Results 41-60 of 305 for long speaker:Ciarán Cannon

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: ...us this morning to discuss the development, reinvigoration and bringing back to life of a piece of public infrastructure that has not served the needs of our communities in the west for a very long time. Senator Horkan spoke earlier about the fact that our guests are all volunteers. They all do this for reasons that are dear to their hearts in terms of how they want to see the west of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2022)

Ciarán Cannon: ...that €150 million should be invested right now or over the next ten years, we would be delighted. Then we would sit down with the Minister and whoever else to ask for a greenway to be developed alongside the line. Reading every past rail review and the conclusions they arrived at, in particular the conclusions arrived at by the very people we would be seeking to invest, namely,...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Impact of Covid-19 on the Entertainment Sector: Music Entertainment Association of Ireland (23 Jun 2021)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the industry and that they are supported and nurtured back to full health, if I can put it that way? I suspect that will not happen until sometime early next summer. That is my assessment of how long this is going to take. For our guests, as representatives of that industry, what is the best model to allow for that support to continue in a very effective way?

National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Statements (2 Jun 2021)

Ciarán Cannon: ...is not possible with the entertainment sector. I am deeply grateful to the Ministers and the Cabinet for extending the PUP out to February 2022 to reflect the fact that the industry will take a long time to get back to full strength. Seamus Heaney once remarked that we are not simply a credit rating or an economy, but a history and a culture; a human population rather than a...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Impact of Covid-19 on the Hospitality Sector: Discussion (23 Mar 2021)

Ciarán Cannon: ...urban and rural Ireland. I assure the witnesses that I will be advocating that any of the supports that are critical to the survival of the sector remain in place until such time as they are no longer required and there would be significant support for that within my party. If one looks at the response of the Government to date, one could argue that it has done an excellent job in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Remote Working (17 Dec 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...initiative on this. I urge her to keep going to ensure that, rather than returning to what we described as the normal of the past, there is a new normal created in which remote working becomes a long-term viable option for thousands of workers across the country.

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Challenges facing Public Broadcasting and the broader Media Sector as a result of Covid-19: Discussion (16 Dec 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...print media. That the challenges faced on the front line can be reflected in the work commission represents a really important move. I have two observations. In a former role, I visited a country a long way from here that I will not name because I do not want to embarrass anyone. Each morning, I received under the door of my hotel bedroom a copy of the equivalent of one of our national...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Nov 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the information we require. The former Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Shane Ross, commissioned a report on the viability of extending a rail service from Athenry to Claremorris on the long disused western rail corridor. He did not succeed in publishing that, despite the fact that it was presented to Irish Rail over a year ago by the consultants involved, which were paid a...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Priorities for Sport Ireland and Impact of Covid-19 on Sports Sector: Sport Ireland (18 Nov 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: .... I am fortunate to live close to a forest trail developed by Coillte in conjunction with our local community. It was literally overrun with people in the first phases of the lockdown on those lovely long summer evenings. We saw families for the first time ever coming and exercising together. That is something we need to encourage for the future. Sport Irleand's work in the Keep Well...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Key Departmental Priorities and Effects of Covid-19: Minister for Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport, Gaeltacht and Media (4 Nov 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...at level 5 that children need to retain access to participation in sport in pods of up to 15. I had one Last Friday night, a woman rang me to say her 15-year-old son had been told he could no longer attend his guitar lessons, which are very important to him, yet on Saturday morning he could head down to his local rugby club and jump around in the mud with 14 other young people for a long...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network (23 Sep 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...we can and should encourage people to make that modal shift. We need to give people genuine alternatives to getting into their cars each morning in all of those towns and finding themselves, along with thousands of others, sitting for a very long time on the eastern edge of Galway city as they make their way into the city. While we are all working hard as best we can to see the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Election Monitoring Missions (16 Jun 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...organised, in the main, by the European Union (EU) and the Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE-ODIHR). For as long as the Department has maintained the roster, the names of roster members have formed part of the public record. This has been done to demonstrate accountability and transparency in the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (5 Mar 2020)

Ciarán Cannon: ...EU-Turkey Deal was the establishment of the Facility for Refugees in Turkey.  The aim of this Facility is to meet the immediate humanitarian needs of Syrian refugees in Turkey and to bring about long-term sustainable improvements in their health, education and self-reliance. A total of €6 billion, in two tranches of €3 billion, has been mobilised from the EU budget and...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (17 Dec 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...changes underway in Sudan the EU signed the 17 August agreement as a witness.  Ireland, together with our EU partners, will continue to support a civilian-led transition in Sudan.   Assuring Sudan's long-term stability will require the inclusion of all elements of society, notably women and youth, in the transition process.  In this regard, I welcome the appointment of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Community Employment Schemes Supervisors (11 Dec 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...training programme administered by the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The CE programme was initially established under the aegis of FÁS to enhance the employability of long-term unemployed people by providing work experience and training opportunities for them within their communities.Its objectives continue to be to provide valuable work experience,...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (10 Dec 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...MONUSCO was conducted in 2019 ahead of the renewal of its mandate in December 2019. A large humanitarian community is also present in DRC but given the scale of humanitarian needs, scarce resources, and the long standing structural drivers of instability, humanitarian actors are experiencing difficulties in reacting to emergencies. During this year, WHO has documented...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Partnership Agreement Between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community and the Republic of Armenia: Motion (21 Nov 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: .... It covers issues of EU competence and interest and reflects the existing wide range of co-operation in economic, trade and political areas and on sectoral policies. It develops these areas further, thereby providing a long-term basis for the further strengthening of EU-Armenia relations. In addition to facilitating stronger economic relations, the agreement aims to enhance political...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Provision (12 Nov 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...have a particular focus on poverty reduction in Africa – predominately in Ethiopia, Malawi, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia – where our resident Embassies allow Ireland to play a key role in long-term development. A similar strategic role is provided by the Embassy to Vietnam. We also support smaller, more focused programmes in countries and territories...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Foreign Conflicts (12 Nov 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...of the European Union and the United Nations. Ireland is a strong contributor to efforts to prevent and to resolve conflict, prevent genocide, and eliminate the abuse of women and children. Ireland has a long tradition of contributing to UN and EU peace-support missions, including in some of the world’s most complex and intractable conflicts. Ireland has maintained a...

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 9: General (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)

Ciarán Cannon: ...the communities. The feedback I have received has been positive and all the people with whom we have engaged are anxious to ensure we maintain that strong connection with all our diaspora communities internationally, who in turn work alongside us in furthering Ireland's interests at every possible opportunity. We constantly explore new ways to foster connections with the next generation...