Results 1-20 of 76 for speaker:Joe Conway

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: There has been a significant European dimension to the contributions this morning. I am happy to add my three ha'pence worth before we go our separate ways. I am charmed and warmed that a very important meeting is taking place this morning in London between Prime Minister Starmer and the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz. It signals a rapprochement and closeness between two countries that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wonder if many in the House are familiar with the name Saif Musallet. Unfortunately, that young man’s name has been in the news quite prominently over the past few days, I suspect because he has dual nationality. He is Palestinian but he is also a citizen of the United States. He is a young man from Florida aged 19. He went in the springtime to visit his family in the West Bank...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I would be delighted to take a small trip down boithrín na smaointe for a little bit of nostalgia. Admittedly, the whole world of sport in Ireland has gone through some significant development over the last few decades. I want to paint a small picture of what sport was like for somebody like myself who went to a boarding school in the midlands of Ireland back in the 1960s. Even though...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I thank Mr. Kent and the team. I want to address a couple of questions to Mr. Ó Ruairc. Earlier, he referred to 10,000 late applications. Will he provide a brief resumé on how applications are processed and what the final implication usually is? Will someone enlighten me as to the remote area grant scheme? I am not familiar with it. Afterwards, I will address a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: It seems a huge number.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: What do they use that money for?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: School Transport Scheme: Discussion (16 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Mr. Kent and I are neighbours in Tramore. There is no conflict of interest because I will be just as mean to him now. I am probably unique among those in the room. I was principal of a country four-teacher school in Dunmore East for 19 years, from 1986 to 2005. From 2005 until I was elected to the Seanad in January, I was an elected representative on the city and county council in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: European Union (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I feel that I am in a midlanders’ get-together today. It is the first time I have had the pleasure to meet face to face with the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, who I think hails from Ballinacarrigy, County Westmeath. Am I right? I am. It is not too far down the road from the village of Ardagh, County Longford, where I was born and raised, and from Colehill, where I lived for a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: European Union (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I am charmed and warmed by the Minister of State's outline of where they are going forward. It sounds like a to-do list,and when people are coming up with to-do lists, it usually implies that people have been asleep at the wheel. The Irish versions of the new EU legal materials are being produced in real time. However, the EUR-Lex website, where EU law is published, has most important...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Tuarascáil Bhliantúil 2024 agus Caighdeán na Seirbhísí Poiblí Dátheangacha: Oifig an Choimisinéara Teanga (15 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe. Tá brón orm go raibh orm imeacht níos luaithe ach bhí dualgais eile le déanamh agam. Is mian liom cúpla rud a rá faoin oideachas sna bunscoileanna. Sular toghadh i mo Sheanadóir mé, d’oibrigh mé le coláiste oideachais, is é sin, Hibernia College, le scór bliain. Roimhe sin,...

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

Joe Conway: We often have heard the expression than an Englishman’s home is his castle. If that be the case, many of us feel that an Irishman’s or Irishwoman’s home is their birthright. I think that is engendered by the fact that most of us were lucky enough to grow up in secure homes. They would not have been palatial, but they would have wrapped around us not just walls but the...

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wish to speak for a few moments on the géarchéim that is attaching to Waterford Regional Airport. I have many misgivings following a recent meeting that took place between the Minister, local TDs, Ministers of State and the chief executive of Waterford City and County Council in Waterford. When we heard the Minister was meeting representatives and the chief executive, our hopes...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: A Chathaoirligh, which Minister are we referencing? It seems the Minister in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Ar an gcéad dul síos, ba mhaith liom mo bhuíochas a ghabháil leis na finnéithe as ucht teacht isteach ar maidin agus a gcás a phlé linn. I am delighted to be taking part in this discussion and am particularly delighted to welcome David from Waterford. I think it is the first time I have heard such a rich Waterford city accent abroad in any of the Houses or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I wanted to get a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I have nothing further to add only to wish the people in Fórsa the very best in their mighty efforts to get these anomalies and unfairnesses dealt with by the Department of public expenditure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Youth: Pension Parity and Working Conditions for School Secretaries and Caretakers: Fórsa (10 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: The two of them.

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

Joe Conway: The latest figures, as of early July, show 743 people have been killed and 4,891 injured while waiting to get fed in Gaza by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, GHF. That foundation, which was founded only last year, is an elusive enough entity. The headquarters were incorporated at an address in Delaware, just two weeks after President Trump took office. When the premises were visited by...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: I will address one particular feature of the Bill, namely, the reservations I have about the delegation of defamation to judges only and the bypassing of the constitutional and long-held right of people to be tried by juries of their peers. I want to digress, maybe to add a little bit of levity to what has been a somewhat turgid session at times. When I was a much younger man I spent most...

Seanad: Defamation (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Joe Conway: Yes indeed, and it gets better because just at the top of my road, there resided a lovely man called Mr. Justice Hubert Wine. He is long gone now. In a chat I had with him once he cracked a good joke, I thought. He said one of his defendants said that he had been sentenced by "just a swine". The sobriquet was anything but appropriate for Mr. Justice Wine because he was an entirely lovely...