Results 3,781-3,800 of 4,887 for speaker:Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am listening. Go on.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Put it on the agenda. Many of us are in the same-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Seanad reform-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We should have both.
- Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes.
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Patronage (5 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I raise concerns over the Carlow County Childcare Committee surveys on school reconfiguration for diversity being carried out on behalf of Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board. This is being done through the Department of Education and Skills. I am sure the Minister of State is standing in for the Minister for Education and Skills and I know he will relay my concerns. The...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Patronage (5 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I tabled a Commencement matter on this topic due to the confusion generated by the survey. There are parents who feel that they should have been surveyed but, unfortunately, it was only the parents of children who participate in ECCE schemes that were surveyed. As the Minister of State stated, surveys have been circulated in 16 pilot areas. I...
- Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Patronage (5 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is a very sad day for the subcontractors who have done the work. In my area of Carlow 90% of the work has been done on the two schools.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Contractual Arrangements for Public Sector Infrastructural Projects: Discussion (5 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes, the constituency of Carlow-Kilkenny is ours - it belongs to the Chairman and me. It is important to clarify that. The situation is unacceptable. The hardest thing today is to hear the stories of the witnesses and the reality of what is happening to our own people who have done the work. My biggest issue is the fact that the witnesses are here crying and looking for something they...
- Seanad: Order of Business (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I was appalled at the revelations at the Committee of Public Accounts yesterday that Sammon Contracting received 98% of the payment it was owed under the public private partnership contract but none of the payments were passed on to the subcontractors. Ever since the umbrella company Carillion collapsed earlier this year, this has been a mess. Carillion collapsed, Sammon went into...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome everyone. We have a housing crisis. Rented properties are a massive issue. We have a lack of supply. We are trying to bring in a system to help people. There are cases in my area where landlords will not take housing assistance payment, HAP. They take cash. Since we have a lack of supply, we force people, since they cannot find proper accommodation, into homes where the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I was not asked. I knew it was this week.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: None of were asked so I will let that go. We have all 31 chief executives - I would always call them county managers - there. Can we not all work together on a plan? I have only learned all of this since I have come to these meetings. Dublin is able to say that its policies are different and Waterford's policies are different. If policies are not similar, the only ones who lose out are...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is a commitment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We need them.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: This is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Sorry.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Perhaps Mr. Maher could give us a copy of the inspections-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Private Rental Sector: Discussion (4 Jul 2018)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: -----carried out by each local authority.