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Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Senator should not refer to it as a comedy. It has been a very good debate.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I am engaged in serious politics.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments and Threatened Industrial Action by An Garda Síochána: Statements (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Go raibh maith ag an Tánaiste as an chur i láthair atá déanta aici. There is a degree of unity in the Chamber this evening around the Tánaiste's proposal regarding judicial reviews. We all acknowledge, as the Tánaiste did in her contribution, that the previous process is outdated and no longer fit for purpose. Going back many years, it has been Sinn...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I thank the Chair and the Commissioner. When the Minister was here last week, she said that her Department and the Department of Justice in the North were carrying out impact assessments in relation to the whole Brexit situation. What is the Garda Síochána's level of input or participation in that process? What bespoke, individual and unique preparations are being taken on board...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I am cautious in my words here because none of us quite knows what is ahead of us in this regard. In terms of that reinforcement of the Border, it has been made clear from any number of Ministers and indeed from the Taoiseach down that the final decision on the Border may not even rest with that North-South or east-west axis and that it may rest entirely elsewhere. I presume the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: It is perhaps slightly unfair to ask the Commissioner whether the arrangement would remain the same post Article 50 being concluded, but is she, from an organisational and corporate perspective, arguing with the relevant Ministers and in terms of input into those negotiations that the policing arrangements, which have been much more fruitful, harmonised and positive in recent times, be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Priorities for An Garda Síochána: Garda Commissioner (12 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: As a demotion, not a promotion, to be honest.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ná bí buartha, a Chathaoirligh. Gabh mo leithscéal, bhí mé i mo chodladh ansin. Communities along the Border mobilised-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ná bí buartha. Ná bíodh aon imní ort, a Chathaoirligh. Bhí mé chomh lochtach mé fhéin. At the weekend communities along the Border mobilised against the decision taken against their will on Brexit. I have raised this issue consistently in this Chamber. It was impressive and uplifting to see people beyond the realm of politics take to their...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Tá cinnte.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Senator has seen the example of Martin McGuinness.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Why is the economy fragile?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Who busted it?

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Déanfaidh mé mo dhícheall a bheith chomh ghasta agus gur féidir. When the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade was here yesterday, I referenced Modeling Irish Reunification, a major piece of research commissioned by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, into the economics of Irish unity. That report has had some limited coverage in this State over recent...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: When I engage with the Minister and his colleagues in government on issues such as this, I do not do so on a partisan basis, but because of the very real concern that exists across this island on the vote by England and Wales to drag the United Kingdom out the European Union against its will. The Minister conceded at a meeting of the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement committee that...

Seanad: UK Referendum on EU Membership: Statements (5 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I apologise, but I hope Senator Ó Ríordáin will consider the point that is being made as opposed to using this issue which is of such severity to try to score cheap party political points, he and his party will think first and foremost of what is in the best interest of Ireland.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister for Justice and Equality (5 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I apologise to the Minister for missing the first part of her presentation this morning. Brexit has been touched on slightly. Regardless of whether we have a hard or soft Border, many of us do not want a Border at all. Certainly, the people of the North voted to remain and it should form the central component in all of our considerations here whether that is negotiating north, south,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister for Justice and Equality (5 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I am glad and heartened to hear that. However, with the greatest respect, it is not within the Minister's gift to make that commitment. The difficulty, as mentioned by various Ministers and members of the Government at committees, is that a hard Border would present obvious infrastructural, political and social problems. That includes issues of policing and justice. Comments from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Proposal on Matrimonial Matters, Parental Responsibility and Child Abduction: Motion (5 Oct 2016)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: It is a good move but, in line with my previous contribution, the obvious problem of Brexit immediately presents itself, specifically whether the UK will be compliant within this landmass, for example, people running with their children from Lifford to Strabane. I am not trying to be facetious, but what overt and immediate problems can the Tánaiste foresee as a result of Brexit, in...