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- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: The next speaker is Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire. Deputy, we had allowed a minute for introduction, so if you want to use that as well, you will have the six minutes then.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where they are not adhering to this constitutional requirement. Therefore, a member who attempts to participate from outside the precincts will be asked to leave the meeting, and...
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State for the insight. The first questioner is Deputy Ó Fearghaíl.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: We will give you two minutes on this one, Minister.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I hope to give the Minister of State time to wrap up on points he has not been able to address.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I thank Senator Ahearn. I call Senator O'Reilly next. He can use a minute to introduce himself to the public and then he will have his six minutes. He does not have to use all of them.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I may have to rule on that comment.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I will give the Minister of State five minutes now as it is the end of the first round. To summarise what has been raised by committee members, clearly Gaza has been a very strong theme from every speaker on this committee. I want to add my voice to this. The Minister of State has been very clear on cuts to USAID. Other points have been raised on how we use our Irish-American political...
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State. We move to the second round of contributions now. Deputy Shay Brennan was not here for the first round. I propose, therefore, that we give Deputy Brennan six minutes and everybody else will have three minutes for this second round.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: I thank the Minister of State. I apologise for keeping Deputy Ó Súilleabháin waiting.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: We are down to two-minute slots now. We will take all the speakers together and the Minister of State can wrap up.
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: When we cast out the net for ideas on themes from members of the committee, a significant number of them came under the auspices of the Minister of State's mandate and Vote. I echo my colleague Senator O'Loughlin. I ask him to pass on through his officials the committee's very best wishes to, number one, those officials who may be at the cutting edge and whose lives may be in danger in...
- Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Business of Joint Committee (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister of State for being so well prepared, for his presentation and for being so open and fulsome with his answers. I also thank his officials for the preparatory work undertaken in advance of this meeting.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
John Lahart: The previous Government invested a huge amount in active travel and cycle projects that are beginning to connect up. As many people did, I cycled in this morning. It is now possible to cycle a good way into the city from the south side on off-road cycle tracks. I raised this when I was in opposition. In of all places, Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, the ciclovía is a weekly...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
John Lahart: Could the Taoiseach see the Government encouraging this in Dublin, Cork and Limerick-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
John Lahart: We could at least start it on a pilot basis and move it to a once-a-month basis where people could enjoy their time-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 May 2025)
John Lahart: -----from around 7 a.m. to 2 p.m., not the entire day.
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (27 May 2025)
John Lahart: 374. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if consideration will be given to adding inflammatory bowel disease, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, to the list of conditions eligible for medical priority with regards social housing lists in local authorities across the country given that it is a lifelong illness with no known cure; and if he will make a...