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Seanad: Order of Business (22 Mar 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

David Norris: ...and the phrases they used were "a grey area" and "an academic situation". We should push through a grey area and academic situation, and establish our rights. We are adults. I very much welcome the Pope's visit and I am delighted he is coming. He is a good man. I publicly initiated the first move towards an invitation a couple of years ago in the previous Seanad. I would like to...

Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Mar 2018)

Leo Varadkar: The Vatican confirmed this morning that Pope Francis will visit Ireland for the World Meeting of Families in Dublin on 25 and 26 August. While it is not a formal State visit, it is the visit of a Head of State and the spiritual leader of 1 billion Catholics, and millions of Catholics in this country. He is certainly a welcome guest and I look forward to greeting him during his visit. There...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Mar 2018) See 2 other results from this debate

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome this morning's announcement that Pope Francis is to visit Dublin for two days at the end of August on the occasion of the world meeting of families. I am disappointed, however, that there seems to be no indication that the Pope will visit the North of Ireland.That would be regrettable if it is the case. My main reason for raising this issue is to ask the Leader if he would indicate...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh (21 Mar 2018)

Jerry Buttimer: ..., inviting him into our homes, but for the way he made the Irish language accessible. In my humble opinion, we speak about great people like Pádraig Pearse but to me, i ré nua, we have a patriot in front of us today. This is a man who took his love of the Irish language from west Kerry and brought it to the four corners of our country. Senator O'Mahony spoke about the...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Mar 2018)

David Norris: ...codology. They are of course. I read Ratzinger's rubbish, his theological drivelling about sexuality. I would fail a first year student for the kind of nonsense he went on with, but of course he is a Pope so he must be a genius because of his automatic connection. He is another mediocrity. Mrs. McAleese says the church has become an "empire of misogyny". That is something that needs...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Pat Buckley: ...recommend that when the final report is published, a redress scheme be put in place. It has been stated that the issue is one of money. I do not mean any disrespect to the Catholic Church or the Pope but if the Government can cough up €20 million for the Pope's visit, surely it can also look after its own people. What the church and State did to survivors, victims and their...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...this does not have to wait until the commission of inquiry has completed its work. Many survivors have been wondering on social media and elsewhere why the State is paying for a visit by the Pope at a time when they have not received redress from the religious organisations that abused them or an apology from the church. This is a major issue which many people are raising. It is...

Petroleum and Other Minerals Development (Amendment) (Climate Emergency Measures) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Feb 2018)

Eamon Ryan: .... I look forward to it. We could have a committee meeting or pre-legislative scrutiny next week. We should bring in Bill McKibben and Mary Robinson to see what they think. We should ask Lorna Gold to get Pope Francis to Skype the meeting. That is the important point: it raises our hearts, spirits and souls that we will be good at this. I am sure of that.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (23 Jan 2018) See 3 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: I will start with the questions on the attendance of Pope Francis at the World Meeting of Families in Dublin. My Department, through its protocol division, is assisting the church authorities in the organisation and preparations that need to be made for that visit. Even though it is not formally a State visit, the assistance provided to Pope Francis will be the same as if it were. Pope...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Jan 2018)

Leo Varadkar: .... A wide ranging discussion took place on a range of important national and international issues including the World Meeting of Families in August 2018 and the possibility of a visit to Ireland by the Pope, education issues, the 8th Amendment of the Constitution, Northern Ireland, overseas development aid, social and justice issues. I was very pleased with the engagement that took...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Eoghan Murphy: ...Photography 2014 €551.00 Launch of Social Housing Strategy Maxwell Photography 2014 €2,161.00 Fire Services Long Service Awards Maxwell Photography 2015 €23.50 Fire Services Long Service Awards Maxwell Photography 2015 €80.00 Photograph of Minister Alan Kelly and Pope Francis at the EU Environment Ministers’ meeting on Climate Change in the...

Climate Change: Statements (7 Dec 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Eamon Ryan: ...has to be made. This is a cultural transition. It is, and it is difficult to use this word in this House because one never mixes the two, a "spiritual" transition we need to make. It is, as Pope Francis and the Eastern Patriarch Bartholomew stated, a massive leap or transition to make where we put ecological and social thinking at the heart of everything, including our churches. That...

Seanad: Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Dec 2017)

Rónán Mullen: ...William Wilberforce whose struggle against slavery drew its motivation and sustenance from his faith in an all-powerful, loving answer to the riddle of the universe. Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II, Martin Luther King - the list is endless. In his own time and place, Des Hanafin chose a hard road of defending ideas and values that enjoyed widespread support among...

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...and Iran - international allies of Assad. As is to be expected, Christian leaders in the area have denounced the trafficking of weapons into Syria as something which helps the conflict continue. Pope Francis has repeatedly denounced the arms trade. In his September 2015 speech to the US Congress, Pope Francis emphasised that Christians must ask why deadly weapons are being sold to those...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Nov 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Rónán Mullen: ...and have often said that he is a very fine example of the potential for the Seanad. I also think that there are many things on which we agree. I suspect that we both have an admiration for Pope John XXIII, for example.

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Mattie McGrath: ...with this country is that there is too much control of things. We cannot do any bit of work on the N24 or any of the major roads without getting permission. One would get an audience with the Pope faster than an audience with the RSA. I have met the Pope several times, but I cannot meet the head of the RSA.

Seanad: Public Health (Alcohol) Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2017)

Paddy Burke: ...fixed structures? What about air shows where an advertisement for Heineken, Guinness or whatever is printed on the side of an aeroplane? What about advertisements at big race meetings? When the Pope comes to Phoenix Park one could have an aeroplane circling overhead with Guinness, Ballina whiskey, Connacht whiskey or whatever written on its side or on a banner. I ask the Minister to...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

Aidan Davitt: I rise in anticipation that His Holiness Pope Francis will visit in the third week of August, with the possibility that Croke Park will facilitate a celebratory mass on 26 August. I suggest we invite Pope Francis to address a joint sitting of the Houses.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017) See 5 other results from this debate

Leo Varadkar: ...'s recommendation that there should be a referendum on the matter and that we will be guided by the outcome of the all-party committee as to what should be wording of the question. On the Pope's visit, the date for the World Meeting of Families is 21 to 26 August 2018. We do not yet know the specific date or dates on which the Holy Father will be in the country and no decision has...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (26 Sep 2017)

Leo Varadkar: ...Education and Skills, Health, Transport, Tourism and Sport and Employment Affairs and Social Protection. The agenda for the meeting included the World Meeting of Families 2018 and possible visit by Pope Francis; education issues; the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution; Northern Ireland and International issues (overseas development aid); and justice and social issues. A wide ranging...