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Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Sep 2024)

Mark Wall: ...then when they are struck by one gambling advertisement after another. Our television advertising schedules, particularly from that time, are absolutely destroyed with gambling advertisements. We in the Labour Party feel, and we have spoken to many people about this, that we need to ban gambling advertising once and for all, to give those with the addiction a break and to ensure that we...

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...health records do exactly that. We need to see this Government and that which will succeed it deliver on the digital health records. There is an opportunity here for our healthcare staff to feel like they are being listened to by Government, which is something they feel has been sorely missing for a number of years. The upside of digital health records being introduced to the Irish...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2024)

Mark Wall: ...it is very unfair and discriminatory that students can sit examinations in a wide range of EU languages but they cannot sit their exams in their first language, which is ISL. They go on to say that it feels like they are lesser than other people. They also said that they learned ISL before they learned English. They are seeking that ISL become part of the leaving certificate curriculum....

Healthcare Services in the Mid-West Region: Motion [Private Members] (24 Sep 2024)

Seán Sherlock: I am very happy to give the Deputy his time on the clock. However, I am a voluntary Chair and he is making assertions about a particular person. Because I am a voluntary Chair, I do not feel equipped, nor are any of my colleagues who chair voluntarily, equipped to be able to deal with the assertions he is making. On that basis, I am calling for the suspension of the House to allow for the...

Disability and Special Needs Provision: Motion [Private Members] (19 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...to autistic children. Pressure comes on from parents who understandably want to get their child into them. They provide a really good service. The secretaries, teachers and principals of the relevant schools feel the pressure and want to provide more classes but cannot. They are being held back from doing so. Within certain communities, there is inconsistency of provision. In my...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: It feels like an overdue relief that this Bill has finally made it to the floor of the Dáil. It is long overdue and it has been a long road to get here and rightfully there are concerns from all of us as to whether this legislation can be progressed in however long left there is left in the lifetime of this Government. To make it the first key legislation to be discussed after the...

CJEU Judgment in Apple State Aid Case: Statements (18 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...and rail, and invest in water infrastructure and electricity grid expansion and improvement, which the multinational corporations that are here want and which citizens want as well. We could make this rich country that feels so poor ready for a better and fairer future. The caution of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil on public investment, however, at a time of great wealth in this...

Deputies Elected as MEPs: Statements (11 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...' rights, common humanity and unity. We all come from somewhere, a family, a community. We are all raised by our own little village. As I pack away the boxes from my Leinster House office, I cannot help but feel a flood of emotion as the cards, letters and mementos of past battles, campaigns and friendships re-emerge from the shelves. Tomorrow is the first anniversary of the passing...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (10 Jul 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...In her reply will the Minister of State indicate whether our concern about Ursula von der Leyen's declaration at the outset of the Gaza war was expressed to her? Does she understand the depth of feeling? Was it simply a matter of being something we must do because it will give us the greatest edge in negotiations? I am interested to hear this. I welcome the appointment of António...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...because the Judiciary and legal system in Ireland are viewed to be so powerful, influential or untouchable that they cannot be reformed? If anybody ever steps inside a courtroom in this country, they feel like they just walked onto the movie set of a period drama from the 19th century. I think that is part of the issue here. I refer to the attitude of deference, the outdated language,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...along the canal. On one side, the water and on the other, this high fence along a narrow path with no gaps for quite long distances. Many constituents have expressed deep concern and disquiet to me about feeling trapped while walking along there. Our public spaces should be safe and accessible and it is simply not good enough to see them being fenced off in this way because the...

Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (3 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Duncan Smith: .... That is under review and needs to change. People have been in courtrooms wearing uniforms or blazers of elite schools or elite sports clubs. All of this has a chilling effect, makes the victim feel isolated and alone and strengthens the position of the accused. We need to change that. For a victim to go into a courtroom is, I can only imagine, one of the most challenging, difficult...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...of that in the Dáil and I know the Tánaiste expressed an interest in it as well. I do not intend to go back as far as to how that command and control structure came about. As has been said, we feel it is wrong that senior civil servants may have more operational powers than the Chief of Staff. That is something that needs to be addressed. Obviously, it is unique as well that...

Courts, Civil Law, Criminal Law and Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Gerald Nash: .... The primary legislation makes no explicit mention of a specific upper age limit and simply leaves the power to set the upper age limit of retirement at whatever the appropriate Minister feels it should be. It is not in any way clear that any Minister will be bound to consult those affected if and when future changes are made to mandatory retirement ages. In my view, this is a sleight...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Omudsman for Children Annual Report 2023: Ombudsman for Children (2 Jul 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...-based TD the office has been very helpful to me with the work we do, namely, our advocacy on the ground for the very families and children the witnesses are talking about here. I often feel the office of the Ombudsman for Children is an additional tool or resource we have as legislators, especially when we are advocating to State agencies or bodies. There are a couple of things...

Nomination of Member of Government: Motion (26 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...to be much more radical than his predecessors were prepared to be. Being a young Minister for Finance will not matter if he is as conservative as the rest. We live in a rich country that feels so poor and the new Minister will have a limited time to make a difference but he can. His big task is the delivery of budget 2025 if he gets to bring that budget to the House at all. The scale...

Pre-European Council: Statements (26 Jun 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...with Ukraine and Moldova. The Joint Committee on EU Affairs has visited some of the western Balkan countries and listened to all of their presentations here. There is real concern that some of the western Balkan countries feel aggrieved that they have been left behind. They have been waiting for 20 years, with some having met very high barriers and new barriers then being put up...

Primary School Funding: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...email of confirmation in respect of the funding, it was advised that the grant aid had been reduced by €200,000, to €380,000, with no explanation as to why. The school is extremely frustrated and feels defeated. It has housed six autistic children for three years in an upstairs library as an interim measure on the understanding that a new multisensory classroom, a...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (20 Jun 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...of this Bill. I want to put on the record that these are three of the leading AHR experts in this country. They obviously speak with many of the other experts in this country in that field. They feel they were not properly consulted on the medically complex aspects of this Bill. I understand that the Department of Health has its own set of clinicians to consult and the HSE has other...

Digital Services (Levy) Bill 2024: Second Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Gerald Nash: ..., as it might call it, but global consolidations have impacts on people's jobs and lives and on communities. More often than not when I am speaking to executives from firms such as PayPal, I feel as though I almost have to give them an introductory course on the statutory redundancy landscape in Ireland and their legal responsibilities, and remind them that when they enter into a...