Results 1-20 of 38 for speaker:Shane Curley

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I want to acknowledge the ladies in the Public Gallery: Mary Dunlevy Greene, Mary Donovan, Mary Smith, Sheila O’Byrne and, I believe, Miriam Moriarty Owens. As a teacher, I should be better with names. In relation to amendment No. 6, does the second amendment we agreed today - the Minister's own amendment - not cover a lot of the stuff that is being requested in amendment No. 6?...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: The review-----

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Report Stage (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Apologies.

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht a bheith anseo. My first question relates to the extra special classes that are being rolled out. It is very welcome. However, and I may have mentioned this already, if we take my home town of Loughrea, we have a town of 6,000 people with no special class, good, bad or indifferent, at second level. In the case of my own cousin, he...

Committee on Education and Youth: Education for Children with Special Educational Needs: Minister of State at the Department of Education and Youth (25 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I touched on this earlier on but I was a bit rushed for time. On the flexibility of training by the NCSE for teachers in ASD classes, there could be an opportunity this summer if we were to send correspondence to school principals now to send in notice to the NCSE of who the teachers are who will need training. If the NCSE could endeavour over the summer to have it ready for the last week...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Luaigh na finnéithe Ciarraí theas agus an easpa tithíochta do dhaoine a bhfuil Gaeilge acu. Tá sé mar an gcéanna i gConamara. An bhfeiceann na finnéithe go bhfuil ardú ar líon na ndaoine atá ag cur isteach ar phleanáil i gcomhair tí aonair agus ag fáil diúltaithe ón gcomhairle contae?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Dá mbeadh maoiniú ann le dul i ngleic le fadhb amháin idir inniu agus an lá seo an bhliain seo chugainn chun cur leis an dul chun cinn agus é a bheith níos tapúla, go háirithe i gcomhthéacs an phlean náisiúnta forbartha agus an buiséad atá le teacht, cad í an chéad chéim? An mbaineann sí le pleanáil,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish-Speaking Community: Clár Oibre agus Tosaíochtaí Údarás na Gaeltachta: Plé (24 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Tá dhá cheist thapa agam. Maidir leis an monatóireacht ar na treoirlínte a chuireann na comhairlí áitiúla i bhfeidhm, uaireanta bíonn cineál frustrachais ar chomhairleoirí nach bhfuil iontaobhas taobh istigh de chomhairle amháin. An mbeadh sé cabhrach dá mbeadh post na monatóireachta á dhéanamh ag...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I thank Senator Crowe for raising this. I was a secondary school teacher before I came was elected to the House and the one thing I never really understood in the Irish education system in general was the obsession we have with time limits in exams. That is the kind of concept Senator Crowe is focusing on today - the time we allow students with dyslexia. We were all fed clichés as...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (19 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I am not trying to be facetious, but the fourth last paragraph was a beautiful exposé of how obsessed we actually are with time limits in State exams. I welcome the fact that a broader review is taking place and that this will be taken into account. I stress to the Minister of State that zero additional time is allocated right now to students with dyslexia, who, in many cases, have a...

Seanad: Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Committee Stage (19 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: What I am about to raise is somewhat relevant to the Minister's brief but it also relates to the Minister, Deputy Chambers, in the Department of public expenditure and reform. It relates to Senator Stephenson's amendment No. 9 on the contributory pension. I spoke to a group earlier, whom I acknowledge. I thank them for meeting with me in Buswells. We had a good conversation. I hope we...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I add my voice to calls by the INTO to increase the capitation grant to €299 per head. Will the Minister comment on why there is disparity between primary and secondary? A capitation grant for a significant number of schools is one of their only sources of income, especially in remote rural areas. I also have concerns about senior cycle reform. I was a secondary teacher myself,...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Is the Minister talking about the subject development groups?

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: When the submissions on the Irish language were welcomed from the NCCA, they never reached the subject development group. It never saw sight of the submissions before making its own recommendations.

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: I threw a lot of stuff at the Minister earlier and she did not have time to come back on everything, which is fair enough. I mentioned AI as a force for good in the classroom, especially at second level. There is a project being rolled out in America called Khanmigo, which involves an AI tool that can basically teach the class, correct all the homework and give good feedback in a timely...

Committee on Education and Youth: Engagement with Minister for Education and Youth (18 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: It is not intended to be a replacement of a teacher in the classroom. I know there are fears that teachers could become dispensable quickly, but that is not the intention. It is just a tool that allows the teacher to roam around the classroom and supervise what the kids are actually doing, especially in mixed ability classes where kids are in mainstream who may be coming from a special...

Seanad: Balanced Regional Development: Statements (17 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis an Aire as bheith anseo inniu don díospóireacht thar a bheith tábhachtach seo. Before I move on, I wish to note a couple of things I picked up from the previous contributors. First, with great respect, there was a suggestion made by Senator Ryan that we engage in a betrayal of our national identity with a lack of investment in...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Imagine being a five-year-old in the town of Hostomel at the start of the war in Ukraine. One morning, the war reaches your door. Members of the Russian army burst in, occupy your house for weeks and you and your parents are forced to live in the basement, feeding off scraps until finally you are moved to Ireland, where you are welcomed into the town of Kinvara and the Merriman Hotel. You...

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Delivering a World-Class Education System: Statements (12 Jun 2025)

Shane Curley: It is fine; Senator Tully may go ahead.