Results 441-460 of 994 for speaker:Emer Currie

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: People like me will vote for a united Ireland or a new Ireland. However, as we have seen in polls, some people, particularly in the South, want to know how much it would cost. There are concerns in the North about how reunification would affect people's standard of living. The figures are stark. Are our guests telling me that since the Good Friday Agreement, productivity in the Northern...

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: The gap is 40%.

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: How much control does the Northern Ireland Executive have through its own policies over investment and changing educational attainment?

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: That is great.

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: Over the past 20 years.

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: Can the Executive change that itself?

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 it within the Executive's power to do that?

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: Where has the energy been? Has it been going to that integrated approach to investment? Where has it been going? I want to try to understand that big gap.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish to focus on childcare supply in Dublin West. I will outline the reasons we need a review of section 28 of the Planning and Development Act and the ministerial guidelines from 2001, a review of the interaction between county councils and county childcare committees and radical change from the loose planning guidelines we have to deliver childcare supply in order to plan, build and open...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Parents will tell you again and again that supply is a major issue across Dublin 15. The Minister of State knows that. I have reached out to some of the childcare committees to see what is happening and what interaction there is. My feedback from that is that it is not consistent. Some committees are working closer with planning officials than others. If we are to address undersupply, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: It is great to have somebody in the room who has the experience of being on this side of the questions. We are all in agreement that something needs to happen when dealing with legacy. Otherwise, the past will just continue to haunt us. The time to do it is now for the reasons outlined in that the people concerned are dying, the information is harder to obtain the longer we go on, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will finish the point. In my experience, criminal investigations are required to get to the truth because people are not showing they are willing to come forward. What is it about the Truth Recovery Process approach that it believes would change that? In addition, verifying the truth is an important part of this as well. We have seen that through our deliberations on and analysis of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: If it was allowed to produce the truth, it could.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish the Acting Leader and Cathaoirleach a good morning. I welcome H.E. Palm and Lieutenant Colonel Piso to our Chamber. I wish to raise a couple of issues this morning, the first of which is the news yesterday from the Minister for Justice that there will be gardaí on duty at railway stations, starting at Heuston Station with a new Garda transport hub. I very much welcome this news...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister of State. Tyrrelstown is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and most diverse communities not just in Dublin West, but in the entire country. According to the 2016 census, 35% of the population were aged 15 or under and 40% of people living there were born outside the State. Residents have identified a major issue in the area to do with the provision of secondary...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. The response is disappointing. I know it is not his fault but I feel like we are going backwards. The need for a school has been identified, but the response does not acknowledge that. I will now go back to a community to tell it that despite the fact we thought there would be a secondary school and everyone was on the same page, it turns out we are not and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: We are supposed to be at planning permission stage. That is my point.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Amendments Nos. 1, 9 and 13 will be taken together. Is that agreed? Agreed.