Results 1-20 of 88 for going forward speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...not arrived at by co-design. There was a feeling that the priorities of people with disabilities were not built into the process from the outset. The impression was that the Department brought forward a proposal and then sought to consult on that basis. This was one of the big concerns raised with us. I notice some engagement between the Minister and her officials. There may be issues...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on State Pension and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (10 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...social welfare system has the broad consent and acceptance of the population. A broad mass of people should feel some sense of ownership of the system and it should not be at risk. Many very good points have been made, including the three alternatives to means testing, which Age Action Ireland has put forward, namely, universalism, credited social insurance and targeting payments. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Energy Poverty: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...game. However, there is no point installing heat pumps in a house that is single leaf block on edge, and has old, single-glazed windows, bad doors, no roof insulation, etc. Everything must move forward in unison and it sort of moves a little bit slowly. It is coherent and makes sense that we get the biggest bang for our buck for heat pumps in houses that have a good standard of energy...

Business Costs for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Motion [Private Members] (14 Feb 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Regional Group for bringing forward this motion. It is timely and we support the principles within it, although our approach to resolving these issues may be somewhat different. For more than a year, Sinn Féin and, in particular, Deputy O'Reilly have been highlighting the crisis facing SMEs, particularly in the hospitality and retail sectors. In the city of Cork, we have...

Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (31 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...". That is basically to say that people who arrive after the commencement of the legislation would be on the different rate of payment. Amendment No. 2 relates to designated centres. It is our view that if we are going to bring legislation, provisions and the situation that exists more into line with other jurisdictions, an anomalous situation would be created if there were a different...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (24 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That was going to be my question about Part 3. It is worth saying this Bill is now effectively two Bills in one. I am in favour of both but if I brought forward amendments like this to the Bill they would be ruled out of order three times from Sunday. That being said, I do not necessarily disagree with it. That is the answer to the question I was going to ask. Part 3 is related to a...

Social Welfare (Liable Relatives and Child Maintenance) Bill 2023: Second Stage (18 Jan 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to think her work has helped to push the Department and Minister to move on the issue. I am sure the Minister was sympathetic in any event, but I think the emphasis that has been placed on the matter has been very welcome. Away from the glare of the media, this place sometimes works okay. Sometimes the Opposition and Government can find agreement and co-operate. I acknowledge that as...

Increased Fossil Fuel Divestment: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...ú trácht a dhéanamh ar cé chomh tromchúiseach atá an t-ábhar seo. Muna bhfuil athrú suntasach ó thaobh fuinnimh agus úsáid breoslaí ar nós gáis, ola agus peitril, níl aon dabht ach go mbeidh an-tionchar aige sin ar an domhan agus ar Éirinn. Tá go leor plé faoi theifigh agus gach rud a mbaineann leo...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...weeks I will give three examples of people who are facing notices to quit. A man in his mid-60s is currently overholding. He only recently qualified for social housing. He is overholding by a good bit but is being allowed to convalesce from a hip replacement over the Christmas period. He will be out by January and he will most certainly end up in emergency accommodation. A nurse in...

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (23 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Tá sé fíorthábhachtach go mbeadh córas láidir leasa shóisialta ann chun a chinntiú go mbíonn cosaint ag daoine ó bhochtanas agus ó ghanntanas agus go mbeadh cabhair acu chun dul ar ais ag obair nó chun leanaí a thógáil agus le gach rud a théann leis sin. Tá sé fíorthábhachtach freisin go...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (4 Oct 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...being provided grants to source the therapies that are needed locally through the private sector. Can such an approach be considered for Carrigaline Community Special School? It has been on the go for two years now and it has not received anything. Second, there is the issue of having a nurse on site, which is not currently the case. Obviously, that presents challenges with catheters...

Local Government (Mayor of Limerick) Bill 2023: Second Stage (20 Sep 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...; and the other on power. On detail, the margin in the plebiscite in Cork was narrow. We supported the campaign in favour of it and we were active in that but it was narrow. I believe that the Government wanted it to go through, but if it had not wanted it to go through, then this would have been exactly the way to succeed in not letting it through. The only thing people in Cork knew...

Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (5 Jul 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...that they ought to have are still not in place. I support this legislation and I commend the work of my colleague, Senator Gavan, in particular, who worked hard to put this in place and brought forward the legislation in the Seanad. This legislation is about striking the balance between free assembly and the rights of women and their partners attending maternity appointments and services...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: General Scheme of the Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2023: Department of Social Protection (5 Jul 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...registrars are employees of the HSE and the offices are run by the HSE, but the register is run by the Department. Is that correct? Is that a bit complicated and cumbersome? Is it desirable, going forward, to have this division of labour? How does it work in practice? The other question I have is about head 13. What is a technical amendment can be a matter of debate. Could we get...

Local Government and Residential Tenancies (Amendment) (Carrigaline Rent Pressure Zone) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Jun 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ..., Deputy Darragh O'Brien, and the Minister, Deputy Coveney, in whose constituency Carrigaline is located, although he did not have the housing portfolio at the time. When I raised this anomaly and asked what was going on, I was reassured time and again that if the rent increases are adequate, the legislation allows for the town to be captured and it will be brought into the rent pressure...

Education Costs: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (20 Jun 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I commend Deputy Clarke and Deputy Mairéad Farrell on bringing this motion forward. The summer months are meant to be a positive time for parents. They are meant to be a time to spend with their family and children and where good memories are made. Unfortunately, for a lot of parents the summer months are a very stressful and worrying time because they are looking to September and are...

Home Ownership: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...things are getting better. I am not around here a million years, but I am here seven years and in that seven years, things have got worse. House prices and rent have gone up and homelessness is going up. By every metric, the situation continues to get worse. The Minister of State's party has been in government for all this time. Even in terms of what they bring forward now, the...

Government Commitments on Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (Resumed) (24 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...of these kinds of roles that are needed to develop offshore wind energy. If, therefore, wind farms in other European countries, for example, are moving ahead of us in their development pipeline, they are going to look to hire engineers and turbine technicians from Ireland to work on their wind farms. We need seriously to ramp up our skills pipeline both in the technological universities...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Safe Deposit Boxes and Related Deposits Bill 2022: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom tréaslú leis an Teachta Ó Cuív. Is reachtaíocht fhíor shuimiúil í seo agus is dóigh liom go bhfuil an ceart aige go bhféadfaí 20 bosca a oscailt gan faic a bheith iontu ach d’fhéadfaí dhá nó trí bhosca a oscailt agus luach dochreidte a bheith iontu ó thaobh staire agus oidhreachta de....