Results 421-440 of 1,132 for speaker:Garret Ahearn

Seanad: Passport Office: Motion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: There has been a big increase in antisocial behaviour in Clonmel and the surrounding areas in recent weeks. This has been brewing for a number of years. Gardaí are doing their best but their resources are limited. We have now got to the stage where a young farmer was beaten so badly this week that he almost died. There is a fear within the community, across Clerihan, Lisronagh and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister for being here and for his presentation. Last week's budget was clearly about protecting jobs, people, families and employment through a difficult time of uncertainty. He used a cake analogy. We cannot take it for granted it will always be there. It is sometimes accepted that we are in a position that other countries are not, which means we are able to give out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I have a question in regard to employment permits but I first want to pick up on the discussion about the south east. I am from the south east but people sometimes forget that my area of south Tipperary is part of the south-east region. We saw in the census figures some months ago that the number of people who are now moving to the south east is much higher than the national average. Those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: Yes. It is a key priority for the Government and it is on the national development plan. It is not that it is doing nothing at the moment; it is progressing quite well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: With regard to work permits, the last time the Minister was at the committee, 70% or 80% of the conversation for the two hours was about work permits, whereas today one speaker referred to it briefly. The Minister might expand as to where we were and where we are now, and what measures he and the Department have put in place to improve the situation dramatically? Certainly, from the calls I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Quarters 1 and 2: Discussion (5 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I have a local question. I am conscious this is the last time Deputy Varadkar will be before the committee as Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment. I refer to the IDA Ireland site in Clonmel. The Minister met the chief executive of Tipperary County Council a year ago. The site is due to be developed between the county council and IDA Ireland. Due to Clonmel's success, phase 1 of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I ask for a debate on Irish Water to be arranged and for the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, to be invited to attend. I do not think we have had a debate on Irish Water for quite some time. In Clonmel, which is in my own county of Tipperary, we have waited years for a new water treatment plant and expected that it would arrive at some point....

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

Garret Ahearn: Will the Leader arrange a debate with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth regarding the reports over the past number of days about Ukrainian citizens who do not have accommodation? It is important to recognise that although it is a difficult situation for people who come into this country, 52,000 have come from Ukraine and they have been housed and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna (Atógáil) - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Disability Services (26 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House for this very important Commencement matter. I thank him for being here, because it is in his Department. I would like to acknowledge the good work he is doing as Minister of State in the Department of Health. I tabled this Commencement matter on foot of the retirement of Dr. Victor O’Loughlin from his post as a consultant child...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna (Atógáil) - Commencement Matters (Resumed): Disability Services (26 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State. I know he has been working on this because we have spoken privately about it. I am grateful that a candidate has been offered a position. The start date cannot be soon enough. A professional from the UK currently comes over once a month. In this regard, the HSE is not fit for purpose. Certainly from the perspective of parents of children with disabilities,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I will be talking about the same issue. I did not know Senator Lombard was going to talk about it. I also request a debate with the Minister of State with responsibility for special education on special schools and special needs assistants, SNAs, and teachers in particular. It is important to recognise the amount of funding announced in the budget last month. Some €2.6 billion has...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: -----and they really need to be given a decent wage for the important work they do. The Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, visited Tipperary last week and she came to a number of schools. She visited two schools in particular, the fantastic special educational schools that we have in Cashel, namely, Scoil Chormaic and Scoil Aonghusa. She met the two principals, Lorraine Lowry and Siobhan...

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (26 Oct 2022)

Garret Ahearn: To pick up on that point, it is infuriating given there are obvious, simple solutions that do not seem to be listened to when we put them forward. This was well intended, but a lot of the problems we are talking about have been caused by us, the Government, and that is just a fact. Everyone who has been in that situation and who has been left without a seat on the bus is well aware that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (9 Nov 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. This is technically a Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science issue, but this project incorporates the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage as well. Kickham Barracks was closed in 2014 and since then a plan has been put forward by Tipperary County Council to revitalise the town of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (9 Nov 2022)

Garret Ahearn: I thank the Minister of State for his response. He is right that the Minister, Deputy Harris, has been to the fore and supportive of the proposal put forward by Tipperary County Council. It is about making sure the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science steps up and gives the funding it needs to give. That is what the Minister of State's Department...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2022)

Garret Ahearn: There were an awful lot of good announcements in the tax measures brought forward in the budget a number of months ago, including the €500 tax relief credit that renters can apply for this year, next year and so on. The first time they apply for it, they can get two tranches, which will equate to €1,000 in credit. The good thing about that is that if someone is renting a house...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Nov 2022)

Garret Ahearn: The landlord gets €14,000 for renting a room.