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Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...As I said earlier, we are not really dancing on the head of a pin here. We cannot have a situation where spiking is shoved in under poisoning legislation which, by reason of its very terminology, feels a bit archaic. I am happy to withdraw the amendment but I will take up the Minister's offer of his further engagement with his Department. I get the sense from the script the Department...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: School Patronage (23 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...than a parent who might have two or three children who are not yet in school but who live in the catchment area? It is patently not fair. It has led to incredible division and an uncomfortable feeling around the whole discussion. No one on either side of the debate feels their views were heard. There is a huge amount of confusion around it. Will the Minister start a new process?...

Education (Inspection of Individual Education Plans for Children with Special Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Mar 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...again. The controversy is not new. People are going to educational psychologists and the bona fides of those psychologists are being called into question. The reality is that when you do not feel you can get the service from NEPS, you are going to try to get your child assessed elsewhere. A reflection on that on the part of the Government would be welcome. When there is an IEP, it...

European Union Directive: Motion (28 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the assets of Russian war criminals. That is something the Government should have taken on board much more speedily. It has been on the Order Paper of this House since November 2021 and we feel strongly that the Government should move on it. As was mentioned by other Deputies, the EU has stature and an ethical backbone only when it deals with all international conflicts in a similar...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, in bringing forward a memo to Government on the establishment of a citizens' assembly on drugs. Deputies and Senators from different political groups feel strongly about the citizens' assembly being a real force for change. We want the voice of the service user, the drug user, to be central to the deliberations of the citizens' assembly on...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Third Level Fees (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...welcome and things are going in the right direction. The Minister is making all of the right noises in terms of reducing third level fees to where they were 25 years ago. Does the Minister not feel that an additional measure or gesture could be made from Government to reduce the fees of a small cohort of students by €1,000, in line with everybody else?

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...responses when it came to the southside - Stepaside Garda station comes to mind - where a Minister could jump in and make things happen. The overall point is about morale within the force. There is a feeling that people are leaving the force because of issues such as Deputy Kenny has outlined, but if morale is at such a point, then it affects the security of the State and people's belief...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the Minister said earlier. I commend the Government, in particular the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, on bringing forward the memo today on the citizens' assembly on drugs. Does the Minister feel this is money well spent when we have such a population within our prison system who are not benefiting from it and who do not need to be there? We should have a much smaller prison...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Revised)
Vote 21 - Prisons (Revised)
Vote 22 - Courts Service (Revised)
Vote 24 - Justice (Revised)
Vote 41 - Policing Authority (Revised)
Vote 44 - Data Protection Commission (Revised) (14 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... There are bizarre reports of attacks on women at Howth Junction DART station, purported to be done by migrants in recent times even though it happened three years ago. Does the Minister not feel that at this point we need a Covid-style response by the Government to such misinformation? During the Covid pandemic when the Government was at the forefront of that information campaign,...

Garda Síochána (Recording Devices) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Feb 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...those of certain ethnic backgrounds. When the Garda Commissioner makes comments about every body cam having facial recognition technology, those are two major changes in one which we need to be careful about. Let me put the position of the Labour Party clearly. We are in favour of body cams on gardaí. We feel they would protect the member of the public and the member of An Garda...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed) (31 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to that. My contribution is the wider education piece, the wider societal messaging and how we can balance that with a need for us to treat people like adults and be responsible. However, it feels like a war that we are losing. My direct question to Mandate is about how we can strengthen the workers’ rights within the Bill to ensure that anybody who takes on these licences for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Sale of Alcohol Bill 2022: Discussion (24 Jan 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...be policed. The health service has its point of view as to how it will be dealt with. Those are the main criticisms we as Oireachtas Members will get about our evaluation of this Bill. The Labour Party feels it is beyond time that this legislation was changed and upgraded. From a Dublin perspective, Dublin city centre is dying and needs to be revitalised. We must treat people as...

Dublin Bay Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...we can to provide support to the family in what are absolutely heartbreaking circumstances for them and the school community, which happens to be in my constituency. To return to the Bill, we feel strongly about Dublin and believe it deserves protection and enhancement. We feel strongly that lessons have to be learned from the various crises we have had over the years. People...

Teacher Shortages: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...is allowing Dublin to die on its watch. We cannot get teachers, nurses or gardaí to live in the capital city and to serve it. Our schools are being bled of talent that could teach these children, and the children feel it and know it because it is they are in classrooms without a teacher, or with a substitute teacher, or else they have a succession of teachers. They know there is...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the situation than we were in recent years. I do not want people who are listening to this debate in the Public Gallery to go home angry and just angry. They need to go home from this debate feeling that they might get somewhere. When they heard "ten years", I am sure it broke their hearts a little.

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...present and for any other families affected by this issue. I refer as well to those families who do not even realise they have been affected. In the case of my constituency, I do not even feel as if I can list off the apartment blocks and residents groups I have been dealing with. On one level, I am not sure if they would thank me. This is the level of fear we are dealing with. I hope...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... He flagged this for a long time. He has brought it before the Oireachtas and, in fairness, he has delivered. That is in his favour and needs to be said on the record. It is strong legislation. We feel it could be stronger. The levy on gambling needs to be increased and should fund more than the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund because the ring-fenced nature of that funding deserves...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...her constituents that the newly opened medical centre in her area would not be dealing methadone. It leads to a backbencher using dehumanising language when speaking about someone in addiction. It leads to the most ineffective and absent Minister and Minister of State with responsibility for this area in a generation. The feeling from the political system is that what drug users are...