Results 261-280 of 399 for long speaker:Jackie Cahill

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...projects because they produce renewable energy locally, protect our environment and provide our rural communities with a sustainable and efficient green income. Only by bringing rural Ireland along on our just transition can we truly hope to meet our carbon-reduction targets. Supporting projects such as those in question is not only the right thing to do for our shared environment but it...

Protecting Jobs and Supporting Business: Statements (16 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...entertainment industry employs in excess of 35,000 full-time and part-time workers. The vast majority of these highly skilled people have not had any employment since the middle of March. Never in the long history of staging live performances and events on this island has there been such a sudden and total cessation of all work or activity. This industry is very large and extends far...

Mental Health and Older People: Statements (9 Sep 2020)

Jackie Cahill: .... Young people are facing increased rates of anxiety as a result of school pressure, social and personal circumstances and now the added stress of the Covid pandemic. A facility such as this has long been needed for County Tipperary and I appreciate all the work the Minister of State has done on this with me. I stress the need to extend the Jigsaw services to other areas of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (9 Jul 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...Minister to give careful consideration. The industry has stated that 17% of operators costs have to be grant-aided for them at this time. The Minister talked about six months. That will not be long enough. The industry's proposal is up to 1 April. I plead with the Minister to recognise that. It is going to take a significant period for the tourism industry to reach anything like full...

Covid-19 (Rural and Community Development): Statements (3 Jun 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...? Regarding rural regeneration and development and town and village renewal programmes, which I know the Minister values, as do I, Tipperary town in my constituency is in the very early stages of developing a long-term and sustainable development plan. It is envisaged that infrastructure, job creation, commercial service provision, provision of housing and enhancement of heritage and...

Estimates for Public Services 2020 (Resumed) (28 May 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...are charging 4% to 5% to their customers, it is still not working. The reason being advanced by the banks for not accepting applications is adherence to Central Bank rules, but those rules are related to long-term borrowing, not to the working capital that is needed now. The loans being looked for at present are limited to a one to three year repayment period, so they can definitely be...

Outbreaks of Covid-19 in Meat Processing Plants: Statements (21 May 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...these questions. We need a full report as to how this boat was not filled with Irish cattle at a time when we need competition in the marketplace like never before. This was the first time in a long number of years where heavy cattle had an outlet live from this country. It is a huge disappointment to livestock producers that this boat has now left our shores. I shall now turn to...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (14 May 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...in laying down some clear timelines for the industry, for the artists and for the people who are planning a major day in their lives. We do not want this to be like the leaving certificate, where uncertainty prevailed for a long period of time until an exact road map was finally put in place.

European Council Meeting: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Jackie Cahill: ...change forever. If we do not arrest this change in this financial framework plan, it will be too late. In the past six months, we have seen farmer protests in this country such as we have not seen in a long time. We can argue about convergence and the flattening of payments but the reality is that unless money is put into the CAP, our family farm structure will disappear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Irish Greyhound Industry: Irish Coursing Club (17 Dec 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...the countryside. It is a problem given the closure of Garda stations, although we are not going start arguing about that here. The fact is that it happens in rural areas and the nearest squad car can be a long way away when people report that there is a gang in their locality. Even aside from the number of hares that are being killed, people feel very vulnerable with these gangs roaming...

Report on Examination of School Costs, School Facilities and Teaching Principals: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...of the recommendations. The ongoing failure to adequately fund the day-to-day running of our schools is having a real and lasting impact on pupils, staff and parents. It is undermining the long-established tradition of free education and must be urgently addressed. While broad in scope, the committee report attempts to tackle two prime issues - the need to provide additional...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Nursing Units (26 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...To ask the Minister for Health if the service being offered by a community nursing unit (details supplied) in County Tipperary will be reviewed in order to ensure that persons in the area will have long-term stay care in their own town in view of plans by the HSE to have them seek care in Nenagh or Thurles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48572/19]

Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: .... It is said that a ship setting sail without a destination is destined to drift and ultimately flounder. Unfortunately, this is where the Government is taking our health service; on one long, tortuous journey with no destination in sight. In any organisation that is lacking leadership one will have discontented staff and lack of productivity, which in this case is ultimately being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Operational Matters and Corporate Plans of Horse Racing Ireland: Discussion (19 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: Degrees of difficulty in winning do not really come into the equation as long as the end prize is attractive.

Progressing Children's Disability Services: Statements (14 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: .... The fact that the services involved are for children with disabilities is extremely difficult to stomach. The Government continues to fall short on delivering for children with disabilities. Long waiting lists and waiting times seem to be embedded in the system, undermining the whole basis of early intervention policies. We have had promises in budget 2019 and we had promises in 2018...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (14 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: 125. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long-stay beds provided by the HSE for the elderly in Nenagh, County Tipperary; his plans for future numbers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46933/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Issues Concerning Greyhound Industry: Bord na gCon (12 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...be of major benefit in getting to where we want to get in this regard. One figure in the report that struck me is that foster homes have been found for 51 dogs to date in this country. That is a long way off where we want to get to on that point.. Mr. Nyhan said different reports were received on the help line and three of them were referred on welfare grounds. Whose responsibility...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...in my county, Tipperary. Yesterday, 41 people were on trolleys in South Tipperary General Hospital. Given the size of the hospital and the population it serves, that has to be a record. The long-promised modular unit in Clonmel is still lying idle because of a failure to recruit staff. Our Lady's Hospital in Cashel is lying idle just 12 or 13 miles away. Nenagh General Hospital is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Unfair Trading Practices: Discussion (5 Nov 2019)

Jackie Cahill: ...into that area. She has also stated that her remit concerns the protection of the consumer. That is well and good, but we definitely have serious concerns about the primary producers and how long they can survive the price squeeze on them. I raised the protection of the consumer and of the supplier. Is the lowest possible price in the consumer's interest in the medium to long term? We...

Finance Bill 2019: Second Stage (23 Oct 2019)

Jackie Cahill: .... It is a serious indictment on our society that a couple in reasonable jobs cannot get on the property ladder, get a mortgage and afford a house. On social housing, again this Government has failed miserably. Unfortunately, the lists grow longer and longer. Even in a rural county like Tipperary, I have people coming into every clinic I have saying they have been on the housing list...