Results 301-320 of 1,073 for speaker:Emer Currie

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I am very supportive of this Bill. I thank Mr. Mulligan for his opening statement, in which he referred to his intention to look at a reduction in the number of grounds for refusal and to strengthen the redress provisions and the right to appeal. I will focus in the time available to me on heads 6 and 12. This legislation to allow for the right to request remote working is part of an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I will leave it there. I am particularly interested in the provisions under heads 6 and 12.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Emer Currie: It is part of a national strategy, though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Emer Currie: In the consultation we were more likely to hear from people who had reservations rather than the people who can show that this transition can be successful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (18 May 2022)

Emer Currie: It has been done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I thank the Deputy. I hope my computer is working now. It did not want me to speak earlier. I wish to ask our guests about social media because at the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee this week there was focus on how social media may play a part in targeting youth in terms of generating anti-social behaviour or being influenced by paramilitaries. What are the views of our guests in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Strive (19 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I do. I thank Ms Watters for what she said. I was in Belfast last summer and met some people who had also tried to de-escalate what was happening in interface areas. They said the youth workers were out on the ground and they spoke about the role they play. I thank the witnesses for that. I would take this opportunity to say, and I am sure everyone will agree with me, that is why we need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: It is nice to meet Mr. O'Connor.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I thank Mr. O'Connor very much. Looking back, what would he change? Given where we are with victims and legacy proposals, would victims be top of the list or are there others? Looking back with your insight-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: Yes. What would you change? It is not just what we should change, but what you would change.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: My godfather.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: As Mr. O'Connor has said throughout, relationships are absolutely key within that. What are the differences and the similarities between relationships back then in the 1990s and relationships now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: Will Mr. O'Connor comment on east-west relationships?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: Will Mr. O'Connor reflect on victims?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I should have said victims and legacy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: May I ask one more question?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: I went back over the records regarding when the Good Friday Agreement was delivered and signed. I looked at what my father said, which was, "This is the first day of the rest of our lives, the first day of the rest of our history". One could really feel the hope. It reminded me as well of the last episode of "Derry Girls". How do we keep that alive? Senator Ó Donnghaile talked about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Emer Currie: It is structures and implementation, to echo what Mr. O'Connor said earlier about lessons.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Emer Currie: I also offer my sympathies and condolences to the family of Councillor Collins. As someone whose life, personal and political, has been defined by the values, the ambition and the achievement of the Good Friday Agreement, I cannot stand by and let the British Government and the DUP misappropriate it. For the British Government to claim its motivation for the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill...