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

Joe Conway: At a minimum, we have had a quarter of a century of these measures. Is it fair to ask how it has taken quarter of a century to get to a stage where we are discussing a putative pilot?

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

Joe Conway: Meileann muilte Dé go mall. The wheels of God grind slowly. A quarter of a century to go from the introduction of a scheme to now developing a pilot scheme seems inordinately tardy to me.

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

Joe Conway: My time is very confined and I want to ask Ms Feeney another question. With regard to special measures for dyslexia, how much investigation does the State Examinations Commission put into comparators, where there are acknowledged progressive regimens of education? New Zealand is an example. Does the commission do comparators with how those regimens approach the work? How does the SEC...

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

Joe Conway: I will ask Ms Feeney another question based on that because I am conscious that my time is almost gone. She mentioned that examination on comparators. Is that done in-house or do contractors do it?

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

Joe Conway: Who might that be?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Although I am not a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy, I paid great attention to the massive fish kill in the River Blackwater on the Waterford-Cork border during the summer. It was an outrage. That is the only way to describe it. The best estimates are that around 30,000 fish died as a result. It was a very strange pattern of attrition among the fish....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liom tagairt a dhéanamh inniu do dhea-scéal don imshaol domhanda. Go hiondúil, is annamh a thagann dea-scéal mar seo chun tosaigh. It is for that reason that I happily advert to it today. In the first half of 2025, renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity - a historic first. Electricity demand is growing around the world go...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation): Statements (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I am of an age, unusually in the Chamber today, that I sat in a family huddle around the wireless and listened to the early broadcasts of the budget on Radio Éireann. It has been a spectator sport for me ever since those early days. I am always struck by how the budget is presented. It is sort of a spectator sport in many ways because proponents of the Government laud it and opponents...

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: A short week ago, I knew very little about this topic. By chance, my daughter and I met Senator Craughwell in the coffee dock, of all places. He told me he was bringing this Private Members' motion to the floor of the House today. Like any habitué of this House, I got to work on doing a little bit of self-enlightenment on the topic. I was absolutely amazed by the complexity of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó – Order of Business (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I add my voice to that of Senator Craughwell earlier when he asked the Leader - I am asking this as well - that we request the Minister for Defence to come into the House and give us a decent debate on the defence budget, as exposed last week, and on our defence of our sovereign nation, given our non-aligned status. An príomhphointe atá á dhéanamh agam ar maidin ná...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Like Senator Nelson Murray, I do not pretend to have any legal expertise given my background. Fundamentally, my concern relates to the possibility of increased costs for the layperson. I understand there is a commitment to alternative dispute resolution in the Bill and the change regarding juries in the High Court is mooted as having the effect of reducing costs and unpredictability in...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: At my age, it is not all that easy to be shocked by things but I have to say the bar is being crossed here today by the section under discussion. As a democrat and as somebody who treasures free speech and fairness in public life, I am truly shocked by the proposals in the measure under discussion.Most of us here would remember an August day in 2014 when South Yorkshire police raided the...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: The famous phrase Mandy Rice-Davies was connected with was how, when someone rebutted an allegation, she said, "Well he would, wouldn't he?" This is the sort of thing that attaches to people who are ringing up public figures and telling them about how they have "credible evidence", "well-appointed sources" and "sources close to Garda." These sorts of phrase mean nothing really - they are...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I have high admiration for him. He is an extraordinary Minister and an extraordinary public representative, but I fundamentally think, "Guys, gals, the man may be great, but on this occasion he is damned wrong." I am not encouraged by the tendency of the divisions on this Bill that they are going through on the nod. The Government side and the Minister have an onerous responsibility to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish. I am here as an advocate for the school community in Scoil Gharbháin, which serves the people of Dungarvan, Abbeyside and most of west Waterford. The Minister of State and I are of a vintage to remember the beginning of the Gaelscoil movement. That is 50 years faoi lán seoil at this stage. We could reasonably say that the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: It is often said among Irish language enthusiasts gurb é todhchaí na nGaelscoileanna todhchaí na teanga. The embodiment of the revival and the strengthening of the Irish language is inextricably bound up with the Gaelscoileanna and the impetus it gives to the proliferation of an Ghaeilge among the younger generation. At this stage, Scoil Gharbháin has probably issued...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I welcome the Taoiseach. There has been a lot of talk about world issues but my issues are strictly parochial. As the Taoiseach knows, Waterford Airport is being progressed using private funding. This is a good news story for the south east. I do not want to pre-empt the discussions of my former colleagues in Waterford City and Council, but it is not all good tidings and hoorays because...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: We need €400,000. Go raibh míle maith agat. Job done, I would say.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I mentioned Waterford Airport.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I also ask about funding for the R708. It is too high and is going to be in the way of dropped undercarriages.