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International Workers’ Day: Statements (1 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: On International Workers’ Day, we honour those whose work sustains our communities, public services and society. As a trade unionist, I reflect on the many struggles over many years for workers' rights and fairness. I want to speak for a group of workers who are far too often forgotten by the Government, namely those employed in the community and voluntary sector. These are people...

Final Draft Revised National Planning Framework: Motion (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: A national planning framework should be a road map for fairness, decent living standards, balanced development and a future where no community is written off. What we have before us in the draft framework falls far short of that. It is a framework that gestures at ambition but lacks the backbone to deliver. It reads more like a vague wish list than a serious plan for action. This...

Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I share Deputy Rice's concerns in this regard. Whereas it might not be a question on the subsidiarity aspect, it is a political statement that may warrant being made in this forum as we are the first committee to examine these proposals. We need to write to both the enterprise committee and to the European affairs and environmental committees to ask them to take a hard look at this...

Committee on Subsidiarity (European Union Legislative Scrutiny): Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (30 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If I may clarify, when the Chair referred to the line committee, I assume we are also referring it to the two committees I previously noted?

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: This evening, we have gathered to speak about one of the most shameful failures of our health service in recent memory. God only knows how many children have undergone invasive, traumatic and completely unnecessary hip surgeries. We do not know, and that is the simple fact. We do not know exactly how many. Children have been subjected to unnecessary surgeries and families have been...

Children's Health Ireland: Statements (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: How is that going for you?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What about confidence in the Minister?

Uisce Éireann: Statements (10 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I sat in this Chamber last night and watched the Minister of State's colleagues in Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and those in the Lowry Independents group vote against a Sinn Féin Bill that would have permanently banned water charges. In my few short months in this House I have seen Minister after Minister duck questions about a referendum on the public ownership of water. Water must be...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: If education is a right, why is access seemingly always a fight for families? As the Minister knows because I wrote to her and because parents have been in touch with her, almost 20 families in Dungarvan, County Waterford, are left without a special school place. There is a wider issue across Waterford city and county when it comes to capacity in special education spaces in mainstream...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is bord Stáit agus údarás tofa atá ann. Mar sin, caithfimid féachaint ar na rialacha timpeall air seo. Ní féidir a rá gur dhá rud atá ann agus, mar sin, cloímid leis na rialacha a bhaineann le rud amháin. Dá mba rud é go bhfuilimid chun glacadh leis mar bhord Stáit le baill ceaptha agus tofa, agus is cosúil go...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Aontaím le mo chomhghleacaí, an Teachta Ó Snodaigh. Tá muid ag bogadh sa treo ceart, cé nár glacadh lenár moltaí i dtaobh an toghcháin. Tá muid ag bogadh go dtí eagras a bheidh – cuid de ar a laghad – daonlathach. Leis an daonlathas, tagann an trédhearcacht. Ní féidir, is dócha, aon sampla a...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Cuirim fáilte roimh an méid a dúirt an tAire agus roimh an tairiscint chun bualadh go neamhfhoirmiúil chun é seo a phlé níos doimhne. Is maith an rud é go bhfuil an tAire sásta cluas éisteachta a thabhairt dúinn. Is léir go bhfuil suim ag na daoine sa Seomra seo san ábhar seo. Tá moltaí suntasacha againn. Is maith...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Le leasú Uimh. 15, táimid ag iarraidh go mbeadh straitéis daonra agus tithíochta curtha le chéile do gach limistéar pleanála teanga. Is é seo bunchloch na pleanála teanga sa Ghaeltacht. Tá cuid den obair seo déanta cheana, in ainneoin an Rialtais i slite. Nuair a bhí na pleananna teanga á gcur le chéile tráth...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is géarchéim eiseach - an existential crisis - í an géarchéim tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht. Ní bheidh ceantair Ghaeltachta againn, nó pobal labhartha Gaeilge againn, muna bhfuil réiteach ar an ngéarchéim seo. Tá sé sin ag teacht ó na saineolaithe agus na pobail. Tá sé istigh sna pleananna teanga atá faomhaithe...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Fáiltím an méid a dúirt an tAire sa mhéid go bhfuil sé sásta é seo a phlé agus an comhrá seo a bheith againn mar is rud casta é conas is féidir é sin a chur síos i reachtaíocht ionas go bhfuil sé féaráilte agus cothrom. Deirimse i gcónaí go bhfuil na toghthóirí...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tairgim leasú Uimh. 8: Ar leathanach 13, idir líne 1 agus líne 2, an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach: "(1) Leasaítear alt 8 den Phríomh-Acht, i bhfo-alt (3A), tríd an méid seo a leanas a chur isteach i ndiaidh "eacnamaíoch na Gaeltachta": ", lena n-áirítear saoráidí sóisialta, cultúir agus gnó agus, chuige...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is breá liom athrá a sheachaint. Is é an rud ar mhaith liom a rá ar an téama céanna leis an méid a dúirt an Teachta Ó Snodaigh. Tá sé mar gheall ar an bhforáil sin mar gheall ar iarrthóirí a bheith ina gcónaí laistigh de cheantar Gaeltachta. Is fadhb ollmhór é sin, go háirithe gur daoine óga...

Údarás na Gaeltachta (Amendment) Bill 2024: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) (9 Apr 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Aontaím leis an méid atá ráite ag mo chomhghleacaithe. Agus muid ag teacht chun deiridh ar an díospóireacht mar gheall ar alt 5, teastaíonn uaim a rá arís go bhfuil deis againn anois Údarás na Gaeltachta a dhéanamh chomh daonlathach, chomh hoscailte agus chomh trédhearcach agus is féidir trí níos mó ball...