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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing for Aviation and Travel Sectors: Discussion (9 Jun 2021)

...in terms of the scalability of the technology. In terms of distribution, our front end application – our mobile application, is available in the App Store and in Google Play, so for android and Apple users it is available right now globally. In the context of scale, it is easy to distribute to the public. I try not to use too much technological jargon, but the back end of the...

Select Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Thomas Pringle: ...this point too much. The Minister gave one definition of "in so far as is practicable" and I expect the Department could come up with many other definitions that would not be as motherhood and apple pie as the definition the Minister has given. That is the crux of the problem. The definition is too wide open and, for that reason, it has to be opposed.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 May 2021)

Micheál Martin: ...direct investment model, over the past 50 years, since we decided to look outwards, we have attracted some of the best manufacturing facilities to Ireland, whether it is the Intels, Hewlett Packards or Apples of this world or the pharmaceuticals. Only this week, Pfizer announced that mRNA vaccine technology will come to Ireland to be manufactured in Grange Castle. That places Ireland at...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (25 May 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...from the Road Safety Authority issued to Deputy Connolly on 22 April 2021. In their response, the Authority set out the details as follows: It is the case that debit and credit card payments, and Apple Pay and Google Pay are the current acceptable payment types in NDLS offices and that we are unable to accept cash, cheques, postal order or pre-paid card payments. This was introduced as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 May 2021)

Seán Kyne: ...the country. The old Galway city bypass went through the Irish courts before ending up in the European Court of Justice, which is fine, but the process was inordinately long, with huge delays. The Apple case in Athenry is another example. The project did not proceed because Apple said it had had enough due to the delays. Objectors using the system to frustrate and delay, delay and...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Postal Services (20 May 2021)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...was launched that greatly assists the emergency services in determining the exact location of people in need that call 999 or 112.The Advanced Mobile Location (AML) is available on both Android and Apple devices and works by automatically finding a phone's GPS co-ordinates and sending them by way of a text message to the Emergency Call Answering Service when a 112 or 999 number is dialled....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Food Labelling (19 May 2021)

Neale Richmond: 211. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the rationale behind individual stickers being placed on fruit such as apples; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27113/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Ireland and the EU 2021 Poll Results: Discussion (19 May 2021)

...about the process unfolding and whether it will just become a passive listening exercise is a great one. From our perspective, there is a big challenge in this regard. It is a little like apple pie, swimming pools and bowling alleys for everyone. We will have to try to set realistic expectations and manage them because what the people in Ireland might have to say about how they see an...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Tourism Industry (11 May 2021)

James O'Connor: .... Even in our shared county of Cork we can clearly see that level of investment, whether it is in places such as Carrigtwohill, Little Island or in the Minister's constituency in Ringaskiddy or in Apple in Cork North-Central. There are tens of thousands of people in our county working in US companies. Not only is it important from a leisure point of view to have US visitors coming to...

Seanad: Future of Banking in Ireland: Statements (10 May 2021)

Sharon Keogan: ...of our time, the reprise of the dot-com boom in an entirely new way. Are we ready? Ireland enjoys a reputation as a tech capital of Europe. Thanks to international IT giants such as Google and Apple, as well as the native start-ups that are gathering momentum and that have accelerated economic recovery and growth in recent years, if anyone is going to be ahead of the curve on...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (6 May 2021)

Cathal Crowe: ...it works. I still travel to Dublin by car some days but it takes ten or 15 minutes to cycle to the train station and an hour and 50 minutes on the train. I get through a lot of emails, have an apple and a mug of tea and come off the train refreshed before cycling into the city. I encourage everyone to try it. It does not work every day and there are some pitfalls to this form of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mica Redress Scheme (5 May 2021)

Darragh O'Brien: ...€60,000 and €80,000 per home. The average cost in respect of the defective blocks scheme is significantly higher than that, as the Deputy will know. The maximum approved cost is €275,000. Apples and oranges are being compared here. We have to be honest with people. At the request of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, and Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Climate Action Plan and its Implications for the Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (4 May 2021)

...future of rural Ireland, including recommendations that are applicable to his area. We had a much more complex and diversified food and land use system in the past. Across the Border, we produced apples in Armagh and there was a great flax growing area in Ulster, as well as around Dublin. We produced grain and more fruit and vegetables than we do now. We have an opportunity to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Engagement with the Office of the Planning Regulator (4 May 2021)

...the infrastructural enablements that are needed as well as parallel consents for other aspects, for example, fire safety certificates and so on. The Deputy should bear in mind that they are like apples and oranges. There is a world of difference between commencing a project of ten houses versus one of 1,000 homes.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Apr 2021)

Verona Murphy: ...believe the Minister and his colleagues in the Green Party are sincere in their motives, I disagree with the approach they want to take. First, this Bill could best be described as motherhood and apple pie. While it sounds wonderful, what will it mean when push comes to shove? We are being asked to pass a vague Bill that will give Governments free rein to do as they please for the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Data Protection Regulation: Discussion (27 Apr 2021) See 1 other result from this debate

...words, the DPC has failed to resolve 98% of cases that are important enough to be of EU-wide concern. That means Ireland is the bottleneck of GDPR investigation of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Apple, everywhere in the EU. We at ICCL have warned the Government that the DPC's failure to uphold the rights of 450 million Europeans creates strategic economic and reputational risks for...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Impact of Brexit on Business Sector: Discussion (29 Mar 2021)

Róisín Garvey: ...as well, but we must figure out how we can create more jobs and business enterprises from growing more spuds and becoming more self-sufficient in some of our food staples. We import 52,000 tonnes of apples, 47,000 tonnes of onions and 23,000 tonnes of cabbage. If one shoves them in the ground, they nearly grow themselves. I am not a green-fingered person but this is low-brow growing....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector: Engagement with Bank of Ireland (23 Mar 2021)

...financial services benchmarks, for example for cultural embedding, to now being at or above these benchmarks. I have already said that culture is not some sort of soft happy clappy motherhood and apple pie poster in a staff canteen, when we used to go to staff canteens. It is commercial. It is about ensuring the sustainability of a business model, customer loyalty, effective outcomes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Victims' Testimony in Cases of Rape and Sexual Assault: Discussion. (23 Mar 2021)

...that are separate from, and probably do not much overlap with, what has got as far as the DPP in a given year and what is with the DPP is not necessarily what reaches the Courts Service. One is always comparing apples with pears and cauliflowers. It is not a unitary system. I do not know enough about statistics to know if a system could be devised that has a single identifying number...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Paul Murphy: ...makes a political choice not to prioritise and not to open access to third level education in this way while it simultaneously claims not only that we can afford not to charge the big multinational corporations, such as Apple, basically any tax at all in this country, but that we have to do so. We can afford pay rises for Deputies and can afford extraordinarily high rates of pay for the...