Results 841-860 of 1,098,509 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Damien English OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Johnny Mythen OR speaker:Matt Shanahan OR speaker:Hildegarde Naughton OR speaker:Pat Buckley OR speaker:Roderic O'Gorman OR speaker:Aindrias Moynihan OR speaker:Christopher O'Sullivan OR speaker:Joan Collins OR speaker:John McGuinness OR speaker:Mary Lou McDonald OR speaker:Seán Haughey OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Fergus O'Dowd OR speaker:Jennifer Whitmore OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Richard Boyd Barrett OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Ciarán Cannon OR speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Pa Daly) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Simon Harris: So I hear.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Young people and students working within the healthcare system are going to watch very carefully to see what we have to say and whether we are prepared to put our money where our mouths are. On this side of the House we certainly are. I will send on details of the individual case to the Minister. I hope the Taoiseach takes the point, which is made in good faith, that it is in all of our...
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Chuaigh an Ceann Comhairle i gceannas ar 2 p.m.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Prayer and Reflection.
- Prelude (22 Oct 2024)
Paidir agus Machnamh.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Now we will take Leaders' Questions under Standing Order 36. I call Deputy McDonald.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: I would first like to address information which I placed on the Dáil record last week relating to an incident where a Sinn Féin representative sent inappropriate text messages to a young person. It was then my understanding that the young person was 17 years of age because of the information provided on his application form when he applied to join Ógra Shinn Féin. That...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Thank you, Deputy.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2024)
Mary Lou McDonald: Our student nurses and midwives are incredible. They do invaluable nursing work while on placement on wards and, in fact, they keep our hospitals going. They do a minimum of 28 hours a week and they work far beyond their training duties. The McHugh review of 2022 addressed pay for intern nurses. However, the new subsistence allowance for first-to-third-year student nurses does not go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I thank the Minister. I acknowledge his position in the COP and commend him on it. It is a really important platform and it is great to see Ireland represented so well on that international stage. When we talk about the COP, human rights issues relating to the host country often come up. This year, Azerbaijan is the host. Last year, it was the UAE. Today, I will raise human rights...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I think it represents 6% of all emissions. It is larger than aviation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: I welcome the Minister. What is his assessment of how changes in the geopolitical landscape, to put it at its most euphemistic, the output of war, the increasing tensions, the increasing sense of retaliatory measures between different states which we look to to co-operate in the context of reducing emissions, have put a dampener on progress that can be made at COP29? Are these countries...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: I was struck by the statistic the Minister provided that, of the 473 GW of renewable energy put in place, only 2.7 GW is in Africa. Has the Minister been able to probe what is going on there? I recently met the Moroccan ambassador to Ireland and he identified great opportunity in this area, to which he is very committed. What are the barriers? Are they funding barriers or are they more...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Richard Bruton: The structural question is whether all these microeconomic matters are addressed at the UN or if it is solely the macroeconomic thing of how much money is in the pot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Engagement with Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications on COP29 (22 Oct 2024)
Jennifer Whitmore: I am glad to hear that the Minister will be raising it and trying to push it through with the European element of it. Was it a gap in the Paris Agreement that military emissions were not accounted for, considering the huge amount of emissions derived from military activities and in particular from countries such as the US and Israel?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: Let us take the OPW's estimate of €70 million, bearing in mind how inaccurate some estimates have proven to be within the OPW recently in developing much smaller developments. Does it not cause Mr. Conlon a great degree of concern that the OPW is proposing to spend €70 million, at a minimum, on a national children's science centre in the middle of Dublin, a very busy city,...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: It is not a question of it feeling threatened. I am suggesting it should become the national children's science centre, bearing in mind it is already there and is visited by up to 250,000 children every year. With an investment of a fraction of the €70 million of taxpayers' money we are proposing to spend, which I still think is a very conservative estimate, it could and should...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Ciarán Cannon: The potential of other facilities.