Results 421-440 of 994 for speaker:Emer Currie

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: We need to talk about knife crime. Some 2,000 to 2,500 knives are seized per year currently, with 2,132 seized in 2023, and according to our colleague, Deputy Alan Farrell, that is an increase of 78% in the past seven years. The highest number was in 2020, during Covid, when there was a strong community presence. I think we all agree on the need for increased visibility of community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: Mr. McDonnell is welcome. I thank him for all his advocacy over the years. It has been interesting to hear what he has had to say about Brexit and the Windsor Framework. Perhaps we can get into that issue but my first question is whether ISME has put any work into the impact of constitutional change on the island. Has it thought at all about what would happen if we were to become a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: In order to help in that regard, I will ask if there are any issues that ISME considers it would be important for us to consider.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: How does Mr. McDonnell think the EU would react to the whole island of Ireland having access to the UK and EU?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Emer Currie: Regarding divergence of regulation and law between North and South because of UK policy, Mr. McDonnell mentioned working time. Has that been floated as a potential idea or is Mr. McDonnell hypothesising?

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the members of Young Fine Gael for their hard work on this, in identifying an issue that really needed to be focused on to shine the spotlight on it. I thank Senator Ward for helping to bring it to this point, and Senators Doherty and Seery Kearney for their involvement. It is great to be part of a party that is a campaigning party, because that is what it is all about. I very much...

Seanad: 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (30 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank Senators McGreehan and Blaney. I know that normally wild horses would not keep Senator Blaney away from a debate like this so I hope everything is okay. The Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs is welcome to the Chamber and I thank him for all the work he has done on reconciliation, Northern Ireland and the shared island unit as Taoiseach. It comes from a genuine place...

Seanad: 25th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (30 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Senator very much.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I raise the shambles that is going on at Dublin Airport because there is not enough car parking in the short term. For our national airport to advise passengers to get lifts from friends is something I do not think I have ever heard before. If it is bad now, it will be bedlam during the summer. This is not about increasing the car parking spaces at Dublin Airport; this is because there is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I would challenge that decision.

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I congratulate the Minister on this legislation to deal with the registration of social workers, to look at UK medical degrees and to make sure there is access for training posts in Ireland. I am probably going to be in the same territory as my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney. As we know, CORU is a multi-professional regulator that looks after the nine professions and the hugely valuable...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. As he may know, we are in the middle of the Phoenix Park parking strategy, which is out for public consultation. I believe the Phoenix Park can, and should, be accessible and inclusive for all. The current commentary from the OPW is about how the popularity of the park is unsustainable, and the numbers have to be controlled. However, what we have seen over...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. It is positive that they are looking at toilet infrastructure where there is a wastewater supply, but like I have said, they do not need to just restrict themselves to that. In fact, using these eco-toilets which are run on a composting basis would fit in with how people use the park, and prevent people going to the same places so they can have the reliability...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: They are doing it in Fingal County Council. They have two sites where they are using eco-toilets which do not need the water supply.

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Ruled out.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank both speakers for their kind words about my dad. It is very much appreciated. I think he would agree with me when I say that we were the lucky ones. I too want to remember the 3,700 people who lost their lives and, of course, the people who never gave up on finding peace. I thank Mr. Ahern for marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with us today. I have had the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: As part of the commemoration of 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement, we met the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. That has been a success for some families but not for all. There are still four families who are waiting for their loved ones to be returned. We remember families like that of Columba McVeigh, who are searching for Columba at the moment in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will take seven and a half minutes before I pass over to my colleague. I hope this exchange can be conversational because I have many questions. This is a report about perspectives on constitutional change. It will come as no shock that I am in favour of constitutional change and am open-minded about how we do that and what it would look like. Dr. Barrett mentioned that the shared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Is the first part essential to making the second part work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Our guests have suggested some of that work has been done. How much of that work remains to be done?