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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Nov 2023)

Michael Moynihan: ...of disability services and Martina Queally, chief officer of community healthcare organisation, CHO, 6. We also have representatives from Tusla: Ms Kate Duggan, chief executive officer; Mr. Pat Smyth, national director of finance and corporate services and Ms Clare Murphy, interim national director of services. I remind witnesses of the long-standing parliamentary practice that you...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Disability Inclusive Participation in Political and Public Life: Discussion (1 Dec 2022)

Michael Moynihan: I have received apologies from Senator O’Loughlin. The purpose of today’s meeting is to have a discussion on disability inclusivity and participation in political and public life to mark the UN International Day of Persons with Disabilities on 3 December 2022. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. John Dolan and Mr. Ciarán Delaney of the Disability Stakeholder Group...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Inclusive Transport Schemes: Discussion (7 Jul 2022)

Michael Moynihan: ...is to discuss inclusive transport schemes. On behalf of the committee, I welcome: Ms Catherine Cox, head of communications and policy, and Mr. Damien Douglas from Family Carers Ireland; and Mr. Pat Carty, chairman, and Mr. Kenneth Fox, CEO, from the Disabled Drivers Association of Ireland. I remind members that they are only allowed to participate when they are within the precincts of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: ...the committee to Mr. Markus Schefer, a member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Ms Catherine Naughton, director of the European Disability Forum, and Mr. Pat Clarke, vice president of the European Disability Forum. We are also delighted to welcome members of the Spanish Senate Comisión para las Políticas Integrales de la Discapacidad....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Ratification of Optional Protocol: Discussion (27 May 2021)

Michael Moynihan: I thank the witness. I call Mr. Pat Clarke, vice president, and Ms Catherine Naughton, director of the European Disability Forum, EDF, to make their contribution.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan (9 Apr 2019)

Michael Moynihan: ...crusade of his and that he would drive it on through the difficult challenges in the Department. Five years ago, almost to the day, a previous ministerial colleague of the current Minister, Pat Rabbitte, announced that there would be broadband almost instantaneously and we have had many more commitments in regard to it. The reality of the situation on the ground in my constituency in...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (7 Mar 2019)

Michael Moynihan: We are coming up to the fifth anniversary of the announcement by the former Minister Pat Rabbitte on broadband. There have been many commitments made in that regard. There are several commitments given in the programme for Government. People who are not able to access high speed broadband, or broadband in any form, believe the Government has abandoned any realistic attempt to roll out...

Finance Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (24 Oct 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...up through the ages. They are outside of society and do not value the education system that is greatly valued across the country. Our policy must be to try to get more people actively participating in education so they can be educated to become full members of society and to have a better lifestyle and better social integration with everybody. It will cause fewer social problems. Some...

National Broadband Procurement Process: Statements (7 Feb 2018)

Michael Moynihan: ...on this issue. The reality is that broadband has failed our communities. I was a Member of the previous Dáil as the Fianna Fáil spokesperson on communications. I was here in December 2013 when Pat Rabbitte sat in front of us and just before the local elections in 2014 there was a massive announcement that broadband would be delivered. We almost thought broadband would be...

Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Jan 2018)

Michael Moynihan: It is crucial. In 2014, which is four years ago, the then Minister, former Deputy Pat Rabbitte, gave a commitment that a State aid exemption was being applied for and that a contract would be put in place. It is crucial for people. Other Members have raised this morning the issue of balanced redevelopment. Every single person living in areas which do not have proper broadband services is...

Topical Issue Debate: National Broadband Plan Implementation (5 Jul 2017)

Michael Moynihan: ...the past four years there have been six different attempts announcing a new broadband plan. I was Opposition spokesperson on communication in the previous Dáil. The then Minister, former Deputy Pat Rabbitte, to great fanfare, announced in 2014 that there was a scheme and his successor, the former Minister, Alex White, had another scheme. We debated it across the floor of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Post Office Network (1 Apr 2015)

Michael Moynihan: ...recent weeks encouraging them to have their money sent to their bank via direct debit rather than through post offices. This time last year, before the local elections, the then Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, made an announcement that there was a whole-of-government approach to the future of post offices. In February this year, some nine or ten months later, it was announced there would...

Other Questions: Postal Services (12 Mar 2015)

Michael Moynihan: ...month and chaired by Mr. Bobby Kerr, the only initiative taken by the Government thus far in the context of the announcement prior to the local and European elections by the former Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, of a whole-of-government approach to the development of An Post? Is this the only initiative being taken by this Government almost a year since the announcement of a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Energy Prices (17 Jul 2014)

Michael Moynihan: I congratulate the new Minister and Minister of State and wish them the very best in the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources. I pay tribute to the former Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte, and the former Minister of State, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, and thank them for their courtesy over the past two years. I hope we will have as good a working relationship with the new...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport and Communications: Editorial Review of The Frontline Presidential Debate: Discussion with RTE (12 Dec 2012)

Michael Moynihan: ...of Ireland. The programme and report reveal extreme shortcomings. Mr. Morrison and Mr. Carson spoke to the teams, checked the notebooks and spoke to the staff. The referee on the night was Pat Kenny. Do they find it odd that he was not asked for his opinion on what happened on the floor of the programme? It is like a football match where one interviews the water carriers, sideline...

Rural Areas: Motion (13 Dec 2011)

Michael Moynihan: ...to an abrupt end. The recent budget containing its choices has laid bare the reality of its incompetence and arrogance. In the course of the budget debate Ministers and other Government Members patted themselves on the back and spoke repeatedly about how the budget announced last year had succeeded in showing the world that Ireland was on the right track in consolidating its budget....