Results 781-800 of 1,033 for speaker:Joe Neville
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Even roughly or anecdotally, how long could the waiting time be? Could it be three months or four? I know every case will be different. If someone started in the process in the morning, how long might it take?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: So no one will be left sitting there.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: That is fine. I am only asking the question to fill in the gaps in my knowledge. It is no problem at all. I am struggling with some of the legal costs. Did we, or I should say the State - and I suppose there is a royal "we" to this aspect - spend over €870,000 on a case where we gave less than €50,000? Am I right about that? On whose side was that the cost?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: What were our costs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: It was €1.2 million on top of the €870,000, so that would be €2 million.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Obviously, it was far in excess of what was paid out. That is fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: I am just curious about the front-line staff versus the administrative and management aspect.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2024: Tusla - the Child and Family Agency (2 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Yes, but Ms Duggan will see why we have to raise the issue as well.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (9 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Following Deputy Aird's question about courts, I am looking for more prison spaces for guilty people.
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (9 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: I fully agree that incarceration is not always the answer. At the same time, we need to ensure that there are places in our prisons for those who commit offences. We also need to ensure that they know this. We have a great body of prison officers. They are some of the best people in our country. They work really hard and diligently on our behalf. I know many of them personally. We need...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Prison Service (9 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: I thank the Minister for his response. His colleagues, the two Ministers of State, have been very helpful in dealing with any queries and issues I have with the Department. I thank the Minister for his work since he came in, as well as his diligence, especially on this key issue. When people commit offences we need to ensure there are places for them, but we also need to ensure there is...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: In my first speech in this Chamber I highlighted the need for major upgrades in infrastructure in the State and I used many examples in my county of infrastructural deficiencies and issues that need to be resolved. As Vice Chair of the new infrastructure committee I focused extensively on obtaining an understanding of the blockages in the system and the difficulties we have throughout the...
- Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (9 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: I am very aware that through the sound economic foundation set by that Tánaiste and the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, over the years, we now have the opportunity to deliver for communities throughout the country. Not only do we have the houses but we have the facilities. I want to point out that three towns of Leixlip, Celbridge and Maynooth, which we all know and many of us pass on the...
- Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (7 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: 154. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department has made a decision in a visa appeal case for a person (details supplied); and if not, the timeframe for when the applicant will be notified. [53484/25]
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Who are the three construction companies?
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: We did.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: That is the suggestion I wish to make. Can we bring in house builders? It might be a separate meeting, as the ones the Chair just mentioned are construction firms and involved in big projects in town, but I am thinking of Ardstone, Glenveagh Homes and-----
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: Ardstone.
- Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Business of Joint Committee (8 Oct 2025)
Joe Neville: That would be perfect.