Results 161-180 of 616 for speaker:Grace Boland

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I know that but it was not even fully allocated. I got a response to a parliamentary question telling me that only €23.2 million has been allocated. That should have been fully allocated. We need to look at that again and make absolutely sure that everything we have is fully allocated.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I really appreciate that. I will now turn to equality legislation. I am a lawyer and have worked in this space a lot. The Equality Acts are completely inaccessible and very difficult to navigate. They are difficult to navigate for a lawyer, someone who has worked in this space for a long time. People who try to use the Equality Acts generally are referred to the WRC where they do not get...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: Is that general scheme for codification or is it a separate Bill?

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I welcome that but it is going to be yet another Act in a hotchpotch patchwork of legislation, which is not appropriate for the space we are in.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: Barely a day goes by when I am not told how lucky I am to have such a supportive husband and it is true. I am very lucky to have a very supportive husband, who does a great job, but our marriage is a partnership. I do not believe many of my male colleagues get the same commentary. The cultural biases regarding fathers as parents really need to change. The CSO and ESRI data show that the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: It is very welcome.

Committee on Children and Equality: Priority Issues Facing the Department: Minister for Children, Disability and Equality (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: And a public campaign on awareness.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: 151. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to detail her plans to hold an education convention; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30555/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (12 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the plans for DEIS; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30554/25]

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. It is good to hear that Mr. Walsh is living in north County Dublin, like myself. I am a Skerries woman.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I represent Dublin Fingal West, so Skerries, Balbriggan, Rush, Lusk, and the rural villages of Garristown-----

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: -----and Oldtown, and very proudly so. It is extremely difficult for our people to get to any of the driving test centres. I would very much echo calls for a driving test centre in north County Dublin. It is the youngest and fastest growing area in the country between Swords, Balbriggan, Skerries, Rush and Lusk. It has a huge population and we have people heading to Finglas, Raheny or...

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: Mr. Walsh might come back to us and talk about that. I would appreciate it if we could have the RSA in again. How does Ireland compare internationally on the driving test?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: Where do we stand on road deaths?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: I am sorry to push Mr. Waide. I am just really tight on time.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: With the best being top?

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: The RSA might come back to talk to us about that and what more can be done around road safety.

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: Between schools and all of that, I have anecdotal evidence that some of the programmes are very much focused on driving rather than road safety for pedestrians, like for van drivers. It would be good to hear what-----

Committee on Transport: Driving Test and NCT Delays: RSA (11 Jun 2025)

Grace Boland: That is good to hear. I have less than a minute left. I thank Mr. Waide for that, and he might come back and talk to us.