Results 61-80 of 499 for speaker:Conor McGuinness

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 63. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the work he has undertaken to date to address the crisis impacting on rural communities where young families are unable to find a home in the area they were raised in; and if he has met the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to discuss the matter. [26532/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Rural communities are in crisis. Young families who cannot find homes in their communities are being pushed into larger urban centres, which are already under pressure. Rural communities, ár gceantair Ghaeltachta san áireamh, are facing an existential threat. What specific steps are the Minister and his Department taking to support rural and coastal communities facing decline due...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Housing Provision (22 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Minister mentioned Our Rural Future. While I am glad to hear that the next iteration of the Government's rural development policy will look at housing, the previous one did not do so in any meaningful sense. In fact, it had more to say on rural broadband than on rural housing. I believe that is part of the fundamental problem. This Government and its predecessors have wasted years...

Gaza: Statements (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: What we are witnessing in Gaza is not just a failure of diplomacy but also a moral collapse of the international order. The bombardment, forced starvation and displacement of Palestinians are not abstract tragedies; they are livestreamed horrors etched into our collective conscience. Ireland, with its history of colonial oppression and enforced starvation, cannot look away as mams and dads...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I agree that young people in particular are under huge stresses in this day and age. There is of course a need to constantly improve our acute mental health services, particularly for young people - children and adolescents. As I said, there is a need for early intervention and that wellness piece. There are great organisations working on the ground across Waterford and I met Pride of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (21 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The Minister of State will agree it is unacceptable that Waterford is the only city, and the south-east region is the only part of the State, that does not have a Jigsaw youth mental health service. These services are not only physically based in premises but also offer outreach services. People I am dealing with right across Waterford city and county and also those in parts of south...

Assessment of Need: Motion [Private Members] (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: In Waterford, 147 children are waiting for an assessment of need and some have been waiting for nearly two years. That is illegal. That is the Government breaking its own laws. As the Government knows, under the Disability Act children are entitled to an assessment within six months. That is not optional. That is the law. Yet, the Government breaks that law every single day. Across the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: It is utterly shameful.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Cuirim fáilte roimh na baill chuig ár ndarna cruinniú. You are all welcome to our second meeting of this committee. We have received no apologies, but I understand that Deputy Cahill is running late, and Deputy Shane Moynihan is substituting. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Go raibh maith agat. We will consider the nominations in the order they were received. This is the regular format and approach under Standing Orders. I put the question on the first nominee, that Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher be elected Leas-Chathaoirleach. Is that agreed? Not agreed.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: This is a question I also had in discussions with the clerk. Under Standing Orders, this is the format for the election of a Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: Is Deputy Maxwell calling for a vote?

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: That is absolutely fine. The Deputy is entirely entitled to do so. I will explain the process for members because this is new for many of us. The bells will now be rung. Once all members are present or the bells have stopped ringing, there will be a period of time before the doors are locked. We will then go to the division.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: It is a good question. The period is four minutes. If there is a quorum here after four minutes, we will proceed with the vote. If there is not, we will wait a further eight minutes and then lock the doors and proceed to the vote. Every day is a learning day.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I declare Deputy Pat the Cope Gallagher elected as Leas-Chathaoirleach. Déanaim mo chomhghairdeas leis. Táim ag súil go mór le hobair ina theannta ar an gcoiste amach anseo agus é mar Leas-Chathaoirleach. Táim cinnte go mbeidh sé mar chrann taca láidir dom agus go mbeidh a chuid taithí san earnáil seo an-tábhachtach agus go mbeidh...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: I echo Deputy Gallagher's call for the Minister of State to be given full delegated responsibilities to equip him to advocate and work on behalf of the sector, and to complete his job. I also agree with his comments on the recently agreed Brexit deal between Britain and the European Union. That is something the committee will have to examine in the near future. I open the floor to any...

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: We will go into private session at this point to deal with a couple of housekeeping matters.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: The first nominee is put to the meeting and is either agreed or not agreed. Any member is then at liberty to call a division on that. I would then go to the second nominee if that question was lost.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 205. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on the June 2024 assessment of the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (details supplied) that famine has existed in Gaza since that time. [25668/25]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Middle East (20 May 2025)

Conor McGuinness: 206. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he recognises that Israeli officials, over the course of the conflict and blockade, have made repeated public statements indicating an intention to use starvation as a method of warfare against the civilian population of Gaza. [25669/25]