Results 1-20 of 35 for kerry speaker:Martin Conway

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Martin Conway: ...family and the people of Newmarket in Cork and the surrounding areas he represented for so long. I am disappointed to hear the World Rally Championship that was going to be held in Limerick, Kerry and Waterford is not going to happen because of red tape. This was going to be a huge benefit to the west of Ireland. It was going to be a massive boost in tourism numbers and it was going...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Martin Conway: ...sick people in the mid-west. A debate here on the issue of the emergency department in UHL, with the senior Minister, Deputy Donnelly, in here, is something the people of counties Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary and other surrounding counties deserve. I suggest that should happen. I would also like to articulate the concerns of parents of children with scoliosis. It is heartbreaking...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Mar 2023)

Martin Conway: ...at it. I hope that the deliberations the parties are engaging in will not take too long and that they will conclude in a positive way. Last Friday I was in the Leas-Chathaoirleach’s county of Kerry and I visited what will be Disability Sport Ireland, which is headquartered in a magnificent building at the Munster Technological University in Tralee. I would like a debate on the...

Seanad: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: ...and challenging subject and she is dealing with decades of underfunding. Trying to scale up quickly is a big challenge. When the report was published last year regarding the situation in Kerry, we were all quite shocked and appalled. The correct decision was made at the time, following on from the report, to examine the situation in the other areas and groups and to provide that an...

Seanad: UL Hospitals Group: Motion (1 Feb 2023)

Martin Conway: ...move forward. This motion is important and it is important we discuss it in the Seanad. I sincerely hope it receives all-party support because it is critically important to the people of Clare, Kerry, Limerick and north Tipperary. I acknowledge that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, has come to the Chamber to address this motion, which speaks volumes.

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Martin Conway: ...purpose. The care that is provided there is second to none and I know many of the midwives who work there. However, the new facility is needed to serve the entire mid-west region, including counties Kerry, Clare, Limerick, Tipperary and elsewhere. I would be interested in the Minister's views. I will move to consider women's health in an overall sense. An awful lot has happened in that...

Seanad: Mental Health and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (24 Feb 2022)

Martin Conway: ...quickly and dealt with promptly. That is what we need to see happening because we have had too many examples with the Brandon report into what happened in Donegal along with what is happening in Kerry.I am sure there have been other pockets around the country. However, that cannot take from the good work done by the services when people access them and the many people who have been...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Forestry Sector (2 Feb 2022)

Martin Conway: ...in Mayo where Coillte came in to the local council chamber and gave commitments in a specific area. That was because a councillor just kept highlighting the issue. Something similar happened in Kerry. Really and truly, we cannot have ad hocsolutions such as that. We need a proper plan to deal the reconstruction of these roads post-felling.I am proposing that if and when a licence is...

Seanad: Paediatric Scoliosis Services: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Martin Conway: ...it will have a profound effect. It is not rocket science; it is very simple and clear. People have emailed all of us about this and rightly so. People from Clare, Cork, Tipperary and Kerry have shared their stories with me by email. I read them all and my heart went out to them. They are now coming together as a group and they are doing so very successfully as we are here having this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Martin Conway: ...by the Irish Coast Guard. Let me put that in context. It is one of the longest serving and busiest Coast Guard units in the country, servicing serves the coast of counties Clare, Galway and Kerry. The standing down of the Coast Guard is a worrying development for a number of reasons. First, 12 volunteers have been stood down and I want a clear answer from the Minister for Transport as...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Apr 2021)

Martin Conway: ...catering. However, this funding needs to extend to all establishments doing food. The position regarding pubs is absolutely ridiculous, many of which throughout the tourism areas of Clare, Kerry and other parts of the country provide dining and catering facilities. It is absolutely critical that this anomaly is addressed without delay.Publicans and the pub, catering and hospitality...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Protection and Support for Covid-19 Front-line Workers: Discussion (9 Feb 2021)

Martin Conway: ...annoyed about how the vaccine was rolled out in the mid-west by comparison with other regions. In the first allocation, 3,500 were allocated to the mid-west hospital group. In west Cork, including Kerry, 19,000 vaccines were made available. Has Ms Ní Sheaghdha any views on how the roll-out was handled and the lessons that have been learned?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2020)

Martin Conway: ...was tourism. We started off with the initiative of The Gathering and that developed into the Wild Atlantic Way, which has been enormously successful in both the Cathaoirleach's native county of Kerry and my native country of Clare. In a post-Covid era, the attractions and benefits of the Wild Atlantic Way will be even more pronounced because of the space issues and the fact that it is...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (7 Jul 2020)

Martin Conway: ...welcome our dear friend and former Leas-Chathaoirleach, Paul Coghlan, to the Gallery. He has become a very dear friend to most of us who have been around here for a while. He has served County Kerry, as has the Cathaoirleach, his country, the State and Seanad Éireann with enormous distinction over a very lengthy career as a Member of the House. The State and Seanad Éireann owe...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. John Horan (29 Jan 2019)

Martin Conway: .... As somebody with a disability, it would have been wonderful if I had an opportunity to have been active like that when I was a young fellow. I am on the board of directors of an organisation in Kerry called the CARA Centre. I work very closely with some GAA icons like Matt Connor from Offaly and Aidan O'Mahony from Kerry. Our mission is to promote awareness and, more importantly,...

Seanad: Inclusion in Sport: Motion (26 Sep 2018)

Martin Conway: ...of People with Disabilities, and work in that context is ongoing. It is important, therefore, to debate this motion. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Brendan Griffin, to the House. The Minister of State is from Kerry which is at the heart of sport in Ireland. On taking over the sport portfolio a year and a half ago, the Minister of State hit the ground running and he is playing...

Seanad: Tourism Industry: Statements (12 Jun 2018)

Martin Conway: ...of the Oireachtas who is more suitable to the role of tourism Minister. He has character, intelligence, great wit and great charm. He epitomises everything that is good about the west and County Kerry, and that is what we need going abroad. I welcome him formally to this House to talk to us in his capacity as Minister with responsibility for tourism about what is the jewel in our...

Seanad: Commencement Matter: Skills Shortages (3 May 2018)

Martin Conway: ...of State is fully aware of the challenges from speaking to the people he himself deals with in Waterford and other parts of the south east. I am sure this issue is not unique to counties Clare, Kerry and Limerick.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jan 2018)

Martin Conway: I am fully aware of that. Kerry is a big county. I listened very carefully to "Prime Time" last night and to the journalists who wrote the book about that particular incident. The Garda Síochána has a lot of questions to answer about not dealing with this situation in the 1990s. DNA and DNA profiling was available in the 1990s. Mr. Gerard Colleran was quite right in what he...

Seanad: Department of Rural and Community Development: Statements (5 Dec 2017)

Martin Conway: ...review the protocols in place with local authorities in dealing with mass sporting events. There are some mass sporting events that have a great history and have been going on for a long time such as the Ring of Kerry cycle. A lot of other events are springing up, however, and I believe it is necessary to have some sort of regulation in order that the good people who are involved get to...