Results 81-100 of 132 for speaker:Nessa Cosgrove

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Should all native agrifood have bilingual packaging?

Seanad: Food Promotion and New Markets: Statements (18 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That would be great.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The Children's Rights Alliance is welcome. As Deputy Currie said, it provided a fantastic briefing which was a welcome read. I will keep my questions specific. It is welcome that the Children's Right Alliance is gathering information about children living in long-term extreme poverty. The number of Tusla referrals is shocking. Senator Keogan was right to say that. I have worked in the...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That data is being collected alongside the Tusla information about people living in poverty. A lot of children probably are involved in family support services, particularly if there are services in their communities, such as Springboard projects, FRCs, DEIS schools and so forth. However, there is definitely a cohort of people who are still living in consistent poverty who are not engaged...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes. I totally agree.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I thank Ms Ward for saying that. Likewise across the whole social care sector, section 37 and 56 workers are experiencing the same lack of pay parity. Another question I wanted to ask was about the Equal Start programme. I can see from the witnesses' report and briefing that the greatest amount of children involved with community-based settings are experiencing high levels of poverty and...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Okay.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Absolutely. Am I out of time?

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I want to ask about the national play policy. The Government has committed to a child poverty strategy. The issue of local authority direct funding for the upkeep of play parks came up earlier. This ties in with the Vienna model which has play areas within each housing estate. Many of the play parks are run down and the local authorities do not have the money to do them up. One thing we...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It is just not nationwide. Could the committee work on that? Publicly owned play areas are just sitting there, not being used after school and during the summer holidays.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is one in Leitrim.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The Alliance for Insurance Reform is trying to work with local authorities and public participation networks, PPNs, to have play areas taken under the various councils' public liability insurance. The issue of underused school facilities is huge. In the housing estate where I live there is a school right beside us that will be locked up for the whole summer. It has a full basketball court....

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes, that is great.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I commend my fellow Senator, Nicole Ryan, on her honesty and bravery and for bringing home the importance of not only this Bill but also this amendment. I worked with children and young people in child protection for many years and I could see the shame she was talking about. I could see the realisation that "My house isn't like everyone else's house" and the long-term trauma caused as a...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The Minister of State is very welcome and I thank him for coming in. I also welcome Sarah Benson. It is fantastic that she is here. I thank the original signatories of the Bill, Senator Clonan and the former Senator Martin, and Senator Noonan for introducing it again and allowing us to be part of it. I have just come back from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions biannual conference....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I want to raise the ongoing debacle and farcical situation regarding the placement of a surgical hub in the north west. I live in Sligo. We were assured that a surgical hub would be provided in Sligo University Hospital. We were assured by the Minister of State, Deputy Marian Harkin, that part of the deal of going in with the Lowry group was that the surgical hub would be based in Sligo. ...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: No one is disputing that we need a fair and efficient emigration and migration policy but the motions under discussion are serious in nature and will have a significant impact on the rights of people who have sought protection here. There is an inherent danger in rushing through any legislation and when legislation pertains to the rights of people who could subsequently be removed from this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: My request is very basic and relates to the need for the Minister for education to make a statement on the status of Scoil Mhuire's application for a new school building in Carrick-on-Shannon. I will give a bit of background information. Scoil Mhuire is the largest primary school in Carrick-on-Shannon, which is a very big and ever-growing town in County Leitrim. The school is located...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is, therefore, no date or commitment yet. I ask the Minister of State to look favourably on this matter. He mentioned that the impact of climate change is part of the assessment. I will cite an example of how unfair it is when there are two campuses. In 2024, schools were encouraged to apply for solar panels. As there are two school campuses, only one application was accepted but...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: One school will become run down and one will serve an affluent area. Middle-class children will attend one school and Scoil Mhuire will be cynically run down because of the lack of an appropriate school building. Scoil Mhuire submitted an application in 2016. It is the main national school in Carrick-in-Shannon, so a new school building is a matter of urgency.