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Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I move amendment No. 116: In page 35, lines 16 to 20, to delete all words from and including “(1) The” in line 16 down to and including line 20 and substitute the following: “(1) The Chief Deciding Officer, in consultation with the Minister may, by regulation, provide for the insertion in Schedule 1 of any institution which was established for the purpose of...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank the Minister for his response. I do not necessarily agree with him that the amendment allows a civil servant, as he described it, to make a policy decision. The policy decision is set by the text as laid out in our amendment. The policy is clear. The individual, whoever he or she may be, is not deciding the policy. That is outlined in the rest of the amendment and, indeed, the...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: What would be wrong with broadening the scheme?

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I disagree with the Minister, but the amendment is there so we will move accordingly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: High-Level Action Plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I have one specific issue to ask Ms Sinnamon about. It may seem modest after the contribution of our Cathaoirleach, but it is nevertheless an important one. On the issue of recruitment and more specifically on the issue of recruitment strategies and campaigns, from a practical and numerical point of view in respect of casting the net in this regard that bit wider, and from the perspective...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: High-Level Action Plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: She is speaking to a County Down man.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: High-Level Action Plan for the Report of the Commission on the Defence Forces: Discussion (30 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank Ms Sinnamon.

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Ceannteidil an Bhille um Údarás na Gaeltachta (Leasú), 2022: Grinnscrúdú Réamhreachtach (Atógáil). (31 May 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Tá cúpla ceist agam. Ar an drochuair, caithfidh mé mo leithscéal a ghabháil mar caithfidh mé a bheith sa tSeanad. Mar sin, ní bheidh mé anseo do freagra an Aire Stáit. Léifidh mé siar air sin agus beidh spéis agam sa mhéid sin. An mbeidh an Bille féin i nGaeilge? Níl na ceannteidil ar fáil ar líne ach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Yes. My question is not totally dissimilar from Senator Conway-Walsh's in that I want to look to the recent peace and prosperity report from IBEC. It described Ireland as a natural economic zone. It said three developments helped the growth of the all-Ireland economy: the EU Single Market, the peace process, obviously, and the removal of Border checkpoints. It called for a more joined up...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Business Opportunities and Differences: Engagement with Irish SME Association (1 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank Mr. McDonnell. That was very useful.

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

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Gabhaim buíochas leis an gCathaoirleach agus leis an Leas-Cheannaire. Ba mhaith liom labhairt faoi thoscaireacht a bhí againn go Londain an tseachtain seo. I want to reflect, if I may, on a trip that a delegation of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement made to London on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The purpose of the delegation...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I dtús báire, cuirim fáilte ar ais roimh an Aire. The Minister is welcome back. It is good to see her. Last week, at the earlier session of this Second Stage debate, my colleague, Senator Gavan, covered for me. I was in London on committee business. He outlined comprehensively where Sinn Féin stands on this Bill. Other colleagues have reflected on the importance of...

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

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I join Senator Joe O'Reilly in welcoming his guests to the Gallery. Last week, I raised the now notorious legacy legislation that the British Government is pursuing full steam ahead, it seems, despite universal opposition and all of the legitimate concern expressed by victims and survivors, legal, academic and human rights stakeholders. I welcome the fact that last week, the Joint Committee...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Was the neighbour called Clonan too?

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Gabhaim buíochas a Chathaoirligh agus ba mhaith liom fáilte is fiche a chur roimh an gobharnóir agus í ar chuairt stairiúil chuig an Seanad inniu. I ask her not to worry; there are not too many more to go after me. I also welcome-----

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: -----the ambassador and all our visitors to the Gallery. Above all, it is right and appropriate that I extend the heartiest welcome to the Governor of what many consider Ireland's 33rd county - the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Through the Governor's politics, work and activism, she has come to represent a great value that Irish people know intimately, namely, that the citizen is...

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: “: - resolves that sections 2 to 4, 6 to 12, 14 and 17 of the Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 (No. 39 of 1998) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2023 and ending on 29th June, 2024; and - calls on the Minister for Justice to bring...

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. In 2002, the Hederman review into the Offences Against the State Acts was published. It made several key recommendations, including to repeal the existing Offences Against the State Acts and replace them with one single consolidated item of legislation, which should contain significant reforms of the Acts. The most recent review of the Acts,...

Seanad: Offences Against the State (Amendment) Act 1998 and Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009: Motions (27 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Seanad Éireann" and substitute the following: “: - resolves that section 8 of the Criminal Justice (Amendment) Act 2009 (No. 32 of 2009) shall continue in operation for the period beginning on 30th June, 2023 and ending on 29th June, 2024; and - calls on the Minister for Justice to bring forward legislation to give effect...

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Teagmhálacha agus Idirghníomhaíochtaí idir an Roinn Gnóthaí Eachtracha agus Cainteoirí agus Eagrais Ghaeilge thar lear:Plé (28 Jun 2023)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Gabhaim buíochas leis na finnéithe. Tá roinnt mhaith de na ceisteanna a bhí mé ag iarraidh iad a chur freagartha acu le linn an chuir i láthair. Tá sé sin i gcónaí ina bhuntáiste mhaith. Aontaím le Caoimhín Ó Coigligh i dtaca leis an méid a dúirt sé. Chonaic mé an fógra san Irish Newsinniu...