Results 21-40 of 132 for speaker:Nessa Cosgrove

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I will return to the issue of staffing. I have many friends who work in the areas of child protection or social care. I am talking about people who are either directly employed by Tusla as social workers, social carers or family support workers as well as those who provide the commissioned services. Staff are dealing with a lot of trauma. Every day they are working with people and...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That is very welcome. With commissioned services, often they are struggling on a tight budget. While there are fantastic managers, often they are not trained in therapeutic management, or even in reflective practice. It is about the therapeutic element and providing psychotherapy or counselling support for a lot of staff. Can the well-being of staff be factored in to annual budgets?...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That would be great.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Often, you are fighting a fire that you do not have time for. It is not factored in. I ask if that could be factored in as an essential part of the work day or work calendar.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: My request is very basic and relates to the need for the Minister for education to make a statement on the status of Scoil Mhuire's application for a new school building in Carrick-on-Shannon. I will give a bit of background information. Scoil Mhuire is the largest primary school in Carrick-on-Shannon, which is a very big and ever-growing town in County Leitrim. The school is located...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is, therefore, no date or commitment yet. I ask the Minister of State to look favourably on this matter. He mentioned that the impact of climate change is part of the assessment. I will cite an example of how unfair it is when there are two campuses. In 2024, schools were encouraged to apply for solar panels. As there are two school campuses, only one application was accepted but...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Building Projects (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: One school will become run down and one will serve an affluent area. Middle-class children will attend one school and Scoil Mhuire will be cynically run down because of the lack of an appropriate school building. Scoil Mhuire submitted an application in 2016. It is the main national school in Carrick-in-Shannon, so a new school building is a matter of urgency.

Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I commend Senators Ryan and Murray on introducing this Bill. I also suffered early miscarriage loss. As Senator Ryan said, every loss matters. No matter what the stage of one’s loss, it will place a physical, emotional and psychological trauma on one. Under the current system, women losing a child at under 23 weeks often find themselves having to return to work, many still...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I welcome the Minister. Fáilte, a Aire. Thankfully, at this stage, there is general society acceptance at all levels that bereavement and loss are not restricted to those who are formally and legally married but, as we have said here today, this was not always the case. This Bill is largely thanks to the campaigning work of Johnny O'Meara of Tipperary in highlighting the glaring...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am delighted to be having this conversation and see there is such enthusiasm for this debate. All of us speak so warmly and fondly of the postal services because the post office network has traditionally played a special and significant role in all of Irish life, from before and after the foundation of our State. The local post office holds a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I thank the witnesses for coming in. My first question is about the long-term game. I understand the commercial element of it but, ideally, I would like to see the State being used. Dublin Fire Brigade was spoken about, and there are search and rescue missions and operations where I live, between sea and mountain rescue. I would love to see more advancement in technologies for monitoring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes. I am referring the impact on jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: What about jobs? Will there be passenger drones? Is there any reference in the framework to the impact on the workforce or jobs?

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have learned so much from my time here and I thank all the witnesses for that. They have all mentioned that poverty often results from discrimination and inequality. Do they recommend the re-establishment of the Combat Poverty Agency? It dealt with issues such as low pay and all the structural inequalities that exist within society. Taking account of everything that we have discussed...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I want to raise the ongoing debacle and farcical situation regarding the placement of a surgical hub in the north west. I live in Sligo. We were assured that a surgical hub would be provided in Sligo University Hospital. We were assured by the Minister of State, Deputy Marian Harkin, that part of the deal of going in with the Lowry group was that the surgical hub would be based in Sligo. ...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: No one is disputing that we need a fair and efficient emigration and migration policy but the motions under discussion are serious in nature and will have a significant impact on the rights of people who have sought protection here. There is an inherent danger in rushing through any legislation and when legislation pertains to the rights of people who could subsequently be removed from this...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I commend my fellow Senator, Nicole Ryan, on her honesty and bravery and for bringing home the importance of not only this Bill but also this amendment. I worked with children and young people in child protection for many years and I could see the shame she was talking about. I could see the realisation that "My house isn't like everyone else's house" and the long-term trauma caused as a...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (2 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The Minister of State is very welcome and I thank him for coming in. I also welcome Sarah Benson. It is fantastic that she is here. I thank the original signatories of the Bill, Senator Clonan and the former Senator Martin, and Senator Noonan for introducing it again and allowing us to be part of it. I have just come back from the Irish Congress of Trade Unions biannual conference....

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Children's Rights Alliance (19 Jun 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The Children's Rights Alliance is welcome. As Deputy Currie said, it provided a fantastic briefing which was a welcome read. I will keep my questions specific. It is welcome that the Children's Right Alliance is gathering information about children living in long-term extreme poverty. The number of Tusla referrals is shocking. Senator Keogan was right to say that. I have worked in the...