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Seanad: Health Services Provision: Statements (12 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: The good Senator over here has told us that-----

Seanad: Health Services Provision: Statements (12 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: -----all they wanted to hear was that it was going to-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I am delighted to welcome our esteemed elected members and our esteemed associates from the social media. Like most politicians in Ireland, I have seen content put up on social media and all the rest that is not correct. I accept that there is legislation coming in Ireland. If people say things on Facebook or some other social media platform and it is incorrect, the law of the land must...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Session 2: Industry Perspective (7 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: They should come to Menlo in Galway, it is a much nicer place.

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: We are worth it.

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I will start by acknowledging the immense work of Senator Ó Céidigh, who has talked to me about this project on a number of occasions, of the Leas-Chathaoirleach, and of the other committee members present with regard to this report. I say in jest that it is very easy to see the amount of work the Senator and Leas-Chathaoirleach have put in because both are a bit greyer today than...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: The Leas-Chathaoirleach should not get excited. Leading on from there, as Senator Ó Céidigh has said, education is the most important thing. Our schools and colleges have to be able to shift and change course very rapidly. They really have to work hand in hand with small, and indeed large, businesses. If they do not, these jobs will not come about. I know there has been a...

Seanad: Report of Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Statements (6 Nov 2019)

Aidan Davitt: As Senator Devine is the only lady present, she should get another five minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I am delighted to welcome the Minister once again. I support much of the work that has been done in regard to the withdrawal deal that was agreed by the United Kingdom and the European Union. In regard to Northern Ireland, the nightmare scenario would be getting caught in d'Hondt or some of the other mechanisms that could have been enforced on us, such as a straight Border poll. A majority...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: It was a good place to be on a trade mission.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: The Minister slipped up.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: Maybe it is as well that she did not.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Update on Brexit Engagement: Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation (23 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: Does the Minister think that in Mr. Barnier we will have a friend in court if the Border poll happens and somebody has to subsidise the North?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I congratulate my own parish and local hurling club, Clonkill. Over the weekend, we were lucky enough to come out the better side when we met Senator Paul Daly’s parish and club in the Westmeath hurling final.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: Clonkill were the victors on the day and I congratulate all involved.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: The Senator has the news here fresh. It is a personalised news service for him. While I have been slightly upstaged by my party leader, Deputy Micheál Martin, earlier today, will the Leader explain the resignation of Paul Quinn from the development board of the new children’s hospital? Mr. Quinn led the procurement reform programme across the public sector. The troubling...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: That was a party political broadcast. The starting gun has been fired.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: Go on. The Senator is on fire today. Give us a few more bars.

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (22 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I am finished.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members (16 Oct 2019)

Aidan Davitt: I welcome the Minister of State. My matter relates to maternity leave for councillors. I note from the Minister of State's reply to Senator Noone that he is engaged in a great deal of work on councillors' remuneration and conditions. It is recommended that a councillor who is due to take maternity or parental leave to care for a new baby take a sabbatical for up to six months, during which...