Results 1-20 of 1,327 for at speaker:John Brady

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024)

John Brady: Ms McNally said that planning has worked, but it has not. It has failed. Forward planning has fundamentally failed. Wicklow is one example of that but there are many other examples across the State. I will quickly read a letter I got from a pupil in Wicklow only this Monday. It is very brief and says: Hello, my name is [I am not going to give his name, for obvious reasons] and I go to...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: ...rail line is absolutely not fit for purpose. I have raised this on a number of occasions. On a daily basis - this has been the case both pre-Covid and post Covid - six rail journeys a day stop at the train station in Wicklow town. Every morning, the 7.30 a.m. train is full to capacity, with standing room only. I have raised this time and again. We have been told that additional...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

John Brady: Sorry, I am conscious of the time. I appreciate there is a broader, bigger piece of work being looked at. However, people need the investment here and now. Surely we do not need consultants to look into putting an additional couple of carriages at the end of a train that is going through the train stations on a daily basis. We do not need a broader, longer piece of work to do something as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

John Brady: Look at our actual health budget.

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

John Brady: The core of the issue we are discussing is the Government’s shambolic approach to the asylum issue from the outset. The Government is now attempting to present the EU migration pact as a catch-all solution to the current crisis, the root of which lies in the Government’s failure to develop a coherent plan. Ultimately, it is operating a reactionary approach to events as they...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

John Brady: This mismanagement is at a basic level of communication. People are being lied to from the get-go and something is happening on the ground. I will finish on this point. What does assessment mean? I am aware of the engagement between the Department and other Departments looking for space or premises. What assessment took place in that situation or in any other location where...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

John Brady: Unfortunately, I have heard that mantra from the top, the Minister, the Taoiseach, the former Taoiseach and right the way down, that the Government will tighten up on communication and engagement, but the reality on the ground is completely different and it is causing huge tensions in communities, which makes integration at the end of it almost impossible. We are creating fires in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

John Brady: I acknowledge that good work is being done at different levels. However, when it goes wrong, it goes wrong. The case in Wicklow currently on the ground went wrong from the get-go. I will touch on the numbers of people who have come to the State and are currently in the process of applying for asylum. What are the up-to-date figures? Do the witnesses have those?

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Social Democrats for bringing the motion before us. It once again places the spotlight on the chaos, hypocrisy and utter failure of the Government to address the crippling housing crisis within the State. The Government's approach clearly is not working. It exposes a chaotic approach to immigration that has failed communities and those coming to these shores seeking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: I thank the committee for facilitating this scrutiny of what is really important legislation. With more than 30,000 killed, the people of Gaza are enduring what the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, described as horrifying levels of hunger and suffering. Children are literally dying of starvation. This is a continuation of a sustained Israeli strategy designed to annex Palestinian...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: I have two points to make. The first is on the fear the Government might drag its feet on the progression of this legislation. Unfortunately, we have witnessed attempts to stall, stymie and block this Bill. We saw it first with the nine-month delaying amendment the Government put on it, which has passed. We have seen attempt after attempt to deny this committee its right to waive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: I thank the Deputy. He touched on the annexation motion, which was historic in its own right when it was passed overwhelmingly by the Dáil in 2020. It stated quite clearly that what Israel is doing by grabbing Palestinian land is absolutely illegal. There have to be repercussions from such a designation, whereby ours was the first European country to unilaterally state that Israel is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: ...territories Bill. I do not think the legal advice stands up. It is just another ongoing excuse not to take any tangible, meaningful action against the illegal actions of Israel. European limitations around trade, competency rules and so forth are cited but I do not think it stands up. That argument has been completely removed from them regarding the Illegal Israeli Settlements...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

John Brady: On the first question, I drafted this legislation as a starting point, not a finishing point. I am conscious that the UN database is not a comprehensive list of the businesses. It started off with a list of 321 business entities which was whittled down in a comprehensive process. It looked at ten areas in terms of the occupation in the settlements. I am conscious that there is a multitude...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied); and to confirm at what stage matters are currently at; and when it is anticipated that building works will commence. [10074/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied), and to confirm at what stage matters are currently at; and when it is anticipated that building works will commence. [10075/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied), and to confirm at what stage matters are currently at; and when it is anticipated that building works will commence. [10076/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 277. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied), and to confirm at what stage matters are currently at; and when it is anticipated that building works will commence. [10077/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (5 Mar 2024)

John Brady: 278. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a building project for a school (details supplied), and to confirm at what stage matters are currently at; and when it is anticipated that building works will commence.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10078/24]