Results 41-60 of 66 for speaker:Dee Ryan

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I thank the Minister. That is a really welcome response. We look forward to welcoming him to Limerick next week and for many engagements. Perhaps we will hear more directly from Chief Superintendent Smart on this topic. If we were to have these gardaí released back to Henry Street Garda Station, it would be a much-welcomed addition to our forces in Limerick. I look forward to...

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, is very welcome. He has five minutes.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire Stáit. We will now go to group spokespersons. Senator Duffy is sharing time with Senators Scahill, Nelson Murray and Lynch. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome Teachta Alan Dillon's guests from Breaffy Wanderers today. You are very welcome, ladies. You have joined us as we listen to statements on driving test waiting times. The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, has just made an opening address to the Chamber and now Senators are responding and making points on the issue. I will now move on to the Independent Group.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Anois Seanadóirí Collins agus Tully.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Comhghairdeas, a Chathaoirligh. I am a visitor to your committee but I wanted to wish you well in your role and the committee members well in the very important work they will do over the next four years. I am a member of the Shannon Estuary economic task force, which was constituted under the last Government and produced a report on economic potential within the Shannon Estuary region....

Seanad: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Statements (15 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for giving us his time today to discuss this important issue. First, as a Limerick person I acknowledge and thank her for the support she has given the Limerick community access support team. It is a pilot initiative that she and the then Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy Browne, came to Limerick to launch last October. It went live in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bus Services (13 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister of State is very welcome. It is great to have him here again. I am particularly delighted to get the opportunity to address through this Commencement matter an issue I am particularly passionate about. It is a matter I have been working on for a number of years, that is, the broader matter of the improved public transport and active travel facilities for the citizens of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bus Services (13 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The group is very welcome. We have a vibrant Probus group in Limerick. I hope to have them to the Oireachtas at some stage. I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate its thoroughness. As I said, we are very excited in Limerick about the ambition of the overall Limerick Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy, which had great engagement from people right across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I rise today for the first time to represent the Fianna Fáil Party as leader on the Order of Business. It is absolutely fitting that I would raise as my first issue the biggest issue for us in the mid-west, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach will be aware, which is the issue of the University Hospital Limerick, UHL, overcrowding at the accident and emergency department, and the consequent...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister is very welcome to the Chamber. I thank him for that comprehensive overview of what is proposed. From our internal party discussions and the utterances of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Chambers, and indeed the Taoiseach, I note we are very focused in government on improving agility within the business community here and competitiveness in...

Seanad: Higher Education: Motion (7 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I propose to share time with Senator Curley.

Seanad: Higher Education: Motion (7 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome the Minister and thank him for joining us in the Chamber and giving us his time to discuss this important topic. I thank our colleagues in Fine Gael for bringing forward this motion and giving us the space to share our concerns, ambitions and desires for this important sector that the Minister has taken charge of. I wish him well with his work. It is important not just to the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Apr 2025)

Dee Ryan: I rise to highlight an event coming up in Limerick next week which is of tremendous community pride, which I believe should be brought to the attention of the relevant Minister, perhaps the Minister for local government, and which could be replicated throughout the country. I refer, of course, to Team Limerick Clean-up. This is a one-day clean-up that is in its tenth year. Last year,...

Seanad: International Trade and International Relations: Statements (Resumed) (3 Apr 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome the Minister of State. I would like to reflect comments already made about the reassuring, calm approach that the Tánaiste has taken this morning. That has been echoed in all the Ministers' comments which I have heard on the media this morning and in President Ursula von der Leyen's comments too. The cool heads which are approaching this trade issue and potential trade war...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (2 Apr 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister is welcome. I thank him for his time in the Chamber to discuss this critical issue. I also thank him for the time he gave last week in Limerick during his visit with the Taoiseach. The extensive, in-depth and candid interview he gave to our local radio station, Live 95 FM, was excellent and is available as a podcast. I also thank him for the time he spent with local...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Mar 2025)

Dee Ryan: I raise the issue of the recent disruption at Heathrow Airport and the impact it had on air travel in the UK and right across Europe. The prospect of similar disruption at Dublin Airport, and the oversized disruption that would, God forbid, cause in Ireland, should set alarm bells ringing for the Irish aviation authorities. While Heathrow is the busiest airport in the UK, with 79.2 million...