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Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: On three occasions.

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Or is a person of interest.

Seanad: Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I move amendment No. 1: In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "Local authorities funding 2. A minimum of 20 per cent of the increased borrowing capacity shall be reserved for local authorities with populations under 150,000. The Housing Finance Agency shall consult with these authorities on a quarterly basis to identify priority housing needs and barriers to...

Seanad: Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: In deference to what the Minister of State has said and informed the House of, I withdraw the amendment. It will be likewise with amendment No. 2.

Seanad: Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee and Remaining Stages (22 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I move amendment No. 2: In page 3, between lines 10 and 11, to insert the following: "Quarterly report on developments 2. Within three months of the commencement of this Act, the Housing Finance Agency shall be required to publish quarterly reports detailing— (a) the total loan disbursements by county and local authority, (b) project types funded, (c) average loan size repayment...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (21 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I join the Cathaoirleach in welcoming the ambassador from the Czech Republic. I was in his lovely country on one occasion in 1999. It was a bittersweet occasion for me because while I was there, on 2 July 1999, we lost a Dauphin helicopter in the sand dunes in Tramore, County Waterford, with the loss of the four Air Corps members on board. That gives me an easy segue into what I want to...

Seanad: Higher Education: Statements (21 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I join with the Acting Chairperson and with the previous speaker in welcoming the Minister, Deputy Lawless, to the House. I have only met the Minister once before but on hundreds of occasions I had the pleasure of working with his mother Mary in a couple of educational sectors. During the recess I hope the Minister finds the time to pass on my very best wishes to her. She was always a joy...

Seanad: Higher Education: Statements (21 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Back in 2014, Waterford County Council and Waterford City Council amalgamated. At the first meeting of that amalgamated council in July 2014, I put a question to the then chief executive, Michael Walsh. I asked him if he could tell the council how many apprentices there were in the new amalgamated council. He said he regretted to tell us that the number was zero. I thought it was a...

Seanad: Cost of Childcare: Motion (21 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I compliment our Sinn Féin colleagues in giving some oxygen to this much-pressed issue of childcare. A lot of the comments to date in this debate have been on the macro question. I have consulted my own resource team, notably my son and daughter-in-law and their 11-month-old daughter. We came up with some micro suggestions. I will instance the first problem that they identified....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Earcaíocht sa tSeirbhís Phoiblí: Plé (Atógáil) (21 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Níl mórán le rá agam. Tá a fhios ag an gcoiste go raibh sé de nós fadó ag an Seanadóir Cato the Elder sa Seanad Rómhánach "Delenda est Carthago", nó "Carthage must be destroyed" a rá ag tús agus deireadh gach óráid. Nuair a thagaim isteach i ngach cruinniú den choiste seo, is é an t-aon rud amháin...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Grealish. I am here as an advocate for the school community in Scoil Gharbháin, which serves the people of Dungarvan, Abbeyside and most of west Waterford. The Minister of State and I are of a vintage to remember the beginning of the Gaelscoil movement. That is 50 years faoi lán seoil at this stage. We could reasonably say that the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: It is often said among Irish language enthusiasts gurb é todhchaí na nGaelscoileanna todhchaí na teanga. The embodiment of the revival and the strengthening of the Irish language is inextricably bound up with the Gaelscoileanna and the impetus it gives to the proliferation of an Ghaeilge among the younger generation. At this stage, Scoil Gharbháin has probably issued...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I welcome the Taoiseach. There has been a lot of talk about world issues but my issues are strictly parochial. As the Taoiseach knows, Waterford Airport is being progressed using private funding. This is a good news story for the south east. I do not want to pre-empt the discussions of my former colleagues in Waterford City and Council, but it is not all good tidings and hoorays because...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: We need €400,000. Go raibh míle maith agat. Job done, I would say.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I mentioned Waterford Airport.

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (16 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I also ask about funding for the R708. It is too high and is going to be in the way of dropped undercarriages.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó – Order of Business (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I add my voice to that of Senator Craughwell earlier when he asked the Leader - I am asking this as well - that we request the Minister for Defence to come into the House and give us a decent debate on the defence budget, as exposed last week, and on our defence of our sovereign nation, given our non-aligned status. An príomhphointe atá á dhéanamh agam ar maidin ná...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Like Senator Nelson Murray, I do not pretend to have any legal expertise given my background. Fundamentally, my concern relates to the possibility of increased costs for the layperson. I understand there is a commitment to alternative dispute resolution in the Bill and the change regarding juries in the High Court is mooted as having the effect of reducing costs and unpredictability in...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: At my age, it is not all that easy to be shocked by things but I have to say the bar is being crossed here today by the section under discussion. As a democrat and as somebody who treasures free speech and fairness in public life, I am truly shocked by the proposals in the measure under discussion.Most of us here would remember an August day in 2014 when South Yorkshire police raided the...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: The famous phrase Mandy Rice-Davies was connected with was how, when someone rebutted an allegation, she said, "Well he would, wouldn't he?" This is the sort of thing that attaches to people who are ringing up public figures and telling them about how they have "credible evidence", "well-appointed sources" and "sources close to Garda." These sorts of phrase mean nothing really - they are...