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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: As the Acting Leader will appreciate, there is great concern across the world about the heightened tensions emerging in the Middle East. Iran’s reaction to provocation by Israel in recent days has brought the situation to a very serious level. It would be a welcome opportunity to invite the Tánaiste to the House at his convenience to discuss with us what he has been doing in...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for coming to the House to discuss this important matter. This is a debate I have been seeking for some time. I thank him for his level of engagement with us. Quite frankly, however, engagement is not enough. There is a sense of despair across the farming sector of a kind that I have not seen for a long time. The bad weather is the straw that broke the camel's back....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: While the sun might be shining in Dublin there is teeming rain in the west of Ireland, including Clare. The weather conditions since last July have made farming almost an impossibility. The pressure, both mental and physical, on the farming community is palpable. Regardless of size and scale of operation every farmer in the country is under enormous pressure. There are issues around...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Now.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Now.

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State and thank him for the work that he has been doing in this difficult area. It is easy to be around when the plaudits are handed out when the trends are going the right way. It is a much different job when the trends are going in the wrong direction and when one has to take decisive measures. One has to introduce a set of criteria that are aimed at trying to...

Seanad: Road Traffic Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (11 Apr 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Next Tuesday at 1 p.m.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Yesterday, I raised the issue of the chronic overcrowding at the accident and emergency department in UHL and the implications that has for the wider community in the mid-west. While the situation clearly has not changed since then, it would be remiss of me not to raise some of the other concerns that exist within that hospital structure and within the hospital's region. Over the weekend,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: He is showing up the rest of us. All the greats-----

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Hear, hear.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I join with Senator Warfield in expressing my dissatisfaction at the failure of many Departments to appoint people to boards. We are all talking about corporate governance and ensuring that issues such as those that happened in RTÉ never happen again. The Shannon Foynes Port Company has been without a chair for several months. There are other institutions in a similar position. I ask...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: My only comments are to compliment the OPW on the work it does, particularly on flood relief schemes. I am familiar with and worked tirelessly over the years to bring attention to two schemes in County Clare, one of which is the Ennis flood relief scheme, which has been successful. It was a detailed project with a number of phases, as Mr. Casey will recall, and it has worked exceptionally...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Fish Migration and Barriers to Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Mar 2024)

Timmy Dooley: If you have politicians in an area pleased, it means the constituents are exceptionally pleased. I thank the witnesses for that work and wish them continued success.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome and support the call by Senator Gavan to have a conversation about the future of Ireland and of a united Ireland in light of the positive developments that have taken place. Maybe we will get a chance on that occasion to discuss the split that is clearly taking place with Sinn Féin south of the Border where, on one hand, some of its representatives in this House have supported...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank Mr. Gannon for the presentation. He stated that there are 65 networks with up to 1,000 units. What is the breakdown of that? I thought that this was to address those that had fewer than ten units in the network. If they were all at ten units, that would be 650 units.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Fewer than ten networks.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: Okay, that is clear. I wish to probe a bit around the role and responsibility of the main providers. To focus on the domestic aspect, there are people, myself included, who have an LPG tank at the back of the house. I live in a housing estate and there is a cluster of four or five houses that are in close proximity to my tank. I have concerns with the model one deals with whereby either...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I understand the infrastructure piece but I refer to putting the burden of responsibility to address any issues that arise on the entity that provides it. The CRU has some oversight on such entities. Does Ms Joyce feel the CRU has enough oversight or does she believe legislation should be broadened to put a responsibility on the company that delivers the gas to identify potential risks?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: General Scheme of the Gas Safety (Amendment) Bill 2023: Discussion (27 Feb 2024)

Timmy Dooley: It is the plumber who puts the regulator on the tank. The gas company takes no interest in that; it is the tank. It will come and paint a tank and put a new sticker on it but the regulator, which has the potential to leak, can be leaking away for as long as it likes and the company does not seem to have any responsibility in that regard. This is where I believe there is a gap. We are...