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Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Apparently, the reason for opposing the Bill is that there is some hastily found EU law that will spare Fine Gael's blushes. I would like to lance that one if I might. the Labour Party has carefully considered the position of whether EU law would prevent member states from taking action on the issue. Articles 34 and 35 of the treaty set out the principle that as a single market is an area...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is Fianna Fáil's system. It set it up.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am pointing at Fianna Fáil. Do not make this about-----

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Fianna Fáil set it up. I fixed it, as much as I could.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nicola Sturgeon (29 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The First Minister is extremely welcome and I am delighted to address her on behalf of the Labour Party group in the Seanad. The international labour movement has perhaps had an uncomfortable relationship with national movements in the past. Indeed, our own founder, James Connolly, who was from Edinburgh, once said one could change the symbols of a state but that would never be enough. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the members of the committee and the panel for their kind comments. Professor Bury's presentation is one of the most impressive presentations on this issue that I have heard in the past number of years. He spoke in stark terms. He repeated one of his sentences in order to ensure that we all understood the magnitude of the situation and how drug overdose has reached epidemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Deputy O'Brien would have six to one then.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will be brief. I understand that the witnesses are restricted in what they can say because the Department has to implement Government policy, the Garda has to implement law and personal opinions do not come into it. I understand that terminology is important and the idea of this centre being policed is not what we want to emerge from these proceedings, but streets and areas are policed....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Discussion (15 Dec 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I am not a member of this committee. I am substituting today for Deputy Burton because I have an interest in this area. I believe that the education system perpetuates inequality. In a system that is based on competition, as ours is, one will find in any community or geographical area a school that is the least popular and in that school one...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (25 Jan 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I congratulate Senator Conway on putting together this motion. Those of us on the Opposition benches are at a terrible disadvantage whenever Senator Conway says anything, promotes anything or drafts a motion because it is very difficult to debate with somebody with whom one tends to agree most of the time on the stances he takes, the opinions he has and the effort he makes. I commend him...

Seanad: Junior Cycle Reform: Motion (25 Jan 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Northern Ireland: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister to the House. I join with others in expressing my thanks to the former deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, for the journey he has taken, his commitment and work in the past number of years. I wish Michelle O'Neill MLA the very best in her new role. I disagree with Senator Neale Richmond in his belief that the British Government will act in good faith in terms...

Seanad: Convictions for Certain Sexual Offences (Apology and Exoneration) Bill 2016: Second Stage (1 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am proud to support Senator Nash's Bill. I congratulate him on the work he has done to bring this important legislation before the House. At the heart of this Bill is an essential understanding of what equality really means. Equality is not a sense that one privileged group in society can hand down rights to another group in society. That is not what equality means. It is not in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I formally second the amendment. In six weeks' time this country, and indeed the world, will celebrate the history and the story of a very famous undocumented migrant called St. Patrick. On that day and in that week it is imperative on us in this House and to anybody with an Irish background to tell the real story of Ireland, that being one of emigration and an understanding of coffin...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is he coming to talk about judicial appointments or -----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I do not know what to say after that previous contribution. I seem to remember the very same voice in this Chamber on the day after the American presidential election saying that we needed to get used to the new world order and that the era of political correctness was over. A congratulatory message was sent from the same individual to the newly elected President. I am delighted we have...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Níl-----

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: An Talibán. Tá difríocht ann.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I want to support Senator Gavan in his remarks on industrial disputes that are ongoing today. The Tesco issue is one that I feel quite strongly about. This does not have to be a divisive issue in this Chamber and I want to echo the call for the Minister in charge of this area to come to the House to talk about her vision for workers' rights in Ireland. Over the course of the last five...