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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: Lady's Island Lake in County Wexford is the largest saltwater lagoon in Ireland. It provides refuge for a variety of wildfowl. That is why it is protected under both the birds and habitats directives. It surrounds Our Lady's Island, which is a beautiful and ancient place of pilgrimage. Unfortunately, Lady's Island Lake is also highly polluted. The environmental protection agency, EPA,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Taoiseach for his comments, but this time we have to do something different. We need political leadership and accountability. The damage here has been building for four decades and the existing processes just have not worked. In place of a thriving ecosystem, we are going to end up with a toxic goo lagoon. If we fail to act, we do not have far to look to see what is next for...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank colleagues across the House for their contributions on this debate. I thank the Minister, Deputy O'Brien, and the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, for attending. Last year, we saw public transport usage grow to 1 million passengers per day, which was an important milestone to pass. This shows the success of the measures that were taken in the previous Government, led by a Green...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It will need legislation. I am on the transport committee and am happy to work on that legislation, but we need clear commitments on when we will actually get these things done. Similarly on the issue of next-generation ticketing, I suggest the end of 2026 to have that implemented by. The Minister of State's speech spoke of taking a number of years. The Minister has now given us a date...

Public Transport Experience: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I move: That Dáil Éireann: acknowledges as hugely positive: — the increase in public transport usage in recent years and, in particular, the fact that over 1 million public transport journeys are now taken each day; — the reductions in all public transport fares that were introduced in April 2022; — the additional reductions in public transport fares for...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Contracts (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 135. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if her Department can amend its contracts with childcare providers to include a restriction on the practice of some providers offering childcare places but requiring non-refundable deposits if the place is not taken up; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33093/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (18 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 167. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the health technology assessment being carried out on the orphan medicine givinostat (brand name duvyzat) used to treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy; if there are any steps she can take to speed up the assessment process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Management (17 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he is aware that former speed limits are still showing in popular navigation services after these were reduced on national secondary roads earlier this year; if his Department is aware of a process to ensure changes in speed limits are reflected in navigation services; if this matter will compound when urban speed limits are reduced...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Constitutional Amendments (17 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 547. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if it is his intention to advance the recommendation of the Report of the Housing Commission with respect to the holding of a referendum on the right to housing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32815/25]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is a rainy day, and on rainy days staff in Coolmine Community School in my constituency, Dublin West, have to set out between 40 and 50 plastic buckets across the school to deal with water flowing into corridors, classrooms, toilets and offices. That water flows from over 100 leaks in the roof of the school. Coolmine is a big school, with almost a thousand pupils, and has provided...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Schools Refurbishment (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The line, "The Department advised the school to obtain a new leak detection test", when there are a hundred buckets on the floor, is worthy of "Yes Minister". The school put in an application for an upgrade because it does need a new roof. It was then told, "No, you cannot go under that pathway; you have to go for an emergency works pathway."...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The Tánaiste has committed to bringing his version of an occupied territories Bill to the foreign affairs committee in June. Is it going to happen? We have only two sitting weeks left in June. That would mean, in order to meet his own timetable, the Tánaiste would have to bring the heads of the Bill to the Cabinet next Tuesday or the following Tuesday. Does the Tánaiste...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 43. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on legislation he is bringing forward with respect to the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30079/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 30. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline his Department's understanding of the distinction between 'peacekeeping' and 'peace-enforcement' missions under the UN framework; how this will be reflected in the amending legislation he is bringing forward with respect to the triple lock; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30078/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department will make a decision on the provision of an emergency works grant to a school (details supplied) to enable it undertake repairs to its roof which has multiple leaks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (12 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has given consideration to the request of a school (details supplied) to undertake a full rebuild of the school, as the current building dates from the 1970s and is over 50 years old; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30077/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: The question of the exclusion of services from the Government's occupied territories Bill lite has been a central issue of debate in this House and in public since it was announced in the programme for Government. In response to questions from me and others, the Taoiseach regularly cited legal advice that he had received for the exclusion of services. In a recent response to questions in...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: It is.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (11 Jun 2025)

Roderic O'Gorman: That is why services should be in it.