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Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Bertie Ahern, Former Taoiseach (23 May 2023)

Emer Currie: As part of the commemoration of 25 years of the Good Friday Agreement, we met the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims' Remains. That has been a success for some families but not for all. There are still four families who are waiting for their loved ones to be returned. We remember families like that of Columba McVeigh, who are searching for Columba at the moment in County...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will take seven and a half minutes before I pass over to my colleague. I hope this exchange can be conversational because I have many questions. This is a report about perspectives on constitutional change. It will come as no shock that I am in favour of constitutional change and am open-minded about how we do that and what it would look like. Dr. Barrett mentioned that the shared...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Is the first part essential to making the second part work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Our guests have suggested some of that work has been done. How much of that work remains to be done?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: People like me will vote for a united Ireland or a new Ireland. However, as we have seen in polls, some people, particularly in the South, want to know how much it would cost. There are concerns in the North about how reunification would affect people's standard of living. The figures are stark. Are our guests telling me that since the Good Friday Agreement, productivity in the Northern...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: The gap is 40%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: How much control does the Northern Ireland Executive have through its own policies over investment and changing educational attainment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: That is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Over the past 20 years.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Can the Executive change that itself?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Is it within the Executive's power to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economics of Northern Ireland and the All-island Economy: Economic and Social Research Institute (11 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Where has the energy been? Has it been going to that integrated approach to investment? Where has it been going? I want to try to understand that big gap.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish to focus on childcare supply in Dublin West. I will outline the reasons we need a review of section 28 of the Planning and Development Act and the ministerial guidelines from 2001, a review of the interaction between county councils and county childcare committees and radical change from the loose planning guidelines we have to deliver childcare supply in order to plan, build and open...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: Parents will tell you again and again that supply is a major issue across Dublin 15. The Minister of State knows that. I have reached out to some of the childcare committees to see what is happening and what interaction there is. My feedback from that is that it is not consistent. Some committees are working closer with planning officials than others. If we are to address undersupply, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: It is great to have somebody in the room who has the experience of being on this side of the questions. We are all in agreement that something needs to happen when dealing with legacy. Otherwise, the past will just continue to haunt us. The time to do it is now for the reasons outlined in that the people concerned are dying, the information is harder to obtain the longer we go on, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: I will finish the point. In my experience, criminal investigations are required to get to the truth because people are not showing they are willing to come forward. What is it about the Truth Recovery Process approach that it believes would change that? In addition, verifying the truth is an important part of this as well. We have seen that through our deliberations on and analysis of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Representatives of Truth Recovery Process (4 May 2023)

Emer Currie: If it was allowed to produce the truth, it could.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Apr 2023)

Emer Currie: I wish the Acting Leader and Cathaoirleach a good morning. I welcome H.E. Palm and Lieutenant Colonel Piso to our Chamber. I wish to raise a couple of issues this morning, the first of which is the news yesterday from the Minister for Justice that there will be gardaí on duty at railway stations, starting at Heuston Station with a new Garda transport hub. I very much welcome this news...