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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (23 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I wish to raise again Francis Street development in Ennis. These are the six houses that were purchased with a view to knocking them down and eventually building a mixed-use development. On 23 March last year, I raised the matter with the leader of Fianna Fáil, the Tánaiste, Deputy Micheál Martin, who stated: "we should be making those houses fit for habitation and allocate...

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

Michael McNamara: At the start of April, the Minister for Health announced the new nursing unit built in Nenagh to replace St. Conlon's would be instead used for step-down beds. Families were expecting to go in there from across north Tipperary and east Clare. At the same time, the Minister announced Cahercalla nursing home would take 20 step-down beds. When Cahercalla's representatives were asked about...

Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time".

Restriction of Imports (States in violation of obligations under the Genocide Convention and Occupied Territories) Bill 2024: First Stage (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give effect to the State's obligations arising under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, and under customary international humanitarian law; and for that purpose to make it an offence for a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I transmitted those questions this morning, having previously transmitted them yesterday morning and I am awaiting a response. I, too, am satisfied that we have lots of rules and legislation and even more legislation all the time. However, I am not happy that they are being applied because they are not. This is an instance in which they were not. When it was raised in the public media...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: That would be entirely unacceptable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: When?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Last week after it appeared in the media-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: That is two months after the judgment was handed down. The Taoiseach is not serious about this at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Yes, I thank the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Only after it appeared in the media.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I wish to bring to the attention of the Taoiseach a worrying trend that has come to my attention and give one example of it. It concerns a young man from the Indian subcontinent who travelled to the United Kingdom on a valid student visa issued by the UK Government. That visa allows him to work for ten hours a week only. He obviously hoped to work much more....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: In March, the High Court struck down returns to the UK. The judgment states that in October 2021: the UK authorities advised that the Applicant had been convicted on an offence [...] in the UK and was in consequence registered as a sex offender. It appears that this information had been redacted by reason of data protection concerns before being placed on [his] immigration file. It...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Do you have confidence in the Department?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: Do you have confidence in the Department?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Michael McNamara: This is Harry Whelehan territory.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I listened carefully to what the Taoiseach said earlier. He told Deputy McDonald about the importance of this State being able to frame its own migration policy. He told Deputy Bacik about how important the open border with Northern Ireland remains. That is exactly what the Irish people voted for in the Lisbon treaty when we had an opt-out on the asylum area. Some aspects of the migration...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: Last week, we heard the chilling words of Aoife Johnston's mother, "we told her she would be looked after, but she wasn't. We told her she was in the best place". That has destroyed what little confidence there was in the mid-west in the accident and emergency unit. We are good at addressing the injustices of 40 or 50 years ago in this House. That is absolutely necessary and I commend the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: The Government supports the nature restoration law at European level. That law contains some important and admirable ambitions. The problem is that there is a lack of a dedicated funding mechanism, or any funding mechanism at all, for farmers who will be required to reduce or abandon farming activity on lands governed by the law. At a domestic level, the Government stopped funding the...

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Michael McNamara: I am sharing time. I find myself, as is often if not always the case, in agreement with what Deputy McGuinness said but I acknowledge that farm inspections, for example, have been eased in the circumstances, which has come as some small relief to farmers given the pressure they were under. In the brief time available, I will discuss the fodder transport scheme. While it is well...