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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (23 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Paediatric Scoliosis Services: Statements (23 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I think this is the first opportunity I have had to engage with the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, since he took up his appointment, so I welcome the opportunity to do that and welcome him back to the Seanad. I will begin like Senator Seery Kearney. Joanne Rodgers's email will form an awful lot of my remarks because they are impactful. While...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Tá fáilte roimh an Taoiseach. Tá a lán le rá agam agus níl mórán ama agam mar sin beidh mé ag léamh go gasta ach ní léiriú dímheasa é sin; gabh mo leithscéal. Last week, FW de Klerk died. He was the last white President of an apartheid South Africa. His actions helped to end one of the most cruel and obscene...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Well said.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Lock the doors.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: I certainly have been.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Those things can happen in parallel, perhaps.

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: My apologies, in the first instance-----

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Deputy has been promoted a couple of times now.

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Tuigim gur ábhar iontach tábhachtach é seo. Gabhaim mo leithscéal leis an Teach as a bheith as láthair don chuid is mó den phlé. Bhí mé ag taisteal ó Bhéal Feirste. Is é sin an fáth. Ba mhaith liom mo leithscéal a thabhairt fosta ar son an tSeanadóra Boylan, a bhí ag iarraidh a bheith páirteach sa...

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: On Senator Chambers's last comments, I also remember the days when the current and one of the former leaders of the DUP also talked about the positive potential of the protocol and how it offered the best of both worlds. I thank the Minister for being with us today for these statements. I have consistently called for statements in the past weeks, while appreciating fully the sensitivities...

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Well said.

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland: Statements (17 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Correct.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Northern Ireland Protocol and Ongoing Implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and the Withdrawal Agreement: Engagement with Mr. Maroš Šefovi (15 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Like my colleagues, I would like to begin by acknowledging the Commissioner's level of engagement in the North. Being from the North of Ireland and being elected to the Seanad, I am very conscious of that level of engagement. I am conscious of the importance of that. It is important that we take the opportunity at this meeting today, as a committee, and indeed as Members of the Oireachtas,...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: Ar dtús báire, cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Táim iontach sásta go bhfuil seal agam páirt a ghlacadh sa díospóireacht seo um thráthnóna. Tréaslaím leis an méid a bhí le rá ag an Seanadóir Clifford-Lee mar fhocal scoir le linn a óráid féin. Nuair a ardaím chun labhairt sa chathair...

Seanad: Bille na dTeangacha Oifigiúla (Leasú), 2019: An Dara Céim - Official Languages (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Niall Ó Donnghaile: The Senator is showing his age.