Results 1-14 of 14 for cork speaker:Mary Seery Kearney

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...being the puppeteer behind the commencement of the war in Gaza. Senator Lombard referred to the cancellation of a vital bus service and questioned the NTA's accountability. I completely concur with him on that. Cork Members have yet to experience the excitement of BusConnects and how unaccountable the NTA can be in that regard. It is incumbent on us bring in, as I have requested over a...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...things out. They have been amenable to change and to listening to advocacy groups in this regard. This has been my experience. At some point as BusConnects is rolled out throughout the country - Cork is the next major project, as the Cathaoirleach is aware - we will probably need to have a debate with the Minister. When it comes to Commencement matters, unfortunately, because this is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Consideration of the Citizens' Assembly Report on a Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...that as future intent. We have already had Mayor Higgins. I thank the assembly very much for its work. I find it inspiring. As a Dub, I feel we should declare independence. We are sick of Cork across all of these decades; let us just go with it. There is something in the identity of Dublin where if someone is living in south County Dublin under South Dublin County Council, and I...

Seanad: International Women's Day: Statements (8 Mar 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: .... They had to flee Belarus because of the intimidation and fear for their own family. They then had to flee Ukraine. We got great assistance in ensuring they came to Ireland and they now live in Cork. She advocates. Every time she speaks for her husband and every time she stands outside the Russian embassy protesting on behalf of Ukraine and with the women here, she runs the risk of...

Seanad: Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...then there will be a lot of hand wringing and wailing about what is lost. The people of the Liberties deserve their market. I have been to the market in Barcelona. We have the English market in Cork. Other the markets are preserved. They are beautifully living, breathing spaces for the community in which they are situated, for the city and country in which they find themselves. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Planning and Development Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...test should be. It suggested something around 200 miles or whatever. Is there not a danger, however, in cases such as environmental NGOs, that there will be a particular expertise in a NGO in Cork, for example, although the development might be in Dublin, and, therefore, the sufficient interest test cannot be applied? When we get down to it, if we were to legislate for the devil of...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Armagh Road and Cork Street services in my home constituency of Dublin South-Central do not have full teams. I received an update recently on the Drimnagh primary care centre and am very excited that a design team has been engaged and it is moving to a more advanced stage but, looking down the road, will it have the personnel to resource it? Although it is a great development, will it...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...with the Senators an extraordinary witness contribution at the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, Mr. Craig Kelly, who is president of Ability@Work, which is aligned to the Cope Foundation in Cork. He wants to work with employers and prepare them to employ people with disabilities. He has an intellectual disability but, to use his own words, that does not define him. He submitted...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...have been excluded from protection perhaps because they are deemed modern. This includes buildings such as the former industrial schools. Concern has been raised by Dr. Niamh McCullagh and the Cork survivors group. Does this legislation leave that gap? Does it afford any protection? Will it cover those sorts of situations?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (27 Jan 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I suggest that the committee invite submissions from bodies that have been affected like the Cork survivors because it would be interesting to have any gaps pointed out or where the legislation can be enhanced to ensure that there are no gaps.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: General Scheme of a Certain Institutional Burials (Authorised Interventions) Bill: Discussion (14 Apr 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...in developing and exploring the Stasi model and how that might be employed in looking at resolving the conflict. In the next session there will be two submissions from two parties. Both are from Cork and both are affected by Bessborough. One wants exhumations and the other does not. We have very tangible and obvious opposites. We cannot deal with one site and address those...

Seanad: Reopening Ireland (Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment): Statements (26 Nov 2020)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...three weeks later. That was a great success during the summer. The opening up of the economy and life was clear and decisive. People had hope and a date for which to aim. I booked a holiday in Cork for the date on which we could travel. I was gone once we could go. We were able to pull the original plan back and open even earlier. Christmas, and the here and now, make that a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Strategic Housing Developments: Discussion (10 Nov 2020)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...to clustering and the view that the decisions appear to be made in a silo. I accept that the board will have a particular application in front of it, but it is a silo where, taking the likes of Cork Street, it now has a proliferation of student accommodation, with the fabric of the community in that area being undermined, and in fact Dublin 8 as a consequence. On the ratio of affordable...