Results 281-300 of 13,291 for speaker:Joe McHugh

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Díolúintí i leith Staidéar na Gaeilge sa Mheánscolaíocht: Plé (Atógáil) (26 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: Tá mé fíorbhuíoch as ucht an tseans labhairt ag an gcéad phointe. Tá cruinniú agamsa ar 3.30 p.m. Gabhaim leithscéal leis an gCathaoirleach. Cuirim fáilte roimh na daoine uile atá anseo inniu. Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach, le hEugene Ó Cruadhlaoich agus leis an bhfoireann uile fá choinne na sároibre atá...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (25 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an Teachta Calleary fá choinne a cheapachán mar Aire Stáit. Guím ádh mór air sa phost úr. This is one of the downsides of getting that recent elevation. If Deputy Calleary had not got it, he would be home in his bed now. However, the Minister of State is here into the early hours of the morning. I am...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (25 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I will not elaborate further, but I am glad that the Minister of State has not read some of the prepared reply into the record. It is pure dynamite to say we will subsidise up to the Border, given that since 2016 we have been saying we do not want a hard border on the island. Now a Department is subsidising up to the Border but not further. Incidentally, if one is going from Letterkenny to...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Ukraine War (25 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: 803. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the role that her Department has played in the integration of Ukrainian refugees into communities; if her Department and any agencies under its remit has had an involvement at local or national level in the response; the further steps that they intend taking to ensure that services are provided to assist in this; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Sentencing Policy (20 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: 64. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on actions in the Justice Plan 2022 regarding reform of sentencing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51642/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: A quick succession to the Chair happened during that contribution. I have been listening attentively to Dr. Deane and Mr. O'Donoghue and I thank them for their solid, if somewhat sobering, presentations as regards the grim reality we are all facing. I will not delay. I thank Deputy Ó Murchú for chairing in my absence. I call Deputy Troy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Mr. O'Donoghue and Dr. Deane.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I would like to take up Deputy Haughey's first point in relation to the UK relationship. Mr. O'Donoghue mentioned that there are sensitive discussions regarding the solidarity within the European Union. It would help in my understanding of what is the supply chain between the UK and Ireland. I thought that we were almost totally reliant on gas coming from the UK. How do we fit in, as a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: One final supplementary from Deputy Harkin.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: EU-level Policy Response to Current Energy Security Issues: Discussion (19 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Dr. Deane and Mr. O'Donoghue. Senator Martin and Deputy Harkin have stolen my final contribution quite expertly, and I would like to thank them for that. Go raibh maith agaibh as ucht bheith i láthair linn inniu. Thug sibh eolas agus comhairle chuimsitheach dúinn gan dabht, ní hamháin ó thaobh na deacrachtaí nó na fadhbanna atá i gceist ach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I am sorry to interrupt but I am conscious of the time and the Chairman will rightly cut my time shortly. Is the model now within the competency of the NCSE?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: It is very difficult to get a perspective on this issue because it seems that NCSE has become the employer of occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: Such posts should be under the competency of the HSE. I understand what was said about the culture, the three months and the lifestyle of students outside of school. Will the ESRI evaluation show the value of the people that the HSE had deployed in 2018 and 2019 before Covid-19 hit? Surely the evaluation will see the value in having speech and language therapists in schools. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I had not planned to speak at this stage. Does the Chairman want to move on to someone else because there are a couple of specific questions that I want to think about?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank Mr. O'Regan for his presentation and for the other interventions as well. They are helpful. I want to try to get a better understanding of where the school inclusion model pilot is. When it was initially set up in 2018 by, I think, the then Minister, Deputy Bruton, the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, was looking at employing two co-ordinators and then the assumption...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive (18 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: I thank the delegation for their discretion. For what it is worth, I am not looking for a response. My own county and constituency are not included in the pilot scheme. There are nurse specialists in schools and the scheme has completely changed the dynamic of schools and reminds us that people are individuals. Maybe the evaluation might point to something.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ukraine War (12 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: 56. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the role, if any, that her Department has played in the integration of Ukrainian refugees into communities; if her Department and any agencies under its remit have had an involvement at local or national level in the response; the further steps that they intend on taking to ensure that services are provided to assist in this; and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (12 Oct 2022)

Joe McHugh: 109. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the role that her Department has played in the integration of Ukrainian refugees into communities; if her Department and any agencies under her remit have had an involvement at local or national level in the response; the further steps that her Department intends on taking to ensure that services are provided to assist with...