Results 1-20 of 21 for speaker:Joe Conway

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: I advert to something we have all come to notice, I am sure, in our peregrinations around the country, which is the diminishing standard of driver behaviour on the roads. It is all too frequent that I see hazardous and dangerous behaviour. I cannot help but notice, and this may be an ageist thing, that a lot of the people taking unnecessary chances on the road and putting other motorists in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: When I made a contribution earlier, I made an error and said that close to 80% of fatalities on Irish roads were young males. I should of course have said “males”.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: Is mian liom tagairt a dhéanamh do chúrsaí a tháinig faoi mo bhráid cúpla seachtain ó shin. I am very much a believer in the republican stance of strict separation of church and state, but since we do not really have that luxury, as I would call it, in this country, I will say something on preserving balance or parity of esteem among faiths and religions...

Seanad: International Trade and International Relations: Statements (3 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: It is very gratifying for us here in the House to welcome the Tánaiste and hear his very calm, sane and reassuring words this morning. One thing we oftentimes say is we never learn anything from history. The same can be said about tariffs in the fact that the pages of history, if they are not quite littered with examples of the failure of tariffs, then certainly the pages are fairly...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: Tá mórfháilte roimh an Aire. It is very gratifying for us in the south east to see somebody from there at the Cabinet table. I hope the Minister will look after the south east to the best of his ability. It is lovely to see a champion of the purple and gold in the Cabinet milieu. I worked a lot in County Wexford in the past 20 years, but I only found out the meaning of the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Apr 2025)

Joe Conway: One of the main crises in the economy and in our social life at present is the undoubted problem with putting roofs over the heads of our young people, the so-called housing crisis that pervades this land. We in Leinster House are often accused, left, right and centre, of living in a rarefied atmosphere and being disconnected from the realities of life in the country. In an effort to...

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

Joe Conway: I agree with much of what my colleague, Senator Craughwell, has said. On a different subject, the House will be glad to hear that the University Hospital Waterford's cath lab last Sunday provided life-saving intervention to three patients on its first weekend of service.

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

Joe Conway: These are three patients who did not have to travel to Cork or Dublin but received timely and appropriate emergency care in Waterford's national cardiac centre. This is one of the things we, as public representatives, have supported for a long time, that the 24-7 service in Waterford would be expanded fully. I can confidently predict that UHW's cardiac cath lab numbers, even on the...

Seanad: Special Education Provision: Motion (26 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: Gabhaim buíochas le Sinn Féin as ucht an rún tábhachtach seo a chur os comhair an Tí seo. Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Aire Stáit. Tá súil agam go rachaidh sé i ngleic leis an gceist chasta seo as seo amach. I support an inclusive approach to education and recognise the constitutional right of all children to an education, tailored to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Derelict Sites (20 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: Go raibh míle maith agat. I want to address the business of derelict sites in ten brief itemised points. Over half of local authorities are failing to collect money from the owners of derelict sites. The latest figures suggest that councils are owed more than €20 million in unpaid levies. Seventeen of the 31 local authorities did not collect any money from dereliction...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Derelict Sites (20 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as a bheith anseo chun déileáil leis an gceist chasta seo. I want to use the maritime coastal town where I live, Tramore, as an illustration of what dereliction looks like. We have two derelict hotels - the Grand Hotel and the Tramore Hotel. The Grand Hotel has been derelict for more than eight years, since 2016, and the Tramore Hotel...

Seanad: Health (Scoliosis Treatment Services) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liomsa ar an gcéad dul síos fíorchaoin fáilte a chur roimh an Aire as teacht isteach go dtí an Teach anocht le héisteacht agus deileáil leis an gcás casta seo faoi scoliosis. It is coming up on 70 years since a young Senator from Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy, wrote a book called Profiles in Courage. In it, he outlined the exploits and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: I did not indicate; I am more than happy to just listen to the communal wisdom.

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

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liom aontú leis na rudaí atá ráite cheana. Cuirim fáilte Uí Cheallaigh roimh an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Buttimer, agus é tagtha isteach anseo agus é ag labhairt Gaeilge álainn. Sin a chuala mise ar aon nós. Mar dhuine úr sa Teach seo, táim thar a bheith sásta le cúpla seachtain anuas a leithéid de...

Seanad: The Diaspora: Statements (5 Mar 2025)

Joe Conway: I might just say a couple of things - not that I want to steal Senator Clonan's thunder. I have absolutely no idea what he was about to say or enliven the debate with. There are two matters I want to address. They came up in the course of the Minister of State's contribution. The first is that he had the great fortune to share an aircraft with the Longford team returning to the west...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2025)

Joe Conway: Ba mhaith liomsa ar an gcéad dul síos tagairt a dhéanamh do thuarascáil ar dhéanadh le déanaí ar the National Asset Management Agency. This publication came to light recently and was submitted to the Taoiseach. It is a report on the National Asset Management Agency's disposal of its Northern Ireland loan portfolio, Project Eagle, and was submitted to the...

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

Joe Conway: Ar an gcéad dul síos, tacaím go hiomlán leis an Seanadóir Cosgrove as an méid a dúirt sí faoin saghas stailce atá ar siúl inniu maidir le comhphobal na Gaeilge agus muintir na Gaeltachta. The ad hoc strike of 40 or more organisations is taking place today mar tá a ladar curtha isteach ag an DUP i Rialtas Thuaisceart na hÉireann. It...

Seanad: Response to Storm Éowyn: Statements (26 Feb 2025)

Joe Conway: The Minister of State is welcome to the Chamber. I will give a tiny bit of historical perspective to this debate on Storm Éowyn. Looking around the Chamber, I do not think anybody else here is venerable enough to remember Hurricane Debbie in the middle of September 1961. I do. It was a ferocious storm. I remember standing in the clump in our front garden watching mature beech, oak...

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

Joe Conway: Go raibh maith agat, a Chathaoirligh. Ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas ó chroí a ghabháil leat agus tú tofa mar Chathaoirleach an Tí stairiúil seo. Ina theannta sin, déanaim comhghairdeas le gach duine. Tá sé tuillte ag gach duine anseo a togadh. Last week at the start of the Twenty-seventh Seanad, many Members from throughout the country...

Seanad: Election of Leas-Chathaoirleach (19 Feb 2025)

Joe Conway: I wish to very briefly register my dissatisfaction with the way the ballot is being conducted in public and to reiterate, notwithstanding the great worthiness of both candidates, that I will not be participating in the election today for the reasons outlined by Senator McDowell.