Results 81-100 of 130 for speaker:Joe Conway

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

Joe Conway: That is very interesting. I did not know that. I apologise for addressing the Minister of State directly. Sin an méid. Go raibh míle maith agaibh.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Next month, on 25 October, we will celebrate a fairly significant event in the tourism and socioeconomic life of Ireland, namely, the 40th birthday of Ireland West Airport. In the media reports back in 1985, it was variously described by journalists as being an airport built on the top of a mountain or on a bog.It was completely deprecated by the media and by the omniscient people of the...

Seanad: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Motion (25 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I would like to say a few words in support of the motion before the House this afternoon, and also to signal the widespread support of the Seanad Independent Group for the sentiments and thrust of the motion. The first thing I wish to do is make an observation I have regarding the conflict as it erupted in October 2023. It is so frequently before us in the media - on television, in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I will preface these few remarks by stating that I was a primary school principal for 19 years. Subsequent to that, I worked at one of the colleges of education, which gave me almost daily access to primary schools around the country - all over the country, really. In view of that, I heard mention, shortly after I came in, of tasks designated to SNAs that were inappropriate and below their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I have three questions. Earlier, Mr. Hanlon mentioned assaults by a third party. I am not 100% sure what he means by that. Can he elucidate that a little?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: It is the third party I am interested in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I see, okay. Following on from that, is there any quantum of statistics that would indicate the frequency or relevance of that happening in schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: One could reasonably conclude that the number of instances would be much greater than the figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Right. If such a thing happens in a school, is the custom and practice that it is resolved in house or are there instances where the matter is given over to the Garda and the DPP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Finally, this might lighten the workload for myself and my staff, could Mr. Walsh send me a link to those statistics? Is there somebody who could do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Recruitment and Retention of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I am much obliged.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá an feachtas don Uachtarántacht faoi lán-seol agus tá sé tugtha faoi dearadh agam nach bhfuil á lán de na ráitis agus idirghabhálacha atá ag teacht uaidh daoine éagsúla ró-ghalánta. I am just concerned from observing the presidential campaign that a lot of the discourse is being degraded into what I would call fairly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liomsa cúpla rud a rá faoi mo shaol oibre féin. Tá mé i mo mhúinteoir bunscoile scortha agus bhí mé i mo phríomhoide ar bhunscoil chomh maith. Nuair a bhí mé críochnaithe leis an seomra ranga, chuaigh mé amach ag obair le coláiste oiliúna ag déanamh feitheoireacht agus cigireacht ar ábhair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá an cheist chomh simplí leis seo. Is deacair an rud é feabhsú ag an tríú leibhéal mura bhfuil sé déanta ag an gcéad leibhéal agus an tarna leibhéal. Mura dtuigeann an Roinn oideachais agus na coláistí oideachais go bhfuil fadhb mhór againn sna bunscoileanna agus ag an tarna leibhéal, tá sé amaideach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá cúpla focal gairid agam faoi sin. Táim cinnte go bhfuil an paradigm atá in úsáid sna bunscoileanna fíorbhriste. Níl sé ag obair agus mura nglacann an Rialtas agus an Roinn oideachais leis go bhfuil an model briste, agus is deacair a thuigbheáil conas a chaitheann gach dalta ocht mbliana ag foghlaim aon teanga is go dtagann siad amach i...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I am not up to speed; I have only just arrived. Can I pass over to the next person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I was interested in getting a few facts and figures from the witnesses. When I started teaching in the early 1970s, dyslexia was not on the radar at all. It was only when I finished my first 12 years teaching in south Dublin that it began to come onto the radar and present in classrooms and as a worry to parents. In light of that, when did the special provisions and measures to assist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Okay. We are talking about 30 years ago.