Results 161-180 of 5,025 for speaker:Maurice Quinlivan
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Mr. D'Arcy would like to come in first.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: If Ms Carr does not have a specific answer to that question, which was raised at a previous meeting, she can do her best to answer it.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: I wish to follow on from the comments made at the previous committee, which our guests probably did not hear, but it was about the number of Travellers in homeless accommodation and we did not get a real answer. I thank the CCMA for the figures and for advising us to interpret them with caution, which we accept. In fairness, the figures are more reflective of what was said at a previous...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Do our guests think it would be better to do an average of their years to get the spend?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Would it be fairer to calculate the average spend by adding up all the money spent divided by the number of years?
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: In some years a council might spend nothing or a low amount as it is planning projects.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Again, how long does the process take for a project? I know all projects differ. It has been suggested that the Department never refuses an application. Is that the sense for people here? I mean that they have never had their application refused. Are applications sent back to local authorities for clarification? Do the witnesses have an estimate of any projects that have been delayed...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Yes.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Funding Strategy for Traveller-Specific Accommodation: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: I am acutely aware that taxpayers' money is being used but when there are issues where a council comes with something that is not exactly right and then the Department has a duty to us all to get that right. I thank everybody for attending here today.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Apologies have been received by Deputy Seamus Healy and Senators Nikki Bradley and Maria Byrne. The purpose of today's meeting is the discussion on progressing the delivery of disability services. On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive officer of the HSE; Ms Martina Queally, regional executive officer of the HSE, Dublin south west; Dr....
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: I thank Mr. Gloster very much. I now invite members of the committee to put their questions. When I call members to speak, they should adhere to the agenda item scheduled for discussion and to their time. The first speaker is Sinn Féin's Deputy Ó Murchú.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: The Deputy's time is up; I am sorry.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: The Deputy can come back in again. The next speaker is Deputy Quaide.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: Please, be very brief.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: The next person is Fianna Fáil's Martin Daly.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: The next person is Deputy Micheál Carrigy from Fine Gael.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: I am sorry, Deputy, but the time is up. We will finish our first round and then the members will be able to come in again. I wish to ask two brief questions. When do we expect the autism protocol to be published? What is its purpose? This question is for people listening to us this morning. Mr. Gloster might also expand on the single front door policy and what we hope to get out of it.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Maurice Quinlivan: I am sorry but on the single front door policy, who can make the referrals?