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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2016: Discussion (30 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will be brief. I understand that the witnesses are restricted in what they can say because the Department has to implement Government policy, the Garda has to implement law and personal opinions do not come into it. I understand that terminology is important and the idea of this centre being policed is not what we want to emerge from these proceedings, but streets and areas are policed....

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nicola Sturgeon (29 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The First Minister is extremely welcome and I am delighted to address her on behalf of the Labour Party group in the Seanad. The international labour movement has perhaps had an uncomfortable relationship with national movements in the past. Indeed, our own founder, James Connolly, who was from Edinburgh, once said one could change the symbols of a state but that would never be enough. The...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: He never worked with the Labour Party.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I wish to share my time with Senator Kevin Humphreys.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Maybe five and three, depending on how I go. This is the new politics. I find the spectacle before us this evening depressing. I commend my colleague Senator Grace O'Sullivan, and her colleagues in the Civil Engagement Group, for bringing the Bill forward and for persisting with it. For Government and Fianna Fáil representatives to stand up and give some kind of an excuse as to what...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: -----to oppose this Bill.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The hard work put into the Bill by the Senator is being opposed. The Labour Party and my colleague Deputy Sean Sherlock also have a Bill on this very issue to be tabled next week. That, however, is not preventing us from supporting Senator Grace O'Sullivan's worthy Bill.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Apparently, the reason for opposing the Bill is that there is some hastily found EU law that will spare Fine Gael's blushes. I would like to lance that one if I might. the Labour Party has carefully considered the position of whether EU law would prevent member states from taking action on the issue. Articles 34 and 35 of the treaty set out the principle that as a single market is an area...

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Senator.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is Fianna Fáil's system. It set it up.

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am pointing at Fianna Fáil. Do not make this about-----

Seanad: Micro-plastic and Micro-bead Pollution Prevention Bill 2016: Second Stage (23 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Fianna Fáil set it up. I fixed it, as much as I could.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will allow Senator James Reilly to go before me.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is a reasonable for Senators to request a debate with the Minister of the day. I was a bit taken aback that a request was made several weeks ago but it was not adhered to.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We do want to be having votes on the Order of Business to facilitate a debate on an issue and no Minister turns up. Senator Rose Conway-Walsh raised the interview on "Morning Ireland" with Dr. Hickey and what he is projecting for the winter months for Sligo hospital. I found it quite frightening. Regardless of political persuasion, and before we get into arguments about how things should...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That is not true.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: That simply is not true.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I can outline-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (10 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome the Minister of State. As part of my responsibilities when I was Minister of State with responsibility for the national drugs strategy, I took the opportunity to visit as many clinics and speak to as many service operators and service users as I could. Last year, I visited a clinic on Granby Row off Dorset Street where I met a wonderful woman who was travelling from the midlands...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (10 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton. I appreciate that the Minister of State, Deputy Byrne, is obliged to attend a meeting of the health committee. Perhaps the Minister of State would convey to her the seriousness of the situation. I accept that she is aware of it, but perhaps a meeting with the senior team in Granby Row would be of benefit simply to have a first-hand...