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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: Inland Fisheries Ireland (25 Apr 2024)

James O'Connor: I will follow up with Mr. Nugent separately after the meeting. I want to be fair and not land anybody here in trouble but I want to get that answer.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Ireland: Chairperson Designate (21 Feb 2024)

James O'Connor: ...social responsibility perspective, community benefit funds have made a huge difference. The Celtic interconnector is a huge opportunity. The Celtic interconnector from Brittany, France is landing in Claycastle, Youghal. There are 700 MW of electricity coming with it, in addition to a fibre-optic cable landing on Claycastle beach. That cable, from an employment perspective, sparks my...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 32 - Enterprise, Trade and Employment (Supplementary) (29 Nov 2023)

James O'Connor: ...these supports that came through during 2022 from the Department, and I would like to get a response on them. I have had a very peculiar one that came up. Only one person has approached us with this issue. A landlord, or else the tenant - the business - renting a premises, is able to avail of the Irish Red Cross support scheme but owner-occupiers can make only one application. However,...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Water Services (6 Jul 2023)

James O'Connor: ...households until such time that Irish Water can deal with these outstanding issues. There is a plan in motion but, like everything else when it comes to how rapidly we can build infrastructure in Ireland, the pace of delivery is not sufficient. We are over the worst of it with Covid; it is out of the way now. It is no longer a relevant excuse when it comes to the delivery of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4: Re-allocation of Voted Funding (22 Jun 2023)

James O'Connor: ...level in every parish of the countryside and our urban areas and work directly with communities so that they can access funding. Of course, errors were made, particularly in respect of registry. Land registry always comes up as a big issue if there are outstanding problems there. However, any club that filled out the documentation correctly and was within the qualifying criteria in my...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Coastal Erosion (2 Mar 2023)

James O'Connor: ...beside him, will be forthcoming in the upcoming budget to further support those works. The other issue that is important to reference is in the east Cork area. A number of farmers' agricultural land is under extraordinary risk on the western bank of the River Womanagh. I know the Minister of State went down to see that for himself, but if the bank bursts, several hundred acres will be...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

James O'Connor: ...will be some degree of progress on that issue under the current Minister. The Bill has the potential in the medium term to have a significant impact on the effectiveness of animal medicines in Ireland. This will have knock-on consequences for the food supply chain in this country. Education is the best way out of this. Perhaps there is an argument that it creates an administrative...

Forestry: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

James O'Connor: ...are very fortunate to have a large number of commercial forestry operators in the region. They provide very valuable employment to communities, in particular in areas like Fermoy and rural hinterlands surrounding some of the mountainous regions in the constituency. Many agricultural landowners in those areas are very fortunate to have engaged in the forestry industry through the decades,...

Water Policy: Statements (9 Nov 2022)

James O'Connor: ...is simply unacceptable. Also concerning Irish Water, why is it not being properly brought to answer questions about the areas of the organisation's failure when it comes to providing serviced land with water supplies for new housing developments? My constituency has towns, with which the Minister of State is familiar, that could easily accommodate an extra 500 or 1,000 housing units...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Local Authorities (19 Oct 2022)

James O'Connor: ...has a viable economic future for the development of industry within its own area. The OPR has been interfering with Cork County Council and members of the local authority in their desire to see that lands already zoned and that are serviced provide all of the infrastructure required for industry in that location and stripping them of their zoning for industrial use. I believe this is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (30 Jun 2022)

James O'Connor: It is clouded in mystery. It does not make an awful lot of sense to me how somebody lands himself or herself into an ambassadorial role as Secretary General. I do not understand. Would the Secretary General not look at career diplomats working within the Department before plucking a Secretary General from a different Department and putting him or her into an ambassadorial role?

National Parks and Wildlife Service Strategic Plan: Statements (Resumed) (19 May 2022)

James O'Connor: ...made so that the south east, which is away from the west coast, where the majority of major national parks in the country are located, will have one of its own. I am referring to the eastern side of Ireland, south of Wicklow, and the southern part. There are many locations that I believe would benefit. I am thinking of the Galtee Mountains and the Knockmealdowns, or the Comeraghs near...

Just Transition: Statements (18 May 2022)

James O'Connor: ...made by members of Government parties and, indeed, by the Opposition as well. I am giving my own perspective to the Government as somebody who lives on a dairy farm in the very heart of rural Ireland in the constituency of Cork East. There are significant worries about some aspects of what the Government is planning. It is important for us to address those issues. I am also...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (31 Mar 2022)

James O'Connor: ...into the Garda training college. That has been going on for over five years. Is there any degree of clarity or closure coming to that? What progress has been made in that investigation in respect of land ownership in the Garda training college, which is a huge issue? Can the Commissioner report to the committee on that?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Wastewater Treatment (3 Mar 2022)

James O'Connor: 115. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the investment in wastewater treatment facilities to increase available service lands for housing development. [12137/22]

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

James O'Connor: My time is precious and it is very important that I ask final question, which is about the access of serviced land. My constituency, East Cork, has one of the most important strategic growth zones for housing in the country, the metropolitan area of Cork city. The Department is probably familiar with the number of strategic housing developments, SHDs, ongoing in that area. From talking to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

James O'Connor: My next question relates to Rebuilding Ireland. Am I correct in saying there is a mechanism within local authorities to allow them to work with developers to complete unfinished housing estates, for example, and for the development of land to build housing?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

James O'Connor: ...than having to work with a developer? To many, a developer might appear to be a large conglomerate or a multimillionaire, but in many cases there are people throughout the country who may just own land that is zoned, who can create a company and source finance from whatever source to technically become a developer. There are huge risks involved in that because they may go bust or...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sports Funding (11 Nov 2021)

James O'Connor: 138. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if assistance will be provided to a sports club (details supplied) that wants to acquire land for use by the club; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55202/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2021)

James O'Connor: ...duration of existing development plans pending the preparation and making of new development plans. Development plans form the blueprints for the social and economic development of counties and cities across Ireland. It is, therefore, vital where planning authorities have encountered disruptions that additional time can be allowed to them to ensure that their development plans can reach...