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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Oct 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Everybody from my generation will be familiar with this beautiful poem written by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, who sadly passed away at the weekend: Le coinnle na n-aingeal tá an spéir amuigh breactha, Tá fiacail an tseaca sa ghaoith on gcnoc, Adaigh an tine is téir chun an leapan, Luífidh Mac Dé ins an tigh seo anocht. She was one of the outstanding poets...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Oct 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I ask the Leader to consider holding a debate in due course on anti-Semitism in the Republic of Ireland. Most Members here will have seen the type of toxicity that is on Twitter and other social media in regard to members of the Jewish persuasion. A recent report by David Collier highlights this in a very serious way. If Members want to research him online, I assure them they will not find...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Will the Leader ask the Tánaiste to come before us for an update on the situation regarding the task force for the Shannon Estuary? I raised this here previously. In the past six months, former parliamentarians, Michael Noonan and John Brassil, have been appointed chairman and vice-chairman, respectively. From that day to this we have heard nothing and people are concerned. We have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Sep 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: It is a very good idea to create a new bank holiday in order to recognise the work of front-line workers but I will not enter into a debate with Senator Craughwell now. This would be to recognise the heroic work that they have done for us to keep us all safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. I have no particular preference as to what that bank holiday date should be. I suggest that it would be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: It is nice to be back in familiar surroundings. I have spoken here many times in the past about energy security. Without being a Cassandra, it has reached a critical stage. Several times during the summer, our warmest months, the warning register was showing up in amber. That means we were close enough to being at full supply and being maxed out. It is a real worry as to whether we will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021 (29 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am in Leinster House. I had not realised I had indicated to speak. I am a new member of this committee and I have not engaged with any our guests heretofore. I have been trying to read myself into the brief and I have found it to be almost a bottomless pit. The more I study the more I seem to need to know. I am grateful for the submissions given today by the witnesses, which I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021 (29 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Hennessy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I propose the minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome Dr. Muldoon and Ms Ward and thank them for coming before us. I have studied this report very carefully and, even though I have been around a long time in politics - 35 years in total - I am very shocked by it. I spent 22 years as a county councillor before I became a Seanadóir. I had a reasonable amount of involvement with the Travelling community in Kerry, and especially in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Thank you. I have one further question for Ms Ward. When additional mobile units started to encroach on that site, should the council have been proactive in either removing them or making it impossible for others to come in? Perhaps that is a crude way of dealing with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am substituting for Deputy Smith. He has had to leave the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair. I will avoid the preliminaries because I have so little time. I welcome Mr. Murphy and I am sorry that Ms Laura Harmon is not here because I have great respect for her, especially in the role she played in the referendum campaign for the repeal of the eighth amendment to the Constitution. Originally, Ireland's Future was mooted as a kind of an open forum and a neutral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: In relation to Sinn Féin or its subsidiaries providing the organisation with money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Perhaps Mr. Murphy can provide a fuller answer about Sinn Féin in his response. Finally, would Mr. Murphy agree that the Good Friday Agreement was based on the spirit of reconciliation, a coming together and mutual respect? Does he agree that the primary function of the agreement was to enable people to live together in the one space, as Seamus Mallon said? Does he agree that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Is the organisation not putting the cart before the horse? Is it not creating difficulties rather than helping? Would it not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: -----decide to get behind the shared island initiative and leave the leadership to the elected representatives of this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I do not know why that is relevant. We have little time to talk about it. I-----