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- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bus Services (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Education, Deputy Madigan, to the House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: I believe this is the first visit of the Minister of State, Deputy Kieran O'Donnell, to the House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: My apologies; it is my first time meeting him as Minister of State.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: It is a privilege for me, while in the Chair, to welcome my neighbour and good friend, the Minister of State, and I congratulate him on his appointment.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Representation Allowance (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: I thank the Minister of State. I would like to acknowledge the sterling work that Senator Davitt does in this area on a regular basis in this House.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Urban Development (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: Senator Boyhan has decades of experience in this area. When he speaks, he speaks with authority.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)
Martin Conway: I support the Order of Business as outlined by the Leader. I have raised directly with the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, in recent weeks and before Christmas the issue of hotel providers not receiving payment for a number of months for hosting Ukrainians. It has come to my attention again this week that a number of hotel providers in...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I very much welcome the announcement by the Minister for Finance on the extension of the temporary business energy support scheme. It has helped thousands of businesses in rural and urban parts of the country to deal with the exorbitant cost of energy. There is one flaw when it comes to businesses in rural areas that use gas and that are not on a mains or metered. Those on metered gas...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Of course I should acknowledge St. Brigid's Day. It will be a bank holiday dedicated to my wife.
- Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I join the Acting Chairperson in welcoming the group from St. Christopher's Services, a great facility in County Longford. I welcome also the Minister of State. This is a difficult and challenging subject and she is dealing with decades of underfunding. Trying to scale up quickly is a big challenge. When the report was published last year regarding the situation in Kerry, we were all...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges: - the unprecedented level of spending on health in 2023; more than €24bn has been committed to our health services nationally; - that total health expenditure has been increasing steadily over the last decade; - the significant investment in the UL Hospitals Group; - a number of capital projects have been completed at UL...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to the Seanad this evening. His presence to address this critical Private Members' motion speaks volumes of his commitment to this issue. It is a critical for us in the mid-west. For some years people in the mid-west have suffered considerably as a result of the overcrowding in the emergency department at University Hospital Limerick. It is...
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: If Sinn Féin goes into government will it open the 24-hour accident and emergency unit in Ennis?
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: I just asked a question.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: No.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Who cracked a joke?
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Withdraw that statement.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: On a point of order, where did Senator Gavan come up with the point that this was a joke? I never made a joke. I asked him a simple question. If Sinn Féin goes into government will it open the 24-hour accident and emergency unit in Ennis? That is a simple ask.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: We need a few facts.
- Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)
Martin Conway: Let us deal in facts.