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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...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: I will briefly speak in support of Deputy Howlin's contribution. It makes perfect sense. I am very supportive of the principle and concept as well, particularly with regard to the separation of headquarters. For instance, Garda headquarters is not embedded in the Department of Justice. It is completely separate and rightly so. It has a certain amount of operational independence as well,...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: I want to speak in support of both suggestions. The bottom line is that the singular focus of the defence apparatus at the moment should be recruitment and retention. Reducing people's constitutional rights would be highly unlikely to incentivise someone to join or stay. One of the reasons the Defence Forces are in a bit of difficulty is that people were silenced and could not speak up....

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: The fundamental question is whether we should elevate these secondary regulations to primary legislation at all. Should we be nesting this in primary legislation? Are we distracting ourselves from what we should be doing? Is it necessary?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: We say this with full respect. We are fully on board with genuine external oversight. We welcome it. It is a good structure to have in place, but we want it to be a success and for the new body to be an exemplar of good governance by its very existence. We feel - and the Tánaiste will detect that there is unanimity on this - that having someone who is merging the executive function...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: I am very encouraged by what the Tánaiste has said. I agree with him about Deputy Stanton's solution. I know the Deputy has introduced it as a kind of compromise solution, but I think it is actually a superior solution rather than a compromise one. It allows the board to have access to the expertise of the Secretary General but keeps that separation between the board and the Secretary...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: It is superfluous.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: It could just state,: "With the consent of the Minister".

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (23 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: It is not in the most recent draft of the Bill.

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.

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

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...

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

Amendment declared carried.

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

Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." The Dáil divided: Tá, 61; Níl, 50; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Pádraig Mac Lochlainn and Denise Mitchell.

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

Tá Colm Brophy, James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Jackie Cahill, Dara Calleary, Ciarán Cannon, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Joe Flaherty, Charles Flanagan, Seán Fleming, Brendan Griffin, Seán Haughey, Martin...

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

Question declared carried.

Message from Select Committee (22 May 2024)