Results 161-180 of 357 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Who is to blame for that?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Such as 40,000 houses.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Taoiseach has tied himself to Deputy Michael Lowry and will regret it.

Statute Law Revision Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I welcome this long-overdue legislation and I commend the team involved in it. It involved a huge amount of work, no doubt interesting but painstaking. It also involved a huge amount of detail. We are grateful for that work having been completed and being presented to us here today. Having a look through this, I see so many proclamations that refer to activities in my own county of...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tuigim go bhfuil leasuithe Uimh. 1 agus Uimh. 3 as ord. Ní aontaím leis an gcinneadh sin, ar ndóigh. Mar dhuine atá ag cur faoi i gceantar Gaeltachta agus mar dhuine, roimh dom bheith i mo Theachta Dála, a bhí i mo chomhairleoir ag déanamh ionadaíochta ar cheantar Ghaeltachta, tá a fhios agam go bhfuil an...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Bhí comhrá agus díospóireacht leathan againn ansin cé go rabhamar ag díriú isteach ar leasú áirithe. Bhí caint mar gheall ar phobal mór na Gaeilge agus lucht labhartha na Gaelainne fud fad na tíre seo. Is ceart an comhthéacs sin a bheith againn ach caithfimid a aithint go bhfuil an Ghaeltacht éagsúil. Is rud...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tá an leasú seo dírithe ar chathaoirleach agus leas-chathaoirleach a bheith ceaptha ar an mbord ionas go mbeadh an t-údarás acu labhairt ar son na Gaeltachta agus an t-aitheantas acu chun é sin a dhéanamh. Bheadh an dlisteanacht acu go mbeadh siad in ann é sin a dhéanamh agus bheadh éisteacht á fáil acu. Ar ndóigh, mar a...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 5: Ar leathanach 11, idir líne 24 agus líne 25, an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach: “(2D) Chun críocha fho-alt (2C), déanfaidh an tAire, ag féachaint don chóras caighdeán ar a dtugtar an Creat Comhchoiteann Tagartha Eorpach le haghaidh Teangacha, leibhéal B2 a fhorordú mar an leibhéal inniúlachta...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (26 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tá díomá orm a chloisteáil nach bhfuil an tAire chun glacadh leis na leasuithe seo. Is dócha go bhfuil sé seo chomh tábhachtach gur cheart é a bheith istigh sa bhunreachtaíocht in áit é a bheith ag teacht ón Aire i ndiaidh don reachtaíocht a bheith curtha i bhfeidhm. Ní hamháin go mbeidh sé tábhachtach go...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Deputy Connolly mentioned slippage, and it is something we must all guard against. I wish both the Minister and the Minister of State well in their briefs in the time ahead and I look forward to a constructive working relationship. I ask the Minister for an update on both the veterinary and the pharmacy courses at South East Technological University. These are crucially important. They...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Further and Higher Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We are on the theme of slippage.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps his Department is taking to address the challenges faced by young carers and young adult carers pursuing courses at third level. [14632/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: This is a very serious issue. My question relates to the situation of young adult carers in higher and further education. We had a comprehensive debate on the more broad topic of young carers and young adult carers in this House last week. My question relates to the Department's efforts, schemes and steps to support young carers and young adult carers to access education, stay in it and...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as an bhfreagra sin. I thank the Minister for his response. The most recent census in 2022 tells us that there are almost 5,000 young carers in this State. Undoubtedly, the number of young people and young adults providing care is much greater as it often goes unreported, unsupported and unacknowledged. By unsupported I mean people who do not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Education (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank the Minister for the elaboration. It is clear there are supports available. It is about accessing those supports and for students to know they are available and make sure they are kept under review so that they can respond to emerging challenges, unforeseen challenges and circumstances and continue engagement with advocates in particular and young carers and young adult carers....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 75. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development his Department's plan to critically evaluate the outcomes of Our Rural Future: Rural Development Policy 2021–2025; and the extent to which this will inform the development of a new policy. [14861/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Ar dtús báire, déanaim comhghairdeas leis an mbeirt Airí. I congratulate the Ministers on their respective roles. As Deputy O'Reilly has said, both she and I, as their counterparts on this side of the House, will endeavour to co-operate with them and engage constructively with them, but it is also our role to hold them to account. Accountability is at the crux of my...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as an bhfreagra sin. I am glad that the OECD report is to be published. I think that will provide food for thought for everybody living and working in rural Ireland. From my conversations with people in rural Ireland and my own experience, I imagine the biggest result and theme that will emerge from the consultations, which will no doubt be reflected in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Departmental Policies (27 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I welcome the Minister's comments, in particular about the importance of housing, infrastructure and facilities. The previous plan had a very significant focus on digital connectivity. That might have been a product of the time it was put together. The focus must now shift, as my colleague said earlier, with regard to bricks and mortar, and having facilities, homes and infrastructure so...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Harbours and Piers (25 Mar 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 130. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will amend the regulations of his Department's funding scheme for local authority ports and harbours to include the costs of preparatory work, such as assessment and licensing work, which in the case of dredging can often cost more than the physical work; if he has been briefed on the current situation in Cé Heilbhic in...