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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Fergus O'Dowd: I also asked about Áras Attracta.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Fergus O'Dowd: Please. What was the outcome of the investigation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Fergus O'Dowd: Without identifying the individuals, could Ms O’Neill provide us with a summary of what happened? I appreciate that we do not want to identify anyone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Fergus O'Dowd: I asked about the private service provider running the Cuan Mhic Giolla Bhride disability centre in Dundalk. It failed 11 out of 12 standards. That is not acceptable. It is appalling, disgraceful and shameful. Is the private provider still running the centre?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (2 Jun 2022) Fergus O'Dowd: It is unacceptable that a professional multicentre organisation like this one can run a place so badly. In fact, some people were not even on duty the day they were supposed to be working. That is appalling and shameful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I propose that we immediately go into private session. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Today, we have our second engagement with architects of the Good Friday Agreement. I welcome Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery. I thank them for giving of their time and attending. They are both distinguished former officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs and were heavily involved in various aspects of the process that led to the Good Friday Agreement. I will read a note...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Please continue. Everything you have to say is of major interest to all of us.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: Mr. Brady may have misunderstood me. I was talking about the unionist party that lost out; I was not referring to the nationalist side. It was Mr. David Trimble-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We have avoided political rancour. I know Mr. Brady is not introducing any, nor am I. I was referring to-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: The point I was making is that if we are to move forward, we will need a unionist leader who will feel safe and secure is his or her community when it happens. Anyway, it is back to Mr. Donoghue and Mr. Montgomery, and then Mr. Brady or any other contributor.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I think Deputy Brendan Smith is next.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I call Senator Currie followed by Deputy Whitmore.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: On that point, the difficulty is that the First Minister could be from the Alliance Party, that is, outside the nationalist and unionist groups.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: However, the deputy First Minister cannot be.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I support what Mr. Montgomery is saying. If that is the problem, if a party that was neither one nor the other became the second largest party, not that I am suggesting that will happen, would it not make sense to change the agreement to allow for that to happen? It is the reverse of the first citizen-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I hear what Mr. Donoghue is saying.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: We will move back to Sinn Féin - if we have a Sinn Féin speaker.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Mr. David Donoghue and Mr. Rory Montgomery (2 Jun 2022)
Fergus O'Dowd: I think Mr. Montgomery said "a small majority".