Results 21-40 of 50 for speaker:Dee Ryan

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming the Minister for Justice, Deputy O'Callaghan, to Limerick. He had a very full and busy day, with a long itinerary that started with inspecting the construction of the new Garda station that is under way at Newcastle West. We expect that development to be handed back to the State in the summer of 2026. He then went on to Limerick City, and I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I rise today on a joyous occasion in Limerick to congratulate the fourth-year students at Castleroy College who graduate from transition year today. The programme is all about the development of thinking, caring, articulate and self-confident young people. I congratulate the principal, Brian O'Donoghue, transition year co-ordinator, Geraldine McGrath, and all the TY students and their...

Committee on Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science: Business of Joint Committee (21 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I congratulate the Cathaoirleach on her appointment to the role and thank her for her well considered words. I am looking forward to working with the Cathaoirleach and other colleagues on the committee. My background is in business and, as a Senator from Limerick, I am keenly aware of how important the institutes of learning were for us in the aftermath of the crash and recession in 2008...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome the Minister to the Chamber to discuss this serious and important issue for the people of Limerick. I have been taking about this specific matter for seven years. He is the third Minister for Justice I have raised this issue with. In fact, I had the opportunity to meet with and engage specifically on this matter with one of his predecessors. This issue first came to light in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I thank the Minister. That is a really welcome response. We look forward to welcoming him to Limerick next week and for many engagements. Perhaps we will hear more directly from Chief Superintendent Smart on this topic. If we were to have these gardaí released back to Henry Street Garda Station, it would be a much-welcomed addition to our forces in Limerick. I look forward to...

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, is very welcome. He has five minutes.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Go raibh maith agat, a Aire Stáit. We will now go to group spokespersons. Senator Duffy is sharing time with Senators Scahill, Nelson Murray and Lynch. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome Teachta Alan Dillon's guests from Breaffy Wanderers today. You are very welcome, ladies. You have joined us as we listen to statements on driving test waiting times. The Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, has just made an opening address to the Chamber and now Senators are responding and making points on the issue. I will now move on to the Independent Group.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Anois Seanadóirí Collins agus Tully.

Seanad: Driving Test Waiting Times: Statements (20 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Committee on Fisheries and Maritime Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (15 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: Comhghairdeas, a Chathaoirligh. I am a visitor to your committee but I wanted to wish you well in your role and the committee members well in the very important work they will do over the next four years. I am a member of the Shannon Estuary economic task force, which was constituted under the last Government and produced a report on economic potential within the Shannon Estuary region....

Seanad: Mental Health and Suicide Prevention: Statements (15 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I thank the Minister of State for giving us his time today to discuss this important issue. First, as a Limerick person I acknowledge and thank her for the support she has given the Limerick community access support team. It is a pilot initiative that she and the then Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy Browne, came to Limerick to launch last October. It went live in...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bus Services (13 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister of State is very welcome. It is great to have him here again. I am particularly delighted to get the opportunity to address through this Commencement matter an issue I am particularly passionate about. It is a matter I have been working on for a number of years, that is, the broader matter of the improved public transport and active travel facilities for the citizens of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Bus Services (13 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The group is very welcome. We have a vibrant Probus group in Limerick. I hope to have them to the Oireachtas at some stage. I thank the Minister of State for his response. I appreciate its thoroughness. As I said, we are very excited in Limerick about the ambition of the overall Limerick Shannon metropolitan area transport strategy, which had great engagement from people right across...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I rise today for the first time to represent the Fianna Fáil Party as leader on the Order of Business. It is absolutely fitting that I would raise as my first issue the biggest issue for us in the mid-west, as the Leas-Chathaoirleach will be aware, which is the issue of the University Hospital Limerick, UHL, overcrowding at the accident and emergency department, and the consequent...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...

Seanad: EU Regulations: Motion (8 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: The Minister is very welcome to the Chamber. I thank him for that comprehensive overview of what is proposed. From our internal party discussions and the utterances of the Minister for Justice, the Minister for public expenditure, Deputy Chambers, and indeed the Taoiseach, I note we are very focused in government on improving agility within the business community here and competitiveness in...

Seanad: Higher Education: Motion (7 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I propose to share time with Senator Curley.

Seanad: Higher Education: Motion (7 May 2025)

Dee Ryan: I welcome the Minister and thank him for joining us in the Chamber and giving us his time to discuss this important topic. I thank our colleagues in Fine Gael for bringing forward this motion and giving us the space to share our concerns, ambitions and desires for this important sector that the Minister has taken charge of. I wish him well with his work. It is important not just to the...