Results 101-120 of 666 for speaker:Emer Currie

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I raise the shambles that is going on at Dublin Airport because there is not enough car parking in the short term. For our national airport to advise passengers to get lifts from friends is something I do not think I have ever heard before. If it is bad now, it will be bedlam during the summer. This is not about increasing the car parking spaces at Dublin Airport; this is because there is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I would challenge that decision.

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I congratulate the Minister on this legislation to deal with the registration of social workers, to look at UK medical degrees and to make sure there is access for training posts in Ireland. I am probably going to be in the same territory as my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney. As we know, CORU is a multi-professional regulator that looks after the nine professions and the hugely valuable...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. As he may know, we are in the middle of the Phoenix Park parking strategy, which is out for public consultation. I believe the Phoenix Park can, and should, be accessible and inclusive for all. The current commentary from the OPW is about how the popularity of the park is unsustainable, and the numbers have to be controlled. However, what we have seen over...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. It is positive that they are looking at toilet infrastructure where there is a wastewater supply, but like I have said, they do not need to just restrict themselves to that. In fact, using these eco-toilets which are run on a composting basis would fit in with how people use the park, and prevent people going to the same places so they can have the reliability...

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: They are doing it in Fingal County Council. They have two sites where they are using eco-toilets which do not need the water supply.

Seanad: National Parks (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Ruled out.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank both speakers for their kind words about my dad. It is very much appreciated. I think he would agree with me when I say that we were the lucky ones. I too want to remember the 3,700 people who lost their lives and, of course, the people who never gave up on finding peace. I thank Mr. Ahern for marking the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement with us today. I have had the...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: As part of the commemoration of 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement, we met the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. That has been a success for some families but not for all. There are still four families who are waiting for their loved ones to be returned. We remember families like that of Columba McVeigh, who are searching for Columba at the moment in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will take seven and a half minutes before I pass over to my colleague. I hope this exchange can be conversational because I have many questions. This is a report about perspectives on constitutional change. It will come as no shock that I am in favour of constitutional change and am open-minded about how we do that and what it would look like. Dr. Barrett mentioned that the shared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Is the first part essential to making the second part work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Our guests have suggested some of that work has been done. How much of that work remains to be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: People like me will vote for a united Ireland or a new Ireland. However, as we have seen in polls, some people, particularly in the South, want to know how much it would cost. There are concerns in the North about how reunification would affect people's standard of living. The figures are stark. Are our guests telling me that since the Good Friday Agreement, productivity in the Northern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: The gap is 40%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: How much control does the Northern Ireland Executive have through its own policies over investment and changing educational attainment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Over the past 20 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Can the Executive change that itself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Is it within the Executive's power to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Where has the energy been? Has it been going to that integrated approach to investment? Where has it been going? I want to try to understand that big gap.