Results 101-120 of 145 for speaker:Gillian Toole

Migration: Statements (18 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: This is probably the most divisive issue in politics. It definitely deserves more frequent discussion. I have been requesting this discussion for the past six months, so I am grateful for my two minutes now. What will be Ireland's migration management plan for the positive net migration of 79,000 people to our country? How is Ireland's ability to cope in the following areas being...

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Education is a freedom and enabling children and teenagers to participate and achieve their own personal goals is of paramount importance. School transport is a significant part of that enablement. The Government has made great strides in the area of special education and the improvements include working with the NCSE to bring forward timelines, so I am wondering why in this area we still...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Thanks for letting me sneak in. I have a few questions and apologise if I am duplicating what colleagues have already asked. In the context of imports and exports from Ireland and Europe vis-à-vis Mercosur and other trade agreements, at what stage is Ireland's land use review at? I ask this for two reasons, one of which is self-sufficiency for future food production and the other is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: Yes, I have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank Ms McPhillips.

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome all of our guests this morning. They probably had an early start coming from Limerick. I thank the Cathaoirleach for flagging Corpus Christi in Moyross. I have received so much information that I have very few questions. I have a friend who works with the Early Focus group, Una Curran, who has given me a lot of background information over the years in general terms. I am...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I am wondering how we can move forward because this is extremely powerful. There is a new committee in the Department of the Taoiseach. I cannot remember the title. Can we convene another meeting as a matter of urgency with the Minister, Deputy McEntee, the Minister of State, Deputy Michael Moynihan, and whoever is on that committee?

Committee on Infrastructure and National Development Plan Delivery: Priorities and Provisions in the Review of the National Development Plan: Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (24 Sep 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the Minister and his team. I have parachuted in here. I am normally at the disability matters committee but I have an interest in this. I have four questions and it would be great if they could be answered or followed up on later. The first is about the use of data and analysis. Will the use of cost-benefit and demographic data analyses, particularly for public transport...

Abolition of Carer's Allowance Means Test: Motion [Private Members] (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I thank all the family and young carers who carry out their tasks on a daily basis and save the State an absolute fortune. I thank the Oireachtas Library and Research Service, the Parliamentary Budget Office and my predecessors in the regional group, particularly Denis Naughten, who did substantial work on this issue and contributed to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Commissioner agus Ms Galiffa. My questions are as follows. In relation to CETA, are there reciprocal protections for Irish businesses? With regard to Mercosur, Irish grain growers are particularly concerned about the CBAM tax on exports and there being no reciprocity in relation to imports. What will be the timeline for reciprocal standards? My final...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Commissioner for Trade and Economic Security; Interinstitutional Relations and Transparency: Mr. Maroš Šefovi (2 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Commissioner agus Ms Galiffa. My questions are as follows. In relation to CETA, are there reciprocal protections for Irish businesses? With regard to Mercosur, Irish grain growers are particularly concerned about the CBAM tax on exports and there being no reciprocity in relation to imports. What will be the timeline for reciprocal standards? My final...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the witnesses for being our guests and for the work they and their members do across the full continuum, with older people as well as with children. I come from a healthcare background, so I am familiar with their different disciplines. I thank them for the information they provided in advance. It was highly informative. I would nearly go so far as to say that we nearly have the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I apologise, as I may have to nip out in a little bit. The common thread is the interconnected framework. How do the witnesses see that playing out? Were they consulted by the NCSE in advance of the change of the enrolment deadline? I appreciate these are probably random questions, so I apologise. On assistive technology and communicating by whatever means, I first came across...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: We have had fantastic interaction with the questions of all of the members and the information the witnesses have given us. What jurisdiction do the witnesses think is a model of best practice? Canada is sometimes cited as a model of best practice of integrated support. I apologise if I am duplicating my questions, as I stepped out of the meeting. In order of priority, what are the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: Apologies that I had to run out. I am on the same page as Deputy Carrigy having worked with families in my other role and seeing the benefit. I absolutely agree. The ask is that RPM becomes part of the suite. There is no denying the need for the evidence base. Now, I am a dinosaur. I qualified from an institute down the road 38 years ago and anecdotal evidence was what came before the...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: ABA began in that format.

Community Pharmacy Agreement: Statements (2 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I wish to convey my most sincere thanks to the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, to the officials at the Department of Health, in the Health Service Executive, and in particular my former colleagues, as I am no longer practising, in the Irish Pharmacy Union, in particular Kathy Maher, the contractors committee and the executive, who have done sterling work over the years, which is now being...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Budget Statement 2026 (7 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I will begin by thanking all the departmental teams, the team in the Parliamentary Budget Office, and the ushers who were ferrying budget packages up and down today. I thank everybody who worked long, hard hours in preparation for this, in trying to go back over trends, looking through forecasting, looking at the global situation and then coming up with a plan that would try, first of all,...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the witnesses for coming in to meet with us again. I thank the NDA for all the fantastic information provided, and the team here as well. I was on the bus coming in this morning after being here late last night after the budget and it is fantastic information. Effectively, if we distil it down, this is potentially our roadmap. I was just saying to the group here that I am not so...

Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Education for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Gillian Toole: I thank the witnesses.