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Seanad: Situation in Ukraine: Motion (1 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Dé a beatha chuig an Aire Stáit. Tá mé chomh sásta go bhfuil an seal agam labhairt ar son na reachtaíochta tábhachtaí seo ar an mbeach meala dúchasaí Éireannaí. The Minister of State is very welcome to today's debate on this important legislation. I am very proud and privileged along with my colleague, Senator Boylan, to be able...

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: It nearly does but I will move on to my notes. As the Minister of State knows, the scientific argument for this Bill is impressive, but I am not a scientist or an ecologist. I have left it to other colleagues to address the scientific merits. All I will say is that, from my lay person's perspective, the threat of hybridisation to the native Irish honeybee warrants this legislative...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I will not take them all. Like other colleagues, I thank Mr. O’Connor in the first instance for his authentic and valuable insights into that period. I am lucky in the sense that Jim Gibney is working in my office. He gives me quite the insight into the talks both around Good Friday and previous-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: That is correct.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I suppose it is a bit of double dunter.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: In terms of the issue we just spoke about, as well as in terms of Mr. O’Connor’s reference to the loss of the person-to-person relationship at a European Union level, how important does he consider the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I will of course. One of the key issues for us is absorbing Mr. O’Connor’s contributions today, as well as hopefully the contributions of others who will come back before the committee to give us that retrospective view. As a committee, we review and we research. We are certainly not the committee on changing the Good Friday Agreement. We are the committee on implementing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Is there a role in terms of the current stalemate around the institutions in the North? For us as a committee, we should certainly be advocating that the Irish Government would reconvene the British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference. Would that be of assistance in the current climate?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I will finish on this. The key - it was probably one of the points Mr. O'Connor made that struck me the most, and Deputy Brendan Smith also made it - was that the agreement and its institutions and its arrangements be in the will of the people. I suppose the main outcome that we all want to see politically is the re-establishment of the Good Friday Agreement's institutions and that they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank Mr. O'Connor. I appreciate his input.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I do not think so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement: Mr. Tim O'Connor (26 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I apologise for interrupting. There is a vote in the Seanad, so some of us will have to go.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: Discussion (31 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank Mr. Yermak. I am conscious of the Chair's advice to keep things succinct but I want to assure our visitors of our continued solidarity and support for the people of Ukraine. There have been a number of references to Europe and what we could be doing at an EU level. I would like to get the view around Ireland's position on the UN Security Council and how we may utilise that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: Discussion (31 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank the ambassador and her office for all the work they are doing. She has a huge and significant piece of work ahead of her in terms of the mechanics of supporting our new Ukrainian community who are settling here. There are huge mechanical issues around housing, health provision and education, which need to be dealt with in the short term. The issue I would like to put to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: Discussion (31 May 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Of course.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I shall begin my remarks with a quote by a very famous and well-known Dubliner. In 1921, Edward Carson said: What a fool I was. I was only a puppet, and so was Ulster, and so was Ireland, in the political game that was to get the Conservative Party into power. Replace 1921 with 2022 and replace the words "to get the Conservative Party into power" with "to keep the Conservative Party...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (14 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: At dtús, ba maith liom fearadh na fáilte a chur roimh ár gcuairteoirí inniu. Táim iontach sásta agus bródúil go bhfuil seal agam ár ndlúthpháirtíocht agus tacaíocht a léiriú dóibh agus do mhuintir na hÚcráine. I welcome our Ukrainian visitors to the Seanad and thank them, in particular, for all their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jun 2022)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I agree fully with Senator Clonan's remarks and especially his closing ones. I assure him of my own support for his work in the House in highlighting, and I hope addressing, those issues. I want to again ask the Government to move the Bill on holding a referendum that would extend the vote to Irish citizens outside the State in presidential elections. Members will know this is a long-term...