Results 461-480 of 3,682 for speaker:Ciarán Cannon

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Vacant Properties (3 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 189. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of voids within the housing stock of Galway County Council; if the number has reduced in recent years; and the resources that he is providing to the local authority to bring voids back into use. [11840/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (1 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 681. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1793 of 19 January 2022, the way a person in Galway can contact the HSE public dental service emergency cover team in order to access urgent dental services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11139/22]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Údarás na Gaeltachta (24 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 71. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will report on the employment results of Údarás na Gaeltachta for 2021; the regional spread of same; the factors behind the level of job increases; the estimated level of job creation that is anticipated in 2022; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7048/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: It was an interesting statistic in the Minister of State's response that 2,000 of the 2,200 primary schools are located in rural areas. One of the key findings of a recent policy initiative from Fine Gael's policy lab on childcare is that there is a dearth of effective childcare provision predominantly in rural communities. I know that a number of school principals are very proactive in...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: Ultimately our people look to us as policymakers to provide leadership in the area of enhancing community life and well-being in general. Our school facilities are funded by the State, by the taxpayer, and there is a dearth of provision in such areas as youth work and local community-based childcare and the provision of sports facilities. In recent months we have seen some interesting...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I welcome Ms Haugen and thank her for her work in drawing back the veil and allowing us to get some degree of insight into how companies like Facebook and many others work. I happen to believe social media, in the main, is a force for good. The people who founded most of our global social media companies did not set out to do societal harm.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: The community of power in social media provides all citizens the ability to question, parse and analyse the actions of government, and this is exceptionally important. Much of the societal change we have seen internationally in the past decade or so has come about as a result of social media. We had a perfect example of that in Ireland when we were the first country in the world to vote for...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: Ms Haugen has been involved with building social media platforms. There is an analogy with the construction industry. Thirty years ago in Ireland and internationally, construction sites were very dangerous places to work. Workers were killed and maimed and as a result of the development of legislation, health and safety regulation and particularly the development of tort law and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I am hugely encouraged by the fact Ms Haugen is focusing on systemic change rather than content moderation or content censorship because that is something that would concern me deeply. Getting under the hood of how social media companies share the most incendiary content to further create engagement is a really important perspective. As Ms Haugen stated, this is not about the simplistic...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Ms Frances Haugen (23 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank Mr Haugen. I appreciate her giving of her time.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I welcome our guests. I was watching their contributions on the monitor in my office. I was struck by two perspectives. I recall somebody saying, in the middle of the worst stages of the pandemic, that in rushing back to normal after the pandemic, we must decide what aspects of normal are worth returning to. We learned an awful lot about how we structure the workplace to operate remotely...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: That is exciting to hear. Is there any country that might claim to be the exemplar in this area or could we become that exemplar?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Accessibility for Individuals with Disabilities in Arts and Culture: Discussion (16 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I think we could.

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the actions he intends to take following the decision by An Bord Pleanála to refuse substitute consent to the ESB for the development of a windfarm at Derrybrien, County Galway. [8140/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (15 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 375. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Department that is currently paying an European Union imposed fine of €15,000 per day associated with the development of an ESB wind farm at Derrybrien, County Galway; and the amount paid to date. [8142/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (15 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 943. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a GLAS payment will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7622/22]

An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Vótáil Pharlaiminteach Chianda), 2020: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (Remote Parliamentary Voting) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (10 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: I also commend Deputy Carroll MacNeill on putting forward this far-seeing Bill which seeks to amend our Constitution and ultimately change the way we do things in this building so that it becomes a far more family-friendly workplace. I have been deeply fortunate to have been walking in the gates of Leinster House for 15 years now. It is an extraordinary privilege to be able to do so, to...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Enterprise Support Services (10 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 34. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will report on the employment results of the local enterprise offices for 2021; the regional spread of same; the factors behind the level of job increases; the estimated level of job creation that is anticipated in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7047/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Trade Promotion (10 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 172. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the work that has been undertaken to enhance existing markets and develop new markets for farm-based producers in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7046/22]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Safety (10 Feb 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: 173. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the initiatives that are being funded in 2022 through the allocation of €2 million for farm safety in Budget 2022. [7045/22]