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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Could Mr. Gloster outline what progress has been made?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Some 1,000 staff.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: There is still a long way to go. If it is somewhere just under 10,000 we have a long road to the travel here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I know, but we should be aiming to convert at least half of it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Mr. Gloster has answered that one. We have had a number of very good and constructive meetings on the roll out of the regional health areas and in fairness to Mr. O'Connor and his team and Mr. Woods, they have been very helpful in departmental meetings. The regional health areas are going to be a key part of driving reform, productivity, population based budgeting and so on. There has been...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: That is what they want. They want to be part of that decision-making.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: My last question is to Mr. Watt and I have given him a heads up on this. I refer to publication of the cardiac review. That was commissioned in 2019. I was at a meeting of Oireachtas Members from the south-east region when the Taoiseach, Deputy Simon Harris, who signed off on this, was Minister for Health. I know Covid interrupted it because Professor Nolan was seconded to NPHET. The...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: When?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Does it need Cabinet sign-off or does he just make the decision?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: Will Mr. Watt come back to us on that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Productivity and Savings Task Force: Discussion (18 Sep 2024)
David Cullinane: I would say it is more than that.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Sep 2024)
Ossian Smyth: I thank the Deputy. The answer indicates the Department of housing has no plans to introduce more specific guidelines on how solar farms should be developed. The Deputy asked about that. The Department is saying it is bringing in regional capacity allocations. In other words, these are projections for the amount of solar power we have produced in each region of Ireland. Those are to be...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Sep 2024)
Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 11.14 p.m. go dtí 9 a.m., Déardaoin, an 19 Meán Fómhair 2024. The Dáil adjourned at at 11.14 p.m. until 9 a.m. on Thursday, 19 September 2024.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)
Ossian Smyth: The proof that road projects are proceeding and being completed in Kerry is shown by the Listowel bypass, which was completed this summer. This year, €4.7 million was allocated for the construction of new national roads in Kerry and another €9.7 million was allocated for the improvement of the existing network. This is in addition to approximately €119 million in...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: No money, no fun.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)
Ossian Smyth: Due to the funding constraints for national roads this year, a prioritisation exercise was necessary. In line with the NDP and Government policy, the Minister for Transport has allocated national roads funding for 2024 in a manner which seeks to achieve the following outcomes: protection and renewal of the existing national road network; progressing major projects in or near construction;...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)
Danny Healy-Rae: That is 44 years old.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (18 Sep 2024)
Ossian Smyth: This is a much larger project that is more than 20 km long and which goes past Farranfore, as well as Killarney. It is a much more ambitious and larger project.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Sep 2024)
Renewable Energy Generation
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (18 Sep 2024)
David Stanton: It is a given that we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and increase the use of renewable and low-carbon energy sources, such as wind and solar, as I am sure the Minister of State will agree. The need for solar farms across Ireland is growing. I refer to the best practice planning guidance report on large-scale solar energy development in Ireland produced with the Irish Solar Energy...