Results 161-180 of 184 for going forward speaker:Seán Crowe

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (6 Feb 2013)

Seán Crowe: An Teachta Adams referred to the ongoing EU budget negotiations. I wish the Government well in the delicate negotiations. I wish to refer specifically to youth unemployment and the proposed youth guarantee. More than 5.5 million young people across the EU are not able to find work currently. Across the European Union, 22% of people between the ages of 15 and 24 are jobless, a figure that...

European Council Brussels: Statements (19 Dec 2012)

Seán Crowe: It is good to hear the Irish Presidency will focus on youth unemployment. Like everyone, across all parties and none, we want to see this acted on and delivered during the six months of Ireland's Presidency. We know some countries in the European Union have introduced measures that have kept youth unemployment at a low level. Countries like Ireland, with and unacceptably high level of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Youth Issues: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...generation, rather than my generation, that will advance reconciliation and peace building. I hope we will be able to build on the changes made. While there is common agreement that this is the way forward, increasing co-operation will be a challenge. It will be achieved by spending small but important sums of money to foster such engagement. What are our guests' views on getting...

Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: .... I do not know of the experience of the rest of Members in this House, but anyone of my generation who stayed in rented accommodation will have known about the kips and dumps. One wonders how they got away with renting such accommodation and how there were no checks on safety, mould growing on walls, etc. I suppose we were young and foolish and one did not have an alternative. We...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (21 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: I also wish the Taoiseach well in the clearly difficult negotiations he faces. In his speech he said we must be realistic and that there is a real possibility that this week's summit will not reach a deal. He went on to say that we do not want a failed summit as this would have serious implications for the Union's reputation and that we do not want a deal which isolates any member state as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Constitutional Affairs Committee of the European Parliament: Exchange of Views (6 Nov 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...for the banking debt they have been lumped with on the EU and particularly on the failure to regulate the banking sector within the EU, as well as in Ireland. Many of the solutions that are being put forward by the EU appear to be recipes for more of the same, namely more integration and more centralisation. This is happening at a time when people have come to the view that these same...

Education and Training Boards Bill 2012: Second Stage (Resumed) (17 Oct 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...and challenges that are part of a wider multifaceted legislative overhaul of the further education and training sector. The VEC sector has been an important contributor historically to Government labour market interventions, originally in regard to high levels of youth employment in the 1980s and, more recently, in the provision of additional places under the PLC and the back to education...

Private Members' Business. Protection of Employees (Amendment) Bill 2012: Second Stage (1 May 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...down, thinking the men were about to rob her employer's business. She was trying to protect her employer's stock and premises. When she telephoned head office, she was told, "Yes, your job is gone." That is not acceptable and I do not believe anyone in the House would disagree with me. People listening at home do not want to see that type of society emerging. That is why Sinn Féin...

School Guidance Counsellors (17 Jan 2012)

Seán Crowe: ...result in the loss of possibly hundreds of guidance and counselling posts. The Minister has left the Chamber. It amounts to another attack on some of our most vulnerable young people and shows a Government, under the banner of reform, that seems hell-bent on gutting some of our core educational services. I listened to the Minister's speech tonight. He spoke in terms of freedom and...

Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (10 Nov 2011)

Seán Crowe: ..., unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. I note in a joint statement issued today that the Minister for Health, Deputy James Reilly, announced a series of initiatives to reform and modernise the governance structures of the hospital. While I welcome the potential of this announcement, the Minister must also address the years of under-funding of Tallaght hospital which still has a...

ESB and Disposal of State Assets: Motion (Resumed) (21 Sep 2011)

Seán Crowe: ...not fix the crisis we are in. People say Sinn Féin is reckless in tabling this motion, but it is important that we have this debate. We must have joined-up thinking with regard to where we are going. It is not good enough to throw good money after bad in toxic banks. There is not a clear way forward. To sell part of the ESB is reckless and madness.

Irish Language (8 Jun 2011)

Seán Crowe: ...on this small island to work together on many of these issues. He said that "no joint initiatives are under way at present". I assume he appreciates that such initiatives represent the way forward. I welcome the fact that he met Conor Murphy to discuss cross-Border co-operation. Does he not agree that such co-operation makes economic sense in these tough economic times? We discussed...

Universal Service Charge: Motion (Resumed) (30 Mar 2011)

Seán Crowe: ...knocked on doors. Did they promise more of the same? Not even Fianna Fáil promised more of the same. It said it would approach things differently. Everyone else in the Chamber said they were going to do things differently. I have not seen that happen yet. Neither has anyone else. People in this city who were poor are still poor. That is the reality. They are being told by the...

Industrial Relations. (21 Feb 2007)

Seán Crowe: I suppose it is my turn now to be attacked by the Minister; he is in good form today. I am conscious that the State has a role in regard to the company as it still has a substantial shareholding in it. The State agreed with all the parties involved on the way forward for the privatisation of the company four months ago and it did so in the full knowledge of how matters would proceed. Part...

Transport 21: Statements (Resumed) (9 Nov 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...that has been running for a while shows a man pulling up in his car to ask an elderly country man for directions. At the end of the advertisement, the elderly man tells him: "If I was going there, I would not start from here." Such a comment could be applied to this country's transport difficulties — if one was looking on from afar, one would not want to start from here. The level of...

High Level of Suicide in Irish Society: Statements (26 Oct 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...and if we are in any way critical it is not to score points but to bring about a positive change. Sinn Féin has identified suicide as a distinct priority requiring concerted co-operation between Government, the health service, the voluntary sector and communities. Our youth section, Ógra Shinn Féin, has campaigned on this issue along with other youth organisations. We have included...

Citizens Information Bill 2006: Second Stage (24 Oct 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...could have any problem with that. He went on to speak about accompanying sectoral plans and the Education for People with Special Needs Act. This demonstrates the direction in which legislation is going. Unfortunately, when we look at the Education for People with Special Needs Act, we are all aware of the difficulties of roll-out. Parents of special needs children have problems in...

National Drugs Strategy. (14 Jun 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...I was approached by a family in Cork whose son was in the local hospital. There was no room in the psychiatric unit so he ended up in the geriatric unit. The family informed me that their son must go to Dublin every day to get treatment. There is no methadone treatment in the Cork or Limerick area so people are travelling to Dublin every day. One of the difficulties for people in those...

Road Safety Authority Bill 2004: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (5 Apr 2006)

Seán Crowe: I do not have a problem with the appointment of Mr. Gay Byrne. I do not know much about the man aside from seeing him on television. I was impressed with his comment that if the Government was not willing to listen, he would resign. These appointments should be advertised and people should be selected for the position on the basis of their credentials and in an open and transparent manner....

Stay Safe Programme. (5 Apr 2006)

Seán Crowe: ...for leadership on this matter. No one wants to compulsorily force parents to accept the programme but leadership is required in this respect. I think everyone accepts that this is the proper way forward for children. Where do children go whose parents wish them to opt out of participation in the programme? Is the Department working on schemes to look after children at school who will not...