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Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Elimination of Abuse Directed Toward Referees, Officials, and Players in Sport: Discussion (11 May 2022)

Shane Cassells: ...implemented. This is the first time that witnesses have returned, told us that they have done their homework and shown us what they wanted us to do. There is no point in us using flowery language, patting people on the head, sending them out the door and doing nothing. Ms O’Connor has come to this meeting, taken the issue seriously and set out a series of objectives for us to...

Seanad: Support to Ukraine: Motion (30 Mar 2022)

Shane Cassells: Before I call on Senator Mullen to speak, I acknowledge and welcome to the Visitors Gallery Jarlath Fitzsimons, whose grandfather, the former Senator, Pat Fitzsimons, was a long-standing Member of this House.

Seanad: Covid-19 (Tourism): Statements (22 Mar 2021)

Shane Cassells: ...country to reimagine those spaces. We must provide a roadmap, limited as it may be. There is little point in members of the Oireachtas committee sitting with their thumbs in their mouths tomorrow and patting the heads of people who are coming in. The demands are clear and have been laid out by others. They include a doubling of the Covid restrictions support scheme, a new enhanced...

Joint Committee on Media, Tourism, Arts, Culture, Sport and the Gaeltacht: Future of Public Service Broadcasting and Impact of Covid-19 on the Media Sector: Discussion (11 Nov 2020)

Shane Cassells: ...a reporter to an event after hours or sports event at the weekend. The owners of these radio stations and newspapers need to be a part of this discussion. At the end of this, I do not want to pat these people on the head and say, "Thanks very much for your time, goodbye". I want us to report back as a committee and ask in what substantial way will there be a significant change. These...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Oct 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...one of the largest employers. More than 600 people are employed in Tara Mines, which is the largest zinc mine in Europe. The former Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, had discussed plans for a multi-million euro geothermal energy project for Navan backed by Tara Mines. We have heard no more about that project. Zinc is a finite resource and will...

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...had people going down into human rabbit holes for infrastructure that was going to be 2.5 km away from the current old road, even further away from the Hill of Tara. National journalists, such as Pat Kenny, were coming down and broadcasting live shows from the Mound of the Hostages, giving people the impression that the road 2.5 km away from the current road was somehow going to go...

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (17 May 2017)

Shane Cassells: ...the Tara valley, one can barely see the M3, such was the manner in which it was constructed, and yet that road was mired in planning controversy for over ten years by people who would not know how to find the Hill of Tara. Pat Kenny broadcast a radio show from the Hill of Tara while the road was being built three and a half miles away, giving people the impression that this infrastructure...

Questions on Proposed Legislation (22 Nov 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...energy development Bill, which has been there for quite some time. In October 2013 a major sustainable energy conference was held in my home town of Navan, attended by the then Minister, Pat Rabbitte, and plans for a revolutionary multi-million euro geothermal energy project for the town was brought forward by investors, the local chamber and local stakeholders, with the afterlife of Tara...

Energy Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (29 Jun 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...? Their lives will be destroyed by the project. The appeals to have the project changed by placing the cables underground fell on deaf ears in the previous Government. The former Minister, Pat Rabbitte, went so far as to say that prices would increase by 3% if the project was undergrounded. This scandalous claim was disputed and verified as being wrong by the North East Pylon Pressure,...

Rent Certainty Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (14 Jun 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...the property ladder because there are no homes being built, especially in pressure areas such as County Meath, County Louth, which is represented by Deputy Gerry Adams, County Kildare and County Wicklow, which Deputy Pat Casey represents. Among the issues the committee examined in connection with the lack of activity in housing construction is the cost of constructing a home and the...