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Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Tánaiste and welcome him back to the House. I thank him for his detailed explanation in respect of this amendment. I have read the opinion that Senator Craughwell received from legal counsel. As a layperson, it seems that the rights of members of the Defence Forces are being undermined to a certain extent. On the last day I made the following point: if a member of the...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: On a point of clarification, this is a Chamber to discuss legislation. This is the Chamber in which to makes arguments, not outside in the lobby area. This is the area where you put forward your ideas and concerns. The Minister takes them on board, or he does not. I resent Senator Craughwell's comment.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I welcome the Tánaiste to the House and also welcome Michael Flatley and his guests. I note that he is a guest of Senator Aidan Davitt. I was always wondering how he was good at dancing around difficult situations and now I know how that has happened. To follow on from what my colleagues have said in regard to the representative bodies, I agree with them. They believe this...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: If they identify themselves as members of the Defence Forces.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: She has resigned her post.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I will speak to the Leader and see whether we can facilitate the Tánaiste.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I thank the Cathaoirleach. As the Tánaiste is available to stay until 4.45 p.m., the Leader has agreed to extend this debate until 4.45 p.m.

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I listened carefully to what the Minister said and agree with much of it. However, on 26 April the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence published its detailed and considered pre-legislative scrutiny. The committee unanimously agreed that the oversight body should be totally independent and that the Secretary General should not be a member. It also agreed that if the Secretary...

Seanad: Defence (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I ask Senator Craughwell to resubmit this amendment for Report Stage.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I will bear in mind what the Acting Chairman said about not repeating what the Minister has said. I am taking the Fianna Fáil slot on behalf of my colleague, Senator Erin McGreehan, who has given me my notes. I ask the Chair to forgive me if I repeat slightly some of what the Minister has already said. This is the first opportunity I have had to wish the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman,...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: As I said, I am speaking on behalf of my colleague, Senator Erin McGreehan, who was unavoidably called away at short notice. As the Minister said, this Bill seeks to ensure that Tusla, the Child and Family Agency, has the correct powers to address non-compliance with regulations for early years services and to ensure that parents have access to information in relation to the quality of those...

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: Now.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: Now.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: Now.

Seanad: Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jul 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to accept the following measures: (a) Directive (EU) 2024/1346 of...

Seanad: International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I am contributing on this motion on behalf of my colleague, Senator Robbie Gallagher, who is at an important event in Clones, County Monaghan. For the record, Fianna Fáil welcomes this debate and supports the motion. We need a fair, rules-based immigration system that represents both the integrity of our borders and the dignity of people trying to access better lives in Europe. This...

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: Before I call on the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, I wish to say that this is the first opportunity I have had to congratulate him on his appointment as a Minister of State. He is a former distinguished Member of this House and I am delighted to welcome him and ask him to make his contribution.

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I join the Minister of State in welcoming our former colleague, Averil Power, and her colleagues from the Irish Cancer Society to this important debate. I did not want to interrupt the Minister of State but I was asked by Senator Maria Byrne, who was Acting Chairperson earlier, to welcome the group that came into the Public Gallery while the Minister of State was speaking. It is the Gorey...

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024)

Diarmuid Wilson: I thank Senator Kyne for tabling the motion.