Results 561-580 of 1,073 for speaker:Emer Currie

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Ruled out.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank both speakers for their kind words about my dad. It is very much appreciated. I think he would agree with me when I say that we were the lucky ones. I too want to remember the 3,700 people who lost their lives and, of course, the people who never gave up on finding peace. I thank Mr. Ahern for marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with us today. I have had the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: As part of the commemoration of 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement, we met the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. That has been a success for some families but not for all. There are still four families who are waiting for their loved ones to be returned. We remember families like that of Columba McVeigh, who are searching for Columba at the moment in County...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I raise the shambles that is going on at Dublin Airport because there is not enough car parking in the short term. For our national airport to advise passengers to get lifts from friends is something I do not think I have ever heard before. If it is bad now, it will be bedlam during the summer. This is not about increasing the car parking spaces at Dublin Airport; this is because there is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I would challenge that decision.

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I congratulate the Minister on this legislation to deal with the registration of social workers, to look at UK medical degrees and to make sure there is access for training posts in Ireland. I am probably going to be in the same territory as my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney. As we know, CORU is a multi-professional regulator that looks after the nine professions and the hugely valuable...

Seanad: 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (30 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank Senators McGreehan and Blaney. I know that normally wild horses would not keep Senator Blaney away from a debate like this so I hope everything is okay. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs is welcome to the Chamber and I thank him for all the work he has done on reconciliation, Northern Ireland and the shared island unit as Taoiseach. It comes from a genuine place...

Seanad: 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (30 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Senator very much.

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the members of Young Fine Gael for their hard work on this, in identifying an issue that really needed to be focused on to shine the spotlight on it. I thank Senator Ward for helping to bring it to this point, and Senators Doherty and Seery Kearney for their involvement. It is great to be part of a party that is a campaigning party, because that is what it is all about. I very much...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: Mr. McDonnell is welcome. I thank him for all his advocacy over the years. It has been interesting to hear what he has had to say about Brexit and the Windsor Framework. Perhaps we can get into that issue but my first question is whether ISME has put any work into the impact of constitutional change on the island. Has it thought at all about what would happen if we were to become a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: In order to help in that regard, I will ask if there are any issues that ISME considers it would be important for us to consider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: How does Mr. McDonnell think the EU would react to the whole island of Ireland having access to the UK and EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: Regarding divergence of regulation and law between North and South because of UK policy, Mr. McDonnell mentioned working time. Has that been floated as a potential idea or is Mr. McDonnell hypothesising?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: We need to talk about knife crime. Some 2,000 to 2,500 knives are seized per year currently, with 2,132 seized in 2023, and according to our colleague, Deputy Alan Farrell, that is an increase of 78% in the past seven years. The highest number was in 2020, during Covid, when there was a strong community presence. I think we all agree on the need for increased visibility of community...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: I express my deepest sympathy to all former Senator Jackman's family members. The distinction of her career as both a councillor and Senator has been well described.She was a tireless advocate who worked diligently to address the needs and concerns of the people of Castletroy. She was a founding member of the Women's Political Association in Limerick and was involved in establishing...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Crime Prevention (22 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister for Justice for taking this Commencement matter this morning. We are here to talk about antisocial behaviour and an increase in knife crime in urban communities. I wish to pay my respects to the family of Aaron Keating in Ongar. Tragically, he was a victim of knife crime last week. There are no excuses for the taking of a life in these circumstances. The impact of an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Crime Prevention (22 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister for her response. One issue which has come up in the past few days is the investigation time for knife crime. I believe it is only 24 hours as opposed to a week if there was a firearm involved. Gardaí have said to me that that would be something that might help. I am also interested in the work that is happening on the community safety partnerships, the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: I want to raise a report we received from Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, a couple of days ago with regard to problem gambling. It stated that an earlier figure that has been in the public domain, which is that 12,000 adults are impacted, is most likely an underestimation of the problem of gambling. We know that it does not just affect people directly, but that it affects...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the witnesses for a very informative presentation, just like the previous one they gave us. They have painted a stark landscape and I would like them to reflect on the bigger picture, having laid out the individual issues. There is no assembly in the North at the moment and that has an obvious impact on people's quality of life, but they pointed also to a systemic inequality that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Impact of Brexit on the Divergence of Rights and Best Practice on the Island of Ireland: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: The witnesses are being very restrained about the attack on rights. The future is stark given that people in the North are looking at being second-class citizens in terms of their rights. There is a lot of energy going into the impact of the Windsor Framework and there is not enough attention being paid to this.