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Commission of Investigation (Handling of Historical Child Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools) Order 2025: Motion (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I welcome the motion to establish the commission of investigation into the handling of historical child sexual abuse in both boarding schools and our schools generally. I fully support it. I pay tribute to the courage and resilience of the survivors who have campaigned on this issue. I remember the people who were abused who are not with us directly because of the abuse they suffered in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 474. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the special needs supports that can be provided for an individual (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39200/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Disability Services (15 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 821. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the disability supports that can be provided for an individual (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39199/25]

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: Today, I speak not only as a TD for Roscommon-Galway but as a GP with over three decades of experience. In that time, I have witnessed the hidden trauma of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I recognise what Deputy Connolly has said that in some way, the term domestic has minimised what in fact is assault within the home. "Domestics" were sometimes minimised because it was simply...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: This week, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste have rightly emphasised the Government's strong commitment to easing the cost-of-living pressures on families, including the recent move to strengthen the powers of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission to ensure fairness in grocery pricing. Given the extraordinary external pressures of recent years with Covid, the war in Ukraine...

Post-European Council: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: Following the 26 June post-Council European statement, I note the EU position on Gaza, Iran, Ukraine and Syria. Ireland has led the EU in advocating for the beleaguered Palestinian people in Gaza and in the West Bank. The Taoiseach has called it genocide and forcefully decried the lack of action on the part of the European Union. There has been formal recognition at EU level, driven by...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I apologise for being late. I was attending the health committee, which occurs at the same time as this one. I thank our witnesses for coming in today. I am struck by the commission's report, which states we have signed up to international obligations in the area of disability. The areas of concern are areas we thought we had consigned to history: institutionalisation, congregation and...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I have run out of time, but I would like to comment that it appears to me that there is a two-tier system of safeguarding. While rights for children are regulated by Tusla, we do not have the same rights for adults of all hues: those of older age, those who live with disability and those who are vulnerable. I take the point that it should be a justice-based thing. If you are breaking the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the witnesses today from Safeguarding Ireland and the Irish Association of Social Workers for their statements, which were very comprehensive. One thing struck me, and I am satisfied that they have extended the scope beyond what we were considering, which was the recent nursing home scandal and the other scandals, which involved institutional care. I want to be careful how I say...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank Ms Rickard-Clarke for her comprehensive reply. The Irish Association of Social Workers made a number of points about the widespread, endemic abuse, often committed by family members, sometimes by carers and sometimes by a concerned neighbour who does jobs. I have seen that in my experience. The witnesses made some comments about the nursing home sector. I agree that the day of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 282. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when the newly approved Local Link service between Ballinasloe and Athlone is scheduled to commence, given that it was previously announced the service would be operational by June 2025. [37730/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 857. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the lack of access to manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) therapy for lymphedema patients across County Roscommon, where no physiotherapists within the HSE service are currently trained to provide this essential treatment; if funding constraints are the cause of this service gap; and if she will ensure that cancer patients in Roscommon have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 858. To ask the Minister for Health if she will address the lack of access to manual lymphatic drainage (MLD) therapy for lymphedema patients across County Roscommon, where no physiotherapists within the HSE service are currently trained to provide this essential treatment; if funding constraints are the cause of this service gap; and if she will ensure that all patients in Roscommon have...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Misuse of Drugs (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 859. To ask the Minister for Health if the semi-synthetic cannabinoid hexahydrocannabinol (HHC), commonly found in vape products, will be included under schedule 1 of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, and if so, when the amendment is expected to take effect. [37721/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 889. To ask the Minister for Health if Veoza, aimed at women who are not suitable for HRT, will be covered under the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37881/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: 890. To ask the Minister for Health if an organisation (details supplied) will be funded by the HSE to eliminate the cost barrier of exercise for older people; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37882/25]

Middle East: Statements (2 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: The ongoing conflict in Gaza risks igniting a much wider regional war, an outcome that would be profoundly tragic and destabilising. Gaza remains an open wound festering and poisoning relations, not just between Israel and Palestine, but also between Israel and much of the international community. Ireland has made the situation in the Middle East a central foreign policy priority and we...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I also apologise for being late. Unfortunately, the health and disability committee meetings clash, which is a pity because they are equally important. The figures for Ireland in relation to disability in terms of poverty, health, mental health, employment and housing do not make good reading based on international comparisons. We are starting from a very low base. I missed the Minister...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank the Minister of State for her answer. The stark example was a mother at this present time who said that if I could check her into an acute psychiatric unit, would they look after her 45-year-old son? That is stark.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Martin Daly: I thank Mr. Gloster and his team for coming. I reiterate his tribute to the public health workers in hospitals, the community and various settings throughout the country. The vast majority carry out their roles with distinction but there are questions, some of which he identified. He touched upon the one that is possibly the most sensitive to this committee, namely, the moral hazard of the...