Results 1-20 of 31 for cork speaker:Shane Cassells

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Inclusion in Sport: Discussion (21 Jun 2023)

Shane Cassells: Fantastic. I want to commend SuperValu and the GPA on the work they are doing in making sure there is a circulation of the Rainbow Laces campaign. I commend David and Hannah Looney, the Cork footballer, as well. We touched on some of the examples in visibility. It took until 2009 for Dónal Óg Cusack to be the first openly gay GAA player and it took until 2009 for the first...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...up the second biggest source of funding for the arts should not be underestimated. Indeed, I remember working with a former county manager in Carlow, who was our town manager, Mr. Joe Crockett, a Cork man, who was instrumental in delivering the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan when I was mayor of Navan and in making sure that we got the budget, etc., in place with the help of the then...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by GAA President, Mr. Larry McCarthy (26 Apr 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...time to present Liam and Sam. Unfortunately, he will not have the privilege of presenting it to a Meath man this year. The Dubs around here tell me there is something now called the Tailteann Cup. I am not up to speed on it but I am reliably informed Cork will be in it as well, so perhaps the uachtarán and the Cathaoirleach can brief me on it afterwards. Regardless of who wins the...

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (1 Mar 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...deliverability because it is very frustrating. One can take, for example, the urban regeneration and development fund, which will do so much good and will rejuvenate towns and cities. I see the projects in Cork, Galway or in Dublin. We see the fact that it comes to regional centres like my own home town of Navan, and that hundreds of millions of euro have been allocated to thwart that...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...Sport Ireland. For example, Dr. May touched on female participation in sport. The progress of the Meath ladies football team in the last couple of years in breaking the dominance of Dublin and Cork drove many young girls in Meath and across the country to become involved in ladies GAA. If sporting organisations end up putting their products behind paywalls, it has a detrimental impact...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...to us. Seán Boylan brought Meath teams there on the morning of an all-Ireland to feel the spirit of thousands of generations of dead Meath men flowing through their veins before they went to Dublin to beat Cork. This is in our DNA. The site is used by Meath people as an open and recreational space and a living monument that is enjoyed. The report proposes things like CCTV on a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...year-old because I was in Croke Park every Sunday and the words of the national anthem were on the programmes. Being successful back then was something you learned on a weekly basis. I was proud to go to Cork last Sunday and belt it out in Páirc Uí Chaoimh as the juggernaut of Meath football relaunched again when we defeated the Cathaoirleach's county.It is a serious campaign....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: ..., might disagree with him. He owns my local newspaper as well so I will give him a plug. I want to ask the witnesses some questions in respect of that. The newspapers they represent such as theCork Independent, Galway Advertiserand Limerick Postare quality publications. I do not care whether a publication is paid for or not. When I was a young journalist and we were at meetings of the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future of Print Media and Journalism: Free Media Ireland (25 Jan 2023)

Shane Cassells: ...There is a very large publishing house in this country which owns many regional newspapers. There are about 40 pages every week in all of them that are the same, whether one lives in Drogheda, in Cork or in Wexford. It is replicated and there is bumf. One thinks one is getting an 80-page product but it is really 40 pages. It is a fair point which I accept.

Seanad: Election of Cathaoirleach (16 Dec 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...I met his dad for the first time that day. A life-long friendship has continued between the Cathaoirleach and me through a love of life, sport and politics. That is some achievement given that I am from Meath and he is from Cork, which can sometimes lead to rows when we discuss GAA, but more particularly so because I am from Fianna Fáil and the Cathaoirleach is from Fine Gael, which...

Seanad: Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 May 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht during pre-legislative scrutiny.One of the most impressive engagements we had was when representatives from schools in Dublin and Cork came before the joint committee to address their concerns to us. Their biggest concern was that we, as legislators, did not get what was required in a sphere that was predominantly...

Seanad: Tourism: Statements (28 Jul 2020)

Shane Cassells: ...some amount of statistics have been produced. Yesterday, I read the Minister, Deputy Ryan's response to a parliamentary question from Deputy Michael Healy-Rae on the numbers arriving into Dublin, Cork and Shannon airports. That prompted a headline that 6,000 people were flying into Ireland every day, a third of them from the UK, 700 from Spain and 160 Yanks. One would get the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2020)

Shane Cassells: ...a particular year and in which counties they took place. The answer is then followed by the gnashing of Deputies' teeth when they attack the lack of visits to their county vis-à-visthose in Dublin or Cork. There will be a very even playing field this year, going by the comments made by the head of IDA Ireland, Martin Shanahan, yesterday. He outlined how physical investor visits...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (23 Oct 2019)

Shane Cassells: Senator Buttimer is 100% right. The issue not only affects Cork. The transition between primary and secondary school is a major issue for parents right across the country.

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government (26 Jun 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...throughout the country. I echo what Deputy Ó Broin said. I appreciate that everything is time sensitive, but what is happening with the Bill before us is similar to what happened in the case of the Cork city Bill, when an amendment was proposed on Report Stage to provide for municipal councils across boundaries. However, it failed because it was such a late addition and there was...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...Group for over a decade and I know the power of words. However, words are one thing; the Minister needs to match his words with action. I ask that he engage with Members from counties Westmeath, Cavan and Cork and, in particular, the people of Navan and Meath. Aside from the motion, I ask that he does me the decency of honouring the commitment he gave me in autumn 2016 and let us...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Direct Election of Mayor Plebiscite Regulations 2019: Motion (10 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: ...on local radio stations debating the pay of the proposed mayors with radio presenters. That is what people hear. That is with what our canvassers and the Minister of State's councillors in Waterford, Cork and Limerick are being hit at doors. People ask why the Government is creating a job for someone with another big pay packet. With what does the Minister of State expect canvassers to...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Mayoral Election (9 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: 89. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the difference in the exact powers of the newly proposed directly elected mayors for Cork, Limerick and Waterford and the functions currently conducted by mayors. [16414/19]