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Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is different from what you just said.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: We are militarily neutral as a country. We are not politically neutral. We will stand for human rights, freedom, democracy, and the rules-based international order. This approach suffuses everything we do, whether it relates to the conflict in Gaza or the invasion of Ukraine. Our international engagement is also underpinned by a significant investment in our security and defence...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Gino Kenny: We are living in very dangerous times, when the norms of international law, even in warfare, are being breached on a daily basis. We only have to look at what is taking place in Gaza. The pictures and images of what Israel is doing to human beings - children, women and men - are incomprehensible. In that context, Irish neutrality has always been sacred. It has been sacred from the...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: I am grateful for the opportunity to talk about the current state of the world, Ireland's place in the world and our country's policy of military neutrality. Given the language used in the motion, it is useful to begin with an examination of what we mean when we talk about military neutrality. Simply put, our policy of military neutrality, as practised by successive Governments, means...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: I will immediately convey what the Deputy has said about Bantry and the issue of the ancillary grant. Like the Deputy, many of the representatives here are hearing about that issue directly from schools in our own particular areas. I will make a few additional points. On the reviews, the model has set allocations for the forthcoming year such that 30% will have no change in their...

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I am sorry; an Tánaiste is not here.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: The Tánaiste will be here very shortly and will be giving the opening response on behalf of the Government. In the meantime, I will be here. I will be sitting through the full debate.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: The Minister of State will be here and will tell the Tánaiste what I have said. I am going to talk to him as if he was the Tánaiste, if that is okay.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: That is fine. I agree to rise to the position of Tánaiste for the next few minutes.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: Deputy Fleming has the position of Tánaiste for five minutes.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

An Cathaoirleach Gn?omhach: As a formality, I have to ask Deputy Smith to move the motion.

Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)

Bríd Smith: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the Tánaiste, Micheál Martin TD said in 2013 that the triple lock was at the core of our neutrality and described the attempt to undermine it as "an out-of-touch ideological obsession on the part of Fine Gael"; — Fianna Fáil's 2020 general election manifesto states that Ireland will "Fully maintain...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Special Educational Needs

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach; he is looking good in the Chair. I also thank the Minister of State for taking this Topical Issue. Primary schools principals right throughout Ireland are screaming in an effort to retain their special education teacher, SET, allocations. The new criteria are flawed and are not working. I know this because schools throughout my constituency are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Seán Fleming: am taking this Topical Issue on behalf of my colleague, Deputy Naughton, Minister of State at the Department of Education. I thank the Deputy for raising this issue, which has been raised at different levels in every constituency. The Deputy has highlighted two schools in his constituency in west Cork and he made the point very clearly. I want to respond as best I can without having the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs (29 May 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: I thank the Minister of State. We are hearing that the number of special education teachers has increased and that the allocations are increasing but I am telling him that this is not the reality on the ground. The fundamental point is that schools are being punished for doing their job correctly and for improving numeracy and literacy. We need to go back to taking account of those complex...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I thank the Deputy. My Department has responsibility for overall policy and Exchequer funding relating to the national road programme. Once funding arrangements have been put in place with Transport Infrastructure Ireland, TII, under the Roads Acts, 1993 to 2015, and in line with the national development plan, the planning, design, improvement and upgrading of individual national roads...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 May 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister for his response and for the work that he is doing in his Department and that TII and Cork County Council are doing as well. I note the point that it is still part of the National Development Plan 2018-2027 and it is also part of Project Ireland 2040. I also want to point out that a lot of work has been done on this 5 km route. As the Minister said, the preferred...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (29 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: I happened to be in Cork at the end of last week and was on the road. The Deputy is right. It is not up to the standard for safety that we want and we have to do everything to try and improve the safety standards on the roads. The reality is we have a series of projects. I mentioned the Castlemartyr-Killeagh bypasses. The Cathaoirleach Gníomhach mentioned to me last week that...