Results 501-520 of 544 for speaker:Shane Moynihan

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I encourage the Government to prioritise them as a matter of urgency.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 23. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his participation in meetings of the coalition of the willing in support of Ukraine. [56998/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Ukraine War (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: The territorial integrity of any nation state is a sacrosanct principle and should guide any of our interventions in the area of foreign policy. What preparations are being made by the Government in terms of the overall reparations that need to be made to the Ukrainian people at the end of the war? How will the Government support a special tribunal for the crime of aggression against...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Ministerial Council (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 101. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the role his Department is playing in supporting, strengthening and expanding the areas of co-operation under the North-South Ministerial Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56947/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Ministerial Council (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I ask about the role the Tánaiste and his Department are playing in supporting, strengthening and expanding the areas for co-operation under strand two of the Good Friday Agreement through the operation of the North-South Ministerial Council, which had its plenary meeting a few days ago.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Ministerial Council (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank the Tánaiste for that reply. For sure, the North-South Ministerial Council is one of the great institutions under the Good Friday Agreement to advance co-operation on the island and to embed that co-operation between the two administrations. In the communiqué that was published, there is the sheer fact that was pointed to with regard to the investment that has been made,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: North-South Ministerial Council (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I am encouraged to hear the Tánaiste talking about the importance of those dynamic co-operations. When you look at three strands of the Good Friday Agreement, while there have been stops and starts with strand one, the Executive and the Assembly in Northern Ireland, by its very nature strand two cannot operate without strand one being in place, so it is good to see that renewed...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Tá míle fáilte roimh na finnéithe ar fad chuig an gcruinniú seo. Tosóidh mé leis an Roinn bhreisoideachais más féidir. Faoi mar atá ráite ag an Teachta Ó Snodaigh, tá easpa práinne de chineál éigin sa ráiteas a chur an Roinn ar fáil. Agus mé ag machnamh agus ag féachaint ar na...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: The Department could, when mandating its funding streams for the likes of SOLAS or the HEA, say that, from 2029 on, it wants them to ensure there is bilingual provision available for the training providers in their apprenticeships. The Department does not need to wait for another Department to tell it to do that. In a Gaeltacht area, it is not beyond the realms of possibility to say there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I do not mean to cut across, but we are talking at cross-purposes here. I am not necessarily asking for more; I am asking for a different type of what the Department is doing. That is the issue. This is not a workforce need issue, but I understand that point. That is fine for plumbers and electricians and they being able to learn in Irish. What I am wondering about, however, is the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: How does the Department ensure consistency across schools with exemptions? Is there external oversight or audit? For example, is a sample of exemptions taken and examined to determine whether the criteria have been applied consistently?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Is that not a gap?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: While I get the whole idea of devolution of responsibilities to the principals, what I do not get is why the Department would introduce such a system without introducing oversight at the same time. Why does the Department have to wait for a survey two or three years later to see whether there is consistency? There has obviously been a ballooning in the number of exemptions. The first thing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Does Mr. Bohan agree that, when a system like this is being introduced, some sort of oversight should be put in place? That is why we audit spending on public bodies. That is done every year. Was a decision taken not to introduce that oversight at the time?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I am talking about the one introduced in 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: The devolution to principals is only a recent thing, however.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Principals make the final decision on an exemption. Has that ever been subject to any oversight?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Díreach leis an bpointe a chríochnú, is cúis imní dom nach bhfuil níos mó eolais ag an gcigireacht maidir le cur i bhfeidhm na gcritéar seo le cinntiú go bhfuil na díolúintí á dtabhairt ar bhealach cothrom trasna na scoileanna sin. Is bearna í sin i mo thuairim. Tuigim go bhfuil muid faoi bhrú le cúrsaí ama.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 60. To ask the Taoiseach the plans of the Shared Island unit in relation to sport; if further Shared Island dialogues, funding streams or specific cross-Border sporting initiatives are envisaged; and the way in which the unit intends to support greater all-island cooperation and investment in sport infrastructure and participation in the years ahead. [49957/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cross-Border Co-operation (21 Oct 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 61. To ask the Taoiseach if he will elaborate on the work that is planned under the Shared Island initiative to address divergence in employment standards North and South, particularly in the context of cross-Border employers and workers, and the way in which this will be advanced in the coming period. [49958/25]