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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021 (29 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am in Leinster House. I had not realised I had indicated to speak. I am a new member of this committee and I have not engaged with any our guests heretofore. I have been trying to read myself into the brief and I have found it to be almost a bottomless pit. The more I study the more I seem to need to know. I am grateful for the submissions given today by the witnesses, which I have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2021 (29 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank Ms Hennessy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Business of Joint Committee (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I propose the minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I welcome Dr. Muldoon and Ms Ward and thank them for coming before us. I have studied this report very carefully and, even though I have been around a long time in politics - 35 years in total - I am very shocked by it. I spent 22 years as a county councillor before I became a Seanadóir. I had a reasonable amount of involvement with the Travelling community in Kerry, and especially in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Thank you. I have one further question for Ms Ward. When additional mobile units started to encroach on that site, should the council have been proactive in either removing them or making it impossible for others to come in? Perhaps that is a crude way of dealing with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am substituting for Deputy Smith. He has had to leave the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I thank the Chair. I will avoid the preliminaries because I have so little time. I welcome Mr. Murphy and I am sorry that Ms Laura Harmon is not here because I have great respect for her, especially in the role she played in the referendum campaign for the repeal of the eighth amendment to the Constitution. Originally, Ireland's Future was mooted as a kind of an open forum and a neutral...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: In relation to Sinn Féin or its subsidiaries providing the organisation with money?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Perhaps Mr. Murphy can provide a fuller answer about Sinn Féin in his response. Finally, would Mr. Murphy agree that the Good Friday Agreement was based on the spirit of reconciliation, a coming together and mutual respect? Does he agree that the primary function of the agreement was to enable people to live together in the one space, as Seamus Mallon said? Does he agree that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Is the organisation not putting the cart before the horse? Is it not creating difficulties rather than helping? Would it not-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: -----decide to get behind the shared island initiative and leave the leadership to the elected representatives of this country?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I do not know why that is relevant. We have little time to talk about it. I-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Engagement with Ireland's Future (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I have been in the North several times. I have relations in the North. I visit my cousins in Enniskillen regularly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I asked to be allowed to speak first because I will have to leave this meeting shortly for another equally important committee meeting. I welcome our guests. I missed some of the earlier presentations, unfortunately. I will be brief as I am sure other members have questions to ask and points to make. I will focus my first remarks on what Mr. Collins had to say. I empathise with him. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: Sorry. I did not mean-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Accommodation: Discussion (1 Jun 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: We live and learn.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 May 2021)

Ned O'Sullivan: I am sure the Leader will join me in wishing our retailers, shopkeepers and small businesses well on their reopening after a long close-down. My family were in the business of the provision and retail of menswear for 150 years and I know exactly how big a day this is for small shopkeepers. It is a time when we must give them support. The Government, in fairness, gave those businesses and...