Results 281-300 of 730 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 200. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the proposed new local link Waterford service connecting Ballyduff and Dungarvan. [27384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Welfare Service (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 263. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the current number of full-time equivalent educational welfare officer positions in Waterford city and county; the number of these positions currently vacant; the timeline for filling these vacancies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26711/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Sector Staff (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider developing a policy that will require online interviews to be facilitated for primary and post-primary teachers who are living abroad and cannot attend interviews in person. [26790/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 339. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she can advise in relation to a school securing the necessary funding for a child who has not received an ASD school placement for September 2025 (details supplied). [27636/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legal Aid (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 459. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the total funding allocated to the Legal Aid Board for 2024 and 2025. [26909/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 505. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason grant aid for course fees, under the new European Maritime and Fisheries Fund announced July 2024, is only available to BIM training courses or equivalent courses, resulting in the same qualifications as those provided by BIM and not for academic courses like the Higher Diploma in Business in Fisheries and Aquaculture...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 506. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to consider providing 50% grant aid for student fees for the Higher Diploma in Business in Fisheries and Aquaculture offered by South East Technological University, as had been the case in the past; if he will designate a State body with responsibility for promoting third level education courses and degree programmes in the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 508. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine given the State has more than eight degree courses in agriculture, well-funded and endowed since 1926, whether it is now time to promote at least one degree course in fisheries in Ireland. [27119/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (27 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 507. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the actions taken in line with what the programme for Government calls "the promotion of marine education courses and degree programmes with a view to increasing enrolments"; if it is planned to make any promotional funding available to increase enrolments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27118/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rural Schemes (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Deputy McCormack for bringing this up because it is an issue very close to my heart and one I have been considering for a while. I had the opportunity to meet with the Irish Postmasters' Union yesterday morning. Speaking to it, a topic that came up was the impact and availability of the post office network, particularly in rural Ireland, to offset some of that exclusion and...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I look forward to having those discussions with the Minister both at committee and in the Chamber and, indeed, offline because this is an issue that is not going away any time soon. Much time has been wasted over the last five to ten years when we should have been developing housing, but it is never too late to start doing the right thing. It needs to be focused on keeping rural communities...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the work he has undertaken to date to address the crisis impacting on rural communities where young families are unable to find a home in the area they were raised in; and if he has met the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss the matter. [26532/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Rural communities are in crisis. Young families who cannot find homes in their communities are being pushed into larger urban centres, which are already under pressure. Rural communities, ár gceantair Ghaeltachta san áireamh, are facing an existential threat. What specific steps are the Minister and his Department taking to support rural and coastal communities facing decline due...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Minister mentioned Our Rural Future. While I am glad to hear that the next iteration of the Government's rural development policy will look at housing, the previous one did not do so in any meaningful sense. In fact, it had more to say on rural broadband than on rural housing. I believe that is part of the fundamental problem. This Government and its predecessors have wasted years...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What we are witnessing in Gaza is not just a failure of diplomacy but also a moral collapse of the international order. The bombardment, forced starvation and displacement of Palestinians are not abstract tragedies; they are livestreamed horrors etched into our collective conscience. Ireland, with its history of colonial oppression and enforced starvation, cannot look away as mams and dads...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I agree that young people in particular are under huge stresses in this day and age. There is of course a need to constantly improve our acute mental health services, particularly for young people - children and adolescents. As I said, there is a need for early intervention and that wellness piece. There are great organisations working on the ground across Waterford and I met Pride of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Minister of State will agree it is unacceptable that Waterford is the only city, and the south-east region is the only part of the State, that does not have a Jigsaw youth mental health service. These services are not only physically based in premises but also offer outreach services. People I am dealing with right across Waterford city and county and also those in parts of south...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: In Waterford, 147 children are waiting for an assessment of need and some have been waiting for nearly two years. That is illegal. That is the Government breaking its own laws. As the Government knows, under the Disability Act children are entitled to an assessment within six months. That is not optional. That is the law. Yet, the Government breaks that law every single day. Across the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: It is utterly shameful.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Cuirim fáilte roimh na baill chuig ár ndarna cruinniú. You are all welcome to our second meeting of this committee. We have received no apologies, but I understand that Deputy Cahill is running late, and Deputy Shane Moynihan is substituting. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House...