Results 241-260 of 1,132 for speaker:Garret Ahearn

Seanad: Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (20 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the debate on the Bill, and I offer my support it. I wish to touch on the point Senator Hoey finished on regarding stigma. As public representatives, we talk to people who are probably open enough to talk about it and do not suffer from a need to hide anything, or at least they do not any more, while they might have had at the time. There are so many people in this country, even...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the announcement yesterday by the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, on active travel funding. Some €289 million is being spent on walking and cycling across the country. Tipperary was successful and secured €6.6 million, which is very welcome. However, as I stated last week, it is extremely frustrating for us to be told before Christmas that the N24 road project...

Seanad: Climate and Agriculture: Statements (25 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: If it is agreeable, I will share half my time with Senator Maria Byrne.

Seanad: Climate and Agriculture: Statements (25 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: The Minister is welcome to the Chamber. I will follow on from the comments made by Senators Malcolm Byrne and Kyne about the work the Minister did before Christmas in visiting marts. I was at a mart with the Minister in Thurles and I think he was there for four and a half hours. If anyone says the Minister is not willing to talk to ordinary farmers on the ground, that was not the...

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I wish to share time with Senator Maria Byrne.

Seanad: Broadband Roll-out: Statements (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I listened to Senator Casey talking about a connection date of December 2023. We in Tipperary would love to get it by December 2023. The connection to my house will be is December 2024 and connections to other people's houses in the county will be in 2025 and 2026. That said, God knows where we would be if we had followed the route advocated by others, especially the Independents who voted...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I ask that we have a debate with the Minster for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on childcare providers. There is a whole range of things that we need to do to improve the service and how they manage. Parents are telling me about a real situation at the moment on foot of the really positive news last week that everything is reopening. We have parents across the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome Mr. Shanahan and his team and thank Mr. Shanahan for his responses so far. I thank him and his staff for the work they have done during what have been difficult times over the past number of years. In light of the results - all extremely positive and successful - they have presented today, one would swear there was no pandemic at all. I have a question relating to a serviced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank Mr. Shanahan very much. On the question of Tipperary, we had positive news back in June, of an extra 200 jobs from Pfizer in Nenagh which was very welcome. The company is now sponsoring the Tipperary GAA team for 2022 which is greatly welcomed. On Clonmel, there is a serviced site there that the IDA owns along with Tipperary County Council at Ballingarrane. There is a building...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank Mr. Shanahan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I would like to follow on from some of my colleagues today in saying that multinational companies have many positive things. I do not think that many people - there are certainly very few in Clonmel - who would speak negatively about the role that multinationals play in security of employment, as well as what they give back to the community. At the moment, we have a development with which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Does Mr. Shanahan see the N24 as something that would do that as well?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Strategy, Targets, Achievements and Future Progress: IDA Ireland (26 Jan 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Perfect. I thank Mr. Shanahan.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Organ Donation (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and thank her for coming here to speak on this matter. I am aware the issue is important to her, her colleagues and the Department. However, it is also an issue that is important to the Government, because it commits in the programme for Government to addressing this in its lifetime. Instead of having our current system for people who wish to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Organ Donation (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State for her response and her support. The most important line in her response is "Signing up to the opt-out register will be a definitive expression of the person’s wish to not become an organ donor after death." This means that the current confusion will be gone. One organ donor can save eight lines. It is phenomenal. She give an example of the case in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I acknowledge Senator O'Loughlin's presence in the Acting Leader position today on what is St. Brigid's Day. I welcome that, during Private Members' business tomorrow, we will debate passports with the Minister for Foreign Affairs and we will all have an opportunity to contribute on it. As public representatives, we all encounter people who have forgotten that their passports are out of...

Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I am sharing my time with Senator Doherty. I welcome the Tánaiste to the Chamber and I welcome the Bill. I acknowledge Senator Doherty's previous role, as Minister responsible for employment affairs, and her role in bringing this Bill to a certain stage. There has always been confusion over tips. I was examining some of the main issues that hospitality workers spoke about in respect...

Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I wish to raise the same issue as Senator Daly in respect of the 2009 waste management regulations. There are farmers in County Tipperary who got letters from the county council, as they do every year, to say they were exempt in the context of controlled burning on their farms. They were then sent letters stating that, unknown to them and certainly unknown to us as public representatives...