Results 1-20 of 250 for long speaker:Michael McNamara

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (22 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: ..., starting with the people who had received the relevant status three years previously. This does not, however, fully answer the question because there are two other groups of people who are no longer applicants for international protection. I refer to those whose applications for international protection have been determined. These are people who have been refused international...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...of direct provision. That is a different conversation, which I look forward to having with the Minister during Topical Issues, when I hope I will finally get some information which I have been seeking for a long time. This motion relates to beneficiaries of temporary protection from Ukraine who have come to Ireland. Of course the State was stretched to find accommodation quickly. It...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: ...disquiet. It brings the law into disrepute if there is a provision on the Statute Book that is either not prosecuted or prosecutable. I want to know what the story is with this. Not that long ago, a statute law revision was done to take off the Statute Book various provisions going back hundreds of years that were not being used. This is relatively recent legislation. It is section 11...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (17 Jan 2024)

Michael McNamara: 231. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason passengers travelling on the late evening Ennis to Dublin rail service must endure an hour-long wait at Colbert Station, resulting in a delayed 11pm arrival at Heuston Station; if the previous timetable will be restored; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1027/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...sector, is part of the problem and is coming back to bite the Department, as it has done. Farmers have been objecting to the concentration of power in the beef processing sector for a very long time. Is the fact that there are so few renderers and that they seem to be linked part of the problem? They are still accepting material from beef factories and those factories tend to be owned...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Animal Carcase Disposal (14 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...that statement might address whether the concentration of power and ownership in the processing sector is now coming back to bite the Department, as it has been biting primary producers for a very long time.

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...are provided with one. There are occasions when Bills have to be pushed through. However, I can think of only one in the time I have been in this House, which, I acknowledge, is not very long. It was the Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Act 2013, when the State would have been taken to the cleaners by the markets the following morning if it had not been passed. Legislation such as...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...has recently been put on between Killaloe and Ennis and I am interested to know exactly what the numbers are because many more people travel from Killaloe to Limerick daily and have done for a very long time. If we are talking about new rail links, there was once a railway station serving Killaloe and Ballina. There was a spur from Birdhill on the Ballina side. Maybe it is just a pipe...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Instruction to Committee (12 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...as we expect everyone to respect the Constitution, it is important the Civil Service does too. Increasingly, this is a Civil Service that, perhaps because Fine Gael has been in government for so long, seems to think it can be taken for granted. This is not how to make legislation. If something urgent needs to be done, that is fine, and we can bring in legislation overnight or tack...

Planning and Development Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (7 Dec 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...not really know what those reviews found as they have never been published. There was certainly a problem with An Bord Pleanála. There were many cases in An Bord Pleanála that were taking a long time, but we do not know why those cases were taking so long. It is not unreasonable to surmise they were taking so long because they raised complex issues and the board lacked the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: EU Meetings (30 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...in supporting European Union accession for Ukraine in circumstances where Northern Macedonia, or the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, as it was called for some time, has been languishing for so long with such little support, or indeed Bosnia-Herzegovina or many parts of former Yugoslavia? They were deemed to have dangers around corruption, I understand, and needs for reforms. With...

Capital Supply Service and Purpose Report Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...between the number of people housed in her constituency, in the context of the population of her constituency, and the number of people housed in constituencies like Clare and Kerry, or indeed along the whole western seaboard. All of these areas depend heavily on seasonal tourism, but they cannot get income from seasonal tourism now because the hotel beds are filled with people. I am not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...then feel they can act with impunity? At least some of the rioters – very far from all of them – were mere opportunists who have been on those streets and acting with increasing impunity for a long time. That is the first question. Second, there is an increase in antisocial behaviour in Ennis. A market building, which is a bit of a fiasco, was recently built by Clare...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: It is a long way from Kilmeedy to Gurranabraher.

Committee on Public Petitions: Consideration of Public Petition to Reopen Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (16 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...this argument regarding the need to have a critical care unit to open an accident and emergency department safely? Is there something that can be done short of this? This is not to say it should not be a long-term ambition or that it is not a valid one. My point, though, is that if it is not possible to staff the accident and emergency department in UHL, then it is unlikely it will be...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Pension Provisions (14 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: 167. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he will outline the reason for the long delay in processing the Industrial Relations (Provisions in Relation to Pension Entitlements of Retired Persons) Bill 2021, which has remained at Second Stage since 11 February 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49531/23]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Nov 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...that. On the one hand it seems sort of ideologically neutral but sometimes the application of something that appears ideologically neutral has a profoundly biased effect. Increasingly, and for a long period of time, we have had a concentration of all tourists coming into Dublin and being bused for a day to the Cliffs of Moher and back again. Is there any examination of how sustainable...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Schemes (26 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: I wonder if the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach would indulge me. At the outset, the Minister paid tribute to Mr. Paul Dillon, who is retiring after a long career. Mr. Dillon taught me a very valuable lesson. Up to that point, I had believed legislation was made by these Houses, but I learnt in the course of the passage of the Forestry Act 2014 that it is, in fact, made in Departments and...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...number of her fellow patients died at that time and a nurse said it was really sweeping through and had taken X number of them. I remember the figure. It was a relatively large proportion of the long-term patients. The nurse was sad about it and compassionate. The standard of nursing provided by this nurse and all the nurses in Raheen Community Hospital was excellent, as was the care...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Sep 2023)

Michael McNamara: ...are civil servants doing their job. There is a woman who was a very dedicated public representative. I will name her; it is not a bad thing to say. Ms Patricia McCarthy was mayor of Clare for a long time and a long-standing public representative. I have had many discussions with Ms McCarthy of late and she consistently asks who would want to be an elected representative now and that if...