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Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (12 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I am pleased to speak in support of the Social Welfare and Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System (Amendment) Bill 2025. The Bill introduces significant and welcome changes. It finalises the arrangements for the new automatic enrolment system, which will ensure that all employees have access to a pension, and also gives effect to the improvements set out in the budget. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 23. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for an update on his Department and the Defence Forces Strategy Statement 2025–2028; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60433/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Official Engagements (6 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence for a report on his attendance at the recent RACO conference; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60432/25]

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome back my constituency colleague, Deputy Boyd Barrett, and wish him well in the rest of his recovery. I would like to raise the status of the long-promised primary healthcare centre for Loughlinstown and the surrounding communities. The HSE confirmed earlier this year that the operational lease process for the new Loughlinstown primary care centre collapsed when the preferred...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister for that reply and acknowledge what the HSE states about the regional health areas and the single point of access. However, this primary care centre is nearly a decade in the making. I understand it has planning permission, or did at one stage, and it beggars belief how long this has taken to redesign and redevelop the existing site where primary care is being...

Ceisteanna ó na Comhaltaí Eile - Other Members’ Questions (5 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Go raibh maith agat.

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: EU Funding (5 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: 27. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform for an update on Ireland’s third payment request under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60197/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: On behalf of the committee, I welcome our guests today: Erika Hunter, Grace Conway, Zoe Fleming, Jayden O'Connor and Buhle Phiri who are participating in Co-operation Ireland's gold level peace award, which is the highest level of Co-operation Ireland's future leaders programme. They are all very welcome here to the committee. I also welcome from Co-operation Ireland, Ms Sophie Corry,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank all of the witnesses and their leaders for being here this morning. It is not easy. I noticed they were reading from the screens and fair play to them because it is not the clearest of text. They did it very well and I thank them for it. We will now have some questions from members of the committee and we will start with Senator Comyn.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Senator Kelleher for that. I call Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the witnesses for their insightful answers. We will need to talk to Ms Conway's uncle. Often, young people do the complete opposite of the advice they are given, so maybe he is operating in reverse and trying to get her into politics.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: On Senator Blaney's proposal, is the committee in agreement about writing to both ministers, and to the education committee in the House and in the North? Agreed. That is a useful suggestion to put the witnesses' presentation on a formal footing and alert the relevant Departments to it. I thank Senator Blaney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Ms Fleming. It has been a very good engagement this morning. I pass on some thanks from Claire Hanna and Senator Black who were online but could not, unfortunately, stay. They congratulate you all on your excellent presentation and your engagement with the committee. For my part, I am interested in how the topic "See Our Silence, Hear Our Vision" was selected. You mentioned...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: That is true. I think it was Mr. O'Connor who made the point earlier about access and technology. There was a case in my constituency where a child needed particular technology for his education. Ms Hunter mentioned books, for instance, being in Braille, larger text or whatever the case may be. However, it is as though it were the first time it was ever heard of and it takes months, as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Then the exams are a challenge for those individuals as well. Ms Fleming is probably the quietest of the group - is that true? - and the shyest. However, all the witnesses have great confidence, as has been shown this morning. I hope they have enjoyed engaging with the committee and engagements like this. The witnesses are going to Stormont. Some people are going to New York for their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I will give the last words to the young leaders. Will they each give us a word or two about how they found the programme to encourage other people to get involved?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Fair play. Well done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Co-operation Ireland's Future Leaders Programme: Discussion (4 Nov 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Very good. Excellent.