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Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have been engaging with tillage farmers across Waterford over recent months. I spoke with the tillage chairman of Waterford IFA. The message from those farmers could not be clearer. They feel unheard, undervalued and let down. They believe the Government is doing absolutely nothing to address the crisis in their sector. Tillage farming is one of the most efficient, low-carbon and...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Budget 2026 (15 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if cinemas will be covered by the reduced vat rate of 9% announced in Budget 2026. [55723/25]

Cost of Disability: Motion [Private Members] (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Minister will know from the statistics in his Department that people with disabilities and their families are among those most at risk of poverty in the State. They have been abandoned in budget 2026. That is not me as a member of the Opposition saying it. It is what they are telling us. They feel abandoned because they have been abandoned. This is a budget that bears the...

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Hear, hear.

Housing Finance Agency (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Across Waterford city and county, the housing crisis is worsening by the day. We see it on the ground and in the statistics and the figures. We are witnessing the inevitable result of years of Government failure and a lack of political will to deliver homes for ordinary people. I met again in recent days with housing officials in Waterford City and County Council. To be fair, they are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I must highlight once again to the Taoiseach across this Chamber the way in which the Minister for education, the Department and the Government as a whole are treating Scoil Gharbháin i nDún na Mainistreach, i gContae Phort Láirge, and other schools, particularly Gaelscoileanna, across the State. Dúirt an Roinn gur ceadaíodh dhá sheomra ranga riachtanais...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: -----has shown the utter disregard of the Government for Gaeloideachas.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: After months of delays, could we arrange to get an answer for Scoil Gharbháin?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Tá céad míle fáilte roimh na finnéithe chuig an gcruinniú seo. I have received apologies from Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher. He is attending a meeting of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly in London. I have also received apologies from Senators Diarmuid Wilson and Gerard Craughwell. As most of the witnesses have been in those seats recently, they will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Mr. Lynch. We will go to questions and answers and I remind members that they have five minutes, including their questions, remarks and responses. To aid efficiency and keep things rolling nicely, members might say who they are putting their question to, if it relates to a particular speaker. The floor is open for Senator Boyle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Mr. Murphy is joining us online and his hand has been up, so he may go ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I thank Mr. Murphy. I have a couple of questions, particularly for Mr. Lynch. They relate to the Celtic Sea and Irish Sea and the key asks that are coming from members of the Irish South and East Fish Producers Organisation in terms of the quota negotiations, which include and will be aligned with the asks of the wider industry. They are different fisheries, particularly in terms of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What is the value of the nephrops quota to the industry on the south and east coast? What is the danger if there is a diminution of that quota in the negotiations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I have a question for Mr. Byrne about fish processing and exports. We all understand the gravity of the crisis with pelagic species. Deputy Mac Lochlainn spoke eloquently about everything leading up to that, including overfishing. What is the implication for members of the Irish Fish Processors and Exporters Association, for industry and for employment in that sector?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I was going to pick up on the issue Deputy Mac Lochlainn raised. It strikes me that this overfishing and wanton destruction of a sovereign natural resource of the Irish people taking place off our west and north coasts is to the detriment of 17,000 jobs and a way of life in living communities, to enrich shareholders, many of whom are based in the European Union. Many of these operations...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I notice that Mr. Murphy who is joining us on Teams has had his hand raised for quite a while. I call Mr. Murphy, after which I will go to Deputy Ward to begin the second round.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Quotas, Common Fisheries Policy and Sustainability Impact Assessment: Discussion (14 Oct 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Mr. Byrne might be very brief because a number of speakers have indicated to put further questions.