Results 61-80 of 130 for speaker:Joe Conway

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wish to speak for a few moments on the géarchéim that is attaching to Waterford Regional Airport. I have many misgivings following a recent meeting that took place between the Minister, local TDs, Ministers of State and the chief executive of Waterford City and County Council in Waterford. When we heard the Minister was meeting representatives and the chief executive, our hopes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: A Chathaoirligh, which Minister are we referencing? It seems the Minister in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach ar maidin agus a gcás a phlé linn. I am delighted to be taking part in this discussion and am particularly delighted to welcome David from Waterford. I think it is the first time I have heard such a rich Waterford city accent abroad in any of the Houses or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wanted to get a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I have nothing further to add only to wish the people in Fórsa the very best in their mighty efforts to get these anomalies and unfairnesses dealt with by the Department of public expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: The two of them.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: European Union (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I feel that I am in a midlanders’ get-together today. It is the first time I have had the pleasure to meet face to face with the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, who I think hails from Ballinacarrigy, County Westmeath. Am I right? I am. It is not too far down the road from the village of Ardagh, County Longford, where I was born and raised, and from Colehill, where I lived for a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: European Union (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I am charmed and warmed by the Minister of State's outline of where they are going forward. It sounds like a to-do list,and when people are coming up with to-do lists, it usually implies that people have been asleep at the wheel. The Irish versions of the new EU legal materials are being produced in real time. However, the EUR-Lex website, where EU law is published, has most important...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wonder if many in the House are familiar with the name Saif Musallet. Unfortunately, that young man’s name has been in the news quite prominently over the past few days, I suspect because he has dual nationality. He is Palestinian but he is also a citizen of the United States. He is a young man from Florida aged 19. He went in the springtime to visit his family in the West Bank...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I would be delighted to take a small trip down boithrín na smaointe for a little bit of nostalgia. Admittedly, the whole world of sport in Ireland has gone through some significant development over the last few decades. I want to paint a small picture of what sport was like for somebody like myself who went to a boarding school in the midlands of Ireland back in the 1960s. Even though...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: There has been a significant European dimension to the contributions this morning. I am happy to add my three ha'pence worth before we go our separate ways. I am charmed and warmed that a very important meeting is taking place this morning in London between Prime Minister Starmer and the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz. It signals a rapprochement and closeness between two countries that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2024 agus Caighdeán na Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha: Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Tá brón orm go raibh orm imeacht níos luaithe ach bhí dualgais eile le déanamh agam. Is mian liom cúpla rud a rá faoin oideachas sna bunscoileanna. Sular toghadh i mo Sheanadóir mé, d’oibrigh mé le coláiste oideachais, is é sin, Hibernia College, le scór bliain. Roimhe sin,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I thank Mr. Kent and the team. I want to address a couple of questions to Mr. Ó Ruairc. Earlier, he referred to 10,000 late applications. Will he provide a brief resumé on how applications are processed and what the final implication usually is? Will someone enlighten me as to the remote area grant scheme? I am not familiar with it. Afterwards, I will address a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: It seems a huge number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: What do they use that money for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Mr. Kent and I are neighbours in Tramore. There is no conflict of interest because I will be just as mean to him now. I am probably unique among those in the room. I was principal of a country four-teacher school in Dunmore East for 19 years, from 1986 to 2005. From 2005 until I was elected to the Seanad in January, I was an elected representative on the city and county council in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I would like to be associated with all the comments in relation to Martin Groves and Bridget Doody, who have now left us. I also welcome the new Martin and wish him well in his time here with us in the Upper House. I will draw attention briefly not to the election that is uppermost in many people's minds, but to an election that is coming up on Sunday next in the Republic of Moldova....

Seanad: Migration: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Before I came into the Seanad in January, for the previous 20 years I had the privilege of going around primary school classrooms for the 20 years from 2005 to 2025. It is a matter of great pride in being able to report the widespread work that is being done by primary teachers in integrating the new arrivals into Ireland and the tremendous work that is being done in social, personal and...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: The reason I deferred to Senator Scahill, even though I think I upset the lineage, is I was unprepared and I was trying to marshal a few figures. I want to celebrate the fact that we have the opportunity to comment on expenditure and the whole ambit of what we are doing with our money and productively. I draw the House's attention not for the first time to the expenditure on our defence...

Seanad: Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I commend the Minister of State and her colleagues on the substantial legislation we have under consideration. I admit that only in the previous day or so have I become in any way acquainted with it, which is probably greatly to my shame. It is an amazingly complex area. I do not think anybody in this State does not have family members or people they know affected by mental health and that...