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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...after the xenophobic attack on the two Croatian men who were beaten up, and one of whom, Josip Strok, subsequently died from his injuries. They were told to speak English in, of all places, Ireland. The cognitive dissonance that has to occur in order for someone to beat someone up, or actually murder someone, because Josip died from his injuries, for not speaking our colonisers' language...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...farmers. Once a tillage farming girl, always a tillage farming girl. Over recent months I have found myself peering out the window daily and muttering about planting weather and wet sodden land. I must have picked it up off my dad over the years when he used to do that. As a little girl I would stand beside him and nod along and go, "Yes, most certainly." It has been incredibly...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We welcome the Research and Innovation Bill, which will be a strong foundation for promoting and advancing research in Ireland and ensuring that research bodies and individuals get easy and equal access to funding and opportunities. There are, however, certain points that require a more detailed approach to ensure the Bill will function as...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: Great. I will bring that up in the Seanad at 6.30 p.m. The need for a central repository of advice for this greening programme was talked about. As everyone associates us with green, Ireland has an incredible opportunity to be that green tourist destination. I was struck by what Mr. Fenn said regarding people who are at different levels and the different levels of support. When we talk...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: I remember driving from Cork to Donegal once and the suspension was gone on my car. I felt like I had gone to Mars and back. By the time I landed, I felt like I had been blown backwards. I did not know what had hit me. I have a couple of follow-on questions. Mr. Connick talked about perception and stuff like that. Have our guests any comments on the perception of what it is like to...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: .... Based on the projections we were looking at and with the funding that has been allocated to the project, it is unlikely that anything is going to happen in that plaza until 2025. There is also land for 2,000 new homes in Ballymun. A colleague of the Minister’s, before entering the Dáil as a Deputy, spent many years slamming the Government for doing nothing about that land...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Future Business Model Plans and Long-term Vision for the Media Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...There is a whole training piece as well. Would there be an appetite within each of the organisations represented here for something like that? I am not sure who it would fall under. I do not want to land it onto the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, IHREC, or someone else. It would be a specific piece of monitoring as to what is happening. It is balanced and offers feedback...

Seanad: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (30 Nov 2022)

Annie Hoey: .... This has been the subject of debate over the past couple of weeks. Those prizes tend to go to the most successful. Close to €50 million in tax-free prizes go to some of the richest people in Ireland, not all of whom pay tax here. I do not know if that is the best use of this fund. Other can correct me if I am wrong, but I believe the horse racing industry receives financial...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...ten years, postgraduate supports have increased by approximately 3% from some €18,000 to €18,500 yet rents have gone up by 70%. It is not a sustainable model. We pride ourselves on being a land of saints and scholars but unless someone is one of the lucky few who can access scholarship funding or supports, it is not an option to undertake further study. As I said, I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...the SVHG sought funding for a private development. This came to light through the Committee of Public Accounts. It seems that security for the loan was some form of charge or lien over all of the land there, including the public hospital. The HSE found that while technically no rules were broken, it was not appropriate to be using State assets to fund a private institution. This is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: The bank would have consented to it as well. Okay, that is fine. As the names of the parties involved are very similar, I ask the witnesses to clarify another issue for me. SVHG owns the land and St. Vincent's Holdings is holding the shares. Who is it that the Minister would have to approach to request that the State be given the land? Who exactly is it that he would have to go to or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...clarify a point in the significant amount of documentation we have read? I do not have the exact reference written down, so I beg the committee's forgiveness. For the first 20 years, if the land were to be sold at any point, the HSE would have first refusal. That is written into the lease. Then, after 30 years, if that first refusal clause - I do not know if that is the exact term as I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: It comes down to a principle. There are people who just believe that the hospital should be State-owned and on State-owned land and that that should be the future of all capital assets invested in by the State. While Mr. Menton says it is an academic exercise and refers to 200 years, we would not be having this conversation if the layout were different. I reiterate that the crux of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...do not think the line is helpful for the Minister in this debate. The Labour Party position is that we hand over too many projects or State assets to voluntary bodies. We are moving forward in Ireland. I appreciate that everyone here is painstakingly explaining to us the different structures, layouts and set-ups but, ultimately, it still seems to boil down to, and this is a public...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New National Maternity Hospital: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Annie Hoey: We were told that St. Vincent's would not sell the land. It stated a couple of years ago that it was because of financial and legal agreements. What financial and legal agreements brought it to a point where it said it could not sell the land to the State? Is the Minister party to those agreements? I do not know that any information about those agreements has been made public. They are...

Seanad: International Women's Day 2022: Statements (9 Mar 2022)

Annie Hoey: .... Some 80% of Traveller women are rearing children without running water or toilet facilities. There was a women dead for four days, potentially, in a direct provision centre in Cork. The new national maternity hospital will built on Catholic-owned land. Women in Ukraine are fleeing from war imposed by a cracked dictator. Mothers in Yemen are looking at their starving children. There...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...I was on the bus into work this morning there was a kerfuffle over a passenger not wearing a mask. The ethics and morality of the debate aside, and I will not go into those, the abuse that was landed on the bus driver was unbelievable. I could not believe it. There was shouting and roaring. The person was so aggressive, laughing and shoving a phone into the bus driver's face. In the...

Seanad: Report of Joint Committee on Agriculture and the Marine: Motion (16 Feb 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...Minister of State to take on board the recommendation regarding premiums on page 10 of the report. If large, commercial multinationals can get premiums paid over ten years, is it fair that farmers on smaller lands have to wait up to 20 years? Ultimately, all these issues bring us back to the most important and cogent point, which is that we need to plant more trees, and the only way to do...