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Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Did Galway get approval?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: So it has not drawn down the €30,000 yet.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: When was the funding launched?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: One year ago.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That answers that question. I thank Mr. Mulherin. I want to move on to the Department’s collaborative work in the midlands. I am located on the bridge in Portumna. Eyrecourt is nearly on the Banagher bridge. Just transition does not really bite into this part of east Galway, even though we have plenty of bogs. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, somebody decided this part...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: It is unfortunate to see that when the local authority has had 12 months since landing its funding and did not take up the opportunity, it is the people who are missing out on some of the opportunities. On the just transition programme,Offaly comes to mind. While we are bordering counties, at the same time when you look at Eyrecourt, Portumna and Clonfert, you do not have a connectivity...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: The work the officials and their Department do in co-ordinating and being the apex is invaluable. I wanted to say that. Sometimes my frustration comes from the people who need to co-ordinate at a local level to ensure they get maximum output from what the Department is doing. It is vital to say that. The frustration might also come because of the wonderful work being delivered in other...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes, the question relates to Coillte. While a lot of work is going on with trails, is the Department looking at expanding other pieces of work outside the trails with Coillte in relation to recreation tourism?

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank Ms Coad and Mr. Byrne for taking the time to come before the committee. There are also some people watching in online. What the outdoor recreation committee has achieved over the past 15 years is phenomenal. It is a positive footprint that other counties - I come from County Galway - could learn from. I completely agree that outdoor recreation should have a sustainable funding...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Forty-five thousand cars going through a village is phenomenal. I am elected in Portumna when 4,500 cars come across the bridge every day. We are the gateway into Connacht, when you come across the bridge. We are the gateway, when you are going over the bridge the other way, into the midlands. We have not unlocked that, by manner or means, even though we have a blueway, a greenway and a...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: Thank you, Chair, for your leniency.

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I am sitting here in awe of what has been achieved in Wicklow. In east Galway, we have the Hymany Way going through Portumna but it comes all the way from the Cathaoirleach's area and goes further afield. It travels all the way up towards Northern Ireland. Patrick Sarsfield got married in Portumna. We have never re-enacted the marriage of Patrick Sarsfield. At the same time, I do not...

Joint Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development: Embracing Ireland's Outdoors - National Outdoor Recreation Strategy 2023-2027: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: That answers that question.

Seanad: Migration: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I wish to share my time with Senator Comyn.

Seanad: Migration: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister of State for taking time to be here this afternoon for this conversation. It is very welcome to have a very open conversation about it. I acknowledge the good work of the Minister of State and that of the Minister, Deputy O'Callaghan, in the area of immigration. It is also important for me to acknowledge the work that the former Minister, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for his opening statement. I acknowledge the clarity and transparency he has brought to the whole conversation on immigration. One of the good developments that has happened under the Government is the moving of the responsibility for immigration back to the Department of justice. It has really assisted in the flow of movement of work. As a former Minister of State in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister. There is a sophistication in the system but what support do we give to the providers of the IPAS centres when they reach out to the Department for assistance and guidance? I am not saying the Department has not supported them. It has done so but I want to know whether there is a standard procedure in terms of how that support is given.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: My next question concerns Ukrainian people. We can see the numbers have dropped back dramatically. A large part of the work that went on during the Ukrainian humanitarian effort was very successful from a rural capacity perspective, with rural schools supported to continue in existence. As the drop-back in numbers takes place, we see a huge decline in some areas. In Woodford, County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for his clarity.

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

Anne Rabbitte: This morning I raise a particular issue for probably the third time. It relates to compulsory purchase orders, which are a very serious issue for any community but in particular for the farming community. I raise an issue that is ongoing for ten years. It is ten years since the first liaison officer was appointed by Galway County Council to inspect a person's land on 10 September 2014. In...