Results 1-20 of 61 for speaker:Joe Conway

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: We often have heard the expression than an Englishman’s home is his castle. If that be the case, many of us feel that an Irishman’s or Irishwoman’s home is their birthright. I think that is engendered by the fact that most of us were lucky enough to grow up in secure homes. They would not have been palatial, but they would have wrapped around us not just walls but the...

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wish to speak for a few moments on the géarchéim that is attaching to Waterford Regional Airport. I have many misgivings following a recent meeting that took place between the Minister, local TDs, Ministers of State and the chief executive of Waterford City and County Council in Waterford. When we heard the Minister was meeting representatives and the chief executive, our hopes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: The latest figures, as of early July, show 743 people have been killed and 4,891 injured while waiting to get fed in Gaza by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF. That foundation, which was founded only last year, is an elusive enough entity. The headquarters were incorporated at an address in Delaware, just two weeks after President Trump took office. When the premises were visited by...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I will address one particular feature of the Bill, namely, the reservations I have about the delegation of defamation to judges only and the bypassing of the constitutional and long-held right of people to be tried by juries of their peers. I want to digress, maybe to add a little bit of levity to what has been a somewhat turgid session at times. When I was a much younger man I spent most...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Yes indeed, and it gets better because just at the top of my road, there resided a lovely man called Mr. Justice Hubert Wine. He is long gone now. In a chat I had with him once he cracked a good joke, I thought. He said one of his defendants said that he had been sentenced by "just a swine". The sobriquet was anything but appropriate for Mr. Justice Wine because he was an entirely lovely...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Lonraím mo thacaíocht ar na hoifigigh phoist agus ar an dea-sheirbhís a thugann siad lá i ndiaidh lae ar fud na tíre ó Chionn Mhálanna go Dún Mór Thoir i gContae Phort Láirge agus gach áit eatarthu. Responsibility lies with all of us in Seanad Éireann and Dáil Éireann to help shape an Ireland where opportunity, investment...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Is aoibhinn liom an Aire a fheiceáil ar ais arís. Tá sé de nós aige a bheith anseo go rialta agus, mar a dúirt an Seanadóir ansin, bainimid go léir sásamh as é a bheith anseo. I was somewhat of the hope that my colleague, Senator McDowell, would be here to ply his considerable wiles and perspectives on this question. I take it he is...

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

Joe Conway: I want to reference in the short time I have this morning connections, economic and cultural, between us and Japan. Economically, Japan is our second biggest trade partner in the Pacific area, with an annual import-export of over €21 billion, a not inconsiderable amount. However, it is mainly the cultural connections between the two countries that I want to advert to, in particular...

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

Joe Conway: Badly.

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Unfortunately I was not here for Senator's Ryan's contribution, which I am picking up from subsequent speakers was poignant and harrowing. Agus é sin ráite, tá fadhb agam leis an leasú seo. I have a couple of problems with the language in this amendment. In this country the legal definition of a "child" is anyone up to the age of 18. I also have a problem with the use...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Is aoibhinn liom an tAire Stáit a fheiceáil arís agus é anseo in ionad an Tánaiste agus Aire Cosanta ag déileáil leis an Ní i dTosach Suíonna inniu, rud atá an-tábhachtach dúinn sa Teach seo agus sa tír. Since my election to this House, I have frequently made contributions urging our Government to seriously address our...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I thank the Minister of State for his input. Is he familiar with a deal that was made with the French armaments company called Thales for a towed sonar device to be towed along after our naval vessels? As I was saying in the House last week, any skipper from Killybegs or Dunmore East will say that towing anything at sea is a pretty dodgy business. If they are towing something that is as...

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: This motion is very timely in that it address the géarghá mór i stádas na fiaclóireachta atá sa tír seo. There is a big crisis in dental care across the country. As a former primary school principal, even when I was in the classroom, I noted year on year a deterioration in the level of service that children got from the school dental service. At this...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I second it.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I will not detain the House long but I have a few impassioned remarks to make in support of the amendment and Senator Clonan. We have an old expression, san áit a bhfuil toil ann, tá slí ann. Members will all know it as, where there is a will, there is a way. There is a way here. My schoolboy Shakespeare brings me back. Senator Clonan asked whether we had it in our hearts....

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I am happy to be speak on these conjoined motions. The Minister of State went through the genesis of the Special Criminal Court and the Offences Against the State Act. I understand that many in the House will probably consider the two Acts under discussion as legal anachronisms. In terms of combating national and international terrorism, however, they are both still relevant and necessary....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Is aoibhinn liom na finnéithe a fheiceáil ag teacht isteach ar maidin. Cheap mé beagnach go raibh mé ag cruinniú eile den údarás sna Forbacha. Taobh amuigh de sin, is mian liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le Rónán Mac Con Iomaire go speisialta as an leabhar deas a fuair mé uaidh ag cruinniú na Nollag. Ní raibh deis agam mo...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Cé chomh sásúil is atá sé, i dtuairimí na bhfinnéithe, go bhfuil stádas ag Dún Garbhán mar Ghaeltacht support town? An bhfuil siad sásta faoin progress atá déanta?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I dtuairim Rónán Mac Con Iomaire, an mbeadh aon mhaitheas ann do stádas Ghaeltacht na Rinne a bheith ag comhoibriú le Dún Garbhán? An bhfuil aon rud sa todhchaí ar chor dúinn a bheith ag coinneáil súil air?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as bheith anseo chun déileáil leis an Commencement matter. From his own area, I am sure the Minister of State will be well familiar with the BAM project, an initiative that was introduced for financing school developments. It began in 2012 and was modelled largely on the UK's private finance initiative, PFI, which was begun in 1992...