Results 1-20 of 162 for in 'Dáil debates' speaker:Johnny Guirke

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I have submitted several parliamentary questions on the issue of the Loughcrew megalithic tombs, also known as the Hills of the Witch. This is a group of neolithic passage tombs near Oldcastle in County Meath. Spread over four undulating peaks the tombs date back to approximately 3000 BC. Cairn T of Loughcrew is older than the pyramids in Egypt has stood silent over the Irish landscape for...

Ceisteanna Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 May 2024)

Johnny Guirke: You have another couple of months.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I want to bring to the Tánaiste's attention the plight of 26 families who have purchased homes in Johnstown Demesne, Enfield, County Meath. It is a development by Westin Homes. In some cases deposits were paid in April 2023 and people were told the houses would be ready in August. Then they were told October, then December and then January. It is now more than one year since people...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Johnny Guirke: Uisce Éireann is a joke in a housing crisis.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Johnny Guirke: We have a housing crisis.

Petrol and Diesel Excise Rate Increases: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2024)

Johnny Guirke: Over the past few years we have witnessed a steep and relentless climb in fuel prices, a trend that has become a significant contributor to the deepening poverty among our people. It is a punishing reality that those who use the road to earn their living by car, van, tractor or lorry are met with the harsh penalty of soaring fuel costs amid an already crippling cost-of-living crisis. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (23 Apr 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I thank the Minister of State. In some cases the ratio is 30:1. I believe that is the ratio in Kilbride National School. Although the Minister of State has said she will look at it in the appeal, I was hoping she would give a commitment tonight to reverse the decision on SET hours in Kilbride. One third of schools have had their SET resources cut. However, prior to these cuts the vast...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (23 Apr 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, for coming in to address the important issue of the reduction in special education teaching, SET, hours at Kilbride National School, Trim, County Meath and many schools across my constituency of Meath West. In response to parliamentary questions I submitted, the Department of Education stated 67% of schools saw their allocation increase or...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Mar 2024)

Johnny Guirke: In June it will be one year since Boliden Tara Mines closed with the loss of 600 jobs of those employed directly and more than 2,000 jobs of those employed indirectly. Management and unions are involved in negotiations but progress is very slow. These workers and their families have been left with a feeling of uncertainty over whether the mine will reopen in the second quarter of this year...

Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Johnny Guirke: It is often the case that the elderly and people with a disability feel they have been forgotten about. Many fear they will have to move out of their home because they cannot continue to live independently due to a lack of support. Many carers I have spoken to have told me they go into a client's home on their days off to assist them. That is scandalous. If not for the compassion shown by...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I raise the crisis in student accommodation. Just to let the Minister know what is happening, there were eight students in accommodation in Galway who, at the end of November, got an email stating they had to move out of the apartments they were in because of renovations. They moved out and they were moved into similar accommodation in two groups of four. Within two or three days, families...

Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I did not think I would be asked to speak. I offer my sympathies to Richard and to John's wife and family. I did not know John myself but from going around canvassing in north Meath I can say I am glad he has not been there these days because it has been a lot easier to get a vote. I offer my sympathies to Richard who I know and to John's wife and family. May he rest in peace.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Johnny Guirke: Many parents of children with autism have contacted me to say they have major concerns that their children will not have a school place this September due to the lack of available spaces in ASD classes right across counties Meath and Westmeath. One school I contacted has three ASD classes. It feels it has done its fair share in this regard, while other schools do not have a single ASD class...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Johnny Guirke: No, that-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (1 Feb 2024)

Johnny Guirke: A lot of kids are impacted across the community. It is not just one.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: I raise with the Taoiseach the lack of gardaí in rural areas right across my constituency of Meath West. We have ten Garda stations located in Navan, Trim, Athboy, Enfield, Ballivor, Longwood, Oldcastle, Summerhill, Castlepollard and Delvin. Of those, only two are manned on a full-time basis. In 2013, the Fine Gael Government closed 95 Garda stations in rural Ireland. Those that were...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: It is just over a 100 days into the slaughter of the Palestinian people by Israel with the most sophisticated weapons in the world on an area half the size of County Louth, bombed relentlessly from the land, sea and air, and this is called a war. Some 25,000 people are confirmed dead, of whom almost 11,000 are children, 7,500 are women and almost 10,000 are missing, presumed dead under the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Jan 2024)

Johnny Guirke: The situation at Tara Mines has reached a critical point. The mine has been suspended since July of last year and the prospects of reopening remain uncertain. The unions are not ruling out industrial action. The management released plans to the media without first consulting with the unions or the workers. SIPTU has accused the company of trying to rip up negotiated agreements under a new...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (22 Nov 2023)

Johnny Guirke: I wish to support Tara Mines workers and share my disappointment at the failure of the management of Boliden Tara Mines to release the plans for the reopening of the mines. We all know the management has plans; it needs to share them with the unions and workers. The management has not yet provided a date for the resumption of operations, leaving hundreds of workers and their families in a...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Johnny Guirke: Having spoken to several healthcare professionals, I know the recruitment freeze is having a hugely negative effect on them. It is cornering them into an environment where burnouts in staff have become a frequent occurrence and the thought of emigrating to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and other places is not given a second thought. Organisations such as the Muiríosa Foundation, which...