Results 601-620 of 669 for speaker:Grace O'Sullivan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Senator Conway-Walsh spoke about the process for the CAP strategic plan. What is the timeline for the public to make an input to the consultation? The officials said they meet some people but what about others? As Deputy Ó Cuív said, we need a monumental shift in how we do things. Food Wise 2025 envisages a 60% increase in agricultural production. We will have a 30% increase in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the Joint Committee on Rural and Community Development
Common Agricultural Policy: Discussion (22 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Senator Conway-Walsh spoke about the process for the CAP strategic plan. What is the timeline for the public to make an input to the consultation? The officials said they meet some people but what about others? As Deputy Ó Cuív said, we need a monumental shift in how we do things. Food Wise 2025 envisages a 60% increase in agricultural production. We will have a 30% increase in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: I thank Dr. Reidy for the presentation. I absolutely agree with the contributions from both of my colleagues. The Green Party is very supportive of evidence-based research that will provide information to enable and allow our democracy to develop and to give us the information on those who do not vote, the younger voter and why some people come out for one referendum and not another. It is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Professor Farrell spoke about the elections of 2011 and 2016. Has he conducted any studies in the area of local and European elections? I am thinking about younger voters, who Dr. Reidy mentioned, and about trying to involve them in the process and educate them about the importance of voting. The local elections are what affect them at home and on the ground. It might be something that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish National Election Study: Discussion (23 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: A mock election was carried out in a primary school in Tramore prior to the 2016 election. The young people acted as candidates representing the different parties and had to present. The teacher went through the process very formally and children were elected. The candidate who won offered no homework and ice cream on a Friday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Electoral and Referendum Reform: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (23 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: What percentage of people are eligible to vote? Have the witnesses ever considered providing for automatic registration at 18 years of age, in respect of which the individual would have the option to opt-out? The current system is inefficient. We need to energise and exercise as many people as possible to vote in a democracy. We need a mechanism to bring people to the table. I hope that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Exploration Licences (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the Chamber. I know this is matter is not his specific area but I will address it and, hopefully, receive some response. On 4 October 2018, by statutory instrument, the Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment removed from local authorities the power to require an environmental impact assessment for prospecting, which means...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Exploration Licences (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Absolutely.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Exploration Licences (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State and appreciate the clarification on the matter. It must be made very clear that where an EIA takes place there must also be community involvement because the last thing we want is to have multinationals coming in and creating chaos in communities. I thank the Minister of State for the clarification.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: An issue that has arisen recently and which was brought into focus at a demonstration this morning on Dawson Street is that of trainee pharmacists. Since 2015, trainee pharmacists in Ireland are required to complete a five-year integrated Master's programme with one of the three accredited pharmacy schools - UCC, Trinity College or the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, RCSI. The new...

Seanad: Climate Action: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: The Minister is welcome to the House. He started his contribution by referring to his attendance at and participation in the conference in Katowice and the impact climate change will have on the islands in the Pacific, the low-lying atolls, many of which I visited in 1985. In 1986 I was down in Antarctica and we were already hearing about climate change and the melting of the glaciers,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: My first question is for the ESRI and relates to accessibility and affordability. Does the ESRI consider accessibility to housing in its research? I ask because there is always a cost of getting to work, school and community facilities. I will ask Mr. Hugh Brennan a similar question on accessibility. The suggestion that the State make 20% of IDA Ireland land available for housing is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Affordable Housing: Discussion (31 Jan 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Does the ESRI have a definition of affordability when it conducts research?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: I stand in support of the nurses who are out picketing today. I stood in the rain and cold on Tuesday with nurses in Waterford and listened to their stories about how unfairly they feel they are being treated. I saw members of the community coming with flasks of tea and coffee and all kinds of provisions to support them. They stated that nurses cared for them and they wanted to pay them...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: It is time the Minister accounted for it. Why are the Ministers, Deputies Harris and Donohoe, not sitting down with the unions and communicating with them and seeing what the problem is? There is no dialogue happening. The only dialogue we hear is in media accounts of what is happening. I saw the nurses on strike in Waterford but I went into the strike committee centre in the hospital and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Last week I visited a number of primary schools in Tramore, Glór na Mara, Holy Cross, Gaelscoil Philib Barún, Educate Together and Fenor national school. Right now Fórsa estimates that 10% of the country's approximately 3,500 school secretaries are paid directly by the Department of Education and Skills, with their salaries varying from €24,000 to €44,711 per...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Dr. Mahon referred to pathways in regard to her research of freshwater. Does the pathway of her research extend to the coastal environment? Rivers flow into the sea. Is that where the plastic will end up?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Where will that study take place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: Dr. Mahon referred to the potential pathways of microplastics from industry and emissions to the atmosphere. Will she explain that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Prohibition of Certain Products Containing Plastic Microbeads Bill 2018: Discussion (12 Feb 2019)

Grace O'Sullivan: I am concerned when Dr. Mahon talks about the pathway through the sewer system where one has the anaerobic digestion, the thermal drying and the lime.