Results 41-60 of 371 for speaker:Michael Conaghan
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Creative Economy: Discussion (21 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I welcome the visitors. In terms of the public mind, generally the small companies get shouldered out of the limelight by the larger ones. When an announcement is being made about multinationals coming in, it is the first items on the news and newspapers and everybody is talking about it but the media tends to ignore the smaller initiatives such as those the representatives are promoting....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Creative Economy: Discussion (21 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: It does not get the same attention.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: The Creative Economy: Discussion (21 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I welcome our guests. I watch TG4 much more often that I initially thought I would because it is a highly engaging channel. While I do not understand much of the vernacular, the reason I watch so many TG4 programmes is that their content is strongly visual. The channel has brought a new eye and ear to matters of Irish interest which many of the other broadcasters have never captured or did...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (21 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is in a position to provide five-year passports for senior citizens; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15187/15]
- Fair Pay, Secure Jobs and Trade Union Recognition: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I welcome the opportunity to make some brief comments on this important issue. I will start by reiterating that we are all aware that the Government's principal task in 2011 was the daunting task of rescuing the economy and creating jobs. When we consider the scale of job losses, we readily understand the scale of the challenge presented. Some 330,000 jobs were lost in the economy between...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: The overriding consideration is that the State has a duty to society and to all of us to ensure that matters such as these are not forgotten and that the records are not obliterated, when people will argue in the future about what happened and did not happen to many young people. It is important that those records are retained and that the State gives a reasonable time, in so far as it can,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: That was not Deputy Quinn. It was prior to his tenure.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: We cannot be the arbiter of what people in the future will do with this information. There is no way of putting cotton wool around this and protecting it. These records are a valuable resource because they shine a light on an area of Irish life of which no one is proud. They shine a light on things that happened. Dreadful things happened to young people and we must confront it,...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: They gave their names.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Retention of Records Bill 2015: Discussion (15 Apr 2015)
Michael Conaghan: We must learn from it and not just pretend this is not there. That is the point of bringing it to the surface, so that it is not forever kept underwater by tying big stones to it. That is what happened in the past and it is part of the problem we have today. We buried things, hid things and pretended things did not happen. All kinds of things happen in society and we must take account of that.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Yes.
- Leaders' Questions (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Hear, hear.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: In reaching this decision, has the Department examined comparable practices in other countries or guidelines on what has worked in other countries? These issues must be dealt with in every country and I am sure various practices, guidelines and perspectives have been drawn up in other areas. Have the officials looked at those on a comparative basis?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I share the concern but all concerns should not find their way into legislation. There are other ways to solve these issues.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: It is happening-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: -----but putting it into law does not make that much of a difference.
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: I believe it can be dealt with just-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Is this where a teacher is temporarily removed?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Is it clear that is the meaning of the term?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)
Michael Conaghan: Yes.