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- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
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- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: Sinn Féin's main focus in the United States is fundraising not raising issues around foreign policy.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
James O'Connor: The Tánaiste is over time.
- Neutrality and the Triple Lock: Motion [Private Members] (29 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is the reality. That is a fact.
- 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...