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Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...the place, we need to find a licensing structure that covers people and that is available for medical appointments, social appointments, for mass, or for anything. We just need something. My feeling is local communities should be given a licence which is run off a hub of one, two or three businesses or community groups and which has a small fee with a grant. For the amount of money it...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...society and we need to develop a national plan to tackle it. Research published last summer showed that Ireland had the highest rate of loneliness across the whole of Europe, where 20% of people feel lonely most of the time compared with an average of 13% across Europe. It is very hard to think that one in five of us feel lonely all of the time. That is a very dismal figure. The US...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...this evening: these are the objective facts. It is no wonder that the term "official neglect" is one the people of my proud small city are now using when they speak of this Government. The people of Drogheda feel like they are being trolled or gaslighted by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. I do not say that lightly. I have given the Minister of State the evidence, and here is more....

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...falls far short of what survivors want and even further short of what pre-legislative scrutiny by the committee on education asked for. Unfortunately, survivors are left in the position where they feel ignored and their voices unheard. In an article yesterday's Irish Examiner, campaigners outlined their difficulties with the Bill: Campaigners say a Bill that is due to be progressed in...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Apr 2024)

Mark Wall: ...those councillors who are no longer there. Councillor Tuffy is right that some people just do not want to run any more, but it is also important to speak to them. The time has come to get their feelings about what they offered and what they look forward to. I again thank everybody. Full-time councillors and the forum are issues, as is the planning Bill. We all look forward to that...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...this space. I do not think anybody would suggest now that we should have listened more to people who said that curtailing smoking advertising was a bad move or to those who suggest the same about alcohol advertising. I feel the same way about gambling advertising because it is absolutely everywhere. I am a sports fan but I understand that for half of young people, or possibly more, the...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...to gain some sort of an insight as to what the social platforms themselves understand as to the impacts.In one study of teens in the US and UK, Facebook found that more than 40% of Instagram users reported feeling unattractive and said that feeling began on the app. An internal Meta study in 2020 showed that 500,000 Instagram accounts a day were involved in inappropriate interactions with...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: .... As some were bogusly self-employed and wronged by RTÉ, it is important to acknowledge their presence. My questions relate to the cuts hanging over staff in the first instance. Ms O'Kelly said she feels staff are being held to ransom in RTÉ because of the proposed cuts. What is her working relationship with the director general in terms of communication? A question has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting Driver Testers: Fórsa (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...front-page news at various times and have had impacts on the lives of people. Can Mr. Creaney comment on the current situation compared with when Fórsa first asked to present to this committee? Does he feel progress been made? Does Fórsa need the committee to do more?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...because he did not speak English. We have had 23 arson attacks on accommodation centres over the last number of years. Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their families know what it is like to feel afraid that they will be assaulted for who they are. We are behind every other European country when it comes to legislation in this regard. I am aghast at Government backbenchers who,...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., William, Julie, Teresa, Gerard, Caroline, Donna, Helena, James, Susan, David, Kathleen, George, Brendan, John, Margaret and Paul, all of whose faces rightly hung up on the wall of the Rotunda inquest hall. An injustice on this scale can fester and make you feel that you can never trust the State again but earlier I saw a rose in the Gallery. From this darkness, maybe something can...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Air Quality (23 Apr 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...that those conditions are exacerbated. We also see a growing body of research that suggests that poor air quality has an impact on cognitive and mental health. While we may not be able to see or feel poor air quality, it has a very real impact on our communities, particularly those in which I am based which are very close to the city centre. These communities are effectively highways to...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...convention a recourse outside of this country. What concerns me and many activists on this issue is the idea that the reason we have not seen fit to ratify the protocol is because the Government does not feel the care the State provides would meet the rights of persons with disabilities. If anything, this is the reason we need to see positive action on this. It is the State's job to...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...is discrimination, stereotyping and an exclusion of trans people from policy development. The message comes across from all the trans organisations that I have met with and work with which say they do not feel they are at the table in any meaningful way on the decisions that have been made about trans people. There is no path for any young trans person to access gender-affirming medical...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...Chair at the start of the meeting, this body of work should serve as a tipping point in terms of real action on this. We talk about the transport police in the airport being a template perhaps. I feel much safer in an airport for several reasons. There are barriers to entry into airports, they are usually outside cities and it is necessary to pay to get parking, transport or to get on a...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...has acknowledged, has been significant. The Government will also say that cancer survival rates are steadily increasing but Ireland still ranks 13th out of the EU-27 in terms of survival. I certainly do not feel, and I do not think the Minister of State or anyone in this House feels, that we should be settling for a mid-table ranking for cancer survival. The significant advancement in...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: .... The current 0.5% fee seems excessive to me and will be perceived as such. Trust between the public and financial institutions has been damaged and if this scheme is to be successful, people cannot feel that they are being fleeced by pension providers and investment funds from the get-go. There are other elements that we have a particular view on but we make back to them on Committee...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Alpha may be the first to have worse outcomes than their parents since the foundation of the State. A National Youth Council survey shows that a third of respondents under 30 rarely or never feel optimistic about their future, citing the housing crisis and mental ill-health as reasons for this. I will continue to raise the housing crisis in this House - we know the serious impact it...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...fertiliser prices rose as a result of the outbreak of war in Ukraine. We still have some of the residual impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. There is no doubt that on a political and cultural level, farmers feel under attack as a result of some policies that favour cheap imported food over home production and from a society that underpays and undervalues them. We have already heard...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...people in various communities who are very taken with the glamour of the life of crime. It is very lucrative. People do not need many qualifications to enter into the parallel economy. If they feel they are not empowered or respected by gardaí, teachers, politicians or social workers and somebody gives them some power or empowerment, it is very easy for them to find themselves in...