Results 1-20 of 292 for speaker:George Lawlor
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: There can be no hesitation at this stage. In 2015, ten years ago, the money was made available for the purchase of a site in Wexford town for the campus of the SETU. Wexford County Council can access the site as it stands. The only thing outstanding is the decision on the actual price of what is going to be sold to the SETU. It is imperative that this progress. The biggest county...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I ask the Minister to intervene in that also.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Having regard to the firm commitments made to establish a new constituent campus in Wexford town for the Southeast Technological University, when does the Minister expect specific capital funding to be allocated and announced for this project? When will the masterplan for the site be published? When does he expect SETU to have access to the new site and construction work on the new campus...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: No. It is about Wexford.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I apologise. I thought the Minister said Kilkenny.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Absolutely.
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Technological Universities (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: As the Minister stated, the site at Killeens has been CPOed but is subject to an ongoing arbitration to agree a final price. While Wexford County Council can access the site immediately, it cannot give a sale price to SETU for its portion of the land until the arbitration process is concluded, which may take many months. This will give a further excuse to SETU to sit on its hands, claiming...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Apologies have been received from Deputies Ellis and McCormack and Senators Eileen Flynn and Joe O'Reilly. Everyone is very welcome. I ask anyone attending remotely to mute themselves when not contributing so we do not pick up any background noise or feedback. As usual, I remind all those in attendance to ensure their mobile phones are in silent mode or switched off. Members attending...
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I am conscious of time.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I thank the Senator.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I will go to the second round of questions. I ask members to be conscious of time.
- Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. I hope they found the meeting useful. We, as a committee, found it useful to engage and interact with them. We look forward to working with them and the other groups we invited to meetings long into the future.
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (16 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: 197. To ask the Minister for Finance if tickets to concerts, shows and performances are included in the cut to VAT rate announced in the Budget 2026; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56258/25]
- Tillage Sector: Statements (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: As has been outlined in stark detail by many of my colleagues in the Chamber, our country's tillage farmers are in a serious crisis, not least in my home county of Wexford. Farmers who have long been the backbone of our agricultural diversity, our food security and our environmental ambition. Today, they face a crisis that is not of their making but one that demands our urgent attention and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: I thank the witnesses for their very informative contributions. The key things here are the unintended consequences of any proposal that is made. The witnesses spoke about county councils having tourism policies and housing policies and trying to combine both. In many respects, this is effectively regarded as a housing-specific issue from the point of view of looking at towns with a...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: The council does not require more?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: What about if the house is post 1964, for instance?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Okay.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Does Fáilte Ireland speak to the members or officials of local authorities? I apologise for cutting across Ms De Saulles. It is the members who control the development plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Tourism and Employment: Briefing on Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of a Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)
George Lawlor: Will that have to include evidence, such as Garda evidence, or how is that point reached?