Results 201-220 of 18,569 for speaker:Fergus O'Dowd
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: By the local authority. It was by the local authority.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is not true Minister. That is not true.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: No, your Department told me that was not the case.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: You have been misinformed Minister.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: They are.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: At least 60 of them are available. There are 80.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is not true.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is not true.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: He is not saying the facts. I have to challenge him on that.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: This is a hugely important issue for my constituents in the Louth-Meath area. As the whole country knows, the D Hotel in Drogheda has 113 bedrooms. Apart from the 16-bed Scholars Townhouse Hotel, it is the only hotel in Drogheda now open to new guests. The decision to take over the D Hotel and put 500 IP applicants in there was the Minister's decision and it was made without consultation....
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: The Minister has not denied that he said on 12 December that the fire certification must be up to date and once evidence of sign-off is received from the local authority and provided to the Department, a contract is signed. Did his Department get a sign-off before he signed the contract? That is what he said he would do in December. In February, it is quite clear that the he did not get...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Direct Provision System (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: 141. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on the current discussions within his Department with regard to the long-term plans to deal for dealing with those arriving in the country seeking protection; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9551/24]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies have been received from Senator Mullen. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Professor Fidelma Ashe, professor of politics at the Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University, to discuss women and constitutional change. I thank her for attending. I have to read this note on parliamentary privilege. There are limitations to parliamentary privilege and the practice of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: That is interesting. There is a summary and a plan to give effect to it. That is the part we hope to be able to come up with. Senator Black wishes to come in first.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: On that, and without affecting your time, Deputy, I agree fully with you. Actually, having been there, I think we should go up again. We can consult with the families when they think it would be appropriate. We will be going up to the North at some stage. We have other items for next week's meeting but we should definitely go up because it was very enlightening, and to listen to the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will definitely go back up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: Sorry-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will come back. There is no problem. Deputy Smith has left but he is asking a question in the Dáil and will come back. The summary we have been given is very important. I will build on Deputy Conway-Walsh's questions regarding the idea of a model for all of this. I do not think there would be any problem with it in the South because there is significant concern that this...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (29 Feb 2024)
Fergus O'Dowd: I do not disagree with Professor Ashe on that. The point is, notwithstanding what she said, there will be other forces out there trying to monopolise the debate, as she rightly acknowledged, and there will be vested interests and so on. I do not disagree with her. At the end of the day, those of us who believe in unity and those who do not have to persuade the other side, for want of a...