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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I will echo the points made by other Deputies because the Minister of State, like his ministerial colleagues, has come in here and talked about the need for the Opposition to bring forward solutions. I understand Ministers and Ministers of State need to put forward their narrative, but in truth they realise there is plenty of substance and detail. The Taoiseach loves that word; he loves to...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I wish to be associated with the remarks on the passport service, which is an excellent service that has gone from strength to strength, as well as with the remarks on our diplomatic staff. The experience of diplomatic staff in Tehran and Tel Aviv in recent days and the incident in the West Bank some weeks ago reflects the fact that serving Ireland internationally on a diplomatic level is...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Just so I understand the Tánaiste clearly, a suspension was the position of the Irish Government at the meeting. Can he confirm that?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: And that was said at the meeting? I know Spain was very vocal at that meeting in saying it should be suspended.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: In my view, the decision that was taken yesterday was absolutely wrong in the context of the severity of what is happening. I invite the Tánaiste’s comment on the issue of aid. Aid should be unmolested and uninterfered with in humanitarian situations. There is a situation now where multilateral organisations – the UN and its aid agencies – are being prevented from...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 27 - International Co-operation (Revised)
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs (Revised) (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I take the opportunity to raise an issue that probably does not get enough attention here. We are rightly very exercised by the humanitarian situation in Gaza, which is something I speak about very frequently, but there is not a great deal of discussion in these Houses on the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. There was an attack on a hospital today, or perhaps it was last night, leading to the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 207. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of staff in the Passport Service, by role and by year for the years 2020 to date in 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34242/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the expenditure on staffing of the Passport Service in the years 2020 to date in 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34243/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 209. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the cost associated with increasing staffing levels in the Passport Service by 10, 50 and 100 WTE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34244/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 210. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the WTE equivalent within the Passport Service, by location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34245/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 214. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the plans to further restrict the potential flow of dual use items, technology or otherwise to Ukraine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34489/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 802. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nursing home beds the HSE held in private nursing homes in Cork, in each of the past five years, including 2025. [33929/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 803. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded medical emergency nursing home beds the HSE held in private nursing homes in Cork, in each of the past five years, including 2025. [33930/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (24 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: 804. To ask the Minister for Health the number of publicly funded respite beds the HSE had in private nursing homes in Cork, in each of the past five years, including 2025. [33931/25]

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To clarify for our guests, the permanent members of the committee do not get a veto or anything like that. It is just priority in terms of who speaks first. First, to pick up on Dr. Burke’s point, last week, in the context of one of the members of the committee saying they had received some abuse online and so on for their pro-neutrality position, I said it was important that this...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank Mr. Power. I certainly agree with the latter point he made. It seems that if the Minister had brought forward legislation - and this Bill contains clarifications, which is important - that clarified instances where there have been difficulties, it would have been relatively uncontroversial. I think it would have got the support of the committee, maybe not unanimously but broadly...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I first want to put a position on the record. Statements have been made to the effect that the proposed legislation does not affect neutrality and that it is irrelevant to it. I do not think they are the same. It is Dr. Burke's position that in the final assessment, because of various safeguards that he believes exist institutionally and constitutionally, and international law and so on,...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That is an important clarification point, and I understand it. Is it Dr. Burke's position that if he were drafting the general scheme, he would have left the 12-peacekeeper limit alone and kept all the other bits?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025 : Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2025)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: That might require parliamentary scrutiny.

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

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the proposer of the motion. It is an important debate. Sinn Féin is ambitious for public transport, particularly in Cork. It is an area that has been the subject of a lot of attention recently. It has been a priority for us because we recognise that for Cork to be the fastest-growing city in the State, we cannot simply rely on more and more people getting into their cars. We...