discussion.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Raising Awareness of the Lived Experience of Congregated Settings: Discussion (9 Feb 2023)

Emer Higgins: ...was fantastic to see. It is being built by the Europlan Group in collaboration with Clúid and South Dublin County Council. I understand the Europlan Group is looking to do something similar in Cork. This is the way forward, but such developments should not be limited to over-55s. We need to provide that level of accommodation to younger people who want to have a life and not a...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (17 Nov 2022)

Emer Higgins: .... Deputy Bernard J. Durkan - to discuss the ongoing mistreatment of mothers engaged in custody issues. Deputies Denise Mitchell, Dessie Ellis and Joan Collins - to discuss Spring Lane halting site in Cork and the lack of improvements since the report of the Ombudsman for Children and a visit by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues Affecting the Traveller Community. Deputy Pat...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...their efforts. I have four questions that I would like each local authority to answer and then I will have specific comments and questions relating to their presentations. I will go first to Cork City Council and then to Galway City Council. What is the current social housing waiting list in Cork City Council?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Fantastic. I thank the witnesses. As regards Cork, I love the ambition behind the statement that targets are a minimum. That is a massive statement to make in a committee room such as this. I thank the council for that. Is 691 properties its target for 2022 , or is that what it expects to achieve?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Brilliant. That is encouraging. Also encouraging is the information that has been provided on dereliction in Cork and the 22 sites in respect of which compulsory purchase orders, CPOs, were issued, with 619 already delivered and 200 more in the pipeline. I would be interested to hear if they had any best practice that they could share with other local authorities that are struggling in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: Unlike Cork, unfortunately, it is not a target as a minimum. The officials spoke about limited vacant homes in the city. GeoDirectory, probably combining Galway City Council and Galway County Council figures, found that Galway was quite well above the average when it came to vacancies and the vacancy rate. The North and Western Regional Assembly found similar. What is Galway City...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Issues Surrounding Water Quality and Supply: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...estates as quickly as possible. Water is a key service when it comes to that. I have had a situation in my constituency, and have seen and know of similar situations in Dublin South-West and Cork, where estates have been built but there have been delays in getting people into homes, or people went into homes but did not get water, because the connections were not happening when they...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Sep 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...impact on children's health and well-being and to positively impact on the mental health of every social media user right across this country, whether he or she is from Lucan, Longford, Clondalkin or Cork. I am really glad that the Minister is grasping that opportunity. I thank her, the NGOs, her steering group and task force for all working so collaboratively on this Bill. I hope to...

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition on a Ban on Herbicides in Public Areas: Discussion (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...awareness as to what the rules are currently and what is safe and unsafe and legal and illegal. Mr. Walsh's second recommendation was in terms of all local authorities following the path of Cork City Council. Each local authority has its own jurisdiction when it comes to these things. However, if we were to look at that blanket synergy, if you like, we would probably need a directive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...on what is an exceptionally important topic. I say a special thank you to Professor Conor O’Mahony, the special rapporteur on child protection from the School of Law in University College Cork for joining with us and for sharing his own legal expertise with the committee.

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...; four specialist menopause clinics; the expansion of specialist services and out-of-hours care for paediatric gynaecology; the first GP lead for women’s health; the expansion of endometriosis services in counties Dublin and Cork; and a maternity bereavement experience survey, which is the first of its kind. These are all very welcome initiatives and they span the gamut of...

Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...councillors play. This Bill, as it is currently set out, erases the opportunity for councillors to sit on university governing bodies. Twenty-five councillor seats will be lost across University College Cork, UCC, UCD, the National University of Ireland Galway, NUIG, and the University of Limerick, UL. In many cases, these are not new seats but have been in place since 1908. It would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Urban Regeneration: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jan 2022)

Emer Higgins: ...elsewhere and adapting it to the needs of other areas. I would be very interested in hearing her top three nuggets that she thinks we could do quickly, whether that be things she learned from Cork or Italy. Mr. Hogan interjected to recount the experience from Flanders with its regeneration projects. He also spoke about Amsterdam. I would love if he took a minute to talk to us about the...