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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (31 Jan 2023)

Brendan Howlin: ...on much more responsibility for its own security. The Council has called on the Commission to present a proposal for a European defence investment programme. Where does that leave us? There is a feeling that a European defence structure is being created by stealth. In fact, it is not a matter of stealth for the many countries that advocate for and want such a structure. We seem to be...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Disability Services: Discussion (31 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...me if a child cannot communicate to a parent. I am a dad of three kids. One thing we all as parents work on assiduously is getting the child to communicate with us because we want to know how the child is feeling. If that service is denied to a parent, that is something we need to work on. Similarly, ophthalmology is another area coming up on my radar in a big way. The number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to that. My contribution is the wider education piece, the wider societal messaging and how we can balance that with a need for us to treat people like adults and be responsible. However, it feels like a war that we are losing. My direct question to Mandate is about how we can strengthen the workers’ rights within the Bill to ensure that anybody who takes on these licences for...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...Minister of State are present. We have seen, with the demonstration today and with the reaction from the public up and down this country to the proposed Gresham House deal, how strongly people feel about their woodlands, their ancient woodlands, which have been under pressure and under stress after centuries of mismanagement, and the woodlands that are yet to be. The previous Deputy...

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times and Hospital Admissions: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...situation at UHL at the moment and very little has been done to correct these anomalies. It is important to recognise that there is a staffing deficit in UHL. Many people working in the hospital feel they are being gaslit to some extent by the suggestion that the situation is not too bad. I need only refer to my home area, between Meath and Drogheda, to highlight the impact of...

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Annie Hoey: ..., I am not entirely sure whether any of the protests I have seen outside the houses of politicians or others would be considered peaceful. Perhaps the protestors would disagree but I certainly feel those protests move into a different space of intimidation. As we mentioned here before, there are very often people living in the house targeted in addition to the politician or other figure...

Inshore Fishing: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jan 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...been let down. I have met people from west Cork and south Kerry, where I have many connections, as well as west Clare and further up the west coast. We are seeing negative change and you would feel for them. The inshore fleet comprises around 91% of our fishing vessels, employing close to 3,000 people in rural communities. What gets to me when I talk to these groups, as I have over...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...drivers, have been calling for this for more than 20 years. I am delighted officials from SIPTU, namely, Mr. John Murphy, Mr. Paul Cullen and Mr. Stephen Millane, are present this evening because they feel passionately about getting the safety and security of drivers and, of course, passengers right. It cannot take a death or a life-changing injury before changes are made. I do not want...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Tax Collection (24 Jan 2023)

Gerald Nash: I believe that because of the arguably short-term thinking of the Government, once the €4 billion in once-off measures melted away in January, families started to feel the pinch. We know that the families who are most exposed to energy poverty are those on low incomes, lone parents, older people living alone and people who are living in rural areas. The final electricity credit will...

Forestry Sector: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...house from the UK could come in and acquire so much Irish land or have the potential to do so. It will walk away with the premia, let there no doubt about it. The foresters are the people I feel sorry for in all of this, because they will end up being price-takers even though we know they plant all of the forestry in this country at present. Once you start acquiring more land, you start...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...be policed. The health service has its point of view as to how it will be dealt with. Those are the main criticisms we as Oireachtas Members will get about our evaluation of this Bill. The Labour Party feels it is beyond time that this legislation was changed and upgraded. From a Dublin perspective, Dublin city centre is dying and needs to be revitalised. We must treat people as...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...has been a huge breach of trust and there is a collapse in trust in the communities there. All local and statutory bodies need to be out in the communities speaking with the residents because they feel they are being ignored and are being given the runaround. They feel that they are not being told the truth about what their lives are going to be like in the coming months and years ahead.

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Seán Sherlock: I welcome the motion, which we support. I also acknowledge the bona fides of the Ministers opposite in trying to fix a perennial problem. I read the Minister's speech carefully but feel that there is much more that can be done to increase capacity. The Minister refers to the investment in diagnostics and primary care in particular. It is all well and good to state that the HSE has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: How did Ms Gubbins feel when she saw that? I was at the vast majority of those public consultations. We were intimately familiar with the noise contours and they basically went east to west, with the waves either side, but they did not go that way. Would Ms Gubbins accept there is a huge breach of trust with the residents of those communities that will be very hard to repair because of...

Seanad: Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Members of Local Authorities) Bill 2022: Second and Subsequent Stages (15 Dec 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: I have a few questions that have been passed on to me by councillors around the country but I will first make a point about other women who do not get access to maternity leave because I sometimes feel this debate can be very focused on politicians. When I tell people I am going on maternity leave they say that, as a politician, I do not get access to maternity leave and support. The...

Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 Dec 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...to clear the debt they owe on public land they bought at the height of the Celtic tiger. One such local authority is Louth, in my constituency. It is important that the Minister has done that but I do not understand why he feels he needs to change Part 8 so fundamentally. It is a system that has worked very well over the years. I was a councillor for 12 years and it was a section of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...If we do not get people to stay we will not deal with the pressure in the system. The witnesses put forward proposals specifically regarding GP practice and how they would close the loop. Do they feel there is political will to support this? They have come before the committee and we are supportive but do they think there is a genuine will or interest to deal with this? This comes up...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (13 Dec 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...plan due to be brought before Cabinet next week after the Dáil has risen. I reiterate the concern I expressed earlier in the delay in the publication of this climate action plan. Indeed, it feels like Groundhog Day because the sectoral emissions ceiling earlier this year were not published until the Dáil had risen for the summer recess. There seems to be almost a strategy of...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...themselves but the common areas. The role of director of an OMC is a thankless job. Many apartment blocks have enormous challenges as it stands, particularly in dealing with construction and fire defects. They now feel left out in the cold, so to speak, because they have been excluded from this scheme, notwithstanding that they have significant energy bills to contend with. Why have...