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Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I have high admiration for him. He is an extraordinary Minister and an extraordinary public representative, but I fundamentally think, "Guys, gals, the man may be great, but on this occasion he is damned wrong." I am not encouraged by the tendency of the divisions on this Bill that they are going through on the nod. The Government side and the Minister have an onerous responsibility to...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation): Statements (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I am of an age, unusually in the Chamber today, that I sat in a family huddle around the wireless and listened to the early broadcasts of the budget on Radio Éireann. It has been a spectator sport for me ever since those early days. I am always struck by how the budget is presented. It is sort of a spectator sport in many ways because proponents of the Government laud it and opponents...

Seanad: Supports and Services for Patients with Head and Neck Cancers: Motion (8 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: A short week ago, I knew very little about this topic. By chance, my daughter and I met Senator Craughwell in the coffee dock, of all places. He told me he was bringing this Private Members' motion to the floor of the House today. Like any habitué of this House, I got to work on doing a little bit of self-enlightenment on the topic. I was absolutely amazed by the complexity of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liom tagairt a dhéanamh inniu do dhea-scéal don imshaol domhanda. Go hiondúil, is annamh a thagann dea-scéal mar seo chun tosaigh. It is for that reason that I happily advert to it today. In the first half of 2025, renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity - a historic first. Electricity demand is growing around the world go...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I am not up to speed; I have only just arrived. Can I pass over to the next person?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I was interested in getting a few facts and figures from the witnesses. When I started teaching in the early 1970s, dyslexia was not on the radar at all. It was only when I finished my first 12 years teaching in south Dublin that it began to come onto the radar and present in classrooms and as a worry to parents. In light of that, when did the special provisions and measures to assist...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Okay. We are talking about 30 years ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: At a minimum, we have had a quarter of a century of these measures. Is it fair to ask how it has taken quarter of a century to get to a stage where we are discussing a putative pilot?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Meileann muilte Dé go mall. The wheels of God grind slowly. A quarter of a century to go from the introduction of a scheme to now developing a pilot scheme seems inordinately tardy to me.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: My time is very confined and I want to ask Ms Feeney another question. With regard to special measures for dyslexia, how much investigation does the State Examinations Commission put into comparators, where there are acknowledged progressive regimens of education? New Zealand is an example. Does the commission do comparators with how those regimens approach the work? How does the SEC...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: I will ask Ms Feeney another question based on that because I am conscious that my time is almost gone. She mentioned that examination on comparators. Is that done in-house or do contractors do it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Issues Affecting People with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia: Discussion (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Who might that be?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Although I am not a member of the Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy, I paid great attention to the massive fish kill in the River Blackwater on the Waterford-Cork border during the summer. It was an outrage. That is the only way to describe it. The best estimates are that around 30,000 fish died as a result. It was a very strange pattern of attrition among the fish....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá an feachtas don Uachtarántacht faoi lán-seol agus tá sé tugtha faoi dearadh agam nach bhfuil á lán de na ráitis agus idirghabhálacha atá ag teacht uaidh daoine éagsúla ró-ghalánta. I am just concerned from observing the presidential campaign that a lot of the discourse is being degraded into what I would call fairly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liomsa cúpla rud a rá faoi mo shaol oibre féin. Tá mé i mo mhúinteoir bunscoile scortha agus bhí mé i mo phríomhoide ar bhunscoil chomh maith. Nuair a bhí mé críochnaithe leis an seomra ranga, chuaigh mé amach ag obair le coláiste oiliúna ag déanamh feitheoireacht agus cigireacht ar ábhair...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá an cheist chomh simplí leis seo. Is deacair an rud é feabhsú ag an tríú leibhéal mura bhfuil sé déanta ag an gcéad leibhéal agus an tarna leibhéal. Mura dtuigeann an Roinn oideachais agus na coláistí oideachais go bhfuil fadhb mhór againn sna bunscoileanna agus ag an tarna leibhéal, tá sé amaideach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Teagasc agus Stádas na Gaeilge sna hInstitiúidí Tríú Leibhéal: Plé (Atógáil) (30 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá cúpla focal gairid agam faoi sin. Táim cinnte go bhfuil an paradigm atá in úsáid sna bunscoileanna fíorbhriste. Níl sé ag obair agus mura nglacann an Rialtas agus an Roinn oideachais leis go bhfuil an model briste, agus is deacair a thuigbheáil conas a chaitheann gach dalta ocht mbliana ag foghlaim aon teanga is go dtagann siad amach i...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: Next month, on 25 October, we will celebrate a fairly significant event in the tourism and socioeconomic life of Ireland, namely, the 40th birthday of Ireland West Airport. In the media reports back in 1985, it was variously described by journalists as being an airport built on the top of a mountain or on a bog.It was completely deprecated by the media and by the omniscient people of the...

Seanad: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Motion (25 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: I would like to say a few words in support of the motion before the House this afternoon, and also to signal the widespread support of the Seanad Independent Group for the sentiments and thrust of the motion. The first thing I wish to do is make an observation I have regarding the conflict as it erupted in October 2023. It is so frequently before us in the media - on television, in the...

Seanad: Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation: Statements (24 Sep 2025)

Joe Conway: The reason I deferred to Senator Scahill, even though I think I upset the lineage, is I was unprepared and I was trying to marshal a few figures. I want to celebrate the fact that we have the opportunity to comment on expenditure and the whole ambit of what we are doing with our money and productively. I draw the House's attention not for the first time to the expenditure on our defence...