Results 41-60 of 114 for going forward speaker:Michael Moynihan

Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2020: Committee and Remaining Stages (30 Sep 2020)

Michael Moynihan: Deputy Cahill spoke about the charter of rights for farmers and the charter of rights for people who have forestry planted. In essence, the Bill is a positive move forward and I understand there is some reluctance to put the timeframe in it. Decisions should be made in the shortest possible timeframe from when the application is put in because, as other speakers have said, this industry is...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Michael Moynihan: I want to address two issues. The bus fleet of private operators has been in garages and off the road in recent months. They had been preparing to go back to providing the much-needed bus service for schools over the last weeks and have done so successfully. Some of those buses had been off the road since March and had not been taxed because the private operators did not know when the...

Financial Provisions (Covid-19) (No. 2) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jul 2020)

Michael Moynihan: ...they are from large urban centres or not, reflect carefully on what has happened, we will be able to build a better Ireland out of it. We have to look at a continuation of remote working. Going back ten or 15 years, when a programme of decentralisation was announced, it was scoffed at and begrudged, with some media people saying the plan was drawn up on the back of a cigarette packet....

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Impact of Covid-19: People with Disabilities (17 Jul 2020)

Michael Moynihan: ...day services and residential services, and there is a sense that while there is a roadmap and there is talk about August, it now looks like it could be September, is there real engagement with the Government and the HSE with these service providers to give them guidance? In respect of a service provider in my area, St. Joseph's Foundation in Charleville, and the transport issue there,...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Moynihan: .... We have experience of that in our rural villages and towns where we have excellent educational facilities and some fantastic sporting facilities but we have to bend that into our strategic plan going forward. That will enable us in the climate change and all the other current debates but we cannot forget our rural communities.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (Resumed) (10 Jun 2020)

Michael Moynihan: ...who consume it, whether in the home or the restaurant, is top quality. We have to be very strongly supportive in that regard and make no apologies for the product being made. We then have to go back to the primary producer, who has in recent decades conformed to all the regulations, going back to those that were nearly impossible to envisage. Farmers comply with them daily. As the...

Covid-19 (Agriculture, Food and the Marine): Statements (30 Apr 2020)

Michael Moynihan: I will be brief and allow the Minister to address some of the points that have been raised by my colleagues. The ongoing crisis facing beef farmers has been multiplied by the Covid-19 crisis. Has the beef task force - the famous group that was set up a number of years ago - met in a virtual form or have there been discussions on setting out a roadmap for beef farmers as we move forward?...

Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: ...people to talk or working with initiatives such as Tree of Hope. That is to be welcomed and encouraged. If we are to be taken seriously, we must accept that numbers have increased. The Government will answer that the recent mental health budget is the largest we have ever had. While that is true, there are many lacunas in services and many areas are not getting enough funding. We...

Personal Assistance Service: Motion (19 Nov 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank Deputy Pringle and his group for bringing forward the motion. I welcome the visitors to the Gallery. This is a very important motion. A whole raft of issues around it need to be discussed. Deputy Rabbitte referred to a whole-of-government approach to this issue. She mentioned the amount of money being spent on people who could live independently if personal assistance hours, home...

Financial Resolutions - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (23 Oct 2019)

Michael Moynihan: ...level regarding agriculture and the prices farmers or primary producers are getting for their food. We have made great strides on regulations over the decades, in the last 25 years in particular. Going back to the late 1950s and even before that, the product produced at farm gate level in Ireland has been of the highest quality and we can always market it globally as one of the better...

Agrifood and Rural Development: Motion (24 Sep 2019)

Michael Moynihan: ...should also advise the task force on the factories' assets, depreciation and overheads. We all know factories have to run a profit because nobody will survive without a profit but, as we go forward in these negotiations, we and the farming community need to clearly understand what margin the factories are achieving. Over the summer, the critical issue was that the factories were making...

Civil Liability and Courts (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Apr 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I welcome the opportunity to speak to the Bill. We are putting this legislation forward to address the serious issue of escalating insurance costs. In the past 14 months Fianna Fáil has brought forward two Private Members' motions, for the debates on both of which the Visitors Gallery was packed. One was on play centres, while the other was related to the business insurance reform...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Michael Moynihan: I thank my colleagues, Deputies Casey and Cassells. While we welcome some of the initiatives in the Bill, the Local Government (Rates) Bill gives us an opportunity in the House to reflect on rates, ratepayers and how that has been ordered over the last period of time and is going to be ordered over the coming time. There is no doubt that we are at a major junction in relation to retail, to...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

Michael Moynihan: In the two minutes I have, I would like to compliment Deputy Troy on bringing this motion forward. It is vitally important we treat this discussion and this Private Members' motion with the seriousness it deserves. There is no doubt about the number of people engaging in cycling as part of their commute or as a leisure activity. There is a huge growth. It behoves us in this House and, in...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): National Reform Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ..., particularly over the last 20 years. However, there is a sense that we are not putting the resources or emphasis into further research and development to allow policy makers and others to bring forward the best possible ideas. In resect of the Higher Education Authority, major issues have developed in how they are going forward. Does the Taoiseach accept that there is a major issue...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...for the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Finance Bill, which gives effect to the changes that have been announced in the budget and implements them in law. Our party has started on negotiations with the Government on housing, health and, indeed, the other major issue facing us which is Brexit and how that will unfold internationally and how it will affect us. I wish to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Oct 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...from social problems, drug addiction and everything else. They are living all over the country; they are dispersed and are not only located in the large urban centres. The major challenge as we go forward as a society will be developing a coherent social policy that will empower these people. People 50 years ago used the education services to improve their lot. These people are not...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...different schemes, thereby reducing the cost to the Exchequer. By and large, applications to these schemes which take 12 weeks, 14 weeks, 16 weeks and perhaps more to process are granted and then go back to the very start of the application form. The result is there is no saving of any description. This is particularly true of the carer's allowance. People make decisions to take on...

Bail (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Jun 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...years since Veronica Guerin as killed. Crime has destroyed communities and families. We reflect on the speed with which legislation changes but the legislation before us will be important as we go forward. The reality is that a huge number of crimes are being perpetrated by people who are out on bail. We need to enact this legislation fairly rapidly. It is needed in order to ensure...

Special Needs Assistants: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...to speak on special needs assistants, I thank the Rural Independent Group for tabling the motion and I thank Deputy Thomas Byrne for tabling his amendment. We have to look back to 20 years ago when Deputy Micheál Martin, as Minister for Education, introduced special needs assistants in schools. I remember a time prior to that when community involvement schemes were trying to pick up...