Results 41-60 of 158 for speaker:Eoin Hayes

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I am conscious there are only about five minutes left. I will focus on Mr. McGeady. If we think about the EU functions and what the purpose of the EU was for so long, it was initially a trade union. Certain regulations came into that. It has been a Union that upholds human rights to some degree and it has had responsibility for capital markets. We are also seeing movement towards defence...

Committee on European Union Affairs: Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (25 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Would anybody else like to come in on that?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 178. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the costing and procurement analysis carried out in relation to the contract the Government has signed with a company (details supplied) to build the M28 motorway, and its compliance with Government procurement frameworks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28255/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (24 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 919. To ask the Minister for Health the measures she is taking to uphold the commitment as outlined in the Programme for Government to ensure patients have timely access to new and innovative treatments, and in particular the drug named givinostat (brand name duvyzat), which is crucial for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34523/25]

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank the witnesses for their contributions, expertise, time and engagement on this. I envy them their knowledge of this area and their depth of understanding of what is happening. I have some commentary more generally on the approach and what the Minister and the Department are saying. However, my time would probably better used asking questions. I will ask all the questions and the...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I am sorry to interrupt Mr. O'Neill, but I do not have that much time. Can he outline what he means by downstream and upstream? Mr. O'Neill referenced this earlier and I am not entirely sure.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: So a financial institution or intermediary intervention in the creation of the product versus the distribution of the product.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: This will be more statements than additional questions. I hope the witnesses will forgive me that. When he stood up to speak to save the eurozone Mario Draghi used the phrase "Whatever it takes". We have joked a little bit about Mario Draghi's impact on mortgage interest rates for several people. That was a pivotal moment in the European Union, in the eurozone and in our own economy....

Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I congratulate the Minister of State on his appointment. I do not think I have seen him since he was appointed. To start on a positive note, I strongly endorse his view on EU-UK relations and cultivating those across the islands. He is right. It was a very different context in 1972 and I am glad to see we are in a different place. Hopefully, we can continue in that vein. Other...

Committee on European Union Affairs: EU General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: There is a lot of data here. A lot of AI technology will be utilised here on behalf of the EU in terms of energy security and powering EU technology. Has there been any discussion of what that looks like in terms of the investment landscape? Will the cohesion policy invest for that energy security or defence security in those ways? Would EU investment reflect the unique position Ireland has?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 153. To ask the Minister for Health when all adults living with spinal muscular atrophy will be entitled to the same treatments as children living with spinal muscular atrophy in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32936/25]

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I thank all of the witnesses for coming in and making those contributions. I know it is quite difficult to prepare for these meetings so I really appreciate their submissions and all of their contributions so far. On a few points of commentary before I ask some individual questions, I am very concerned about the watering down of the omnibus and the legislative provisions. The other day, I...

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I had asked two other questions of the witnesses but I realise I have run out of time.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: Maybe the witnesses could be very brief and take only 60 seconds.

Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals (11 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: I noticed, and this may not be factually accurate, in a post on Twitter that we have reached 430 parts per million in CO2 in the atmosphere for the first time in recorded history in the past week or two. It is incumbent upon all of us to recognise the significant urgency in this if we are thinking about it from a climate change perspective. This is one of the very few instances where at a...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: At a recent residents' association meeting in my constituency in Sandymount, it was reported to me that only one flood insurance provider is left providing coverage in the community. This week research from the University of Galway was reported in The Irish Times showing that storm surges during Storm Éowyn were the "highest ever recorded" and would have been twice as high had the storm...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the introduction of an annual schedule of guaranteed school grants can be provided to all primary schools in advance of the academic year going forward; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29997/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 638. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has conducted a review of the sufficiency and timing of the current funding allocated to primary schools; if she will share the outcome of that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Online Safety (10 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 713. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the measures his Department is taking to introduce more protection to children when they are using online media; if her Department is investigating a social media ban for under-16s; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30000/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Eoin Hayes: 714. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will consider extending the payments to the artists who are already receiving under the pilot basic income for the arts scheme, to the end of December 2025 as part of his overall review; if a decision on this will be reached before August; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30001/25]