Results 161-180 of 190 for speaker:Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Tillage farmers, as the Minister of State knows, are in deep crisis. The question I want to ask is whether the Government will introduce a proper area-based payment tillage incentive scheme. Currently, the Government is giving just €40 per acre while it needs to be at least €100 per acre or €250 per hectare, as requested by the farming organisations. It really needs to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Agriculture Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I am not convinced by the Government's response. The fact of the matter is that we are in the middle of a crisis and farmers have no increase this year. It is still €40 per acre. In her response, the Minister of State mentioned the drinks industry. We have such opportunities but it is incredible to believe that our famous Irish whiskey does not have a requirement to have Irish...

Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: As the Minister and Ministers of State know, farmers are in intense crisis at the moment following two absolutely terrible years. Will the Government introduce a proper area-based payment tillage incentive scheme? Currently, the Government is giving €40 per acre whereas it needs to be at least €100 per acre or €250 per ha, as requested by the farming organisations that...

Financial Resolutions 2025 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I received a lot of budget feedback in the Wicklow-Wexford constituency over the weekend. The general feeling was that ordinary working people had been left behind once again. They spoke of the proverbial squeezed middle or the new working poor. A common line from people was along the lines of how they had thought before the election that the Government would look after the working people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for coming here today. Some of my questions were covered in relation to unaccompanied minors. I understand that 38 had gone missing last year and 29 of them had been separated children. Obviously there is massive pressure on Tusla, including lack of resources. Kate Duggan had mentioned about 570 this year coming in as unaccompanied minors....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Given what was identified in that report to do with sexual predators, would Tusla have a concern that it is still ongoing? Obviously there were concerted gangs targeting children in care, in whichever setting, be it Tusla care or IPAS centres.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Would Tusla be happy that the staff in those centres are sufficiently trained now to identify the problem, to manage it and to deal with it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Is Tusla happy now that the problem that was identified in 2023 no longer exists in the care centres?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I am sorry to be returning to that UCD report, but it grabbed my attention. The report is only from two years ago. It drew parallels regarding what was happening in Ireland with the infamous scandals in Rotherham and Rochdale in Britain, which happened from the 1980s up to 2010. That was a scathing indictment of the authorities in the UK. Basically, the authorities said they knew about it...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I wish to raise the issue of school funding, specifically regarding schools that have gained a new teaching post this year. Could the Tánaiste look into the specific case of Tinahely National School? I know he knows the area. Such schools were targeted for the new mainstream teacher grant of €9,200. The new school principal, Pádraig O'Connor, has been in regular contact...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 615. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the way in which the discontinuation of long-term leasing agreements will help to address the housing crisis. [55147/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: 616. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the alternatives that will be put in place to support landlords and tenants currently in long-term agreements. [55148/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Possibly in Tusla centres.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the International Protection Bill 2025: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I thank Mr. Hone.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I thank the witnesses. It is very welcome that the range of traditional craft apprenticeships has expanded. I was on the Waterford and Wexford Education and Training Board, WWETB, for about a decade. We often spoke there about how far behind we are compared to places like Germany that have 300 to 400 apprenticeships in all sorts of areas. In the past, people would have looked down their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Does QQI work closely with the ETBs and State bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: Would I need to contact the national apprenticeship office to make the case for these areas?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Apprenticeships: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin: I thank Dr. Murray.