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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Jun 2023)

Marie Sherlock: I express my solidarity with the workers of Iceland Foods, some of whom have had to stage a sit-in at the Talbot Street store. I was with them late last night. It is shameful that they feel they have to stage a sit-in in order to get the wages that are due to them. Some are owed more than €1,000. These are minimum-wage jobs. The staff are owed holiday pay. It is shameful that...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...be a safe family of friendly and fun events. It will be filled with colour, laughter and joy. For a huge amount of the community we are almost separated from those dark times when people did not feel safe to walk down the streets and when people could not stand up in their national Parliament and say they were out. Other members of the community are still facing harassment daily. They...

Youth Justice Strategy: Statements (21 Jun 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...all relevant statutory and community voluntary services together in an integrated response to the needs and challenges identified." Often when I come into this Chamber and receive a script from a Minister, it feels as though there is not an awful lot in it. However, I think there is something in that. I congratulate the Minister of State on that but I am interested in knowing exactly...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and school life? What we have now effectively turns the parents' association into a school fundraising entity. I keep making this point, but if one does not have the voluntary contribution, or if one feels that one is not in the same space as other people financially, one is less likely to go to the school gate. One is less likely to go to a parent-teacher meeting, and absolutely less...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2021 - Sport Ireland and Sport Ireland Facilities DAC (15 Jun 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...disconnect as regards their policy for how they want to develop these sports based on various different parameters. This may relate to women's access and kids' access etc., or different codes that feel they have not been supported enough. Sport Ireland, therefore, has to have an opinion. To be honest, if they do not have an opinion, it would be seriously worrying for me. I did not come...

Our Rural Future Policy: Statements (14 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...provide untold benefit to our communities in their usage. We want people to live in rural Ireland but there is an impediment if people who have lived there intergenerationally or who are new there feel there is a lack of access to the services which are more readily available in larger towns. These include GP services and out-of-hours services and this acts as a blockage to that inward...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: I am not going to speak for terribly long on this issue. As I believe this is, though, the last time we will address this matter, I feel I should speak on it. I am acutely aware that with every day that passes, time is slipping away from those who had their lives cruelly and irrevocably changed, and sometimes even destroyed, by this brutal regime that the State willingly supported. These...

Retained Fire Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (13 Jun 2023)

Seán Sherlock: ...Mallow have never gone out on strike and were very, dare I say it, anxious about doing that because they are not the type of people to strike. It is in desperation that they strike, because they feel their pay and conditions are so poor and that there is not enough of them to be able to cover the service they are duty-bound to provide. For the Minister to come in here and say there will...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...As I said, we saw a 14-year-old visibly queer student in Navan being attacked because of who they are. Following this assault BeLonG To made a statement that according to 2022 research 76% of LGBTQ+ students feel unsafe in our post-primary schools. This is not good enough. We have to prioritise the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth who are seriously at risk. The rise in anti-LGBTQ+...

Joint Committee On Health: Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion (13 Jun 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...think in particular of women who went through a long period of masking. I do not know what it is about women in their 30s where the mask suddenly comes off in every which way in their lives. It feels to me, from anyone I spoke to, that once that realisation has happened, there is no going back. Obviously we tell people to research who they are giving their money to and all of those...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (1 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...With morale low, the increase in demand and pressures on staff in the public health system, and the stubbornly high levels of vacancy, it is understandable how demoralised these staff continue to feel. Negotiations have been ongoing and there was a degree of positivity to those negotiations. These workers are not feeling it in terms of full laboratories, full complements of staff nor in...

Criminal Justice (Engagement of Children in Criminal Activity) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...grapple with. How have we got to this situation in this Republic where we have to enact legislation such as this? How have we come to a situation where certain young people or certain families feel so empowered to behave in this manner? How have we got to the situation where young people feel totally disenfranchised and dispirited by the mainstream economy they are asked to engage...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: General Scheme of the Plan of Action on Collective Redundancies following Insolvency Bill 2023: Discussion (31 May 2023)

Marie Sherlock: ...there relates to the obligation to inform creditors of their right to participate in a committee of inspection. I am not sure if that appears in this Bill. Specifically, trade unions would feel strongly that employees should have a right of participation in that committee of inspection given they make up the company. They do not have that position as a preferred creditor but I think we...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (25 May 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...relevant as a house to somebody with nowhere else to live. They were set on fire. Similarly, I have to say, with regard to the blockade that was set up in Inch in County Clare, how did gardaí not feel or see the need to remove it? We need to have a conversation about how these things are managed. I understand it is a difficult balancing act for the Garda so as not to raise...

Access to Autism and Disability Assessments and Supports: Motion [Private Members] (24 May 2023) See 2 other results from this debate

Brendan Howlin: ...by others. I hope this will be a cathartic day. From what the Minister of State has said, I hope it will be and that there is real hope for those families in desperate need who right now feel that they are crying in the wilderness and are left to deal with their unimaginable burdens alone while they are unanswered by the State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...scheme and so on. I am not saying whether that is or is not working - it is being rolled out and we are talking about 2023 so I am asking Mr. Gloster to cast further into 2024-2026. There is a feeling on the ground that there is a crisis in access to GPs both in urban and rural areas but with the crisis particularly acute in some rural areas. How do we ensure service provision and...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...because, for example, it is costing them other supports, and I could hazard a guess as to the people able to access it or be included in it. I was struck by what has been said in terms of people feeling that they even belong to that artistic community, and whether it is working or how it could work for the communities they represent. The whole idea is to create that floor below which...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...in healthcare services and having long waiting lists throughout our healthcare services. The pandemic bonus payment is not key to it but it is perhaps symbolic of those who are forgotten, left behind and feel totally under appreciated by the HSE, the Department of Health and this Government.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 May 2023)

Mark Wall: ...as well. Many victims of domestic abuse have told me that one of the biggest barriers to people naming their abuser was the brevity of the prison term their abuser might receive. This is why I feel the increase in the potential sentence for assault in domestic cases from five to ten years will be very welcome news for many of those victims and will encourage more victims to come forward....