Results 221-240 of 357 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Aontaím le mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Ó Snodaigh. Tá muid ag bogadh sa treo ceart, cé nár glacadh lenár moltaí i dtaobh an toghcháin. Tá muid ag bogadh go dtí eagras a bheidh – cuid de ar a laghad – daonlathach. Leis an daonlathas, tagann an trédhearcacht. Ní féidir, is dócha, aon sampla a...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is bord Stáit agus údarás tofa atá ann. Mar sin, caithfimid féachaint ar na rialacha timpeall air seo. Ní féidir a rá gur dhá rud atá ann agus, mar sin, cloímid leis na rialacha a bhaineann le rud amháin. Dá mba rud é go bhfuilimid chun glacadh leis mar bhord Stáit le baill ceaptha agus tofa, agus is cosúil go...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Middle East (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 11. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that Israel is illegally withholding significant tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority, which it controls as a result of its ongoing illegal occupation; if the Government has raised this issue directly with Israel or at international fora; if the State will press for the release of this revenue to the Palestinian...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 99. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her Department’s approach to supporting democratic schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17723/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 100. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will engage with an organisation (details supplied) regarding to the establishment of a democratic school in Waterford. [17724/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If education is a right, why is access seemingly always a fight for families? As the Minister knows because I wrote to her and because parents have been in touch with her, almost 20 families in Dungarvan, County Waterford, are left without a special school place. There is a wider issue across Waterford city and county when it comes to capacity in special education spaces in mainstream...

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I sat in this Chamber last night and watched the Minister of State's colleagues in Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and those in the Lowry Independents group vote against a Sinn Féin Bill that would have permanently banned water charges. In my few short months in this House I have seen Minister after Minister duck questions about a referendum on the public ownership of water. Water must be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 431. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will reply to a school (details supplied) which wants to confirm a timeline with her Department with respect to a planned school extension which is urgently required, and to which it has not received a response since February 2025. [17468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 432. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will reply to a school (details supplied) which wants to confirm a timeline with her Department with respect to a planned school extension which is urgently required, and to which it has not received a response since February 2025. [17468/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 549. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will reply to a school (details supplied) which wants to confirm a timeline with her Department with respect to a planned school extension which is urgently required, and to which it has not received a response since February 2025. [17469/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Insurance Coverage (8 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 547. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how she will remedy the issue of rising insurance premiums for schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17466/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 548. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will make a determination regarding plans for the new school building at a school (details supplied) which have been with her Department since 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17467/25]

Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I share Deputy Rice's concerns in this regard. Whereas it might not be a question on the subsidiarity aspect, it is a political statement that may warrant being made in this forum as we are the first committee to examine these proposals. We need to write to both the enterprise committee and to the European affairs and environmental committees to ask them to take a hard look at this...

Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If I may clarify, when the Chair referred to the line committee, I assume we are also referring it to the two committees I previously noted?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What about confidence in the Minister?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: How is that going for you?

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Hear, hear.

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: This evening, we have gathered to speak about one of the most shameful failures of our health service in recent memory. God only knows how many children have undergone invasive, traumatic and completely unnecessary hip surgeries. We do not know, and that is the simple fact. We do not know exactly how many. Children have been subjected to unnecessary surgeries and families have been...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: A national planning framework should be a road map for fairness, decent living standards, balanced development and a future where no community is written off. What we have before us in the draft framework falls far short of that. It is a framework that gestures at ambition but lacks the backbone to deliver. It reads more like a vague wish list than a serious plan for action. This...

International Workers’ Day: Statements (1 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: On International Workers’ Day, we honour those whose work sustains our communities, public services and society. As a trade unionist, I reflect on the many struggles over many years for workers' rights and fairness. I want to speak for a group of workers who are far too often forgotten by the Government, namely those employed in the community and voluntary sector. These are people...