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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: In an ideal world, what Mr. Flanagan said would be right but I know it is not happening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: It is up to the committee to agree to something like that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Deputy Browne?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Deputy Fitzmaurice has a supplementary question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I call Deputy Collins.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fixed-Price Milk Contracts: Irish Co-operative Organisation Society (13 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. This is a very important issue and we will probably have more hearings on it. We have a list of other witnesses we will invite in. I thank the witnesses for accepting our invitation and for being so forthright with their information. I also thank members for their contributions. The next public meeting of the committee will be held on...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and it is good to have him here. I am looking for an update in regard to a primary school in my part of the world. Summercove national school is a wonderful school that has such potential but it has literally been at the bottom of the list for the past 20 years. We have been trying to make sure that it can get the appropriate new build that it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: I am disappointed with the response, which is almost verbatim the response I received in the previous Commencement debate. Six months later, the only thing that has happened is that the price of construction has gone up by perhaps 35%. The cost of the majority of projects has gone through the roof. I was speaking to a major contractor with regard to concrete blocks yesterday, and he said...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Planning Issues (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Before the Minister of State responds, I welcome our visitors in the Gallery. They are more than welcome. I call the Minister of State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: Yesterday evening I took the unusual course of action of going back home to Cork to attend an event. I went back to Dunmanway at 5 o'clock yesterday evening. There was a commemoration of an event that happened 100 years ago, when 13 Protestants were shot in a 24-hour period in Dunmanway. Hundreds were relocated out of the area. It was an unfortunate and ugly part of Irish history. It is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Apr 2022)

Tim Lombard: It was a sensitive issue for the people of Dunmanway, in particular, and the entire Bandon Valley area. We had families come from the North and the UK to attend the event. Their loved ones were tragically shot 100 years ago in that 48-hour period. It brings home that this is about reconciliation, trying to move forward and to acknowledge exactly what happened. It was not all triumphalism...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I compliment the Cathaoirleach on naming the 13 men who were, unfortunately, shot just over 100 years ago. I was at that ceremony on Wednesday of last week in Dunmanway. It was a touching and moving ceremony. The acknowledgement today by the Cathaoirleach is very important. It is part of that healing process. We are going through a decade of commemoration and this a part of our...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank the Minister for her wonderful Bill. I have not tabled over 200 amendments like Senator Higgins and simply wish to acknowledge the amount of work that the Minister has done on this important legislation. Today, we are a speaking about something that an awful lot of us are passionate about whether that is in what we do in life or in society. I will now try to flesh out this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I join others in acknowledging Senator Buttimer in the Leader's chair. It is great to see a fellow Corkman there. If I may talk about something very serious, namely where we are going with our housing issues, we have a real issue when it comes to the Airbnb crisis. Yesterday I was in Kinsale, where I met probably the biggest employer in the town. I met 16 members of staff, all going...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: We need to have a real and comprehensive debate with the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage about his vision for what local government will be. We are just over 100 weeks away from local elections and there are huge issues around what powers members of local authorities have. There has been an erosion of those powers over the last decade. This evening I am going to a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: This afternoon I raise the issue of the crisis in our rental car industry. We are all very much aware of the inflation in prices. This morning I got a quote to rent a car for ten days. The sum of that, if I were to take it up, would be €1,800. That is quite extraordinary to see the inflation in the rental car trade. Some 20% of visitors who come to Ireland use rental cars. This...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I acknowledge and welcome our distinguished guests in the Gallery. It is great to have them here and they did a wonderful interview on the radio this morning. I congratulate them and they are more than welcome. I will address a theme that the Leader and the Leas-Chathaoirleach are well aware of and that I have often spoken about, that is, dyslexia services. We have an issue in that many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I thank Mr. Farr, Mr. O'Mahoney, Mr. Griffin and Mr. Lucas for their contributions. It has been very informative. Through their testimony here we have seen the huge gaps in the service and the gaps in confidence. Mr. Farr might give me an indication of where the process is in that if he was to be so-called suspended what rights if any would he have going through the process? Where does...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: The day after?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Irish Coast Guard: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Tim Lombard: I have a question for Mr. O'Mahony with regard to what is happening in Castlehaven. How are the disciplinary issues affecting the community there? Has there been a real rift in the community?