Results 1-20 of 24 for going forward speaker:Noel Grealish

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Sports Funding (19 Oct 2023)

Noel Grealish: ...State mentioned. The proposed €20 million project for Connacht Rugby has actually started and a new surface has been put on the pitch. The project in Renville and Oranmore is being prepared to go out to tender. They have raised over €1 million locally to get that project over the line. I compliment the people in Oranmore. More than 10,000 people live in the area. The...

Transport Support Schemes for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (4 May 2023)

Noel Grealish: .... They are entitled to live full and active lives within our communities. Without access to personal transport, thousands of Irish citizens cannot do what the rest of us take for granted, such as going to work, visiting family and friends, going shopping, going to the cinema or to church, or even to the pub for a pint. A 2021 report by the Ombudsman highlighted the social isolation...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Oct 2022)

Noel Grealish: When the plan for the N6 Galway ring road was first published in 2016, it was proposed that 54 houses be demolished or bought out to facilitate the project if it got the go-ahead. For the past seven and half years, 54 families have been prisoners in their homes. They cannot sell their properties because who would buy a house where there is a proposal to demolish it? There is little point...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Legislative Measures (24 Feb 2022)

Noel Grealish: ...rights in regard to the CCTV footage of those caught in the act of illegal dumping should not apply and he would request legislation to be drafted to address this. Will the Minister please bring forward that legislation? He mentioned his constituency. The level of illegal dumping along a 1 km stretch of road on the outskirts of the Galway city is appalling. This has been going on for...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Feb 2022)

Noel Grealish: I have to say I am very disappointed in the response of the Minister. It is not for me to be disappointed but for the 54 householders caught up in this. This legal challenge could go on for years. The last time it went on for more than seven and a half years. Eight householders were caught in the previous project. This has been going on for more than 22 years. Is the Minister telling me...

Mobility and Transport Supports for People with Disabilities: Motion [Private Members] (16 Feb 2022)

Noel Grealish: I wish to thank my colleagues for bringing this motion forward and I thank our administrator, Ms Cáit Nic Amhlaoibh, for the excellent research she did on this it. There is an urgent need for improvements to the benefits available to people with disabilities who are holders of primary medical certificates under the disabled persons and disabled passengers scheme. Primary medical...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (29 Sep 2021)

Noel Grealish: ...Galway where "For Sale" signs are only up for a few weeks before being replaced by "Sold" signs, such is the demand, which is also pushing up prices by the week. New construction has a long way to go to fill the gaps in supply. That means that a considerable number of people are finding themselves falling into the category where their only hope now is an affordable house while they are,...

Water and Wastewater Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (19 May 2021)

Noel Grealish: I thank my colleagues and particularly Cait, our administrator, for bringing forward this motion regarding Irish Water. I recall when Irish Water was set up it sparked off one of the most controversial debates we had in this House for many years. I sat on the committee established to try to find a solution and an all-party agreement on the best way to move forward with the establishment of...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (13 May 2021)

Noel Grealish: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the plans will be released for the July programme 2021; if a commitment will be given going forward that children attending special schools and classes will receive compulsory in-school provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25377/21]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Mar 2021)

Noel Grealish: ...have been put back and cancer screening services disrupted while our hospitals struggle to cope with the wave of Covid-19 patients. That has left the entire health system with a huge challenge going forward. Latest figures show that almost 900,000 people are on the waiting list for treatment in hospitals in Ireland, an increase of almost 12% on this time last year. Of those, more than...

Perjury and Related Offences Bill [Seanad] 2018: Motion [Private Members] (29 Jul 2020)

Noel Grealish: I am delighted to have the opportunity to speak on the Bill and I acknowledge the tremendous amount of work that former Senator, Pádraig Ó Céidigh, did in bringing forward the Perjury and Related Offences Bill 2018. The Bill received cross-party support when it was passed in the Seanad in June 2019. The fact the Bill is included in the programme for Government demonstrates...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Oct 2019)

Noel Grealish: ...and particularly at University Hospital Galway, UHG. It is consistently one of the worst hospitals in the country in respect of the number of people who have to spend a night on trolleys. It has got so bad that older people, in particular, are genuinely afraid to go to hospital, knowing about the indignities that await them in what is supposed to be the west's flagship facility. Over...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (17 Apr 2019)

Noel Grealish: ...Minister for Health if all nursing and other services being provided at Mervue health centre, Galway, will be continued and staffing levels at the health centre be maintained at the current level going forward in order to continue to provide essential healthcare for persons in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17959/19]

Local Government Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (15 Nov 2018)

Noel Grealish: ...meet the mayor. How will it be possible to have a chairman of a super local authority with up to 57 members, as well as a municipal district of Galway city and a mayor for the city? That is not going to work. It is not working in Limerick or Waterford. This is my fear with the Bill and I will find it difficult to support. The Bill makes no reference to the crucial issues of funding or...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (28 Mar 2018)

Noel Grealish: ...could be up and running by the end of the year. A small staff, including a consultant and advanced nurse, is all that is needed. It could be put in one of the units. The Taoiseach should not be going back to the proposed ten-year plan for building a hospital in Merlin Park because that is a long time down the road. The emergency department built in Galway was built in the 1950s and...

Motor Insurance: Motion [Private Members] (27 Feb 2018)

Noel Grealish: I move:"That Dáil Éireann: recognises that:— it has been 19 months since the Government first established the Cost of Insurance Working Group and there has been no tangible progress in reducing insurance premiums; — there are several barriers to obtaining motor insurance in Ireland; — vehicles that are ten years old, but with a valid National Car Test...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management and Congestion in Galway Region: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Noel Grealish: ...Pádraig Ó Céidigh for organising the meeting. It is crucially important that we have this debate. Galway is suffering on two fronts. It is losing business and shoppers. People are no longer going into the city to do their shopping. With the opening of the new motorway, they are going further afield. No doubt, Galway Bay FM will cover this meeting, featuring soundbites...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jan 2018)

Noel Grealish: ...then be in the purview of the Oireachtas and this Government does not have a majority in the House". This means that voters, if they repeal the eighth, have no guarantee that the Bill brought forward to legislate for abortion will be what is eventually signed into law. In the same article An Taoiseach also stated the Government could find itself in what he called a "strange position"....

Leaders' Questions (30 Nov 2017)

Noel Grealish: ...year there was just one patient in this situation. There were 17 people last year waiting for more than a year and a half for oral surgery and this total has since soared to 570. We seem to be going backwards, rather than forward, in terms of health care and the reforms suggested in the Sláintecare report cannot come fast enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Irish Aid Programme Review: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2017)

Noel Grealish: .... We visited a number of projects. The cash transfer was the one I found most impressive. It involved only €10 a month. There is an old saying, give a little, it could help a lot, but by God it does. We visited an irrigation programme where water is now provided. A little co-op was set up and little business people run it. They are feeding themselves and making a few bob in...