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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the rate is 32% here and 51% in most European countries, we obviously have a huge amount of work to do, and the danger is more people with disabilities will fall out of mainstream society and not feel as empowered or as loved and cherished as they should feel.

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...that there will be inspections or interim measures while this Bill is going through the up-in-the-air diplomatic processes? The Labour Party and I have been clear that the violence must stop. It feels ridiculous to say that we need a ceasefire now. What does that even mean anymore? We need more than a ceasefire. We need sanctions. We need to ensure that Ireland is in no way complicit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Carer’s Allowance and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (29 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...matter. This morning the cliff edge was mentioned. Yesterday I spoke to a lady who told me about her carer's allowance being under review. This is an issue that crops up repeatedly. She said: "It feels so degrading to be targeted. I am burnt out and tired, and I am being questioned on the little bit of money I get every week, which is never enough to pay for all the bills and the...

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...in recognising the State of Palestine is an important one. It is symbolic but, in and of itself, it will not save a single Palestinian life. Only Israel can do that. We understand that Israel feels under siege. We understand, too, that for historical reasons, Israel has an understandable sensitivity to its place in the world. We know that Israel finds it hard to understand that when...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: -----that meets what he feels is required.

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...debate. I sincerely thank Deputy Shortall and her party for tabling this motion. Not only does it relate to a contemporary, urgent health crisis – one of many – but it is also one to which I feel attached, given my history of dental treatment through the State. From the age of six, I needed emergency dental treatment. In fact, my first-ever trip to the dentist...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Mark Wall: ...to do with the three unions that she has named, that have been involved in the Oireachtas committee process as well. The issue I want to concentrate on is illegal dumping, which I and others feel is a direct consequence of the multiple different companies and charges for waste collection in the country. The Minister of State will be familiar with the Labour Party's Local Government...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...public meetings. They ensured that 16 units initially, and a further four units later, would be used for families from various wartorn areas. These are fantastic people. They made asylum seekers feel welcome and I am proud to represent that town in light of how they dealt with the situation. There are 96 asylum seekers in Borrisokane now, including 20 families. The majority have...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...members under 35 or anyone who serves this House and its Members. Like any other workplace, people with decent enough jobs on decent enough wages are miles away from owning homes. They are angry; they feel they are doing everything right and are being let down. We in opposition and in the Labour Party have tangible ideas of how to tackle these issues. We want to see a State housing...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...back into the same laboratory to work side by side with public staff. The use of agency staff is highly problematic. It should only happen in an emergency. What we should never have is people feeling it is more financially beneficial to leave the public system and work as agency staff. I will bring this up again soon.

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Alan Kelly: ...water alone saves roads. That has been given up. It does not happen to the level required any more. We have changes in our weather patterns and we need more directly employed workers. I feel sorry every time I have to pick up the phone to ring the local engineers because they cannot perform miracles. It is impossible. They do not have the staff or the capacity to contract in the...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Mark Wall: ...of State an indication from the regulator at this stage of what way she is thinking? We have concerns that putting back in inducements and free bets will dilute this Bill and its effectiveness. We feel much of the good work on protecting the young and most vulnerable through this Bill will be undone by this amendment. Will the Minister of State comment on the concerns I have just...

Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it is vital that mainstream primary and post-primary schools, as well as other stakeholders, are made aware of this plan and that the value of schools, such as their own, are known and recognised. They feel extremely isolated at present. They feel the Department is dealing with them in an underhand and forceful way. Whatever plan the NCSE has, it must do it in collaboration with the...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...question. In my previous interaction with Professor Kilcommins, I found him to be a very valid and considered witness. We went through the conversations and got to a point where there was a feeling that meetings were manufactured to go around the process in order to get to a point where this transaction took place. Is there anybody here from the university who has a different view or...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...Ireland is now facing". We cannot sign up to that. Housing for All is clearly not equipped to deal with what are described euphemistically as our "housing challenges". The words "crisis", "disaster" and "chaos" feel far more appropriate, particularly to those we all meet every day in our communities for whom housing is the single biggest crisis. Of course, the Minister is entitled to...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...if enacted. All of us know about the cost of assessments of need. I do not mean the financial cost, although it too is of concern, but the cost to individuals and their families who are waiting with what feels like no end in sight. My colleague, Senator Wall, outlined the impact of not having an assessment of need, having an assessment of need and the back and forth that we know people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: 20th Anniversary of the 2004 EU Enlargement: Mr. Bertie Ahern (8 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...of the very significant enlargement of the EU over which Mr. Ahern presided that Polish carpenters or plumbers would arrive in their droves. I wish to God they had because we could do with a few more. I feel existing member states have not done enough to properly integrate people who have a right to move within the EU. You notice it even when out canvassing. People do not know what...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...the place, we need to find a licensing structure that covers people and that is available for medical appointments, social appointments, for mass, or for anything. We just need something. My feeling is local communities should be given a licence which is run off a hub of one, two or three businesses or community groups and which has a small fee with a grant. For the amount of money it...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...society and we need to develop a national plan to tackle it. Research published last summer showed that Ireland had the highest rate of loneliness across the whole of Europe, where 20% of people feel lonely most of the time compared with an average of 13% across Europe. It is very hard to think that one in five of us feel lonely all of the time. That is a very dismal figure. The US...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...this evening: these are the objective facts. It is no wonder that the term "official neglect" is one the people of my proud small city are now using when they speak of this Government. The people of Drogheda feel like they are being trolled or gaslighted by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. I do not say that lightly. I have given the Minister of State the evidence, and here is more....