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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Will the registration and compliance system Fáilte Ireland will have be user friendly? Ms De Saulles spoke about it being digitally integrated but how will the data be securely shared with Departments?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: 5. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on the economy, trade and competitiveness will next meet. [46859/25]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (14 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Our national success in enterprise depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on reliable energy infrastructure. In County Offaly we have a great energy infrastructure that is close to capacity. EirGrid is under real pressure to expand it. Offaly’s central location and long history in energy generation means it is ideally placed to help to meet that challenge....

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I would like to be associated with the Leas-Chathaoirleach's comments. What happened in Carrickmines was an awful tragedy. I am from Offaly and we have a very strong Offaly Travellers group there. I am delighted to see that a lot of work has been done on halting sites, official and unofficial, in order that this type of tragedy does not happen in the future. My thoughts and prayers go to...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the team from Tusla for coming in today and for the opening statement. It is disappointing the data we require is not being taken or the witnesses do not have it. Data is power, and when we are dealing with an ethnic minority group like Travellers, the more data we have, the more specific programmes we can put in place because we will know exactly where to target. I hear the...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Just to intervene, we had representatives in from the National Traveller Women's Forum organisation last week. They spoke to us about the fact that it was very hard for them to have any trust in some cases, with child protection and what have you. What specific interventions is Tusla making in that regard or what processes or procedures are coming online that will actually make a difference?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Does Tusla have any Traveller people working in the organisation?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: What I am getting from Mr. Brophy is that it is a low number.

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: To be honest, to deal with this aspect and to make sure people begin to trust in the systems we have, in Tusla, other organisations and groups like it, we need to bring in more Travellers. We need to sit down with the Traveller organisations and say this is where we are going to have vacancies for jobs and we need Traveller people to do courses. Last week we were talking about courses...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: To add to that, has Tusla put a bursary in place or is there help and support available for people from the Traveller community who want to do that course?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: Brilliant. What targeted early intervention and family support initiatives are being delivered specifically for Traveller families to prevent crises and reduce the need for child protection interventions?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Child Protection and Family Support: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I thank the witnesses for their opening statements. I appreciate them. It is the day after the budget. The witnesses had their asks in a lot of cases. My questions would be on competitiveness and where the witnesses think we could go as a country. We all realise that the minimum wage has been increased. We all want to see workers getting paid more money and all the rest but at the same...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: The witnesses will find that the political will is there to do this. We obviously understand where we are with it. It was said that businesses did not get anything yesterday in the budget apart from the reduction in the VAT rate for the hospitality. We did, if we think about the extra money gone into infrastructure, power and Irish Water. That is a plus and something Ms Burke reiterated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: There is more work we need to do with regard to competitiveness. The witnesses talked about infrastructure and, as they said in their opening statements, housing. Housing is a vital one. In order for us to get people in here to do jobs that need to be done, we have to house them not just in housing but low-cost, value-for-money housing. That is something we are very cognisant of. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: That is fine and grand in Mr. Talbot's situation as the head of Chambers Ireland, but if he goes around the country he will find that for many businesses the issues may be local rather than national. Unfortunately, in many cases they do not have a lobby group to be able to lobby local authorities and local government for whatever they need done to deal with the issues they are facing. Over...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I will be very quick because I only have two minutes. We all know the issues we have with Dublin Airport and that we must raise passenger capacity. In fairness to him, the Minister has worked on legislation so I hope we will have that sorted by next year. Not that long ago, I would always say that certain things would happen in my lifetime. I now say that I hope they will happen in my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: That is not what I am saying. If Ms Burke listens to what I am saying, I am not talking about now but about the future. I suppose Dublin people are the wrong people to ask. I should be asking Chambers Ireland, which would look at it with a pan-Irish view.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: However, you can also be simplistic and say that an airport is nothing but a shopping centre with a runway and security. You can also look at the fact that many of the cargo companies operating out of Dublin Airport would prefer to be somewhere else because of how busy it is. You could look at that along with increasing passenger numbers, which would take the congestion away from Dublin. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Competitiveness and the Cost of Doing Business in Ireland: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Oct 2025)

Tony McCormack: I am talking about the future. I am also saying that we are probably going to have to build a third runway, which means the Europeans will come in, say it is uncompetitive and make us sell terminals to Abu Dhabi or whoever. I personally believe there is call for a second airport. Other European capitals have one, two or three airports. It seems to work an awful lot better than just having...