Results 261-280 of 2,980 for speaker:Marcella Corcoran Kennedy

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Local Improvement Scheme Data (11 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome that the Minister is reviewing the scheme. It has come to my attention that some of the non-public or private roads are used by landowners or people cutting turf but there may not be a dwelling house on the road. An older person may have passed away in the dwelling house, for example, and it is no longer used. Will the Minister take those people into account because they also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Teagasc 2017 Annual Report: Discussion (11 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank Professor Boyle for coming before the committee. To follow the two previous speakers, I was wondering what Teagasc will do with regard to the IPCC report, which informed us that the climate is warming more rapidly than had been thought. How will the challenges facing agriculture be dealt with in our targets under Food Wise 2025? A number of us are also members of the climate action...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme Administration (11 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 64. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the status of the implementation of the new SICAP programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51673/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the Minister and his officials for coming before the committee. My question may not be fair but I will ask it in any event. In view of the challenge we are facing in the context of the need for climate action, is it not time that we had a Minister whose sole responsibility would be to steer us through the transition to decarbonise our economy? In other words, should we not have a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I asked a question about where the climate action regional offices are located.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: European Globalisation Fund (5 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 165. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an application has been made to a fund (details supplied) in view of recent redundancies nationally at Bord na Móna; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51068/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (5 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 218. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) can expect to receive a date for surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51065/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: That is disgraceful.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Well said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I thank the witnesses for coming in to help the committee in its deliberations. I ask Mr. Joyce when was the energy and national resources sector group established. Does the Irish Congress of Trade Unions see its role as an influencer, given that it represents up to 800,000 workers? Does it see itself as an influencer in getting the message of climate action out, as well as dealing with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I asked specifically whether the unions saw the national climate dialogue as the forum or would it be the other ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: My question on upskilling somewhat relates to the staff survey. Do the unions see their role as being on of seeing what staff skills are there in the companies impacted or is that for the company itself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I asked about whether the action plan for jobs regional implementation committees were something that had been examined in trying to advance things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I also asked about Bord na Móna's brown to green policy of replacing peat with biomass.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: My question was whether the unions had done that. I would have thought that it would be something that ICTU would be familiar with.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: That is biomass.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: Recommendation 3 of the Citizens' Assembly on climate action was that the carbon tax be increased, having been introduced in 2010. Has ICTU taken a position on that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: The questions we are asking are valid, given we have to produce a report. I am not giving a view, just asking a question. It is important we know where ICTU is coming from.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Third Report of the Citizens' Assembly: Discussion (Resumed) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: A remark was addressed to me by Mr. Noone that I want to comment on. I reassure him that I am very much engaged with the workers on the ground. It is as a result of the workers contacting me directly and asking me for this information that I sought it and received it. That was the only reason I had it. I want to clarify that. I would be happy to meet Mr. Noone at any time. I have not...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (4 Dec 2018)

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I welcome-----