Results 381-400 of 2,980 for speaker:Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (3 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What is the Deputy talking about?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Delays (3 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 183. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an audiology assessment and tympanostomy procedure for a person (details supplied), which the medical team has deemed necessary to take place at the same time; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40203/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed): Professor Peter Stott (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank Professor Stott. He gave a very interesting presentation and I appreciate his attendance to assist our committee. I was thinking about the graph concerning the 1° Celsius temperature increase. If we do not get our act together globally, at what point will the temperature increase by 4° Celsius? How many decades or centuries are we looking at? What would the planet look...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed): Professor Peter Stott (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: We are naturally bound to think of the impact on ourselves and on the hard infrastructure to mitigate against flooding and so on, but what about the impact on plants and animals on the planet? There must be an impact on the ecology. If the water temperatures are increasing, there will be all sorts of impacts. How will fish survive, for example, or what kind of microbial activity will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed): Professor Peter Stott (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: My other question builds on Deputy Pringle's earlier point on reaching the citizen and explaining what is happening. Professor Stott said that the Met Office had a long remit to look at climate projections. What is its relationship with the BBC in terms of using its service to explain what is happening with the weather relative to the individual? Does it have a specific policy remit in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly (Resumed): Professor Peter Stott (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Professor Stott referred to the atmospheric river. Will he explain that further?

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Invalidity Pension Applications (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 598. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an invalidity pension application by a person (details supplied) will be processed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39757/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Disability Allowance Applications (2 Oct 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 599. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the disability allowance section will be in a position to process an application by a person (details supplied) whose domiciliary allowance has ceased; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39758/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank all the witnesses for their attendance. I have a question for Mr. Griffin on recommendation 1 of the Citizens' Assembly regarding a single organisation responsible for ensuring that we achieve our targets. The committee has been receiving different views on that and there seems to be an emerging view that across Departments at a very senior level, a committee of Secretaries General...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What does Mr. Griffin think about using the weather forecast as a good opportunity to convey information to the public?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: The witnesses from the ESB talked about carbon capture and storage technology and how we are going to need it. Could they elaborate on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What about fly wheel technology and battery storage? Has the ESB a view on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (26 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Would the ESB have any resistance to the idea that the individual citizen could generate electricity for themselves, connect to the grid and sell because there might be the impression that this is the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank Ms McPhillips for her presentation. I am interested in the question of the entities which will be increased. She says here that it is not confined to retailers and wholesalers. What kind of entities does Ms McPhillips predict will be involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: What would be the other ones?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (Resumed) (25 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Meat processing companies would also be subject to the directive where they meet the definition and are larger than an SME.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank Ms Donnelly for her interesting presentation. If we were to emulate any country in Europe, which one should it be? Denmark, for example, aims to be carbon neutral by 2050. That is an ambitious target and it appears to be on course to achieve it. Does Ms Donnelly have any thoughts on that? The Tipperary Energy Agency has been getting a great deal of attention with regard to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Should it be in the ETS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I have a final question. I refer to the bioenergy Ms Donnelly is talking about and the fact that we see other countries availing of the opportunity to grow for ethanol. Is this something at which she has looked? Is it something about which we should be thinking? Does she have any views on that matter?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Engagement with Ms Marie Donnelly (20 Sep 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I have a final comment. I liked the proposal Ms Donnelly had on the Secretaries General of Departments, perhaps, and someone from the Taoiseach's office chairing. This has come up before. It really sounds like she is proposing a whole-of-Government, whole-of-society approach to this. If we have all the Departments, all the local authorities and all the State agencies focusing on this down...