Results 501-520 of 530 for speaker:Ken O'Flynn

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I rise today with a little bit of good news relating to my constituency in Cork. It is a red-letter day because we have just had information passed on to us about the development of the delivery of Tivoli, Dunkettle, Blarney and Blackpool stations. I welcome that. That will have a huge impact on my constituency across the north side. We have missed a beat when it comes to the Luas line in...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I thank my colleagues in the Sinn Féin Party who brought this motion forward. It is almost a carbon copy of the motion that was brought forward by my colleague in Aontú, a motion co-signed by Independent Ireland. I thank Aontú for bringing that motion before the House in recent weeks. There is merit in tonight's motion. The reality is that there are a number of...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I do not doubt the sincerity of his reply, but in the amendment put forward by the Department, 28 parts are exactly the same, cut and pasted verbatim from a previous amendment to a recent Private Member's motion. Five to six are unique in relation to the application because of the structure of the motion, ten are unique to the local authority...

Legislative and Structural Reforms to Accelerate Housing Delivery: Motion [Private Members] (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I highlight a serious contradiction at the heart of the immigration and passport system, which raises serious concerns for national security, consistency and public trust. I will start with the Irish passport system. Every Irish citizen goes through a rigorous process to get a passport. Parents applying for their child's first passport must submit the long-form birth certificate,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Are all the machines working?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Does the Minister believe it is acceptable that Irish passports and citizenship can be granted by his Government without proper documentation? That is the question here. That is what it is really about. All the Minister has done in his answer is to confirm that people can enter this country without identification, claim asylum and sign a sworn affidavit saying who they are without proving...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (25 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 144. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department is engaged in any negotiations, planning, or contractual arrangements for the use of the Old Rectory site in Glanmire, County Cork, as a location for an IPAS centre or for the accommodation of international protection applicants; if so, when this site was identified; the proposed capacity and timeline;...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Policy (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 260. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the reason representative organisations (details supplied) have not yet been contacted regarding the disability-proofing of the National Cycle Manual by the National Transport Authority (NTA); and if he will give an assurance that these two disabled persons’ representative organisations in Ireland specific to physical impairment...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 795. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware that there is currently no consultant based in Cork to provide care for patients with prosthetic eyes; the measures being taken to address this gap in service provision; and if she will urgently intervene in the case of a person (details supplied). [33876/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 825. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department considered ethical objections, including those grounded in secular or non-religious bioethics, to the presumption of consent for organ donation introduced under the Human Tissue Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 826. To ask the Minister for Health the means by which the Department intends to monitor and evaluate the impact of the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 on trust in the healthcare system, particularly among minority religious or ethical communities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34112/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 827. To ask the Minister for Health the safeguards in place under the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 to ensure the religious beliefs of a deceased individual, particularly where such beliefs prohibit or strongly discourage post-mortem organ removal, are respected, even in the absence of an opt-out registration; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 828. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a mechanism under the Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Act 2024 to allow individuals to object to the presumption of consent model on ethical or philosophical grounds while still indicating a willingness to donate organs voluntarily; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34114/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 829. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures in place to ensure next-of-kin consent is not used to override the known religious or ethical objections of the deceased, where the individual has not registered on the organ donor opt-out register; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34115/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (24 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 830. To ask the Minister for Health if any exemptions exist under the Human Tissue Act 2024 for individuals or communities whose cultural or religious beliefs prohibit posthumous organ donation, even if they have not formally opted out; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34116/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Meetings (26 Jun 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: 322. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a list of any meetings she attended with health professional representative bodies, voluntary organisations, NGOs, lobby groups and other stakeholders (excluding the HSE) relating to or featuring issues regarding termination of pregnancy, from January 2025 to date, in tabular form, including dates, and organisations represented; and if she will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I raise a matter of grave concern regarding the practical effects of the Protected Disclosures Act 2014. While the Act was conceived with noble intent in the shadow of the experience of the Maurice McCabe case and his testimony, the reality for many whistleblowers across this nation is that the promised protection remains legally at odds with the lived reality of the legislation. Recent...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: I thank the Minister for his reply but it is a bit like previous replies in that it does not really say much. How many people will come forward as whistleblowers and sign these non-disclosure agreements, and how many problems will be hidden and put under the carpet yet again, before 2027? If we did not have the likes of Vicky Phelan, who decided not to sign a non-disclosure agreement, we...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2025)

Ken O'Flynn: Not for the whistleblowers.