Results 941-960 of 5,087 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We are going to run into time difficulties if we spend this length of time on each question. I ask that just one person from each group replies. I see Mr. Farah is looking to get in and I know Ms. McDonald also wants to. I ask them both to be brief and in future, we will take one response from each group. Unfortunately, we only have a certain amount of time for the meeting.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I apologise for cutting across Mr. Farah. I will have to start letting in some of the other people with questions. People will have to go to other meetings. I know Deputy Gannon has to go, so does he want to ask his questions now? I apologise. I do not want to have to interrupt anybody.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I will have to get stricter on the time.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We will move on to Senator Seery Kearney. Will you just confirm that you are in Leinster House, Senator?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We can still hear you. Sorry, Mr. Malone. Were you going to come in on that question?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I will bring the Deputy back in during the second round as I know some members have to attend another committee meeting where they have to vote.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Do not name the people.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I ask the Senator to hang on a moment. We do not have much time left. I want to give the speakers the opportunity to respond. I did not interrupt anyone who asked a question. I also want to go back to Senator Hoey, because she has sought to ask a second question for a long time.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I also want to go to Mr. Mohamad Farah at the end because he is the only person I have interrupted so far. That was due to time constraints but it was unfair and I want to give him the opportunity to come back at the end with comments. I call on Ms Crickley, then Senator Hoey can ask her question and then, if Mr. Farah wants, he has an opportunity to say what I interrupted in the first place.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I want to give Mr. Farah the opportunity to come back in because I interrupted him earlier. If there is time, I know Senator O'Sullivan and Deputy Costello had brief comments to make.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Hang on. In fairness-----
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: Stop for a second, Deputy Costello. I have been more than fair to everybody in this meeting. It has gone on for nearly three hours. I have not even asked one question myself. I said I would allow members back in if their comments were brief. Senator O'Sullivan made his point without interruption. Deputy Costello can make his point without interruption.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: We are not having a back-and-forth. We are not going to feed into the negativity in this committee.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: It is a pity we are ending on this type of back-and-forth. Personally, I believe there is an element of the far right growing in this country and they love when there is division. They thrive on it. We have to be really-----
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I am not speaking specifically about Deputy Costello but about him and Senator O'Sullivan. There is no need for that. This committee is always chaired fairly. More than adequate time is given to people.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: There is no need for people to cut across each other. Do any of our witnesses want to make a concluding remark?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank Ms Hanlon.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank all of the witnesses. This is the first of a series of meetings we will have on this topic. There will be another meeting next week and further meetings will be scheduled. It will be an ongoing debate and I am sure the witnesses will tune in to it. I agree with much of what Ms Crickley said about looking for solutions. There is a lot in the witnesses' opening statements and...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: I thank all our witnesses for their opening statements. I know a number of people are here who did not give opening statements but are here to answer questions. If people have a specific question for a specific group, they can ask it, otherwise I ask witnesses to indicate when they want to come in when a question is asked, since we have so many people.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)
Kathleen Funchion: If Mr. Farah can be as brief as possible, we will move on to Deputy Alan Dillon next.