Results 1-20 of 355 for long speaker:Matt Carthy

Ireland's Recognition of the State of Palestine: Statements (28 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: I welcome the Palestinian ambassador, members of the Palestinian community and long-standing campaigners for justice in Palestine to the Dáil for statements to mark an historic moment for both Ireland and Palestine. The decision to officially recognise the State of Palestine fulfils a Dáil mandate that is now almost a decade old. It was in December 2014 that the Members of this...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...law and the reality that the only route to a lasting peace in the Middle East lies with a free, independent and sovereign Palestinian state. The state we will now officially recognise has long endured oppression, occupation and apartheid. Today, the people of Gaza face a relentless genocide. I hope that the occasion of recognition will be marked in this House with statements, the flying...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: .... For those who do receive an assessment of need, very often they find their battle has just begun. Waiting lists for OTs, for speech and language therapy and other services are disgracefully long. Many find that the special education requirements of their child cannot be met because the Government continues to play catch-up rather than plan for the educational needs of children it...

Dublin and Monaghan Bombings: Motion [Private Members] (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...were not unique to this country; they were part of the colonial playbook across the parts of the world in which Britain was active. That is why the truth of collusion needs to be spoken. For a long time in this House and across official Ireland, collusion was presented as republican propaganda and people were given no succour. Anybody who dared to suggest it was likely to get a visit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Foreign Affairs Council, UN Matters and Individually Tailored Partnership Programme with NATO: Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs (14 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: That moment belongs to a number of current and past Members on all sides of the House who have worked for far too long to bring it to this point. As I have said, time and again, I fear that the moment of our recognition of the state of Palestine will occur at a time when the prospect of a viable sovereign state is at its weakest ebb in many years.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Passport Services (9 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...credit and testament to the staff and the operation that is in place. The issue is that when problems arise they can be devastating. They can result in families missing holidays that have been long-planned or people missing weddings or other important life moments. We still always need to endeavour to ensure we have a system that is as close to perfect as possible. In December...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...will advocate for a reinvigorated CAP to match our ambitions of ensuring food security and delivering for the environment within a framework that will secure the family farm for generations to come. There are many longer-term challenges, including food security, climate change and migration. On all these issues, the European Union can support sovereign member states or it can...

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

Matt Carthy: ..., but these types of crises will happen more and more frequently. That is an acknowledged fact. It is an acknowledged consequence of climate change. In order to deal with that, we must put a long-term strategy in place based on a vision premised on the importance of the Irish family farm network. We know farmers will be asked to do much more in terms of reducing emissions and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (16 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...public health service employees unfit for work post-Covid-19 infection; the supports available to front-line workers unable to work due to the impact of having contracted Covid-19, and particularly long-Covid, should the scheme not be extended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16010/24]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (11 Apr 2024)

Matt Carthy: 98. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if he will review the awarding criteria for the Bonn Comórtha Céad Bliain medal (2016) to ensure that long-serving members of the Defence Forces that left service prior to Easter 2016 will receive same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15952/24]

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...failure to enforce the current system has increased pressure on accommodation for those seeking asylum. It has left some people, like those on Mount Street, on the streets. It is taking far too long to process applications for asylum. That has to change. If someone comes to Ireland to seek asylum, their application should be processed quickly and there are no excuses for an application...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...that could be taken, none of which has been taken despite the fact that each could be taken unilaterally by this Government. The Taoiseach referred to the EU-Israel Association Agreement and his letter, alongside Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, to the European Commission requesting a review of that agreement. Essentially the answer from the Government is that they have made the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: I will pick up from that point. One of the first statements on the NTMA’s website is the boast that the ISIF is committed to being a long-term, sustainable and responsible investor. Do the witnesses consider it to be responsible investment to put Irish taxpayers’ money into companies that are profiting from what has clearly been defined as illegal activity?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Illegal Israeli Settlements Divestment Bill 2023: Discussion (20 Mar 2024)

Matt Carthy: I sincerely thank our guests for attending and again commend Deputy Brady on bringing forward a meaningful action in response to what has been a decades-long policy on the part of successive Israeli Governments to flagrantly breach international law without consequence. That is why legislation such as this is so important. Words matter, of course, and the words of the Irish Government in...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...the state of Palestine? No more excuses. Israel is attempting to bomb Palestine out of existence. If the world does not take a stand, there will be no Palestine left to recognise. Will the Tánaiste, at long last, simply do what international law requires of us all, and officially acknowledge that the Palestinian people are entitled to their state, their freedom and a future free...

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...community is expected to deal with the outworking of Government's failed approach. The failure of the parties opposite to implement their plan to construct State-led accommodation centres is not acceptable. The longer they rely on a system that enriches a few and gives no consideration to any criteria other than the availability of a building, the worse the problem will get. Despite all...

Paediatric Orthopaedic and Urology Services: Motion [Private Members] (20 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: I join with everybody in welcoming the children in the Public Gallery along with their parents and siblings. To state the obvious, they should not have had to come to the Dáil this evening. I especially want to welcome a gorgeous little girl from my own county, Aoibh Rooney, along with her parents Eavan and Philly. Aoibh was born with arthrogryposis. I am pronouncing that...

Second Anniversary of War in Ukraine: Statements (20 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...House and, indeed, the wider Irish public aware of the realty of life in Ukraine. Also, on behalf of what are now my Ukrainian constituents, I thank her for the representation she provides to them alongside consular support. Two years ago, Vladimir Putin's Russia launched a brutal and criminal war on its peaceful neighbour, Ukraine. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Pension Provisions (20 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: 93. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if, in light of recent court judgments, she intends to provide State pension entitlements to the long-term non-married partners of deceased persons. [7885/24]

Recent Developments in Northern Ireland: Statements (14 Feb 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...it will invest in the A5 – I believe it should – if it does not also invest in the stretches of the N2 south of the Border that allow adequate connectivity from north to south. For far too long the Border regions, both North and South, have both been seen as the end of something as opposed to gateways to an all-Ireland market that benefits everybody across this island. The...