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Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I dislike speaking near the end of a long list of speakers as most of what I want to say has already been said at least once if not a number of times.

Seanad Reform: Motion [Private Members] (16 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Yes. What is wrong with the Seanad? Its first problem is that it does not have any clearly defined purpose. People have been scrambling around the place looking for a purpose for the Seanad but we must consider what it is supposed to do before we can even begin to examine what it does. We must ask what we want of the second Chamber. Its second problem is that it is elitist, undemocratic...

Financial Resolutions 2015 - Financial Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed) (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: The Minister, Deputy White, spoke about the largest beneficiaries in proportion to income and suggested that low wage earners were proportionately getting more than those on large incomes. I do not profess to be a mathematician, but if I am on €200 per week and get a 5% increase, I make it out to come to €210 per week. If I was lucky enough to be on €1,000 per week and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Long Wave Radio Transmission: RTE (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I welcome the witnesses. I will not repeat what has been said. We have all received the e-mails and we all understand the level of hurt among Irish people abroad who cherish that connection they have with this country. Some of them feel we pay them lip-service. We talk about how precious the diaspora is and yet we make a decision like this which cuts off an important communication link...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: May I make one point? In respect of the Galway to Sligo route is anybody following up with the EU the issue of potential increased funding for delayed cross-Border routes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Why?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: The Galway to Belfast route would not qualify for funding as a-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: May I have a note from the Minister clarifying the reason the Galway to Sligo route would be excluded from consideration by the EU in terms of funding?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Sorry, what is the position with the Cloonamahon to Collooney route, the route with the white crosses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I apologise to the Minister for being late and missing his presentation. Mar tá mar tá rang Gaeilge agam gach Céadaoin idir a naoi a chlog agus a deich a chlog. I welcome the Minister and wish him the best in his Ministry. I have three questions. One of them appears to be parochial but it might have a national aspect, the second appears to be parochial but it may have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: EU Transport Council Meeting Briefing: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: First, we have a good train and bus service between Sligo and Dublin but several years ago, the freight service closed. That does not make sense because we have a good deal of haulage involving heavy lorries on the N4, which in parts is unfit for the volume of traffic on the road. We have rail lines that are unused overnight and on which there is reduced usage on weekends. We need to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 138. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring-fence funding to support the national collective of community-based women's networks to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women for disadvantaged communities; the way he intends providing support for this most marginalised group who are not named under the social inclusion and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 139. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to engage with the national collective of community-based women's networks to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now precludes them from securing funding past 2014 under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 140. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way he plans to support the voluntary board of the national collective of community-based women's networks with their responsibilities to seventeen local women's projects 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff. [39362/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local and Community Development Programme Project Funding (15 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: 141. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that marginalised women are not a target group of the new SICAP programme; in view of this, if he will provide reassurance to the national collective of community-based women's networks that an alternative funding stream will be made available to continue this valuable work....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I understand the frustration that exists. The witnesses, the Government and I have been telling people that things are going to get better. Someone mentioned the person who must put their hand out the window to get a signal. I know someone who must leave his house and drive to a higher point to get a signal. He is trying to run a business...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: Regarding the publication of the maps, can we at the same time give certain dates as to when the white spaces will be covered?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Mobile Telephone Coverage and High Speed Broadband Availability: Discussion (8 Oct 2014)

Michael Colreavy: I have recalled my last question. I probably forgot it because I am not sure it is something the witnesses must be concerned about, but it is something that must concern the Government. There would be little point in installing state-of-the-art communications if organs of Government, State and semi-State bodies and schools, hospitals and so forth continue to use record systems that Charles...