As a member of the Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, I participated in the Roundtable Discussion on the Future Funding of Higher Education. The full transcript of the Committee debate will be posted here.
Transcript: I acknowledge the contribution of Deputy Gino Kenny. He has a strong record of campaigning in this regard, which deserves to be acknowledged. There are elements in this Government who will push this forward. It matters to us too. I respect his record on this issue in particular. This matters to the Green Party.…
Transcript of Dáil Contribution on a 12th Wellbeing Indicator for Language and Culture: I have a question regarding the well-being framework that is under development at the moment. We are quite closely shadowing the OECD framework, Better Life, which is welcome in many respects. It is a good model to follow. However, one of the…
Like other colleagues in the House, I welcome this draft legislation, which fulfils a number of commitments from the programme for Government. There have been a number of references to the 1971 Act. We will all agree it is long overdue and in need of an overhaul. It demonstrates the value of having a senior…
Bhí Comhchoiste na Gaeilge, na Gaeltachta agus Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge ag plé cúrsaí tithíochta sa Ghaeltacht leis an Aire Tithíochta, Oidhreachta agus Rialtais Áitiúil ag cruinniú an Chomhchoiste, Dé Céadaoin, an 26 Eanáir 2022. Thug an tAire Tithíochta, Darragh O’Brien, cuairt an-fháilte ar an gCoiste Gaeilge an tseachtain seo le plé a dhéanamh ar…
It is important and timely to have this debate on youth mental health, particularly as we emerge from the Covid pandemic. It is a tough time to be a young person. I made what I hope are the majority of my mistakes at a time before social media and before digital cameras were ubiquitous. How difficult it must…
I spoke in the Dáil in December on the subject of the sub-standard wastewater situation in Bonmahon. I raised the issue first with the Tánaiste and subsequently with my Green Party colleague, Malcolm Noonan, T.D. and invited him to visit Bonmahon with me to meet the local campaigners and see the issue on the ground.…
I join other Deputies in extending my best Christmas wishes to people. Across society, we are exhausted. We have learned more about the Greek alphabet than any of us cared to learn and the sooner we forget it the better. People in the healthcare system are exhausted, as are those in the education system. I will stick…
I spoke in the Dáil with regard to the Town Centre First approach. The town centre first approach is writ large across the programme for Government. It has since been put at the heart of the Our Rural Future document and Housing for All. Our towns and villages offer a serious quality of life proposition,…
I am grateful to have the opportunity to speak on this second substantive interim report of the Farrelly commission of investigation. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, as well for her opening statement. These reports make for extremely difficult reading. They are long, detailed and harrowing in the extreme. Amid all this information,…
