Results 81-100 of 130 for speaker:Joe Conway

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: EU Funding (1 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I thank the Minister of State for his input. Is he familiar with a deal that was made with the French armaments company called Thales for a towed sonar device to be towed along after our naval vessels? As I was saying in the House last week, any skipper from Killybegs or Dunmore East will say that towing anything at sea is a pretty dodgy business. If they are towing something that is as...

Seanad: Dental Services: Motion (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: This motion is very timely in that it address the géarghá mór i stádas na fiaclóireachta atá sa tír seo. There is a big crisis in dental care across the country. As a former primary school principal, even when I was in the classroom, I noted year on year a deterioration in the level of service that children got from the school dental service. At this...

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I second it.

Seanad: Disability (Personalised Budgets) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I will not detain the House long but I have a few impassioned remarks to make in support of the amendment and Senator Clonan. We have an old expression, san áit a bhfuil toil ann, tá slí ann. Members will all know it as, where there is a will, there is a way. There is a way here. My schoolboy Shakespeare brings me back. Senator Clonan asked whether we had it in our hearts....

Seanad: Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I am happy to be speak on these conjoined motions. The Minister of State went through the genesis of the Special Criminal Court and the Offences Against the State Act. I understand that many in the House will probably consider the two Acts under discussion as legal anachronisms. In terms of combating national and international terrorism, however, they are both still relevant and necessary....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Is aoibhinn liom na finnéithe a fheiceáil ag teacht isteach ar maidin. Cheap mé beagnach go raibh mé ag cruinniú eile den údarás sna Forbacha. Taobh amuigh de sin, is mian liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil le Rónán Mac Con Iomaire go speisialta as an leabhar deas a fuair mé uaidh ag cruinniú na Nollag. Ní raibh deis agam mo...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Cé chomh sásúil is atá sé, i dtuairimí na bhfinnéithe, go bhfuil stádas ag Dún Garbhán mar Ghaeltacht support town? An bhfuil siad sásta faoin progress atá déanta?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I dtuairim Rónán Mac Con Iomaire, an mbeadh aon mhaitheas ann do stádas Ghaeltacht na Rinne a bheith ag comhoibriú le Dún Garbhán? An bhfuil aon rud sa todhchaí ar chor dúinn a bheith ag coinneáil súil air?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as bheith anseo chun déileáil leis an Commencement matter. From his own area, I am sure the Minister of State will be well familiar with the BAM project, an initiative that was introduced for financing school developments. It began in 2012 and was modelled largely on the UK's private finance initiative, PFI, which was begun in 1992...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Even though it is over 50 years old, I am sure the Minister of State is well aware of legislation that was enacted in 1972 called the Restrictive Practices Act. I draw particular attention to the Third Schedule, which reads: Any measures, rules, agreements or acts, whether put into effect (or intended to be put into effect) by a person alone, in combination or agreement (express or...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: It is gratifying to note that a recent announcement from the Minister for Defence is the harbinger of a contract with Thales to supply a sonar detection facility for the Irish Naval Service. The lack of this has been pointed out routinely by Members in this House and I am sure our urgings have hastened that initiative. We often hear the cliché "it's just a sticking plaster" that will...

Seanad: Balanced Regional Development: Statements (17 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Cuirim fíorfháilte roimh an Aire, atá anseo anocht i measc na hoibre tábhachtaí atá idir lámha aige i láthair na huaire agus a bheidh ag dul ar aghaidh sa todhchaí. Gabhaim míle buíochas leis as sin. Balanced regional development is akin to what I think is virtue. We all claim to aspire to it but what results is often a sullied product...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: Is údar aoibhnis é dom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire. Gabhaim buíochas léi as teacht chuig an Teach inniu agus as an ráiteas a thug sí ag tús na díospóireachta seo. Some years ago, when I was a student teacher in St. Patrick College in Drumcondra, out of complete serendipity I came across a journal article. I cannot remember the headline,...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: When I look at what is there in the teaching force - it is no fault of theirs - in many primary schools, I see teachers who are trying to deliver the national language, athbheochan na Gaeilge a chur ar aghaidh, and teach Gaeilge but, go feidhmiúil, tá siad neamhliteartha, they are effectively illiterate in the language. It is shocking but that is where we are at. We will never...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Jun 2025)

Joe Conway: I want to address an issue that has cropped up only in the past number of weeks on foot of a very kind and gracious invitation I got from the American Embassy to attend its Independence Day celebrations on the eve of Independence Day, which is coming up next month. Ordinarily, it would have been an invitation that I would have been delighted to accept, particularly as a new Senator. In view...

Seanad: Situation in Gaza: Statements (29 May 2025)

Joe Conway: I will begin by addressing the several truckloads of words that have been used in this Chamber and in the other House with regard to the horrific happenings in the Middle East over the past couple of years. The problem in that regard, as it is manifested in parliaments and societies all over the world, is that we somehow get inured to the sufferings of people in the Middle East. It almost...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Joe Conway: As a Senator who was elected to the House from the cultural and educational panel, I want to delineate a happening in the last while that shows there is a crossover between politics and culture. The occasion was the winning last week of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival by Jafar Panahi, an Iranian director who gathered all the laurels at the festival for a film called "It Was Just...

Seanad: Local Democracy Task Force: Statements (27 May 2025)

Joe Conway: I extend the House's welcome to my Déise Oireachtas colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy John Cummins. Only in the previous two hours, I received an email from one of my councillors but I will not say where. She gave me permission to use part of it in the debate this afternoon. I am using it in anonymised fashion and I will redact some of it. It states: Dear Senator Conway,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Gnó an Chomhchoiste (27 May 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liom gabháil leis na rudaí atá ráite ag na baill anseo agus déanaim comhghairdeas leis an gCathaoirleach ar a ceapachán ar an gcoiste. Go n-éirí go geal léi. Beidh sí ag treabhadh ar aghaidh leis an obair thábhachtach atá idir lámha againn. Fuair mé m’ainmniúchán ó Údarás na...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2025)

Joe Conway: I will make a few observations on our status as an island nation and do a small comparison between us and New Zealand, which is a country that has roughly the same population and the same demand on connectivity we have. I am somebody who is based in the south east, which is the only region that does not have a regional airport. I will contrast that with New Zealand, which has 28 regional...