Results 781-800 of 994 for speaker:Emer Currie

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Foyle Port (16 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I welcome Mr. Clancy and Mr. O'Kane. First, they know that I support the cross-Border workers' campaign and I am glad the Minister has agreed to meet with the witnesses again in the new year with regard to giving some clarity about that timescale. However, that is a temporary position and what we need is a permanent solution or something that we can trial and give us hope for the future....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Foyle Port (16 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I agree and thank Mr. O'Kane for answering my questions so comprehensively. I agree with him that the tax strategy group paper is one-dimensional. I have said previously in the Chamber that I am uncomfortable with using language like the North and South being in competition with each other and competitive advantage. Everything should be about collaboration and harmonisation to grow the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Londonderry Chamber of Commerce and Foyle Port (16 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: The Chairman has just asked my question. There is a lot in this. The potential of Foyle Port is significant and the breadth of what it does is mind-boggling. It has the bulk side of business as well as the tourism side. It would also be useful to hear about energy and what the port does in the sustainable energy space. There is definitely an opportunity to develop the port for more...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Friday is the deadline for the greater Dublin area draft transport strategy for 2022 to 2042. Within that is the revised greater Dublin area cycle network. The last strategy was in 2013. I am not sure that people are aware that the new cycle network is in the plans, so I would like to bring people's attention to that. On close inspection, it seems that the concept of a Liffey Valley...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Christmas is a special time of year, with family and friends coming together to celebrate during the festive period. Sadly, however, it will not be a happy occasion for everyone, with empty seats at the family table, including my own. However, whatever pain I might feel does not compare with the pain and sorrow felt by those who for decades have mourned the loss of family members murdered...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Both Deputy Carroll MacNeill and I very much want to speak on this. I wish to reflect on the disappointing attendance by Sinn Féin today. Normally, we have many more Sinn Féin attendees at this meeting. It calls itself an all-island party but it actually has two slots on this committee. Its members did not use all their time in the first segment and there have been three...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I spoke with Ms Peake in the past about how there can be up to 12 people involved in abductions. We think it would be good for people to hear about the number of people involved and, therefore, the information that could be out there. Things that may have been seen that may not seem important or that people may have buried away themselves could be the key to unlocking the information that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Very well said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business of Joint Committee
Engagement with WAVE Trauma Centre (9 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I want to pick up on what Senator McGahon said there. I think what the Senator meant was that the people who could do the most did not do what they could do both at the meeting and in the past. My father was a TD up until 2002. He arranged meetings with the families of the disappeared and raised the issue plenty of times in the Dáil as well. As I said earlier, the disappeared are...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I am out of breath from running down the stairs. I welcome the extension of the temporary Covid-19 waiver for Republic of Ireland cross-border workers in the context of the transborder workers' relief. If it were not for that extension, Republic of Ireland workers were going to be facing a cliff edge in terms of double taxation. They were being told that from a public health advice...

Seanad: Maternity-Paternity Leave for County and City Councillors: Motion (7 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I commend my colleague, Senator O'Loughlin, on bringing forward the motion, not just in her role on the administrative panel but also as chair of the women's caucus. She does a fabulous job. Politics, as we know, is not a normal job. Public service does not start at nine, finish at six and come with leave entitlements. Our families know and accept that, all too often, politics comes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten (2 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: I welcome Mr. Brecknell and Ms Urwin for coming before the committee. I note from the outset that I am completely against any impediment to victims and families having access to truth and justice. The command paper from July is hugely offensive and represents a lockdown on the rule of law because it is not just about prosecutions but is also about all investigations, all civil cases and any...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten (2 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Can I come back in?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten (2 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: Deputy Carroll MacNeill has probed on questions that I was going to ask in order to try to understand this. We definitely need to follow up to make sure there are not barriers for Justice for the Forgotten and that Jon Boutcher is getting the information that he requires. I want to go back to what Mr. Brecknell said about who is affected by the command paper. He rightly points out that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Justice for the Forgotten (2 Dec 2021)

Emer Currie: There can be a route to justice if people are allowed to take it.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (4 Nov 2021)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister of State and congratulate her on the budget and her securing of investment in special education in addition to that of last year. I thank her for her support to date in Dublin West. She came out to visit Rath Dara Community College, as it is now known, in Dublin 15. She understands the building issue concerning Danu Community Special School. I thank the Government...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (4 Nov 2021)

Emer Currie: It is great to know NEPS is to visit the school in the next week. I have been raising this issue for nearly a year and I am not getting around the full-time behavioural therapist requirement. The school community feels that it is not being heard on this. They need the full-time behavioural therapist. The Minister of State said that they get access to more resources but when I speak to the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (4 Nov 2021)

Emer Currie: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Emer Currie: That is okay. It is nice to see Ms O'Donoghue and Mr. Duffy again. I thank the Cathaoirleach for the opportunity. The Cathaoirleach has made good points about how we can improve communication and work closely with the shared island unit as a committee. It is great to see the revised NDP and to hear about the €3.5 billion that we can be spending. We are coming across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Emer Currie: I have been contacted quite a lot by Ongar Chasers Basketball Club in the past 24 hours, because of the guidelines issued by Sport Ireland which relate to basketball, volleyball and squash.This is a club, like so many other clubs around the country, that has kept going throughout Covid. Even in the deepest, darkest winter last year, they were playing outside, rallying around the community...