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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó (Atógáil) - Order of Business (Resumed) (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: There are many things one hopes never to have to raise in the House and unfortunately what happened in the small townland of Drumgowna just outside Tallanstown in County Louth yesterday morning is certainly one of those, with such a tragic loss of Mark, Louise and Evan O'Connor. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is a pall of shock and disbelief over the entire county and beyond...

Seanad: School Transport: Statements (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I thank him for coming to the House. He is always amenable to talking about this and other topics. As a townie who used to cycle to school, I am a little disappointed to hear from my colleague, Senator Murphy O'Mahony, how many romances I may have missed out on. Perhaps that was a good thing. I will not repeat what has been said by my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. I thank them for coming. One of the joys of being this far down the speakers list is that I have almost ticked off almost every question I had, but I thank the witnesses because I have learned a lot. I will have to think a little outside the box. I come from a Border county. I am based in County Louth so I have watched a steady...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: How will the witnesses future-proof against those shocks and changes? How can we help with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: We need to get those policies to align. I almost fell foul of those policy changes when I was getting the surgery because as a HRT user in the Republic, there were very different guidelines when I went to get the surgery. I was told either to come off HRT immediately, which, as we know, would have plunged me into symptoms, or the surgeons would refuse to carry out the surgery. It was very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Institute of Public Health (30 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: These are some of the challenges we are dealing with. How sensitive is Ms Costello's work to shifts in Government priorities, changes of Ministers or shifts in political will in either jurisdiction?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: I also extend a warm welcome to Stella O'Loughlin. She can see the inner workings of the Seanad at first hand. I begin with a tribute to Kevin Geraghty, a wonderful and warm Fianna Fáil stalwart from Collon, County Louth, who passed away recently. He was in his 90th year and was a member of the third generation of his family in Fianna Fáil in County Louth. His father Nicholas...

Seanad: Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza: Motion (25 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: I second the motion. I say that with pride. I am absolutely behind Senator O'Loughlin and her words today. I thank the Cathaoirleach and the Minister of State for coming here today. I could not agree more that there are very pressing issues in our country today, but we simply cannot ignore what is happening in Gaza. We are seeing images and report every day of families torn apart,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: I thank everyone for attending here. I will raise another topic that may assist with answering. Is Mr. Courell aware of a project called operation magenta?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: When was that established?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Is Mr. Keohane happy that the independent review he ordered into operation magenta interviewed all those central to the issue before the board was told in the autumn of 2024 there was nothing to see here?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: I will return to Mr. Courell. He will agree that he addressed a media conference outside the FAI headquarters after the allegations were made in various documentaries, as well as being documented in the Sunday Independent and RTÉ. Did he tell that press briefing that he first became aware of those serious allegations in early 2024?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Therefore Mr. Courell had no prior knowledge whatsoever of these allegations prior to them becoming public.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Does Mr. Courell have any regrets about the statement he made on that day?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: It is referencing that he had absolutely no prior knowledge of these allegations before they came to light in the various documentaries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Therefore Mr. Courell had no prior knowledge of those complaints that were made prior to them coming out as serious allegations in documentaries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Following everyone else’s line of questions, can Mr. Courell withdraw any of the statement that was made given the information that is public knowledge that he may have been included in emails in 2023 giving him the information of these complaints that were made?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: Ms Pakes mentioned she had no knowledge of these complaints prior to 2024. Does she have an exact date of when she was informed of this? Can she tell me who informed her? Was it from public documentation or was it somebody from within the organisation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alison Comyn: We have heard extensively how safeguarding policies are in place right across the board. Policies can be in place but it is the follow-up and the action that is vital and that is where we are asking the questions today. Ms Pakes has outlined the safeguarding policies. Is Ms Rafferty happy that these policies have been enacted right across the board? When did they begin? Did they begin...