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Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: If the Minister will not listen to the law passed by this Parliament, will he at least listen to the science? That is the mantra we have been listening to for over 18 months now.

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021: Motion (5 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: Are they temporary or not?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Disability Services (5 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 229. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure equal access to all concerts and cultural events with the provision of personal assistant tickets for a person (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47563/21]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Disability Services (5 Oct 2021)

Michael McNamara: 230. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will ensure equal access to all concerts and cultural events with the provision of personal assistant tickets for an organisation (details supplied) in County Clare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47607/21]

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: This week must have been a bewildering week for the workers in Moneypoint power station. We were told it was to close. Now we are being told we face power shortages across the country and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, Deputy Eamon Ryan, hinted that Moneypoint might not close as anticipated. We must bring to bear clarity on this point. If we have power...

Climate Action: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: There is no guarantee that any power imported will be any greener than the power generated at Moneypoint. To be clear, I agree with the necessity to reduce carbon emissions. It is the political imperative of our time. I will draw the analogy, however, about the current situation. It is like if my grandfather in the 1920s, having read somewhere that tractors were soon going to be in...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 130. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will outline the changes that have been made to the process whereby discrimination allegations are reviewed by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47133/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: Members of the Defence Forces, like everybody else, are entitled to a presumption of innocence. Clearly, a dark cloud hangs over the organisation, but that should not extend to individual members nor should there be a presumption about them. It is regrettable that anybody would suggest otherwise. With regard to the jurisdictional issue, the Defence Forces claimed at the Workplace Relations...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 87. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the Defence Forces’ process of implementing recommendations on anti-discrimination law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47333/21]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: I suppose this is related to the previous line of questioning. Will the Minister provide an update on the Defence Forces' process of implementing recommendations on anti-discrimination law? He will be aware that at the end of the WRC process recommendations were made and there have been other recommendations.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: To return to what the Minister said previously, I have no doubt that those who seek to abuse their positions of power, including in a sexually predatory way, are a small minority in the Defence Forces. I have witnessed in other similar institutions with a command structure how a small minority can have a large influence. Instead of tackling the problem, there is a tendency in institutions...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: There is clearly a problem. The Minister bears political responsibility for that.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: The question is how the command structure will be reviewed.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: I was not personalising, and I think the Minister realises that. I accept that there are systems in place and that the Minister has to trust in the systems, or else he or she undermines the system. There is a system under the Ombudsman for the Defence Forces. However, it is not unfair to say that the ombudsman has been undermined, not by the Minister but by this whole saga, and,...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 110. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will provide an update on the Defence Forces' process of implementing recommendations on anti-discrimination law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47130/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 116. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he has apologised to a person (details supplied) for the failure to address their case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47132/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (30 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 127. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will review jurisdictional objections by his Department in response to WRC complaints by members of the forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47131/21]

Afghanistan Crisis: Statements (29 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: I am sharing time with Deputy Connolly. Like my constituency colleague, I commend the Minister and his Department on the work they have done and continue to do in evacuating Irish citizens. The type of interaction he described is one that reflects those I have had with him the past, when he has been contactable late at night when officials are not, and that is not a criticism of officials....

Data Centre Moratorium: Motion [Private Members] (29 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Social Democrats for tabling this motion. Like most Members in the House, I would agree with each and every one of the concerns its Members have expressed in the motion about data centres, the amount of energy they use, the cost of that energy, the water that is used and the sustainability of it all. Notwithstanding that, I am quite ambivalent about the motion because I am...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (29 Sep 2021)

Michael McNamara: 149. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Clare has been refused an application for fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46916/21]