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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: It is not all doom and gloom out there. I know the Government, the Minister, Deputy Jack Chambers, and the Minister for enterprise have been instrumental in looking under the bonnet to find out what is happening and to cut out the bottle necks and the red tape holding up business.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I want to come back to what was said earlier. The Leas-Chathaoirleach spoke about déjà vu and Mr. McDonnell spoke about doing research and having all the answers but not doing anything with them. This is where we come into play. We must make sure the Government starts listening. We speak about the minimum wage as being the biggest problem we have at present and this is because...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I know I am just over time but I will go really quickly. This question is more for me than anything else. The research shows €1.8 billion in gross added value and 18,000 jobs. Where are those figures pulled from? That question is more personal rather than anything else.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Funding (30 Sep 2025)

Tony McCormack: 121. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the level of funding allocated to transport projects in County Offaly in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51421/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (30 Sep 2025)

Tony McCormack: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to improve public transport services in County Offaly; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51420/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (30 Sep 2025)

Tony McCormack: 301. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to set out his policy on improving public transport in rural areas; and if he will outline any planned investments or service expansions. [37624/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Biodiversity Plan (2 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: 48. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment for an update on the progress of the national broadband plan in County Offaly, particularly in rural communities still experiencing inadequate coverage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (2 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: 138. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that the current ambulance dispatch system ensures timely and equitable emergency response across all regions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52501/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (2 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: 167. To ask the Minister for Health if she is satisfied that current recruitment and retention strategies are sufficient to address staffing shortages across the health service; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52502/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I again thank Ms Finn for her contributions, and to all the other witnesses today.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I would like to be associated with the Leas-Chathaoirleach's comments. What happened in Carrickmines was an awful tragedy. I am from Offaly and we have a very strong Offaly Travellers group there. I am delighted to see that a lot of work has been done on halting sites, official and unofficial, in order that this type of tragedy does not happen in the future. My thoughts and prayers go to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the team from Tusla for coming in today and for the opening statement. It is disappointing the data we require is not being taken or the witnesses do not have it. Data is power, and when we are dealing with an ethnic minority group like Travellers, the more data we have, the more specific programmes we can put in place because we will know exactly where to target. I hear the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Just to intervene, we had representatives in from the National Traveller Women's Forum organisation last week. They spoke to us about the fact that it was very hard for them to have any trust in some cases, with child protection and what have you. What specific interventions is Tusla making in that regard or what processes or procedures are coming online that will actually make a difference?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Does Tusla have any Traveller people working in the organisation?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: What I am getting from Mr. Brophy is that it is a low number.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: To be honest, to deal with this aspect and to make sure people begin to trust in the systems we have, in Tusla, other organisations and groups like it, we need to bring in more Travellers. We need to sit down with the Traveller organisations and say this is where we are going to have vacancies for jobs and we need Traveller people to do courses. Last week we were talking about courses...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: To add to that, has Tusla put a bursary in place or is there help and support available for people from the Traveller community who want to do that course?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Brilliant. What targeted early intervention and family support initiatives are being delivered specifically for Traveller families to prevent crises and reduce the need for child protection interventions?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. I appreciate them. It is the day after the budget. The witnesses had their asks in a lot of cases. My questions would be on competitiveness and where the witnesses think we could go as a country. We all realise that the minimum wage has been increased. We all want to see workers getting paid more money and all the rest but at the same...