Results 41-60 of 161 for going forward speaker:Fergus O'Dowd

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Customs and Excise (15 Jul 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...Employment if his attention has been drawn to significant increases in tariffs for steel products being imported from outside of the EU and the significant effect it will have on steel business going forward (details supplied) given the very serious lack of supply of an alternate EU-based supply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38833/21]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Covid-19 Pandemic (6 Jul 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...complaints. The Minister of State and I both know that; everyone knows that. This will continue until we have the inquiry and I will continue to raise it here and insist that we do our job as a Government. I support the Minister of State and this Government. She has to do her job and I will insist that she do it. It must be done for truth and confidence in the system as we go forward.

Affordable Housing Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Jun 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: .... If other county councils around the country were to use their determination, grit and drive, as shown by Louth County Council, to provide homes at a reasonable affordable cost, it would be the way forward. We can also look at local authorities using the repair and lease scheme to make houses affordable. Counties such as Waterford have spent €4 million over the past number of...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (15 Jun 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: 527. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if supports are available to a local community organisation (details supplied) now or going forward to assist it in progressing its charity event; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31370/21]

Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...having this afternoon. I have every confidence, having discussed it with her in this House and in private, that statutory home care packages for all families who want to receive them is the way forward. That is absolutely critical and essential. It is an essential promise in the programme for Government. There is universal support from those of us in this House who articulate that...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...from home is a hugely important climate change policy. The more sustainable life is for people, the happier they are and the more time they get to spend with their families. There are more cars going through Julianstown every day than there were before the bypass was built. It is unacceptable that people living there face long delays and are suffering because of the accumulation of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The EU and Irish Unity - Planning and Preparing for Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (23 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...the report. The key issue is that we have to bring everybody with us, or as many people as we can. The idea of 50% plus one will not work for a huge number of people and, therefore, we would be going backwards and not forwards. We have to get it absolutely right. I thank the witnesses and ask them to summarise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: Aontaím go mór leis na tuairimí a nocht an Seanadóir ansin. Ar mhaith le haon chomhalta eile ó Shinn Féin aon rud eile a rá? I appreciate the points the Senator makes and their thrust is very important. There is a technical problem but that need not worry us. If we have to pass a motion, in theory we technically need to have three days' notice from a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: We all know that. As most members have made contributions, we will summarise where we will go from here. Molaim an méid atá ráite ag gach duine. Bhí Gaeilge bhinn bhlasta le cloisteáil anseo inniu, thuaidh, theas, thoir agus thiar. This has been an important event and it was important to listen to what our guests said. I do not think anything divides us on the...

Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (20 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...county of Louth. In 1961 there was an intervention by the manager at the time. The reference was to unacceptable and appalling personal inquiries into whether the families of two mothers who were going to an institution had the funds to support them because they were supported by the county council. I believe that was a criminal act as well. All over the country there are lots of...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Town and Village Renewal Scheme (20 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...she will respond to concerns raised in correspondence by an organisation (details supplied) in respect of the town and village renewal scheme; if he will seek the best advice for the organisation going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2210/21]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (13 Jan 2021)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...to lose their family members at this most difficult time. I know this because people are on to me about it, talking about their worries and concerns. We need passion and more commitment from the Government. We need the Government to see and hear these people. We need it to talk about them as real people as we know them. There is a need to make sure that the information and supports...

Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Second Stage (11 Nov 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ..., North and South. What we need to work on is the relationship that will continue, North and South and east and west. As chairperson of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, I am anxious to make progress on improving relationships North and South. Indeed, in a recent meeting we had for the first time an MP from the Alliance Party in Northern...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...and all the truth. We want, most of all, the report of this commission to be published and to be available. We want in particular for the survivors to be satisfied and fully consulted in what is going to happen following the Second Stage debate. A darkness was at the heart of a great deal of what happened in our country after we achieved our freedom in 1922. There was a heart of...

EU-UK Negotiations on Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (24 Sep 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I will take six and a half minutes. I welcome the Minister to the House. To be clear, he has been anything but silent, feeble or weak on this issue, and nor have the Government, Opposition parties in the House and our colleagues in the EU. Each and every one of those colleagues backs what we are saying, namely, that Britain must abide by the agreement it signed. The EU unambiguously...

Criminal Justice (Enforcement Powers) (Covid-19) Bill 2020: Second Stage (2 Sep 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: I welcome this legislation. From listening to the debate for the past hour or so, I sense a real consensus among all of us in this House to seek to move forward together. That consensus reflects the skill of the Minister and her Department in listening to the public, co-operating with Members and taking on board views from Deputies of different parties and none to arrive at the best plan to...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (9 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...the proceeds of crime, particularly drug crime, into a special fund to fight the effects of crime in our communities. We are tough on crime but we must be much tougher on its causes. The programme for Government mentions housing. The position on housing is very unacceptable, and there are young families with nowhere to go. Employment is being dealt with through the new stimulus...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (7 Jul 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he will consider a proposal by a person (details supplied) on businesses which are ineligible for grants but may play a key role in the restart of local SMEs going forward; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14014/20]

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Congregated Settings: Nursing Homes (26 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...to look after people with dementia. We need to stop this game of blaming everybody and to accept the fact that we are not doing enough and have never done enough. Unless things change now, we are going to go down the same road. I respect Mr. Daly, whom I have met a number of times, but I want to make it exceptionally clear that it is not good enough that this system would continue, and...

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response: Briefing by HSE Officials (19 May 2020)

Fergus O'Dowd: ...decide to intervene in the nursing home sector? I would like to know. I am not being critical or negative. We need to know when the requests came in for PPE from around the country. What was going on at the HSE's senior administrative level? When did it make the decision to intervene? I want to repeat publicly that the head of primary care in CHO 8 was exceptionally helpful when I...