Results 1-20 of 122 for going forward speaker:Micheál Carrigy

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: ...a special needs-specific playground in Longford town. It is something I am passionately involved with, along with my colleague Councillor Peggy Nolan. Yet, we are in a town where we do not and are not going to have a summer programme put in place for kids with special needs or for kids with the highest needs. We are yet again going to have another summer in which families will struggle...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: ...number of questions earlier and he did not get an opportunity to get answers. These are questions coming from members of staff who could not be here today. We as a committee should actually go out to RTÉ and have the opportunity to meet all the staff who could not be present to allow their views to be put forward. That would inform us better as committee members ahead of our...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: ...the remark that I am grandstanding. I am asking questions, which I am entitled to do, and I am asking witnesses to give answers. I am not grandstanding. I am asking questions that have been put forward by employees, which I am entitled to do. There is no grandstanding going on here. We are asking questions as we have done ever since this started 12 months ago.

Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: ...expenses over that period. Businesses are struggling. I know it from my own. I have only a very small business with a number of full-time and part-time staff. The minimum wage increase is probably going to cost me in the region of €4,500 to €5,000. The reality in a small retail business is it is not an option to add it on to something else. There are a lot of products...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (6 Mar 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: ...for people in the private rental market is not being promoted by that political party. We all know the reasons for that. A number of Members referred to the opinion polls. When that party's showing starts to go down in the polls, we see motions brought forward on housing, which is the top issue of concern to people. With Sinn Féin at a four-year low in the polls, we are again...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: .... We got correspondence from Mr. Bass since then. What is the chair’s view on whether there was a conflict of interest? Does she think there should be some people from the independent sector on the board of RTÉ going forward?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...of work that has been done, particularly by Róisín Sweeney and Roisin Deery, who have worked with the EDI team and linked in with all the various parts of the Houses of the Oireachtas to put forward an application to AsIAm. A key part of it was the training and awareness, which is important across society. I thank all the Members who undertook that training throughout all the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Football Association of Ireland's Facility Investment Vision and Strategy, and Governance Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...the past hour and a half and what has happened in previous months? Do they have complete faith in the people who are here to deliver the infrastructure that is needed for soccer in the country going forward?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Football Association of Ireland's Facility Investment Vision and Strategy, and Governance Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: As regards the large-scale infrastructure funding, only three projects that were put forward within that are currently funded. It looks like that will be opened up next year. Where will the FAI prioritise what projects go into that next round of funding? Where is the FAI prioritising those to be located because the reality is that all the applications will not be taken at the one time?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...that to happen, that it allows people who are in public life representing the general public to be targeted or tarnished with stuff that is lies. It is false information and damaging to their good names, and it is allowed to be left there because they are politicians. They are also people who have families, kids, wives, husbands or whatever, and I do not think it is acceptable that such...

Seanad: Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on Market Revenues) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (9 Nov 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...targeted measures - particularly in the Department of Social Protection - on extra fuel allowances. There have been hundreds of millions in taxpayers' money put there for those most at need. Now, going forward, when this is fully in place, we will see the energy companies funding those targeted measures the Government has put in place for those who really need it the most. I...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Schools Building Projects (25 Oct 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...special class in a post-primary school in Longford was opened there in 2009. A purpose-built building was added in 2018 and there are now 18 students in the three special classes in the school. I look forward to welcoming them to Leinster House in early 2024 after we receive our accreditation as an autism-friendly parliament, which is something I am really looking forward to. The school...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the Minister. I concur with all the comments that have been made. I congratulate my colleagues in Young Fine Gael who took on this campaign two years ago and have brought it to a stage where the Bill will be passed in the Seanad. If there was ever a prime example of what young people can do and how they can make changes in our country, this is it. It is an achievement be able to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme (27 Sep 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...about it now because we have a generation that will be brought up on their phones with false information. We need to take serious action and Coimisiún na Meán can help with that. This needs to be put forward. I feel very strongly about this, not just as a committee member but also as a parent. We need to put stringent controls in place and put the responsibility on the social...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme (27 Sep 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: That was raised in our discussions going back 18 months ago. There is a responsibility there and the social media companies should be funding an education programme for kids across all schools. It should not be an ad hocsituation whereby it is only when a school applies to DCU or UCD in Dublin that they can do an online safety course. It should be mandatory across all schools and these...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Engagement with Coimisiún na Meán on the 2023 Work Programme (27 Sep 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I will come back in on what I spoke about earlier. Ms Hodnett in particular spoke about consultation and looking for consultation on what would happen going forward. I ask that the report put forward by this committee after probably nine months of prelegislative scrutiny on the Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill would be taken into account. I feel strongly about the age thing. As a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: RTÉ (Resumed) (13 Sep 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: .... I will not ask another question. I was very taken with the words of Mr. Robert Shortt on behalf of the employees. That is something. I take on board the confidence he has in the organisation going forward. His view is that this is what is coming from the staff. I know other board members mentioned this. I was taken with Mr. Shortt's comment that he sees the ship sailing in a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...involved in since I came into Leinster House. It is well known that I have been advocating on behalf of the autistic community. The joint Oireachtas committee issued a report a number of weeks ago and I look forward to working with my colleagues and making sure that report is implemented and making the changes that need to be made in government. Senators will have received...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Transparency of RTÉ Expenditure of Public Funds and Governance Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: I will begin with Mr. Kelly and I will focus on the deal. If I go to a car dealer and buy a car, I get an invoice for a car. If I ask for an invoice for a lorry, I will not get it. When Mr. Kelly invoiced RTÉ, why did he use the term he did on the invoice that was put forward by RTÉ even though he knew it was factually incorrect?

Seanad: Broadcasting (Restriction of Salaries) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Micheál Carrigy: ...Minister, as she has responsibility for media, and us as Oireachtas Members to try to build back that trust, which we need in our public sector broadcasting. I support the timed amendment tabled by the Government and Senator Malcolm Byrne. The Minister has reacted in her role and Government has reacted by setting up the two expert committees that will do a root-and-branch trawl of the...