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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Chairman for the opportunity to speak. Everybody here could agree that we hope the legislation will not be needed, but life is not that simple. I want to put on the record that those who propose that this section be deleted are suggesting that the constitutional rights of women, as laid down by the Supreme Court and the will of the people, be left unvindicated. They are also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Issues Facing Small Primary Schools: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Unfortunately, I must leave to attend another committee meeting. I have no option but to do so as it is a select committee. I will throw a few grenades and run, if that is okay. I thank the delegation for the presentations and I am interested in some of the comments made that half the Protestant primary schools in the country could be closed. There was also a question of values and a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Issues Facing Small Primary Schools: Discussion (3 Jul 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: There are votes taking place in the select committee.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (3 Jul 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to allow for an opt out system for organ donation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32326/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Organ Donation (3 Jul 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 212. To ask the Minister for Health in view of the MSM blood ban, if sexually active gay men are also prevented from being organ donors; and if so, if he or his Department have considered removing such a ban [32327/13]

Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (28 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I commend the Minister for bringing the Bill before the House. This is a day which will largely go unnoticed, unfortunately, but it is the day on which we will effectively criminalise slavery in Ireland by defining "forced labour" and reinforcing it as a specific criminal offence. Like my colleague, Deputy Robert Dowds, I congratulate Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, Ms Denise Charlton, Ms...

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We were.

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Where is Anglo Irish Bank now?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Where is Anglo Irish Bank now?

Leaders' Questions (27 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We are coming here everyday to clean up Fianna Fáil's mess.

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I welcome that the Legislature is finally reacting to the 20 year old Supreme Court judgment in the X case. This subject can be broken into two parts, the constitutional element and the substantive issue. In respect of the constitutional element, no other parliament in the world would be allowed to disregard a judgment of a supreme court and the decisions of the people in two referendums....

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Did the Deputy apologise?

Leaders' Questions (26 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Let us bring back Fianna Fáil.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Payments (26 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 90. To ask the Minister for Finance if a retailer is entitled to recoup the VAT portion of a loss in their VAT return when they choose to sell alcohol at a price below the cost of purchase; if the reintroduction of the groceries order on alcohol would prevent this from happening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31017/13]

Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I would like to know when the Employment Equality (Amendment)(No.2) Bill 2013 which has passed Second Stage in the Seanad will appear before this House. The Bill proposes to remove the right of State-funded religious institutions to discriminate against individuals whom they consider undermine their ethos, including members of the LGBT community.

Order of Business (25 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It has been passed by the Seanad on Second Stage.

Leaders' Questions (25 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Deputy Pearse Doherty's party wrote the biggest cheque with the bank guarantee.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Copyright Legislation Review (25 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 338. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation when the Copyright Review Committee will make its recommendations as per its terms of reference established in May 2011. [30483/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is a shame that the vast bulk of the discussion today has focused not on what we are trying to invest in in terms of the job creation measures and the stimulus. That is the nub of the issue, and it is a success story that we are not selling off assets just to shift the debt but to reinvest in the economy. The Minister referred to traditional investments. They seem to be quite...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Disposal of State Assets and Quarterly Review: Discussion with Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (19 Jun 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Would the Minister expand on the comment he made earlier about the potential for Ireland being a major exporter of energy?