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Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach. Ar dtús báire, ba mhaith liom mo leithscéal a ghabháil leis an Aire Stáit agus leis na moltóirí as tús na díospóireachta a chailliúint. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I apologise to the proposers and the Minister of State for missing the first part of this debate but welcome...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Get it done.

Seanad: Emergency Department Waiting Times and Hospital Admissions: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an Aire. I apologise at the outset for missing the Minister's contribution, but I was following it in the office. I hope he does not mind me beginning on a slightly different subject, and then I will return to the substantive point we are discussing here today. Yesterday in the Seanad I raised the case of young Dáithi MacGabhann from Belfast....

Seanad: Protection of Private Residences (Against Targeted Picketing) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Jan 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Minister of State is welcome. I also welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate. I will not rehearse all the points because there is pretty much universal agreement on the salient point and the intention of the legislation. I commend Senator Malcolm Byrne and his Fianna Fáil colleagues for introducing it. The first point I want to make, which is probably the most important...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis an gCeannaire chomh maith. There are a couple of issues I wish to get through today and the first is that in the past week, we saw another day of quite severe disruption on the Belfast to Dublin rail line. There was a day of miscommunication and delays. We know of the economic and societal importance of that connection between the two...

Seanad: Family Courts Bill 2023: Second Stage (2 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Is Bille thar a bheith tábhachtach é seo agus, mar atá ráite ag comhghleacaithe eile, ceann a bhfuil ag déileáil le cásanna nuair atá daoine faoin a lán struis agus a lán brú. Cibé rud gur féidir linn a dhéanamh a laghdaíonn an strus agus an brú sin agus a chruthaíonn...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ba mhaith liom labhairt faoin mbreithiúnas a tháinig amach ón gCúirt Uachtarach i Londain inniu. I welcome today's UK Supreme Court judgment, which unanimously rejected the appeal that had argued the Northern Ireland protocol was in breach of both the law and the Good Friday Agreement. We know clearly from the judgments of the high court, the court of appeal and now the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Senator Clonan might need to add a fada to his name.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Beidh mé gasta. Níl agam ach ábhar amháin inniu. The Irish Commemorative Stone, also known as the Black Rock, is a monument in Pointe-Saint-Charles in Quebec. It marks the mass grave of 6,000 Irish emigrants who fled an Gorta Mór and died of typhoid and other diseases. The stone was erected on 1 December 1859 and it was the first monument in North America to the...

Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ar dtús cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire agus fáiltím roimh an deis cúpla focal a rá ar na ráitis thar a bheith tábhachtach seo. The Minister is very welcome to the House. Last week, I attended a rally outside the gates of a Leinster House. It coincided with Lá na Féile Bríde and it was in support of the family of Natalie McNally, who was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economic and Social Benefits of the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement: IBEC (9 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. Like colleagues, I commend the report. It is timely, useful and informative for this committee in particular. Many issues have been raised at this meeting in what has been a worthwhile and comprehensive discussion, which has been reflective of the ongoing, evolving and organic nature of these conversations. I wish to discuss something that,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economic and Social Benefits of the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement: IBEC (9 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank Mr. D'Arcy. That is useful. I appreciate that we are operating in the unknown on this. Senator Currie, Chair of the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly's committee A, which deals with sovereign matters, led a delegation to London where we tried to get some clarity but it was not particularly forthcoming I must say. We know the one thing that businesses want is certainty. We hear...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: A rally will take place this Saturday in Dublin, with participants meeting at 1.30 p.m. in Parnell Square under the banner "Ireland for All". It is the coming together of a range of political parties, NGOs, civil society groups and a plethora of community and voluntary organisations from right across our Thirty-two Counties. At the heart of that coming together is a celebration of the...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit agus roimh an mBille atá os ár gcomhair inniu. I thank the proposers of today's Bill to amend the 2018 Act. I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Over recent years, my colleague in the Dáil, Deputy Martin Kenny, who is Sinn Féin's justice spokesperson, as well as other elected representatives in the Oireachtas have...

Seanad: Domestic Violence (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (15 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: That is right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Liz O'Donnell (16 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I have to apologise for arriving late. The good thing is that Ms O'Donnell will understand, given her time in this place. I was able to catch a good part of the meeting in my office and I read Ms O'Donnell's opening statement when we got it. This has been an interesting exercise, because I was reared in a house where we were absolute news addicts. Like many homes in Belfast and throughout...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Liz O'Donnell (16 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: That is fair enough. If Ms O'Donnell were in the position she was in, now, how would we embolden and further advance the work of the all-Ireland bodies, because they do some powerful and important work and are worthy of greater support and development going forward? We have got to the stage, especially post Brexit and the crystallisation of many of the problems partition throws up for us,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Ms Liz O'Donnell (16 Feb 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: -----in 1998 that it is now, or as biodiversity and all of those kinds of things are now. Does Ms O'Donnell see the Irish Government advocating, given its role, for how we can strengthen and embolden those bodies further? My second question refers to where I have a wee bit of a disagreement or different view from that of Ms O'Donnell. I look at myself as a young teenager when the...