Results 1-17 of 17 for speaker:Eileen Lynch

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (9 Apr 2025)

PJ Murphy: I wish the Minister of State a happy birthday. Although stated by my colleague Senator Rabbitte, I am indeed here to speak about the south Galway and Gort lowlands flood relief scheme and the painstakingly slow pace of progress on this project since the engineering consultants were first appointed in December 2017. That is over eight years ago. This project is critically important. The...

Seanad: Disability Services: Statements (8 Apr 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit go dtí an Teach. Gabhaim buíochas léi as a bheith anseo inniu agus guím gach rath uirthi lena post nua.The area of disability is one that affects almost all families in some form or other. Therefore, it is incredibly important that we are discussing it today. I wish to speak on an issue of growing importance in the area of...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

PJ Murphy: I congratulate the Minister on his appointment and thank him for coming to the Seanad to discuss the current housing situation. As the Fine Gael Seanad spokesperson for housing, I raise the issue of wastewater infrastructure across rural Ireland. I will use my own local electoral area of Gort-Kinvarra in south County Galway as the perfect example of a district where the building of houses...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy National Plan: Statements (20 Mar 2025)

PJ Murphy: I congratulate Deputy Heydon on his appointment to his Ministry. I have no doubt he will do a very fine job. I welcome this opportunity to discuss the CAP strategic plan. I will first speak about farm succession and the collaborative farming grant. We must learn from the mistakes in the previous farm retirement scheme in the nineties and early noughties where farmers were required to step...

Seanad: Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ráitis (6 Mar 2025)

Eileen Lynch: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus gabhaim buíochas leis as ucht a bheith anseo linn inniu do Sheachtain - nó coicís - na Gaeilge. Táimid bailithe inniu chun labhairt faoi rud atá fíorthábhachtach dúinn mar mhuintir na hÉireann, is é sin ár dteanga dhúchais, an Ghaeilge, agus í a chur chun cinn. Is cuid...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister for taking this matter, which relates to the need for an update on the status of a new building for Macroom Youthreach further education and training centre. Macroom is my hometown in County Cork. For more than 20 years, the Youthreach building in Macroom has not been fit for purpose. There is little to no insulation. The only form of heating comes from a heater...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Further and Higher Education (5 Mar 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I thank the Minister for his response. I appreciate the detail in it and his obvious commitment to this. Nonetheless, it is incredibly disappointing that very little progress seems to have been made on this. Initially, there was meant to be a new centre in 2023, then in 2024. Being brutally honest, we are at the start of the month of March now, so from reading that, it is highly unlikely...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2025)

PJ Murphy: I raise the issue of funding or lack thereof for traditional music festivals in our towns and villages which will take place from now and throughout the summer and into the autumn. I include in this the county Comhaltas competitions, for example, the Galway County Comhaltas which will be held in my local town of Gort in May. Approximately 6,000 people will attend and perform over the...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

PJ Murphy: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, and thank him for his attendance today. I congratulate him on his appointment. I take this opportunity to raise the subject of the largely forgotten Irish diaspora in Argentina. Between 1820 and 1920, and assisted in no small way by the Galway and Loughrea man, Fr. Anthony Fahy, more than 100,000 Irish migrants left for Argentina,...

Seanad: International Women's Day - Women's Health: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I would like to take this opportunity to welcome the Minister to the House. We are speaking today on an issue that affects every family and every community. The Government has made significant strides in improving healthcare for women in Ireland but many women still struggle to access the care that they need when they need it. I know from experience in my area of Cork North-West that too...

Seanad: Care, Supports and Enhanced Provision of Services for Older People: Motion (5 Mar 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I welcome the Minister of State to the Chamber and congratulate him on his appointment. I am delighted that we are having this very important discussion. I fully support the motion. Like many of my colleagues, I also strongly believe that community-based living and healthcare are the way forward to allow older people to live for longer in their communities. As has been noted, we have an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2025)

PJ Murphy: Five weeks on from Storm Éowyn, I wish to raise the extent of the damage that was done to our built heritage in the west of Ireland by that storm. Between the counties of Galway, Clare, Mayo and Roscommon, it is estimated that we have approximately 400,000 km of dry stone walls on our roadsides and around our fields. That is enough wall to run the length of the equator ten times over....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I raise an issue in my home town of Macroom in County Cork. I seek an update on the status of a new building for the Youthreach Further Education and Training Centre in the town. I ask the House to invite the Minister for further and higher education to the Chamber to discuss this. I have raised this as a Commencement matter but I understand a high volume of matters have been submitted and...

Seanad: Public Transport: Motion (26 Feb 2025)

PJ Murphy: I welcome my niece and a great canvasser, Una Fahy, to the Seanad, and my sister, Charlotte, who is always a great support to me politically. They are very welcome. It is nice to see them here.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2025)

PJ Murphy: This is my first time to speak in the Chamber since I was elected. I thank everyone who put their faith in me by electing me to this office. I thank my supporters and friends in Ardrahan and south Galway. I especially thank my parents and family who have been a massive support to me throughout my political career to date. I want to address the lack of critical infrastructure, which is...

Seanad: EU-UK Youth Experience Scheme: Motion (19 Feb 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I congratulate the Leas-Chathaoirleach on her appointment. It is well deserved and I look forward to working with her in the term ahead. I also welcome the Minister to the Chamber. I wish to fully support this motion seeking to open negotiations for an EU-UK agreement on a youth experience scheme. While Brexit has done untold damage to the future of young people across the UK, this...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Feb 2025)

Eileen Lynch: I start by congratulating the Cathaoirleach on his election to his position. I also congratulate my party colleague Senator Seán Kyne on his election as Leader of the Seanad. It is an honour for me to be here as an elected Senator. I have been involved in politics for many years now at a party level and a local level. Contesting the Seanad election and meeting the wonderful...