Results 1-20 of 113 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Willie Penrose

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2019: Motion (26 Nov 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...with HRI over anything, it is on this. There is an old expression in Ballinacarrigy that the fat goose always gets fatter and that if enough grease is rubbed to its posterior, it will get fatter still. That is how I feel about this. The thoroughbred industry is well able to cater for itself. It has a lot of advocates. There are only four or five, but Senator Daly is chairperson of the...

Agriculture: Motion [Private Members] (18 Sep 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...or 160,000 animals built up and farmers will get nothing at all for them. The whole thing will become circular and we will be back to where we started, with no resolution. That is the big issue. The Minister knows how people are feeling. Government cannot resolve this issue on its own. If Deputy McConalogue was sitting in the Minister's seat, I would be saying the same thing. This...

EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2019)

Willie Penrose: ..., Food and the Marine will not support its ratification in its current guise. Nine out of every ten cows produced on Irish farms have to be exported. We have a 900% oversupply. Farmers are feeling the pinch already and beef prices are significantly below the cost of production. The looming threat of Brexit has to be the immediate focus because it poses a threat to farmers' livelihoods....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector and Climate Action Plan: Discussion (9 Jul 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...year one again. It has gone to three, five or seven years. Let us kick it back and give them a chance to get off the ground again. They have lost their shirts, to put it mildly. It is a horrendous feeling. We can talk about Mercosur and so on but when one thinks about it after hawthorn, ash is the second most important plant in hedgerows. There are some 500,000 km of hedgerow in...

Carers: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...system decides to grant them - if those people ever get the hours. That is, by hell, some system to try to navigate. It is no wonder that these people are at breaking point. Some carers just burn out and feel exhausted. First and foremost, therefore, carers need financial support. Only one carer in five receives carer's allowance or carer's benefit. Those are the only payments in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Veterinary Practices: Discussion (21 May 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...many members participated in the vote in December? There was a vote on 14 December because the decision was conveyed on 15 December. Was the decision to make the changes unanimous? Did anybody feel compelled to absent himself or herself from the meeting because of a conflict of interest?

Sea-Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (28 Mar 2019)

Willie Penrose: ...its side of any agreement and reciprocal arrangements. Brexit represents a significant challenge to the fishing industry, like so many other industries in this country. It is clear that people feel aggrieved that, while we have many positive benefits from the EU, this area has suffered greatly. The Supreme Court has made a determination on this significant national resource-based...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill: Report Stage (29 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...big a problem as we had outlined. I do not want to be at odds with reports because I am sure they are done in good faith but sometimes we receive reports that may not directly address the issue we feel is important. This has been a bugbear for a long time. It represents huge losses to the individuals who are in artificially contrived bogus self-employment. It is bogus and it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Implications of Brexit for Agriculture Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...graduates, to play the roles it requires to play to facilitate the various sectors as they transit into the post-Brexit economic environment, especially after March 2019. I still have a strong feeling that in ten years' time we will be talking about this issue. It took Greenland three years to get out of the European Union and it had only had a few agreements here and there. In this...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2018: Second Stage (14 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...such tasks due to risk of injury. Deputy O'Dea referred to the failure to replace the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant, which were withdrawn. The system means tests carers' access to the GP visit card - they feel very hurt by this - by offering it only to those in receipt of carer's allowance, while providing universal, non-means tested access to people aged over 70...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Sustaining Small Rural and Community Business: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank all the witnesses for their timely and informative contributions. Some of them have midland accents so I feel at home in this committee for the first time in a while. It is great to see. I am absolutely clear, notwithstanding comments coming from some credit union quarters, that a public banking model is not in opposition to or undermining of the credit union movement. I applaud...

Local Government (Restoration of Town Councils) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Sep 2018)

Willie Penrose: The Deputy should not worry about the fox. He is using the ould Meath trick. We know well in Westmeath what he is like. Deputy Munster is feeling the heat from Senator Nash. There is a campaign being led by the local newspaper to ensure Drogheda will have corporation status restored. Ultimately, we should all learn lessons and not be afraid to come in here to apologise. I have great...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Rural and Community Development: Rural Transport Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Jun 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...I welcome, is extremely important in combatting rural isolation. The significance of rural isolation has been referred to in recent reports. Very often, people can live close to other people but still feel isolated because they cannot get into the local village to meet people and talk about the various issues of the day. Have there been applications from the Longford and Westmeath areas...

European Union (Common Fisheries Policy) (Point System) Regulations 2018: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2018)

Willie Penrose: ..., and there have to penalties to take cognisance of the nature of the transgressions. Central to the application of any such system has to be a right of access to the courts if a person feels aggrieved by the imposition of a penalty. The Minister said we can have that on a point of law. That is his "out" in respect of the application. I did not realise this was coming up today....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Support Services Provision (17 Apr 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...of children with disabilities and, in particular, those in receipt of domiciliary care allowance; if this process could permit an opt-in or opt-out option in the context in which parents might feel that their child on medical grounds is not able to participate in the workforce; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16824/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion (27 Feb 2018)

Willie Penrose: I thank Mr. Murphy for his presentation. Does he not feel embarrassed that Coillte, as a semi-State company managing State assets, working in partnership with farmers, has let down those farmers, many of them elderly or widowed? It has failed to communicate with them in a proper, open and transparent way, explaining every step in the process and what is due at the various stages of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed) - Priority Questions: Employment Rights (20 Feb 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...in every way and would like to be allocated them and gather the information from people. It is about time we deal with this, but there are rogue employers out there fooling decent employees into feeling that there is no choice. They are put on a certain contract and that is what they have to take: otherwise, it is "down the road with you" and there is someone else to take the person's place.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Hen Harrier Programme: Discussion (30 Jan 2018)

Willie Penrose: ...down in that part of the country. I am involved with someone down in that part of the country who will be doing some work in this area by writing a book on it. This is a matter about which I feel strongly. I know from experience that once an area is designated, the appeal mechanism available is not worth the paper it is written on. Once designated, I have never seen an area...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: ...roles in promoting, sustaining and revitalising rural Ireland. Every member of the committee is a part of the rural framework. The Ministers know how important rural communities are and how many feel left behind and isolated. I do not need to give the Minister any advice, but it is important that he not be stymied in his work or become a prisoner of bureaucracy. I do not believe that...

Select Committee on Rural and Community Development: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 42 - Rural and Community Development (Revised) (15 Nov 2017)

Willie Penrose: ...the weekend. They live in a rural area in County Westmeath. Their son rang me in an awful state. It is frightening how elderly people who have helped to build this country, members of a farming community, say they feel threatened, unsafe and frightened. I do not know if it is in the Minister's remit but will CCTV, security and technology improvements be installed on advanced roadways,...