Results 181-200 of 227 for speaker:Nessa Cosgrove

Committee on Children and Equality: Child Poverty and Deprivation: Discussion (9 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I thank Ms Bayliss.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Thanks, Chairman. Tá fáilte isteach roimh gach duine. I thank everyone for their opening addresses. I too extend my sympathies to Ms Gray and all the members of PARC who have lost loved ones in fatal road collisions. I have a very simply question for the Department of Transport. I was at a very stark and shocking briefing last Thursday from the Love 30 campaign. There was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is a lot of pushback on this and some county councils are not going to do it and it will not be implemented. The first phase is fantastic and really welcome. This group has suggested the introduction of special speed limits and having that be the by-law within the county councils. The default would be that it would go down to 30 km/h but county councils could apply to have special...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There are probably conditions to have amendments within the Road Traffic Act, though. That could be possible within the Act itself. I mean to change the default, like with phase 1. Phase 2 would be the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is a lot of disappointment. I am sure the officials have heard this and I know there was a representative from Mr. Kenny's office at it. There is a lot of disappointment because there is overwhelming evidence about reduced speed limits. I am just looking at some of the evidence we have been given here. If a pedestrian is hit be a car going at 30 km/h, one in ten will die; at 50...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Maybe I will wait until it comes back around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have some observations. It was raised that 70% of road fatalities are on rural roads. Five out of six, excluding Dublin, have been along the west coast, three in the west and north west - Mayo, Galway and Donegal. There has to be a correlation - the populations are less but we do not have the available public transport. This needs to be addressed. The western rail corridor needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: If it is necessary to have another app which people are obviously using, would it be useful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: People are still using it though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It must address a need. Otherwise, it would not exist. People are willing to pay €12 for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have been here for hours just for my three minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That would counteract it. If people have done their 12 lessons, their instructor will have said they are ready and then they wait four months for the test and they lose all their skills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It was about double testing. Why are theory questions asked in the driving test when the theory test is already done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: On the Queen's University study, will driving instructors will be included as part of the stakeholder body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Can I get the other answers?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That is all right. I know the feeling well. I second the amendment to the Order of Business by Senator Stephenson. I request that the Minister for education, Deputy McEntee, provide a breakdown of the €8 million allocated for youth work in the budget. As a former youth worker who worked for many years in the youth sector, I know first-hand how youth work changes lives. It has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó – Order of Business (15 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Anyone who was listening to Claire Byrne yesterday would have been struck by the very sad but uplifting story of Claire Colum from Strokestown in Roscommon. Ms Colum spoke about her daughter Kate, who was five years old when she died following a severe strep A infection on 31 March 2023. Kate had been admitted to Sligo University Hospital on the Wednesday of that week after she became very...

Seanad: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I welcome the Minister of State. His being here again is a reflection of the interest we have in rail in the west. He knows this well himself. For once, I am not going to be talking about the western rail corridor. I will refer to it only at the very end. I have a picture to hand to show the significant rail gaps referred to in the all-Ireland rail review. The document recognises...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Defective Building Materials (16 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I will speak about the amended scheme for remediation of defective blocks. Reliance is upon the standard IS 465 of 2018 which is unfit for purpose. It assesses superficial damage, not structural stability, and needs revision based on the best scientific evidence available on pyrrhotite sulfate attack. Engineers have downgraded recommendations for the full demolition of properties to...