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Confidence in the Minister for Justice: Motion (5 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...more prison spaces. On drug reform she has shown no appetite to grab the historic opportunity offered by the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. Some 6,400 people have been charged with possession for personal use this year alone. This is a complete waste of Garda time but the Minister has shown no vision for change. Disgracefully, she has made no effort to open the medically...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education and Supports Provision for Displaced Ukrainian Students: Discussion (14 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...that they can then, with very little notice, be moved from point A to point B, with point B being in a very rural setting. I do not know if the witnesses wish to comment on how that is being managed and communicated to the education system. On a second issue, children with special educational needs may be more integrated or knitted into a school setting because their needs are being...

Young People and Access to Further and Higher Education: Motion [Private Members] (11 Mar 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of the decision a principal makes, he or she will have conflict with staff colleagues, potentially with the parent body, definitely with the Department of Education and possibly with the board of management and others, but if a child is at the centre of every decision that is made, nobody will ever question the principal's integrity and, therefore, make sure that a child or children are at...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... There is a large amount of public land, and a properly constituted LDA could help the State to utilise that land to provide an increased supply of public housing and create a mechanism for proactive management of the State’s land to help to solve the housing crisis and deliver more social and affordable housing. The next question is whether this Bill gives us an LDA which...

Seanad: Economic Growth: Motion (28 Sep 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...resolve the dispute. In the motion, we are calling for what the Minister should have been working on for the past four months. It took him more than four months just to sit down with Dublin Bus management, despite the fact that the strike was known to be coming down the tracks. The Minister is a fast learner but, possibly a little like Donald Trump, he is learning that mouthing off is...

Water Services (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Jun 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to the delivery of water services on a national basis; achieving economies of scale in service delivery and more efficient procurement of materials and services; reducing unacceptable levels of waste from the drinking water distribution system with an estimated 40% of treated drinking water being unaccounted for prior to the establishment of Irish Water; and reducing the overall costs of...

Topical Issue Debate: Air Ambulance Service Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I appreciate the Minister of State's reply but I am sure he will agree that if I had been provided with it in response to a parliamentary question, I would not be in the House now wasting everybody's time. This is a reasonably detailed reply. It indicates that the helipad has been used on 17 occasions in the past year, although it was supposed to have been used only six times. However,...

Mahon Tribunal Report: Statements (Resumed) (28 Mar 2012)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...corruption or allegations of bribery ever matter to Fianna Fáil because to its members the party is everything and politics is just a game. It is not good enough to act like an infantile football manager, claiming one did not see the incident, blaming the referee and retreating to the dressing room, telling the team they must win at all costs. This is not a game - it is national...