Joe Cooney
Written
1 Apr 2025 · to Public Expenditure
348. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform if he will provide an overview of minor works, drainage maintenance and large capital projects being carried out under the OPW drainage and flood relief programme for County Clare in 2025. [15610/25]
358. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide an update on efforts by his Department, in conjunction with Clare County Council, the IDA, Enterprise Ireland and Clare County Council to secure new enterprise for the former Roche site in Clarecastle, County Clare. [15606/25]
359. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the number of foreign direct investment (FDI) jobs created in Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the number of FDI jobs created and lost respectively in Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024; and if he will make a statement on…
360. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will provide a breakdown of IDA Ireland visits to Clare, Galway, north Tipperary and Limerick in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024. [15608/25]
482. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide details of any submission or correspondence received by his Department from Limerick City and County Council, Clare County Council and/or the University of Limerick regarding the proposed development of an economic strategic development zone at Gillogue, Clonlara, County Clare; his views on the decision by the University o…
483. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applications received and approved in County Clare under the enhanced defective concrete blocks grant scheme; and the amount of financial assistance provided to applicants from County Clare under the scheme. [15588/25]
484. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of homes that have been or that will be built in County Clare from 2020 to 2025 under the local authority affordable purchase scheme, in tabular form; if he will provide a breakdown for each of the four municipal districts of Ennis, Killaloe, Shannon and West Clare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15589/25]
485. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of new affordable housing schemes being supported by his Department; to provide details of submissions received from Clare County Council for the development of such schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15590/25]
486. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of funding provided by the Exchequer to Uisce Éireann for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; the budget allocation for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15591/25]
487. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to outline details of the location, by town name, of all social housing schemes completed for the years 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in County Clare, as well as those currently in planning and under construction, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15592/25]
488. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the steps his Department has taken to identify zoned, serviced lands owned by local authorities that could be utilised for delivery of social and affordable housing in that local authority; the area of such lands and numbers of housing, by local authority area; and whether those lands are the subject of applications for funding to hi…
569. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Justice for a breakdown for 2024 of the number of Gardaí, by rank, for each functional area, by county, in the Clare/Tipperary division, in tabular form. [15611/25]
617. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will address the increase in the cost of production of milk products; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15566/25]
618. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide figures relating to overall Irish agri-food exports to the USA and the EU, broken down by food type, during 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [15581/25]
619. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department is committed to undertaking a review of the Forestry Standards Manual given the impact of recent storms on public roads, utilities and powerlines, especially the setback distances from overhead powerlines; and if his Department will consider the introduction of a separate felling licence application system to facilitate u…
665. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the level of funding provided to each city and county childcare committee in 2022, 2023 and 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15609/25]
784. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Ennis primary healthcare centre at Station Road, Ennis, County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15616/25]
785. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the services presently being provided at the Kilrush primary healthcare centre in County Clare; and the additional staffing and services planned for the facility. [15617/25]
786. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health if she will provide a breakdown of whole-time equivalent positions at University Hospital Limerick and within the UL Hospitals Group on 1 March 2024 and on 1 March 2025, by profession, in tabular form (details supplied); if he will provide the number of said personnel employed via agencies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15618/25]
787. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to outline plans to extend opening hours of the local injuries unit at Ennis Hospital; to provide details of progress being made on the expansion of the medical assessment unit at Ennis Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15619/25]
788. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the proposed provision and operation of a contracted satellite haemodialysis unit at Ennis Hospital, County Clare; and the reason for the delay in progressing the proposal. [15620/25]
789. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals reimbursed for their insulin pump training and-or its consumables through the EU Treatment Abroad or Cross Border Healthcare Scheme since 2019. [15621/25]
790. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health the number of people in Ireland that access the Omnipod tubeless insulin pump and consumables through the HSE's exceptional hardship scheme or have done so since 2018. [15622/25]
791. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health to provide data for the Model 4 hospitals (Beaumont, St. James's, St. Vincent's, University Hospital Galway, Cork University Hospital and University Hospital Limerick) for the 2024 calendar year, in tabular form; the number of patients presenting at the emergency department (ED); the number of those patients presenting at EDs that were admitted for the year; the nu…
797. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 215 of 19 February 2025, to provide details of the retail impact assessment and SME test carried out as part of her Department’s consideration of the measures being introduced via the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Act 2023; to provide the research undertaken showing how a reduction in the numbe…