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Report of the Joint Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Motion (2 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...coasts. Next month it will be 20 years since our only offshore wind farm was commissioned. It is off the Arklow Bank. We have had no offshore farms since. We have had plenty onshore and that is good, but from listening to people today, a huge amount of work has been done by government in the recent past, especially this Government and the previous one. There has been a huge amount of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Prison Service (2 May 2024)

Patrick Costello: ...be a much better choice than the significant capital expenditure of simply creating more prison spaces, where we are creating the same poor environment that is producing poor outcomes. If we are going to invest in additional prison spaces, we need to look at what is happening across Europe where the RESCALED campaign, to produce smaller prisons with lower numbers in order that services...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (2 May 2024)

Dara Calleary: Go raibh maith agat. Gabhaim buíochas arís le gach Teachta as scéal Scoil Eoin a ardú inniu. On behalf of the Minister for Education, Deputy Foley, I will outline how the Department and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, continue to support children with special educational needs around the country and I will deal especially with the issues raised. It...

Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Dara Calleary: ...a critical need to ensure a statutory mechanism is in place at that stage to address the issue of associate membership. Furthermore, the establishment of the external oversight body on a statutory basis is a priority for the Government. The early enactment of the Bill will allow the Tánaiste to progress this matter. There has been commentary that there was insufficient...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Flood Risk Management (2 May 2024)

David Stanton: ...completed? Unfortunately, the tide and sea and flooding do not wait for studies to be completed. The erosion and risk of flooding to the houses there has increased recently. We have the study to go forward. What happens next? Do we need planning of some sort to do works? I am very concerned about this particular area and the houses that are at risk from flooding in that spot. The...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Cancer Services (2 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...cancer control programme hereditary model of care was published last August. I recognise that Deputy Staunton has been advocating on this issue for some time. That is a very important step forward. The national cancer strategy was launched in 2017. It has taken time to get to the hereditary model of care but it has now been published. It is a plan for the further development of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mary Fitzpatrick: ...been talked about for a long time. It has secured planning permission. There is a great design in place. The project is shovel ready. The council should move ahead and make an application and I urge the Government to support that application. I give a big shout-out to Francesca Arkins and the Arkins Dance Academy in the north inner city, which has been teaching young girls and boys...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Ms Anne Graham: -----it is not going to meet the demand. Any ideas that come forward to us-----

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Thomas Gould: ...this came up at the justice committee, there was never a reference to charities or sporting organisations. I asked the Minister of State a question earlier regarding the amendments he is bringing forward in the Seanad. For all the groups I mentioned that were getting €20,000, €30,000 or 40,000, will that amendment cover all of them with regard to advertising so that they...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Catherine Connolly: ...all ten have been completely ignored. The Minister of State made a speech in which he spoke about the importance of listening to survivors, which we should all do, but acting on what we heard has gone by the board. I have taken a particular interest in this topic for many reasons, both professional and personal, since the day I was elected. I am not given to despair, but it is...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I raise with the Taoiseach the need to regulate management companies effectively. There is a commitment in the programme for Government to conduct a review of the Multi-Unit Developments Act, and almost four years later this has not been acted on. There have been serious questions about the financial management of a minority of management companies over recent years, with allegations in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024)

Richard O'Donoghue: ...Taoiseach is saying is that Jessica Sheedy will not have died in vain and that somebody else's life will be saved. However, that was 2018. Now, we are talking about Aoife Johnston. Where are we going? There has to be accountability within the hospital system. The other thing the Government has to look at is how much has been spent on legal fees fighting these cases and more over stuff...

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Mattie McGrath: ...buíochas le Brian Ó Domhnaill and Triona in my office and my colleagues for putting down this motion. On behalf of the Rural Independent Group, I make no apologies to anyone for putting this motion forward. The Minister mentioned that a number of debates have been held. I think three of them were forced by us, after months of begging. We have used our Private Members' time...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Flood Relief Schemes (1 May 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...community to discuss this matter. Ring is a beautiful part of the world. It is a few miles outside of Clonakilty. On that night, it was described as the Italian Riviera of west Cork. It is a gorgeous part of the world. My grandfather hails from it. When the main drainage and flood defence works were carried out around Clon and Clonakilty Bay, the village of Ring was not included....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Lisa Chambers: ...the older generation, still rely very much on cash.The Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael McGrath, announced the general scheme of the access to cash Bill in January and I understand it is undergoing pre-legislative scrutiny. We hope to get that law on the Statute Book soon. It will provide that businesses will have to accept cash as legal tender and that pillar banks will have to...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Stephen Donnelly: ...give the news to a patient that her baby has no heartbeat. As I comfort her, I am aware that these men are outside the window and that she will see them. Can I ask you to please urgently bring forward laws to implement the exclusion zones? That is what we are doing here. We are not seeking to stop people protesting outside the Oireachtas. We are not seeking to stop people marching....

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Róisín Garvey: ...,300 older people reported feeling lonely in 2023. I was on to ALONE about it and they were very happy about this commission. Actually, many NGOs got on to us, thanking us for bringing this request for a commission forward and asking us to support the motion – some of them did not know we were the ones tabling the motion. It is amazing to get positive emails. We got many...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Heritage Sites (1 May 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: ...of the portals above the collapsed chamber. It is the second-largest dolmen in Ireland. Only Brownshill Dolmen, County Carlow, is larger. Since ownership changed in 2019, there have been ongoing concerns about access to Howth estate and Aideen's Grave arising from the erection of a significant amount of fencing and the denial of access to the dolmen to an estimated 14,000 people who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse Welfare Concerns and Compliance with Legislation: County and City Management Association (1 May 2024)

...it would be consistent throughout the State. The next issue is that local authority vets should have more discretion when they find a distressed horse, with a view to having it rehomed. At the moment, we have to go through processes and observe time limits, and the horse might get worse before we get control of it. We also believe that where a horse has been detained on multiple...