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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I apologise.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Timmy Dooley: What about the smaller schemes outside Uisce Éireann?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (25 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: We are here to discuss the issue the Minister of State has asked us to discuss, which is whether we will have pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill. The Minister of State has outlined that he would prefer to have it done and the committee would like to scrutinise it in advance. I have looked at the Bill and it would be appropriate in this instance that we allow it to happen, for all of the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. She may or may not be aware that the governing authority of the University of Limerick at a recent meeting failed to appoint a chancellor as set out in legislation. That is a pretty serious situation. To the best of my knowledge it is the first time it has happened in the history of the State and certainly under the new legislation. There is a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State for the comprehensive response, but I am concerned about one line, which says it is really important to state the Minister has no role whatsoever in this process. The Minister has a role in appointing three people who are being assessed by the Public Appointments Service.The Minister will select those nominees. One of them will be appointed immediately and two...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I also welcome the Tánaiste. I thank him for his careful and knowledgeable stewardship of this issue over recent days. I, too, express my absolute revulsion at the actions of Hamas in the first instance. We have to call it out for what it is: Hamas is a terrorist organisation.There should be no equivocation. There is no equivalence between Hamas on the one hand and the State of...

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Like others, I welcome the decision taken by Senator Pauline O'Reilly to bring forward the motion. We are often left wondering what it is about women's health in this country that the Legislature and the apparatus of Government have for so long sought to ignore the basics of women's health. It is not all that long ago that we moved on contraception, we were blisteringly late to address...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I accept the business that has been set out by the Leader. I wish to raise the following issue. A Chathaoirligh, you may have noticed from recent media reports that there is an impasse at the University of Limerick whereby the governing authority has failed to select the name put forward for appointment to chancellor, as set out in the legislation. However, while the legislation sets out...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Then I ask the Leader to arrange a debate in the House with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to address what appears to be a lacuna at the moment that creates a difficulty for the ongoing operation of the university, since no chancellor is in place and the legislation, as I outlined, does not appear to have an inbuilt solution to address the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the witnesses for their wonderful presentations. There is general agreement among most members of the committee on the importance of the preservation, protection and restoration of elements of our environment that impact so much on biodiversity that they have led to a loss. There are differences of opinions as to how we achieve that. I would like to hear any examples the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I think that is wonderful and I have seen that before but I am conscious that the 99 people there get a very good briefing that we can never succeed in doing outside that controlled environment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Leader for setting out the order for today. At the outset, it would be appropriate that this House would condemn unreservedly the actions of Hamas on Saturday morning. The indiscriminate attacks on civilians, regardless of where they reside, is an abhorrence and should be condemned with the greatest ferocity by every parliament in the democratic world. Of course there are...

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (4 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for the extensive work she has done in the preparation of this Bill and her willingness to engage directly with us as Senators on this important issue. It comes at a time when the importance of significant reform of An Garda Síochána is widely recognised. We know about the necessity of that due to issues that arose in our recent...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Chair very much. I welcome the Minister and thank her for her work. Her Department and her Ministry is generally considered to be one of positive news and one which, with the clear guidance of the Minister, always had a fairly straightforward run. That was clearly not the case in this instance on this side of her brief and she has gone through a very difficult time. This...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: What I am trying to get at is, we have a little experience of it in the Oireachtas in that, when the financial crash happened in the late noughties, the public expected to see cuts to our salaries and that put many people in the Oireachtas under enormous pressure. Gradually, the salaries made it back. The salaries are considered to be high, but it can be a huge disincentive for people to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: RTÉ Oversight and Long-Term Support and Funding: Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media (4 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: Yes, the issue is the same here. If parliamentarians had to pay to come through the gates of Leinster House, some people on Twitter would want us to pay more every week. It is the same in RTÉ. If the average wage was cut to €20,000, it would not be enough for a certain group on Twitter, so we cannot allow that negativity to drive the agenda. We have to support the 1,800 people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: I wanted to address the budget and to have a quick debate on a couple of issues within the budget. The Leader will be well aware that many primary schools are under enormous pressure with the level of capitation that are receiving. It is really putting them to the pins of their collars. I have spoken to numerous principals in recent weeks about the pressures that exist. They really do...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Timmy Dooley: No comment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Timmy Dooley: It is customary at this time of the year for those of us in public life who operate constituency offices to be inundated with school transport issues. They normally get resolved in the first couple of weeks of September but this is the first time I have seen a situation where there has not been a resolution in most cases because there is a shortage of drivers. There are routes where there...