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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (23 May 2024)

Mairead Farrell: The Minister was just talking about capacity issues. One of the big things in terms of capacity is to make sure we have the workforce that can build the different projects that we need, particularly when it comes to accommodation needs. That is why I would like the Minister to outline what progress is being made at the moment with regard to the current challenges in the apprenticeship...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Apologies have been received from Senator Niall Blaney. The first, pleasant duty I have is to welcome our new member of committee, Senator Malachai O'Hara, who represents the Green Party. He is more than welcome and we look forward to working with him over the time that remains, be that long or short. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Professor John Doyle, vice-president of research at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank Professor McGuinness. Before I open it up, if it is agreed, maybe we will extend the slots to 15 minutes because there are a lot of very important issues here for each group. I am not an economist and I am certainly not a professor, so I would not dare to challenge the assumptions that anybody makes from that perspective. However, I would like to think that maybe we could see...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Sure. That is no problem. We all agree on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: We have reached the end of Deputy Smith's 15 minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I am trying to be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: There is no problem at all. I know speakers want to get in but if everyone is happy, we will allow an answer to the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: The next slot is a Fine Gael slot and we can continue this questioning if that is okay with Deputy Smith.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: We will keep the Deputy in the picture because it is an important point. Today's witnesses and Professor FitzGerald are saying the same thing about education attainment, young people with talent not staying in the North and wages being lower because jobs are poorly paid because people are not highly skilled. That is the point that Professor FitzGerald made. People with a higher grade of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: The point then, from a political point of view, is that if all of the parties in Northern Ireland embraced this change, whether or not in a united Ireland, it would make a significant difference. It is the most realistic path for change because everybody's boat would be floating higher. The political system must focus on how to persuade people from various political backgrounds to consent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I agree entirely with Professor McGuinness. That is the key point that if you are going, from a preparatory perspective, for a referendum on unity, if you have not worked it all out and if it is not clear to everybody the black and white of what will happen, it will not work anyway and people will not embrace it because there is not certainty and there is not progress. There has to be a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I want to ask about Brexit, and the advantage for Northern Ireland's economy to develop a new energy as it could significantly change things and bring new investment. It would be of huge economic benefit if that were to happen or if it were driven by the Executive or whatever because the North is the only place where one can export to the UK from the EU without tariffs. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: That is an important point. I call Senator O'Hara.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: All-Island Economy: Discussion (Resumed) (23 May 2024)

Fergus O'Dowd: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. It has been a very worthwhile discussion. They have given us a lot of food for thought and pointed a way for constructive proposals to put before the people by an Oireachtas committee when the time comes. I would like to have further clarity on the issues with Professor FitzGerald, not in a personal way but to try to tease out a constructive...

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

The following motion was moved by Deputy Eoin Ó Broin on Tuesday, 21 May 2024:

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Debate resumed on amendment No. 1: - (Minister of State at the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Alan Dillon)

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to the motion on housing. On Tuesday, 21 May 2024, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (22 May 2024)

Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 49; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.