Results 241-260 of 1,173,150 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Imelda Munster OR speaker:Réada Cronin OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Paul Donnelly OR speaker:Duncan Smith OR speaker:Malcolm Noonan OR speaker:Richard Bruton8 OR speaker:Sorca Clarke OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Peter Fitzpatrick OR speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin OR speaker:Patrick O'Donovan OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Rose Conway-Walsh OR speaker:Barry Cowen OR speaker:Steven Matthews OR speaker:Carol Nolan OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Martin Kenny OR speaker:Denise Mitchell OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Neasa Hourigan OR speaker:Robert Troy OR speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire OR speaker:Catherine Martin OR speaker:Mick Barry OR speaker:Jack Chambers OR speaker:Alan Dillon OR speaker:Heather Humphreys OR speaker:Pa Daly OR speaker:Paul McAuliffe OR speaker:Gerald Nash OR speaker:Louise O'Reilly OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Darragh O'Brien OR speaker:Cormac Devlin OR speaker:Micheál Martin OR speaker:Mattie McGrath OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Dessie Ellis OR speaker:Pauline Tully OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Brendan Griffin OR speaker:Thomas Gould OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Claire Kerrane OR speaker:James Browne OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Stephen Donnelly OR speaker:David Cullinane OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Jim O'Callaghan OR speaker:Gary Gannon OR speaker:Michael Ring OR speaker:Verona Murphy OR speaker:Holly Cairns OR speaker:Dara Calleary) in 'Committee meetings'

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Resume your seat-----

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

Pearse Doherty: You asked me a question; I am going to answer it.

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

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I will suspend the House. Withdraw the statement that a colleague has lied.

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

Pearse Doherty: I will put on the record that he is deliberately misleading the Dáil because he cannot defend the fact that he delivered fewer houses this year than last. That is the problem. It is deflection.

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

Emer Higgins: Calm down, Deputy.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Tá an fear feargach ar ais arís.

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

Pearse Doherty: It is okay for you; you might own your own home. I am talking about people who cannot own their own home.

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

Emer Higgins: I do not, in fact. Calm down.

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

Darragh O'Brien: Stop for a second; just relax. It will disappoint Deputy Doherty that we will exceed our target substantially this year, as we have done in every year of Housing for All. We have delivered 125,000 new homes. More than 500 first-time buyers a week are drawing down their mortgages using the supports this Government brought in, such as the help-to-buy grant. For people watching in, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: To echo the sentiment expressed by Deputy Bruton in regard to consistency, we all engage with the LEOs in our own areas but it would be fair to say that some areas are stronger than others. While I might not agree directly with Deputy Bruton’s proposal in terms of centres of excellence, there is definitely a space whereby efforts can be made to ensure consistency across the board....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: We aim for consistency across our 31 local enterprise offices. One of the reasons we have models through our local enterprise offices in every local authority is because decarbonisation is as important in Donegal as it is in Dublin, Cork or Clare. I fully agree with what Deputy Bruton said about the success of group schemes. We need to learn from that. We as a Department are very much...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Questions Nos. 69 and 70 taken with Written Answers.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Enterprise Support Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 71. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if, in view of the importance of developing enterprise centres and workspaces, a new scheme of grant aid will be introduced to assist local authorities and community groups with such developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43430/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 76. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if additional financial support will be made available to local authorities and community groups to develop enterprise centres or workspaces, taking into account the importance of such facilities in assisting job creation, especially in smaller towns and villages; if he is aware of the substantial costs on local authorities and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Minister of State will have heard me speak previously about the value of enterprise centres and the development of workspaces. Grant schemes are available to help develop such centres but they are not adequate, particularly for local authorities that have a low rates base. I appeal to the Minister of State to ensure there is an additional scheme of assistance to help those local...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: I propose to take Questions Nos. 71 and 76 together. Balanced regional enterprise development remains a key focus for me and for the Government, as affirmed in the White Paper on enterprise. I very much appreciate the contribution made by enterprise and remote working hubs throughout the country. These facilities allow people to live and work in their local communities and provide vital...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister of State for her reply. The point I have been trying to get across to successive Ministers in the Department is, in the case of Cavan and Monaghan where we have a great culture of developing enterprise centres, typically the local authority or community group buys the site and develops the services at major cost because of the drumlin topography and soil in the area....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Emer Higgins: Absolutely we will. I appreciate what he is saying, that up until now it has been the Cavan or Monaghan local authority that has been buying sites and developing those services. To reiterate, now that we have the smart regions scheme, it is there to support that dynamic of industry, academia and enterprise. Stream 1 of that is designed to support the major local investment and capital...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Enterprise Support Services (24 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I welcome the development of hubs, but I am specifically talking in this case about centres and workspace for manufacturing and processing. We have a great tradition of engineering in Cavan and Monaghan. I have worked along with companies that started with two or three employees in an enterprise space and now are huge employers, having developed their own space. We need the space to enable...