Results 121-140 of 666 for speaker:Emer Currie

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish to focus on childcare supply in Dublin West. I will outline the reasons we need a review of section 28 of the Planning and Development Act and the ministerial guidelines from 2001, a review of the interaction between county councils and county childcare committees and radical change from the loose planning guidelines we have to deliver childcare supply in order to plan, build and open...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Parents will tell you again and again that supply is a major issue across Dublin 15. The Minister of State knows that. I have reached out to some of the childcare committees to see what is happening and what interaction there is. My feedback from that is that it is not consistent. Some committees are working closer with planning officials than others. If we are to address undersupply, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: It is great to have somebody in the room who has the experience of being on this side of the questions. We are all in agreement that something needs to happen when dealing with legacy. Otherwise, the past will just continue to haunt us. The time to do it is now for the reasons outlined in that the people concerned are dying, the information is harder to obtain the longer we go on, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will finish the point. In my experience, criminal investigations are required to get to the truth because people are not showing they are willing to come forward. What is it about the Truth Recovery Process approach that it believes would change that? In addition, verifying the truth is an important part of this as well. We have seen that through our deliberations on and analysis of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: If it was allowed to produce the truth, it could.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish the Acting Leader and Cathaoirleach a good morning. I welcome H.E. Palm and Lieutenant Colonel Piso to our Chamber. I wish to raise a couple of issues this morning, the first of which is the news yesterday from the Minister for Justice that there will be gardaí on duty at railway stations, starting at Heuston Station with a new Garda transport hub. I very much welcome this news...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister of State. Tyrrelstown is one of the youngest, fastest-growing and most diverse communities not just in Dublin West, but in the entire country. According to the 2016 census, 35% of the population were aged 15 or under and 40% of people living there were born outside the State. Residents have identified a major issue in the area to do with the provision of secondary...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister of State. The response is disappointing. I know it is not his fault but I feel like we are going backwards. The need for a school has been identified, but the response does not acknowledge that. I will now go back to a community to tell it that despite the fact we thought there would be a secondary school and everyone was on the same page, it turns out we are not and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: We are supposed to be at planning permission stage. That is my point.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Amendments Nos. 1, 9 and 13 will be taken together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Amendment No. 2 in the names of Senators Boylan, Gavan, Ó Donnghaile and Warfield has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Public Water Connection Charges: Motion (26 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I very much welcome this suggestion. I will support the motion as well because it is an excellent one. It is the practical removal of a barrier and it supports people to produce less waste. We need more of these initiatives. When it comes to waste, I am of the view that we need to think in terms of good, better and best. It is good to recycle but it is much better to not produce the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Among that 25% to 26% of economic inactivity, how much relates to sickness and ill health?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Fitzpatrick know how that compares with the South?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: This meeting concerns the ideological approach rather than layering on the economic realities. Our guests are saying we need to get the foundations right to create a social security system. Which countries are the ideal from an ideological point of view, in Dr. Boland's opinion?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Does Dr. Boland have data on the people he is talking about, who might take a job and then fall out of the workplace again? Does he have statistics regarding the churn? It would be important for us to see that, given he is questioning the current activation model.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Pensions and Social Security: Discussion (20 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: Are the data anecdotal, in that case?