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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: We have spoken about the noise issue before. Both of those points have been proposed as big game-changers of the noise. However, both seem to be quite a distance away of being delivered or at least there is uncertainty on both of those points.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Does Manna operate from the Coolmine Industrial Estate in Dublin 15?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Since when?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: How many bases are in the Dublin 15 area?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is Coolmine Industrial Estate, Junction 6 and Blanchardstown Centre.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I live close to the Junction 6 base. How does the process unfold if I wanted to not have Manna Air Delivery drones fly over my house? How far as the householder can I request or insist that it flies around my house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: How far is that blockage?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Is it just over the property?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I will take a step back. What I would like to know is where is the conversation being had about how much of the movement of goods that currently takes place on our roads is appropriate to move into our skies. When I visited the base, Mr. Healy showed me the map of all the journeys his company had done. If Manna had a competitor that wanted to compete with it in this field, for example, if...

Dental Treatment Services: Motion [Private Members] (16 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Stanley for tabling this important motion, thus giving us the opportunity to place a particular focus on oral health and oral healthcare in the Dáil during the final week of this term. I am really pleased to have the opportunity to speak on the motion. We all how the importance of oral health. It affects everything including how we eat and speak. It can even affect our...

Pride: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I am grateful to be able to wake up every morning beside the man I love, a man I am able to call my husband because of a decision of the Irish people, and we are able to enjoy wide-ranging protections across a whole raft of law and policy in our own country. I am grateful but I do not take it for granted because even though we have seen protections extended, gays and lesbians around the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 299. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of people using omnipod 5 insulin pumps in each county from 2020-2025 inclusive; the status of the roll-out of these products; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40094/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 82. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if children attending a school (details supplied) who have applied for a place in a special school and have a letter from the NCSE that they are entitled to such a place will get a place in one of the two new autism classes being established in the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40455/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Two weeks ago, parents of children who attend St. Mochta's National School in Clonsilla who have diagnoses and who have been approved for a place in an autism class were shocked to find out that, even though the school is opening two autism classes, none of their children was being offered a place. I have met the parents and the school leadership, as have other Deputies. A lot of work has...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Minister of State knows how to build the tension. He has given us some general points but we are still on tenterhooks as to what is happening in this particular school. I believe the Minister of State has a little bit more to say, so I will allow him to complete his answer.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Minister of State. I welcome that clarification. He spoke about intensive work having taken place around the country to support the opening of new classes. I know very intensive work took place between parents, the school leadership team, the principal, the deputy principal and the chair of the board of management over the last two weeks. I have met parents, as have other...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Last Thursday Deputy Ahern raised the issue of climate with the Tánaiste. In response the Tánaiste said: The climate emergency has not gone away; far from it. We need to look at how we can accelerate the pace of change that needs to take place. I agree with the Tánaiste. One thing we should not be doing is appointing a climate denier to lead out on the new EU 2040...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: There was a vote in the European Parliament last week and three Fine Gael MEPs voted for Ondřej Knotek as rapporteur on climate policy. During his term in the European Parliament, he said: [The] policies of climate activists, as you are, are not leading to saving the climate. You are lying to people about that if they will be ambitious, that there will be no floods and so on.... But...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I have asked when the Government will rerun the Laura Brennan HPV vaccine catch-up campaign on a number of occasions. This morning, I spoke to Lucy, a 20-year-old student who missed the HPV vaccine when she was at school and who wants to take it up now. She has been quoted up to €600 to get the vaccine. The cost of the initial appointment with a practice nurse, multiple shots and...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Jul 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Lucy will not benefit from that.