Results 241-260 of 268 for speaker:Evanne Ní Chuilinn

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Bring them all in.

Committee on Drugs Use: Community Supports: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thank all of the witnesses for coming before the committee. I am glad Deputy Devine asked them to expand on the crack cocaine programme because I was conscious that the witnesses did not get to read their opening statements. Rest assured, we all read them. I might come back to them on that. I want to pick up on a feeling I am getting from all of the witnesses. It does not make sense...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: D'ardaigh mé rud éigin an tseachtain seo caite mar gheall ar mhaoiniú ar son TG4 ionas go mbeadh neamhspleáchas eagarthóireachta aige ina sheomra nuachta agus sna cláir nuachta a chuireann sé ar fáil. Fáiltím roimh an mhaoiniú sa bhuiséad inniu ón Roinn a chiallaíonn go mbeidh €65.4 milliún ar fáil do TG4,...

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

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I echo a couple of things before I get started. The first is about Ann Woodlock. Ann is from Drimnagh. I know her well. I see her every Saturday doing the park run. She is the best of us and she beats the best of us every single Saturday. Congratulations to her on her gold medal at the weekend and the best of luck this weekend in her next event. I also echo Senator Nelson Murray's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I thank all the witnesses for coming in today. We have been looking forward to having them in. It is fair to say that they are preaching to the converted at this committee. Everybody gets the challenges but it is really important that we point out the opportunity today as well because this is a blank sheet of paper to design Gaelic games in a way that they could not have been designed when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Brilliant. At that meeting was it a case of presenting research or ideas? What was the nature of the meeting?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: That is great. It leads onto my next question. Mr. Parsons mentioned the athlete's voice and how important it is. I have called for an athlete representative to be on every single board of every single NGB, not just in the GAA. The player's voice is under-represented at governance level. It is very important and I will be following up on it with the various NGBs. Mr. Parsons is one of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I am conscious that Mr. Meyler and Dr. Lane have literally written the book on this - or they are writing the book and doing the PhD study on integration in Gaelic games. Could I ask them about the detail at county board level? We get the big headline stuff around finances, facilities and funding, but when we look at every single club feeding into a county board and the split of three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Was it in the update from the steering group a few years ago? Do Mr. Parsons or Ms Begley know? No. I refer to the county board stuff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Was there a guideline for how it would work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I just have one more question in this round. It relates to the fact that we are losing two formidable women from leadership in Irish sport with the news that Helen O'Rourke and Sinéad McNulty are stepping away from the LGFA and the Camogie Association. Obviously, that leaves two voids or vacancies on the steering group. All things being equal, and if it was something that was allowed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: I think this is the first time male allyship has come up and it is so important. With the greatest of respect, while I understand where different people are coming from, you should not need to have daughters to see the need for equality. I stand by my comments around leadership and the athlete voice. It is not just me saying that the GPA should have a voice. It is international best...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: There has been no audit of county boards to see where the attitudes would lie.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Integration of the Ladies Gaelic Football Association and the Camogie Association with the GAA: Gaelic Players Association (15 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: The issue of drugs use in sport is coming before the Oireachtas Joint Committee On Drugs Use and as far as I know, an invitation has issued to the GPA. You could come to that meeting, Cathaoirleach, if you like.

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Thanks very much. I am sorry I was late but I was actually listening in remotely so I heard the opening statements. I will start by picking up on what Dr. O'Shea just said about PTSD and other traumas that are treatable. He also mentioned CBT in his opening statement and I spoke to Mr. Tom Conlon, a psychotherapist in Cork, about CBT recently. I understand it can be used to effectively...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: Dr. O'Shea makes a great evidence-based case for the ability to recover from trauma and for trauma to be treated How much more challenging is it in the case of a dual diagnosis, where an individual is obviously self-medicating and that is where the addiction begins in the first place? When individuals are gone beyond initial treatment, how difficult is it for medical professionals to treat...

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: The question then is how widespread that service is and how easy it is to access. It is very difficult to get access to a dual diagnosis treatment plan. Am I right about that?

Committee on Drugs Use: Intergenerational Trauma: Discussion (16 Oct 2025)

Evanne Ní Chuilinn: The point Dr. O'Reilly makes about seven centres and five of them being in Dublin demonstrates this is not an urban problem but a problem occurring everywhere. There was a conversation around public health and public health nurses. I spoke to a public health nurse recently who is dealing with many of these challenges on an ad hoc basis. There is no service in this particular town. This...