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Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Deputy. That concludes what was a very important debate. I thank the committee for bringing forward its report on behalf of Oireachtas Members.

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Question put and agreed to.

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar athló ar 4.54 p.m. go dtí 2 p.m., Dé Máirt, an 13 Meitheamh 2023. The Dáil adjourned at at 4.54 p.m. until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 13 June 2023.

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Peter Burke: I thank all Members for their contributions. I acknowledge once again the significant work undertaken by the Cathaoirleach, Deputy O’Dowd, and all members of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement in producing this comprehensive and timely report. Through their engagement with political leaders from the British and Irish Governments, Northern Ireland...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: Fáiltím roimh an méid atá ráite ag gach duine sa Teach inniu. Measaim gur féidir linn go léir leanúint leis an obair, ag comhoibriú agus ag obair le daoine ó thuaidh agus ó dheas ach go háirithe. I thank all the contributors for their remarks so far on the committee’s report. It is a collective report and the committee...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Brendan Smith: I welcome this debate. Like Deputy Conway-Walsh, I compliment the Cathaoirleach of our committee, Deputy O’Dowd, on his work. I also compliment Deputy Conway-Walsh and all our other colleagues on the committee. There is one word I would use about the Good Friday Agreement, that being, "transformative". I say that as a person who grew up in a Border community, as a public...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Rose Conway-Walsh: I acknowledge the work of the Chair of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, Deputy O’Dowd, and Deputy Brendan Smith who is also present. It was a hugely interesting piece of work for us to do as a committee. I thank all the witnesses who gave witness to what it was like for them, the challenges and opportunities they had and the setting out of the...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: The Good Friday Agreement was a momentous achievement, not only by political leaders on the island of Ireland but also facilitated by political leaders in the United States, the European Union and others internationally. I am almost 50 now. It was half my life ago. In the first half of my life, I witnessed nothing but conflict. I saw it in my family first hand, in my community and across...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Peter Burke: On behalf of the Government, I welcome the report Lessons from the Architects of the Good Friday Agreement. The report is an important and timely contribution to our understanding of the agreement and the roles played by so many in shaping peace on our island. Marking and celebrating the agreement and everything it made possible is a key priority for the Government in this milestone...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: The Deputy makes an important point about cost-benefit analyses. This has been a bugbear of mine in my constituency for a long time. There are parts of certain rural communities, including some in County Wicklow, that will never measure up to a cost-benefit analysis that is based on an urban area. The Deputy poses an interesting challenge, to the system and to the Government, as to how we...

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Report on the Good Friday Agreement: Motion (1 Jun 2023)

Fergus O'Dowd: I move: That Dáil Éireann shall take note of the Report of the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement entitled "Lessons from the Architects of the Good Friday Agreement", copies of which were laid before Dáil Éireann on 27th March, 2023. The recent anniversaries of the signature of the Good Friday Agreement and of its resounding endorsement...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Road Network

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: The Minister is a man of many talents. Many people will not be aware that along the west coast, including a place in Deputy Dillon's constituency called An Ceann Ramhar, there are places where the tides come in, particularly at spring tides, or as they call them in Irish, rabharta. Nuair a bhíonn rabhartaí ann, they come in and the road becomes impassable. This could go on for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Words of wisdom, Deputy Ó Cuív.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: Indeed, that is a prescient point about how some people, not the Ceann Comhairle, view the expenditure of money in urban Ireland versus rural Ireland. I thank Deputy Ó Cuív for raising the matter. I am happy to respond on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Rural and Community Development. The Deputy raised an interesting point about where the responsibility falls. That is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Network (1 Jun 2023)

Éamon Ó Cuív: I thank the Minister for the answer. In regard to the leveraging of funding, I am broken-hearted that the Government does not see the merit in it. The biggest argument against investing in small, isolated pockets of rural Ireland is the cost-benefit analysis which dictates that if there is a certain amount of money, it will go to where the people are. The logic is that such an approach...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (1 Jun 2023)

Simon Harris: I thank my colleague for raising this very important matter and for his impassioned plea on behalf of his own constituents in County Mayo in terms of the need for improved public transport services, particularly improved bus capacity and airport access. In my own ministerial role, I am also very taken with the points he makes about the importance of capacity for college students. We are...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (1 Jun 2023)

Alan Dillon: I thank the Minister for his response. I acknowledge the work the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and his officials in the Department of Transport are doing and the commitment they have to delivering public transport that is fit for purpose. As the Minister, Deputy Harris, has acknowledged, we have seen nearly a fourfold increase since 2016 to over €42 million this year in terms of the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Public Transport (1 Jun 2023)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: The Deputy resisted the urge to burst into song there when he mentioned the N17.