Results 221-240 of 432 for speaker:Ciarán Ahern

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: Carbon Budget: Climate Change Advisory Council (25 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Ms Gallagher is saying these budgets are not based on business as usual?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: It is good to hear that work is under way. We would like to see a separate division of An Garda Síochána rather than a separate policing force. I would like to understand the Minister's thoughts on that. Antisocial behaviour and violence on public transport happens in all of our constituencies, not least in my own constituency of Dublin South-West. It does not often get too much...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I will press the Minister again to provide a more defined timeline for this. When does he think it is going to be done? Has the Minister looked at the Travel Safe policy document prepared by SIPTU? Has he met SIPTU or any other interested parties yet? I suggest that he do. There is one proposal from SIPTU I was particularly taken with. It related to public transport assistance units....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 88. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he has taken to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers of Dublin Bus in the aftermath of an incident at Mountjoy Square; his plans for a dedicated transport police; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34557/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Transport (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: What steps has the Minister taken to ensure the safety of drivers and passengers on Dublin Bus in the aftermath of the very serious incident at Mountjoy Square in April in which a man threatened a bus driver with a gun? Will he outline his plans for a dedicated transport police force?

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I think it is the first time I have addressed the Minister of State in the Chamber. I congratulate him on his appointment and wish him the best of luck with it. The Labour Party has long supported the extension of the voting franchise. We feel it goes to the heart of our democracy. I thank Sinn Féin for tabling this motion, which we will support. Many proposals on voting rights,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (24 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 253. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will instruct Meath County Council to introduce road safety measures at a location (details supplied) which has seen four road accidents in the past twelve months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33796/25]

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I thank Deputy O'Gorman for bringing this motion before us. The Labour Party will gladly support it. I do not think there is a word in it that I would fault. The Green Party, to be fair, kick-started much-needed investment in our public transport during its time in government, following decades of neglect and underinvestment. It achieved fare reductions on public transport and enhanced...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (18 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the planned closure of an autism class at a school (details supplied), despite sufficient interest in enrolment for the 2025/2026 school year to warrant two autism classes; if she will instruct the NCSE to reconsider its proposal to close the class and review the individual enrolment cases; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (17 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 202. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware of delays in the Irish Aviation Authority issuing EASA Part 66 Category A maintenance licences and other relevant licenses to apprentice aircraft engineers; the reasons for these the delays; how he intends on remedying the situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31952/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Management (12 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 213. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to provide an update on the State's plans for waste disposal given the country's operational landfill sites are almost at maximum capacity; to outline the Department's longer-term plans for waste disposal, including if any waste incineration plants are being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30750/25]

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I welcome the witnesses. I am not that familiar with the area. I am a Dublin TD and I am reading about it today. I have read all the statements that have been submitted. My conclusion is exactly the same as Deputy Whitmore's, which is to ask who is responsible for this and how have we got to this point where we know there has been a problem for 40 years. Presumably, those reports have...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I thank Mr. Cooney. That is good to hear, but even An Taisce has said that measures like the kind of extended buffer zones would be useful for phosphorus sediment and ammonia but not necessarily for nitrates. It said that the only highly ranked measure for nitrate mitigation is reducing the nitrate load, for example, through a reduction in livestock units per hectare. Have such...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: There is a mix of farm types.

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I was interested to hear that this is Deputy Whitmore's most positive committee experience. I am a new TD, and this is my first time questioning people-----

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: We are starting at the top; that is great. Looking at the solutions in the CLEAR report and mentioned in the county council's statement, it struck me that a lot of solutions are already out there, many of which are fairly basic things such as fencing off watercourses, the provision of water troughs and so on. Presumably, some, if not a great deal, of this is already being done. How much...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: I will briefly finish the point. How many of these solutions are already partially or fully in place? What else needs to be done? How quickly can the solutions be implemented? Results-based payments were discussed. They were used successfully elsewhere. Do we need to look at just transition measures here for some of the farmers in surrounding areas, given that it seems the intensity...

Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy: CLEAR Report on Lady's Island Lake: Discussion (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: Agreed, I understand that.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (11 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: 313. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so themselves, do not...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Energy Usage (10 Jun 2025)

Ciarán Ahern: The Minister referred to moving faster and we agree with him. He mentioned 1990, 1995 and 2005 figures, but these are irrelevant. The only figures that we are concerned with in this House anymore are the 2018 base levels. We need a 51% reduction from them by 2030. We are miles away from it and we are getting further. Is the Minister worried about the gap between promise and delivery?...