Results 61-80 of 371 for speaker:Michael Conaghan

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (26 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: Deputy Ferris has raised a legitimate concern. However, the Minister has given an assurance that there are other mechanisms by which those concerns could be addressed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the National Minimum Wage (Low Pay Commission) Bill 2015: Discussion (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I welcome the Minister of State and his staff. In terms of the Minister of State's life experience, the issues of working conditions and fairness at work give him great credibility in bringing in the reforms and initiatives in which he is currently engaged, including this one. A commentator in the UK remarked that the minimum wage is a wage floor, not a living wage. Would the Minister of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Data (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: 685. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to introduce a specific mandatory standard to require the National Referral Centre for Neurosurgery, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9 to collect and publish each quarter, data on the outcome, morbidity and mortality, for patients who suffer aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage, who are brought to hospitals where neurosurgery and endovascular treatment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Reports (24 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: 686. To ask the Minister for Health the number and which of the 43 recommendations (details supplied) submitted to the Health Service Executive in 2009 have been implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11865/15]

Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Heritage Projects (11 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: 29. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht in view of our mediocre record as a country in valuing, protecting, conserving, and presenting our industrial heritage as a significant cultural tourism product, if her Department will set out and articulate a plan for a tangible and appropriate record of this sphere of our past; her views that two adjacent sites in County Dublin...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: Can I make general remarks across the programmes?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: Will that be allowed at all?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I will keep my general questions together.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: A member can come in six times with six questions compared to a member who has one question.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: Anyway, the contributions of Deputies O'Brien and McConalogue were very interesting. I know it takes a long time for money to get up to Donegal. That is a big issue-----

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: -----because I am from there.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I welcome the Minister, the Minister of State and the officials. I commend the Minister on her dedication, work and enthusiasm. She is a natural in that job. I want to refer to two or three items. I wish to refer to her support and enthusiasm for things that are sometimes not given the impetus and notice they ought to get. These include apprenticeships, literacy, SNAs, school buildings...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: Some of them have been to Hollywood.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (4 Mar 2015)

Michael Conaghan: And that the curriculum is delivered.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Low Pay and the Living Wage: Discussion (24 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I welcome the distinguished speakers. Naturally, we tend to look to Europe for reference points when dealing with issues around a minimum wage and a living wage. What is the case beyond Europe? I note in the United States of America, 15 states have brought in a living wage. Does a perspective from the US throw any light on how we go about this issue? Can we learn from other countries...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Update on Employment Activation Measures: Department of Social Protection (18 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: In areas where there is very high unemployment, there are also a wide range of schools and colleges, particularly VEC schools and colleges, which are making very significant efforts to reach out and attract people, and there is a significant response. Education and training are two very much linked interventions in people's lives. I get the impression from talking to some of the VEC...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I am sorry that I was late. I was at another meeting and I could not get away. The economy has made a successful comeback and people on the streets are now beginning to talk about it. They see the evidence among their families and communities. I live in Ballyfermot. I am close to what people say in terms of unemployment because there are high levels of unemployment there. It is...

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 32 - Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation (Revised) (17 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I ask the Minister of State to keep a sharper eye on small craft industries which sometimes go unnoticed. One such industry started in a prefab in a VEC school in Ballyfermot 14 years ago and was the beginning of the modern film animation industry. It has now been to Hollywood on four occasions for the Oscars. There are other people in creative categories who may need to put their heads...

Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: I wish to refer to proposed adjustments in some of the grant structures for students of the former VEC sector. This sector is generally referred to as the further education sector, and many of the old technical schools are now known as colleges of further education. The old vocational education sector in Ireland had its roots in 19th century mainland Europe. Countries like Germany...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities Provision (11 Feb 2015)

Michael Conaghan: 185. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of money his Department has allocated for the development of cycle ways in 2015; the amount of funding that will be allocated to the Dublin area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6191/15]