Results 801-820 of 1,995 for speaker:Joe Flaherty

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank Ms Robinson. Moving on to the UTPs, we have the ten practices classified under the directive as black, which we take as a given. There is an element of concern about the six grey ones. We have had a number of years' lead-in to this and we have custom and practice. Many of these have been bedded in. There is an unfair advantage there to the retailers, particularly against the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I bet most of the respondents were retailers.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I accept some of that. Much of the work Mr. Collins and his team have done has fed into what is being proposed. We now have a body of information to hand that will allow us to see what is happening in terms of the additional costs to small suppliers. I take on board that some suppliers will probably favour the grey practices remaining because they are market-dominant suppliers, it suits...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (29 Jun 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am happy with the Minister's commitment in this regard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I commend the Minister of State on her work to date and on the enthusiasm with which she meets the challenges relating to her very busy portfolio. Following on from Deputy Tully, the Minister of State will probably know what I am going to raise. I will be very parochial about it. The Minister of State has visited the children's disability network team in Longford. It is fair to say there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: What about the summer camp in Longford?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I am conscious that the Minister of State is probably running out of time. On her visit to Longford, she was probably struck by the location of the CDNT in the old workhouse building. Probably the only meritorious thing we can say about the building is that it was once home to Padraic Colum, the poet, but aside from that, it is a terrible reflection on our commitment to people with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I welcome Mr. Harris. Like Deputy Tully, I commend his outstanding work and that of AsIAm. It is great have such a strong advocacy group which not only challenges us but will also help us inform what will be very important policy into the future. I have taken one key nugget from Mr. Harris's opening statement which is that we need to move from mere autism awareness to a system where we are...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Immigration Status (13 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: 443. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of an application for the regularisation of long-term undocumented migrants' scheme by a person (details supplied). [38189/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: The approval only came through on the last day of term even though the school had been chasing it for several months because it was conscious that it would lose two incoming siblings if it did not have the class.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: It needs to be collaborative. When a school reaches out, we expect the full apparatus of the State to fall in behind it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I thank both unions for coming in and giving excellent presentations. There is no doubt that the country is facing many challenges. One of the defining challenges of our time, for which a call to action is required, is the need to address the deficiencies in special education. I acknowledge that the change in the socio-economic landscape has fed into that in terms of additional challenges...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I know that to get to that point, a lot of building blocks are needed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: Ms Ní Chéileachair made an articulated pitch for it and I have taken all of what she said on board. Has there been engagement with the Department on providing therapies on-campus or is it early days?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy in Education: Discussion (5 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I welcome the Minister of State and wish her well in what is a busy portfolio. I am conscious that some of my contribution will cross over into the responsibility of her colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, but both areas of responsibility come together with a common purpose in the betterment of our children. Notwithstanding the Minister of State's legislation that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: I apologise for being a little late coming down from voting. I am not as nimble as some of my colleagues. I thank Ms Graham for such a succinct opening statement. As the Chair rightly said, we have gone through several of the pillars of planning. This pillar might have been the most difficult to digest or explain, but Ms Graham has set it out very succinctly and clearly. The key point I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: There is some concern with onshore wind farm protest groups, for want of a better description, who are motivated by the best will of their local community, that this is a backdoor effort to change the guidelines that are there to make it easier for onshore wind farms. Have Ms Graham seen anything done at either EU level or in making our guidelines more robust, that is changing the guidelines...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Review and Consolidation of Planning Legislation: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (Resumed) (12 Jul 2022)

Joe Flaherty: We have a set-back distance for wind farms in Ireland. Has Ms Graham seen anything to suggest that there will be a change coming from European regarding that?