Results 1-20 of 57 for cork speaker:John Cummins

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: I wish to ask the Department for the targets for the repair and lease scheme for the four Dublin local authorities and the two Cork local authorities.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: I thought I would ask the Department first to see. I might go to Cork first and then Dublin. The two local authorities in Cork, city and county, have delivered 17 units since the scheme was introduced in 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Update on Homelessness: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

John Cummins: ...of city centre and so on. The dialogue between auctioneers, developers, owners of properties and the interchange is all the same regardless of where you are. The chief executives of Dublin and Cork have been before the committee. The figure of €60,000 was given as a barrier so it was increased to €80,000. It is good to hear that the council is looking to increase it but I...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

John Cummins: ...to enable it to be able to enhance its capacity to be able to deliver houses throughout the country, be they affordable purchase, cost rental or private houses in regional cities outside Dublin and Cork. I have a point to make on this, which is more of a comment for the Minister of State to take away. When the CEO of the LDA came before the committee a few weeks ago we teased out the...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (21 Feb 2024)

John Cummins: ...fortunate to have a Limerick man in office while the Bill was being progressed. Waterford is one of the areas in which a plebiscite was carried out. It was narrowly defeated there, as it was in Cork. I look forward to seeing how the new mayor role in Limerick evolves and develops over the next five years. I thank the Minister of State for the Trojan work he has done. When he came into...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

John Cummins: ...policy. There are many issues that Senators from across the House would like to input into that debate, not least the passenger cap in place in Dublin Airport, the development of Shannon and Cork airports and the importance of regional aviation policy. In that context, I refer specifically to Waterford Airport, which houses an important service, Rescue 117. We have been seeking to have...

Seanad: Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Jan 2024)

John Cummins: ...of Limerick were brave in the decision they made in 2019 in going along with the proposal put to the people in a plebiscite. As the Minister of State knows, at the time the people of Waterford and Cork were also given the opportunity to vote and the proposal was narrowly defeated in those areas. Perhaps that matter can be revisited at a later point. The fact that we are now legislating...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Education (9 Nov 2023)

John Cummins: ...Crystal site, and the completion of the public private partnership, PPP, process for bundle 2 which will see a 12,000 sq. m engineering computing and general teaching building built on the Cork Road campus. When I submitted this Commencement matter, I did not know that the Minister was going to formally write to me yesterday evening and issue a statement this morning confirming the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Weather Events (24 Oct 2023)

John Cummins: ...matter this afternoon on the need for a more specialised and location-specific warning system for extreme weather events in light of the recent flooding experienced in my own county, Waterford, Cork and many other areas.I acknowledge at the outset the utter devastation that businesses and home owners have experienced over the past six days. On Saturday I visited Tallow, Clashmore and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Oct 2023)

John Cummins: ...seawall between Kinsalebeg and Youghal Bridge has collapsed and there is serious flooding. There will be a need for significant central government funding to assist local authorities in Waterford, Cork and Kerry with the clean-up operation that will inevitably follow from the serious damage that has been done across those counties. It would be remiss of me not to mention the junior cycle...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (28 Sep 2023)

John Cummins: ...the context of the review of the national planning framework, NPF, that is under way. To have propulsive growth in the counties and cities outside of Dublin, namely Waterford, Galway, Limerick and Cork, we have to have strategic investment. That is why projects like Waterford north quays, a €170 million investment by Government, are so important, as is the continued investment in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (25 Apr 2023)

John Cummins: ...to raise the ceiling from €60,000 to €70,000 and the reason was because additional funding was needed to complete a development of that nature. When representatives of the city councils of Cork, Dublin and Limerick were before this committee they asked for the amount to be increased from €60,000 to €80,000, and I think that increase must happen. As I said last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

John Cummins: ...authority area with the repair-and-leasing scheme in particular. On that, I will make one last point. Is the figure of 60,000 being revised upwards? This was raised by local authorities in Cork, Dublin - Chair, you might help me here. I am trying to remember the local authorities that raised the actual figure as an issue in delivering more units. Limerick, I think, also raised this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing for All: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (18 Apr 2023)

John Cummins: I was calling for that for a long period at meetings of this committee, so I welcome the fact that it has happened. Feedback we got from the sector, including from Dublin City Council, Cork County Council and Limerick City and County Council, highlighted the fact they felt as though the €60,000 figure per unit was too low. That is direct feedback from the local authority sector; it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Feb 2023)

John Cummins: I have a bugbear around this issue, to be frank. The Waterford MASP, for example, does not include the population of Tramore, which is 8 km out the road from Waterford city, whereas the Cork MASP includes Carrigaline, which is 17 km away. The Galway MASP includes Bearna, which is further from the city than Tramore is from Waterford. I saw the inclusion of a commuting zone as a positive. I...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Staff (15 Feb 2023)

John Cummins: ...out and the teacher has a permanent contract, going forward. However, let us consider a worst-case scenario. A teacher leaves a permanent position in Waterford and takes a 12-month contract in Cork. After 12 months, the teacher re-interviews for the position and the job is given to someone else or the hours are reduced. That leaves the teacher in a vulnerable position. Perhaps the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Housing Schemes (25 Jan 2023)

John Cummins: ...for All are available in Waterford at the moment. The maximum market value of a property that can be purchased or self-built using the local authority home loan is €320,000 for the counties of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kildare, Louth, Meath and Wicklow and €250,000 for the rest of the country. It is my contention that the threshold of €250,000 for the counties outside of...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (8 Nov 2022)

John Cummins: ...have actively put a team together to deliver on that scheme. That needs to be replicated in every local authority. One of the impediments that some of the bigger local authorities in Dublin and Cork have cited is the figure of 60,000 and the need to increase that threshold to be able to bring in units in Dublin and Cork in particular. We have also introduced planning exemptions for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

John Cummins: Would Waterford City and County Council support the call from some of the other local authorities, such as those in Dublin and Cork, for that to be increased further in light of increased inflation-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Implementing Housing for All: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

John Cummins: ..., opportunities exist in that space to activate some of the sites that have planning permissions. Other local authorities were supportive of the reintroduction of that leasing scheme. Recently, Cork City Council and one of the Dublin local authorities that were before us last week stated so. Would Limerick and Waterford City and County Councils support the reintroduction of that scheme?