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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this debate. It is timely and appropriate that we address this and look at everything we possibly can do as a country to effect the change necessary to bring about a peaceful settlement in the Middle East between the State of Israel and what I believe should be the State of Palestine. Like everyone in this House, I absolutely concur that the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I am sure the Acting Leader and Leas-Chathaoirleach will join with me and others in recognising the efforts of careful and true diplomacy over rhetoric and rushing to judgment. I refer to the approach taken by the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, around the situation in the Middle East and the careful way he has managed his brief over recent months in reaching a point where today...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister for his forthright and frank presentation today and for his level of engagement with politicians on all sides of the House. He makes himself open and accessible and he listens. We might not always agree with his response but he certainly listens and takes matters on board. I agree with others who characterised the situation at the hospital as being extremely difficult...

Committee on Public Petitions: Reopening of Ennis, Nenagh and St. John's Emergency Departments: Discussion (23 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: The question was on the cultural issue in the hospital and not reaching the targets we would have expected based on the resources that have been put in. My concern is that there needs to be a review of the overall leadership of the hospital. Culture does not change overnight nor does it change with new leadership. I ask the Minister to consider a multi-annual funding programme to bring...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: An issue has arisen but I have not had an opportunity to table an amendment on it yet. It relates to the establishment of the need to grant certain employment permits and how that might be advertised or how an individual or company would make people aware of that. The Bill refers to the notice being published on "one or more online platforms". I have a concern because there is such a...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State. While I understand the 50:50 rule, the reality is that citizens need to be made aware of this if we are to lift any burden from the employer. We all know how employers work. They are good people and I would not want to cast any aspersions. However, while the guardrail protects the 50:50 rule, there are many new citizens coming to live and work here, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Chair. On a point of clarification, we sought Eir's attendance at the committee. The secretariat issued an invitation and afforded Eir an opportunity to come and discuss matters that are important and relevant to the commissioner being here. I note from correspondence that it has refused to attend. I have been on this committee for some time and we have had Eir here a number...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: It did, actually. If the Leas-Chathaoirleach goes to the end of the letter, it states that Eir may seek redress at some other point. We can avoid all of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: ComReg’s Enforcement Functions: Discussion (22 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I welcome the commissioner, Ms Dixon. We are delighted to have her before the committee on this occasion. I recognise and thank her for the work she did as Data Protection Commissioner. She comes to this new role with a considerable amount of experience as a public servant, and we look forward to working with her, as the Oireachtas did in her previous role. From Ms Dixon's short time with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I wish to raise an issue that has been on the airwaves in recent days, namely, GAAGO and the arrangement between the GAA and RTÉ that sets up a paywall for genuine fans. This weekend it was fans of hurling in a match between Limerick and the Cathaoirleach’s county of Cork. I listened with some interest to what the president of the GAA had to say yesterday. I was taken by his...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I accept that. I am just making an observation. I understand he has been invited by Senator Lombard to appear before a committee. I hope he avails of that opportunity to discuss the matter. I have great regard for him. He has great abilities and a great vision. He did not so much as have a pop at the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste, but at the people they were representing and whose...

Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Timmy Dooley: I thank the Minister of State for bringing the Bill to the House. Virtually everybody in society recognises the impact of problem gambling on the lives of individuals and their families and communities. It is also incumbent on us, when we try to deal with such a difficult thing, not to end up with unintended consequences of what we seek to do. I am mindful that in his opening remarks the...

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: 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 (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...

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...