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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Some 72 people have lost their lives on Irish roads so far this year. That is more than three people every week who have not arrived home safely to their families. This is a crisis. If we were losing three people a week on our rail or bus network, they would be shut down immediately until we had investigated why it was happening. We have a Road Safety Authority that has not shared crash...

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

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Cathaoirleach and I thank the administrative support team behind the Committee of Public Accounts for its very helpful induction over the last few days. I am delighted and honoured to be a member of a committee that does exceptionally valuable work. I want to follow on from the most recent discussion about school transport. Over the last couple of years, I have received...

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

Ciarán Cannon: Go raibh maith agat and I encourage others to read the research. Yes, the school transport system is under incredible pressure. It always has been and always will be. In terms of being able to accommodate the maximum number of children, and at a time when we are focusing on all of the climate change and climate action requirements and responsibilities that we have, the system is going to...

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

Ciarán Cannon: I am sure that the wonderful people in the building unit in Tullamore are more than aware of the consistently strong case that I have made for the provision of a sports hall for an increasingly large school in Seamount, Kinvarra, in south County Galway. I am perplexed by the approach that has been taken and perhaps somebody can clarify the matter. At a time when we need young people to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (23 Apr 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: 693. To ask the Minister for Health for details of the staffing required for the new 50-bed ward block at Portiuncula University Hospital; whether such requirements will be met when the new ward block is complete; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18118/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: 224. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on her plans to deliver a modular building to accommodate the ASD unit at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9073/24]

Select Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 33 - Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (Revised) (8 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Is anybody else indicating? No. I want to follow on from what Deputy Griffin identified as an ongoing challenge for hospitality, particularly in rural locations and places along the western seaboard and the Wild Atlantic Way. We still are somewhat in the dark on how we are going to deal with the self-catering conundrum that presents to us right now and has presented to us for a very long...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: First of all, I offer my deepest sympathy, that of my family, and that of the Fine Gael family in Galway East to John's wife, Finola, his children, and his siblings Richard and Mary on the passing of an extraordinary man. Many of us in this room, about this time 20 years ago, were involved in our first-ever election campaign seeking to be elected in the local elections of 2004. I imagine...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (31 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: Earlier, in defending our public service media, the Minister cited the fact that we live in a world full of misinformation, fallacies and conspiracy theories. In Europe right now, we have been experiencing a deeply disturbing, 45-fold increase in measles cases in the last couple of years, and we had 42,000 people infected in 2023 compared to 941 in 2022. A lot of that rise can be attributed...

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: To be clear, that is not the Velorail in Kiltimagh we are looking at right now.

Committee on Public Petitions: Campaign for a Walking and Cycling Greenway on the Closed Railway from Sligo to Athenry: Discussion (25 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank each of the witnesses for appearing today. I thank them for their patience, perseverance, vision and ambition with regard to development of the region they represent. I stress that all of these people are here on a voluntary basis. They have paid their own way to get to Dublin, and have been working for a long time to deliver what they see is an absolutely logical use of a badly...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the witnesses for joining us today for a conversation that has been illuminating and helpful to us, as legislators, in how we approach a topic that is becoming exceptionally challenging. Mr. Dooley used a beautiful phrase a few minutes ago, "contract of truth". Public representatives sign up to such a contract when we first put our names forward for election. I have concerns, which...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: The programme for Government contains a commitment to carry out an audit of school buildings across the country to ensure we have adequate capacity for future enrolment. There is a major capacity issue presenting in Athenry. Fortunately, we are seeing significant population growth in Athenry and its environs, but the secondary school capacity in the town is simply incapable of dealing with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: School Facilities (7 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I do not take issue with the Minister of State but it is as I expected from the Department. It said a request for a PE hall does not come within the remit of the additional school accommodation scheme, yet it did this 21 times in 21 other schools and in a school just 10 km away from Seamount. Why it decided to single out Seamount for special treatment in denying it this facility is a...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank each of the witnesses for being here and having the trust and confidence in their systems to allow them to be scrutinised in the public domain, something that people in X, or Twitter, are obviously not happy to do. I am sure the public policy team from X is watching these proceedings as we speak. I invite them to come before us, a public committee, in a fully transparent manner. I...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: ...trusted in the past to engage with photo and video content, namely our two eyes, cannot be relied on anymore. It is not possible. I have a pretty serious fear around the deepfake technology that is becoming so advanced and advancing every day in its capacity to do fairly extraordinary things with video in particular. Are the companies represented today equally adept at innovating, given...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Online Safety, Online Disinformation and Media Literacy: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: Something that always fascinates me around the issue of misinformation and hate speech is who in the organisations present gets to decide what is hate speech, as opposed to an impassioned speech from a protestor at the end of O'Connell Street, or somebody saying Ireland is at war.

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: This motion is a cynical, clumsy attempt to gain political capital from a tragic incident. Thankfully, the Irish people are beginning to see Sinn Féin for what it really is, namely, a party linked to criminality that has repeatedly sought to undermine our State and institutions and one that applauded those who took the life of one of our gardaí. It is no secret that officials in...

Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: -----in seeking to remove a Minister with genuine justice at the heart of her work every day.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bus Services (5 Dec 2023)

Ciarán Cannon: I thank the Minister of State. The Ceann Comhairle outlined earlier the tendency at times for departmental officials to abdicate responsibility in certain policy areas and I think this opening statement attempts to do that at the very beginning. It clarifies that the Minister for Transport and his officials are not involved in the day-to-day operation of public transport services, but they...