Results 41-60 of 227 for speaker:Nessa Cosgrove

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation): Statements (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank her for providing her opening address. We all saw on "Prime Time" last night some of the real-life stories of some of the families impacted by this budget. Some are saying they are worse off. Today, I will talk about the minimum wage and the failure of the Government to move to a living wage. The delay in replacing the national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Thanks, Chairman. Tá fáilte isteach roimh gach duine. I thank everyone for their opening addresses. I too extend my sympathies to Ms Gray and all the members of PARC who have lost loved ones in fatal road collisions. I have a very simply question for the Department of Transport. I was at a very stark and shocking briefing last Thursday from the Love 30 campaign. There was a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is a lot of pushback on this and some county councils are not going to do it and it will not be implemented. The first phase is fantastic and really welcome. This group has suggested the introduction of special speed limits and having that be the by-law within the county councils. The default would be that it would go down to 30 km/h but county councils could apply to have special...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There are probably conditions to have amendments within the Road Traffic Act, though. That could be possible within the Act itself. I mean to change the default, like with phase 1. Phase 2 would be the same.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: There is a lot of disappointment. I am sure the officials have heard this and I know there was a representative from Mr. Kenny's office at it. There is a lot of disappointment because there is overwhelming evidence about reduced speed limits. I am just looking at some of the evidence we have been given here. If a pedestrian is hit be a car going at 30 km/h, one in ten will die; at 50...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Maybe I will wait until it comes back around.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have some observations. It was raised that 70% of road fatalities are on rural roads. Five out of six, excluding Dublin, have been along the west coast, three in the west and north west - Mayo, Galway and Donegal. There has to be a correlation - the populations are less but we do not have the available public transport. This needs to be addressed. The western rail corridor needs to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: If it is necessary to have another app which people are obviously using, would it be useful?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: People are still using it though.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It must address a need. Otherwise, it would not exist. People are willing to pay €12 for it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have been here for hours just for my three minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That would counteract it. If people have done their 12 lessons, their instructor will have said they are ready and then they wait four months for the test and they lose all their skills.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It was about double testing. Why are theory questions asked in the driving test when the theory test is already done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: On the Queen's University study, will driving instructors will be included as part of the stakeholder body?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Road Safety: Discussion (8 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Can I get the other answers?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I will not speak about the budget as I will wait until the statements later today. I want to put a different issue before the Leader. The long-awaited occupied territories Bill will be coming before the Dáil for a vote soon. We know the foreign affairs joint committee strongly recommends progressing the Bill and that the prohibition of imports from the Palestinian occupied territories...

Seanad: Budget 2026 (Finance): Statements (7 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: This is my first year as an elected representative in the Houses of the Oireachtas and it is my first time hearing the budget. All that kept going through my head when I was sitting in the Dáil listening to the budget was the song “Here we go again". This budget is yet another in a long list of missed opportunities by the Government and its predecessors of recent years. We are...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Poverty (2 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I thank the Minister for coming in. The Taoiseach has been quoted as saying child poverty will be prioritised in the forthcoming budget. This is so welcome. We are all looking forward to hearing the budget. It has been widely reported that the latest ESRI report said that in 2025 Irish children are suffering the highest income poverty rates of all age...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Poverty (2 Oct 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: It is welcome to hear there will be targeted measures. It is unfortunate there will not be a second tier of child benefit in this budget. It comes back to the real issue about homelessness. We know it from all around the country.A ban on evicting could be introduced quickly and easily which would stop the eviction of a family who has received a notice to quit until social housing is built....