Results 101-120 of 351 for speaker:Shane Moynihan

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I thank the Minister and his team for coming in. I have a few topics. I will start with something that will not surprise the Minister, which is light rail, the Luas and generally. Going through the Estimates I did not see a line item on the number of new trams. Maybe that is covered under one of the headings. I would like clarification on that, because this is in acute demand in my area....

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Okay.

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I move to cycling and active travel. I am encouraged by the commitment to active travel I see in the Estimates laid before the committee, and which have been detailed in the Minister's brief. I am particularly encouraged to hear about the Minister's support for the safe routes to school programme. That is an important programme. One things that brings that into more acute focus is that...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Absolutely. I compliment them on their public transport safety action days that they have been pioneering recently as well. Moving to the area of roads, I am pleased to see the increase in expenditure on roads. Public transport needs good roads to operate on, which is often lost in this debate about the false dichotomy between public transport and roads. With regard to roads...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: On the area of driver testing, I have been encouraged by the Minister’s leadership on this in the past few weeks in making sure that we get the RSA up to the space where it is. I note the data in the in the Estimates that was shared with us is only up as far as 2023, so it is before the Minister became Minister. There was a reduction in the issuing of penalty points and the issuing...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Finally, I am very happy to get the good news about the judicial review on the DART+ West being withdrawn this week and very happy that the Minister was able to announce the start of tendering for enabling works for DART+ South West. In a constituency like mine, where bus is the predominant mode of public transport, opening up access to things like rail and light rail is really important to...

Select Committee on Transport: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 31 - Transport (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Great. It is encouraging to hear that. I am encouraged to hear about the Minister’s commitment to the transport security force. That was a core commitment of our party in the recent election and it is good to see it held up as priority in the programme for Government. It is great to hear about the progress, especially in the past few weeks, in furthering that. Does the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 185. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34592/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 186. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the recruitment of the six WTE public health nursing posts in the Dublin midlands region as allocated under Budget 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34593/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Transport Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy McAuliffe, on his advocacy for Finglas Luas. The Minister will know Luas Lucan is very important to me. I am keen to know about the overall set of plans identified by the NTA for extension of Luas lines around Dublin. Will he consider putting a standing Luas project office in place to think of continued expansion of light rail? It is fair to say we have...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: We have often discussed the importance of policymakers recognising the effort and energy that goes into running a business and sustaining high levels of employment. The plight of SMEs in particular has been raised on the floor of the Dáil, as has the need for policies to make sure we encourage and incentivise SMEs to scale up to be able to pursue research and innovation for their own...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Industrial Relations (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the plenary meeting of the Labour Employer Economic Forum which he chaired on 4 April 2025. [33558/25]

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)

Shane Moynihan: Tá fáilte roimh na finnéithe inniu. Ar an gcéad dul síos ba mhaith liom fáilte ó chroí a chur roimh an bhfócas atá á dhíriú isteach ar an intleacht shaorga agus an réabhlóid dhigiteach agus cinntiú go mbeidh an Ghaeilge agus an Ghaeltacht mar lárchuid den réabhlóid dhigiteach. Mothaím...

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)

Shane Moynihan: An bhfuil freagraí á bhfáil ag an údarás ó na comhlachtaí sin? Nuair a théann an t-údarás ag idirghabháil leo, an dtéann siad i ngleic leis?

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)

Shane Moynihan: Sin iontach agus thar a bheith dearfach. Tá cúpla ceist eile agam. Baineann ceann dóibh le cúrsaí scileanna. Ceann de na spriocanna a léim amach dom ón méid a luaigh lucht an údaráis ar maidin agus ón obair nuálach atá idir lámha acu ná go bhfuil iarrachtaí á ndéanamh daoine a bhfuil Gaeilge acu...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 116. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for a status update on the progress of the All-Island Strategic Rail Review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30606/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Data (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for an indicative timeline on when responsibility for the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011 will be transferred from the Department of Justice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34250/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 546. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if further consideration has been given to enacting regulations on service charges and sinking funds under the Multi-Unit Development Act 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34251/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Exam Timelines (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: 941. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will examine the feasibility of better aligning repeat PLC exam timelines with CAO offers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33819/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (19 Jun 2025)

Shane Moynihan: Like other colleagues, I want to raise not only the awful deteriorating disease that is Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but also the need for an approach to an early access programme along the lines of what is in Belgium, the UK and the US. In my constituency, there are two very unique and special boys, Conor and Dean Thompson, who have been spearheading the Build for the Boys campaign....