Results 201-220 of 561 for speaker:John Dolan

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I thank Ms Graham.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I have two other questions. The first concerns the inconvenience caused by transferring from one bus to another and then another. That is a bigger issue of people with disabilities. Does the NTA have an idea of the number of people with disabilities who will be affected? The other question is about the NTA's consultants, Jarrett Walker + Associates, and that firm's track record in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: BusConnects: National Transport Authority (18 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: All right. We know where we stand.

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I welcome the Minister yet again to the House. I particularly welcome all those in the Gallery. I will start by reading a poem Checking Out Me Historyby John Agard, which might be appropriate for a number of reasons. It reads: Dem tell me Dem tell me Wha dem want to tell me Bandage up me eye with me own history Blind me to me own identity Dem tell me bout 1066 and all dat Dem tell me bout...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Second Stage (5 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, and his officials. This is a good day in terms of giving much needed support and respite to people and families. It also has great benefit for the person who is being cared for, because the burden that is on their loved one weighs heavily on the person who is being cared for. That is also to be acknowledged today. I want to go back to...

Seanad: Health (General Practitioner Service) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (5 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I wish to make a couple of comments. It is great to have this piece of work done today. While still acknowledging the caring role we have, we must have a trajectory that brings us from care into independence. It is important that it becomes more about supporting people from the home and out into the local community and into employment. I thank the Minister of State for his remarks about...

Seanad: Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton. I will begin with the point made by Senator McDowell regarding people acting out of the goodness of their hearts. I will not go against that phrase but I want to take it a bit further. It is from the goodness of their view of engaging in public service, their vocation-----

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: -----their patriotism - to use a good old-fashioned word - and their understanding of Bunreacht na hÉireann, and to be vocational in that sense, that people will act. Senator McDowell put a direct question to the Minister and I would like to hear a response to it. I have served on State boards. There was remuneration for members in some instances but not in others. We had people on...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I refer to members of the Judiciary in juxtaposition with the lay people on the board. I just see it as two sides of a coin that should ordinarily and easily complement each other. In a sense, a judge's role, not on this commission but in day-to-day work, has some of the elements of being a chairperson and making sure that there is even-handedness, that the rules are obeyed and that...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: It is useful to have that clarified. I do not understand why, in the spirit of republicanism, the role of Judiciary members cannot complement that of lay people. The question of where the Judiciary members come from is different.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (4 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: The Archbishop of Dublin.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: I welcome the Minister. I am glad to spend the evening in his company, in out of the heat.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

John Dolan: Senator Conway spoke about someone being lucky. Senator Clifford-Lee spoke of how she had been lucky. Anything and everything we do here must be about people not having to be lucky to have opportunity or support in life. Diversity is at the heart of that. Several Senators have mentioned disability, and I thank them for that. Disability goes beyond class. It can and does visit anybody...

Seanad: Summer Economic Statement: Statements (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Patrick O'Donovan. Health is in crisis, housing is in crisis, there are serious issues in Northern Ireland with the breakdown for over a year of the institutions there and, of course, Brexit. The four crises that we have are no doubt four priorities for Government. On 19 April this year, the State ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: I thank the committee for making it possible to have this omnibus review of where we are at this time. I thank the Minister of State, his officials and the NDA for being here to assist us in that regard. It is hard to know where start as so many interesting points made been made. I have a copy of a brief submission made by Inclusion Ireland on issues such as assisted decision-making -I did...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: No bother to the Minister of State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: I will be brief. First, I will give the Minister of State a break. I will probably not be at his meeting with the DFI. The Minister of State is saying that progress is being made and that there is cultural change at the level of the Cabinet and the Government. The question is whether progress is happening faster than the demographic change that is working against us. That is the real nub...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: The best cigars in the world.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Update on Disability Issues: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (27 Jun 2018)

John Dolan: It depends on how much progress is made.