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Supporting People with Disabilities and Carers: Motion [Private Members] (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank Deputy Tully for her work on this Private Members' motion. I welcome Shane Scanlan of the nursing homes alliance to the Gallery this evening. People with disabilities and their carers deserve so much better than the raw deal the Government is currently giving them. These people already deal with so many difficulties in their daily lives. They need access to supports and services,...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: Tá bród orm a bheith ag labhairt faoi Lá Idirnáisiúnta na mBan. Irish women are famous the world over for many things. We have world champions like Katie Taylor and Sonia O'Sullivan making us proud. On the international political and humanitarian stages Mary Robinson and Mary McAleese are shining examples of womanhood. Let us not forget our historical heroines -...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Temporary Supports for Business: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Patricia Ryan: I thank our guests. Like Deputy Canney, I know people who are concerned about their businesses and may be thinking of packing in the business and going to work for somebody else. I would be concerned about that for various reasons. I will ask two quick questions consecutively, if that is okay, because it is late in the evening. With regard to the once-off measures provided to businesses...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023)

Patricia Ryan: The Government's mismanagement of the health budget is no secret but mismanagement on a scale that forces the CEO of the HSE to escalate the embargo on recruitment, withdraw job offers and scrap more than 7,000 essential front-line posts is beyond belief. This is beyond disastrous when the HSE is already facing unprecedented staff shortages in all sectors, affecting its ability to provide...

Support for Household Energy Bills: Motion [Private Members] (3 May 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague, Deputy O'Rourke, for bringing this motion before the Dáil. We are facing a cost-of-living crisis in this State and one of the biggest contributors driving folks into energy poverty is the burden of rip-off energy bills. Energy poverty is a major problem in every constituency and it is only getting worse. Many families are forced to choose between heating their...

Rent Reduction Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (26 Apr 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for bringing forward this Bill, the principles of which Sinn Féin supports and which it will not oppose. As the Government will be all too aware, soaring rents have caused great hardship to families, young people and those on low incomes. They are causing people immense stress and having an impact on their mental health. The housing...

Housing (Standards for Rented Houses) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (23 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleague Deputy Ó Broin for introducing this Bill to the House back in 2020. Last November, the National Oversight and Audit Commission report for 2021 was launched. It is damning regarding private rental accommodation inspections, to say the least. The report stated that between 2016 and 2021, there was an increase of 14% in the number of dwellings found to be...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Report of the Commission on Taxation and Welfare: Discussion (Resumed) (8 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the IFA and the Irish Road Haulage Association for appearing before the committee today. I would like to speak to the representatives from the IRHA in particular because my family is involved in road haulage. I thank them for the opening statements. I fully appreciate the critical role their association and members play in keeping Ireland ticking over. Without the diligent and...

High Energy Costs: Motion [Private Members] (7 Mar 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important motion. I thank my colleagues Deputies O'Rourke and Doherty for tabling it. Energy costs remain extortionately high for households. Frankly, it is not good enough that the Government has announced no meaningful supports for ordinary people until October. It is not good enough that energy companies enjoy excess profits at the expense of...

Health (Amendment) (Dual Diagnosis: No Wrong Door) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: I thank my colleagues, na Teachtaí Ward and Gould, for bringing this Bill to the House. For far too long individuals with a dual diagnosis, which means having both a mental health and a substance abuse issue, have been left without adequate support and care. The current system often means individuals are passed forward and back between different services. This leads to confusion and a...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Patricia Ryan: Despite what the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, and the Minister, Deputy Darragh O'Brien, think, there is a severe crisis in housing. Despite very low targets, councils are struggling to provide homes. There are almost 7,000 people on the housing waiting list in Kildare, with a wait of ten to 12 years. My office is inundated with inquiries from people who are couch-surfing, travelling...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Patricia Ryan: The Minister will know Sinn Féin has no issue with the amendments to the Bill, but we have an issue with the process and the absence of a statutory duty of candour. The Bill also fails to specify or provide powers to the Minister to prescribe how the review will be conducted. It is similar to self-regulation. How can we do something in this Chamber and have it looking like...

Abuse at Certain Educational Institutions: Statements (24 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: ...recent days. I commend the survivors on their courage and bravery in coming forward. Of course, others have not yet come forward. I urge anyone directly or indirectly affected by this abuse to come forward. In the past, they may have felt their experience should be hidden or that they would not be believed. Help is available. Groups like One in Four are doing great work in helping...

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: We in Sinn Féin support the objective of the Bill and want to be in a position to support it. My colleague, an Teachta Daly, has met with several relevant stakeholders, such as the Irish Council of Civil Liberties, ICCL, and has tabled a number of amendments to the Bill. Sinn Féin will work constructively with the Government, other Opposition parties and Independents to strengthen...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I too thank an Teachta Naughten and the Regional Group. I also thank the advocacy groups which have stood up for people with long Covid and made the world listen when many people were being told to cheer up and get over it. Those groups have organised an email campaign. I am sure many of the Teachtaí here have heard the harrowing stories of their local constituents. I wish to...

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) Bill 2022: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022)

Patricia Ryan: ...the Minister ended the Covid-19 eviction ban. Since then, homelessness levels have increased almost every single month. We all take having a roof over our heads for granted, but imagine waking up tomorrow to find out that you were going to be made homeless? That has been the reality for 78 families so far this year in Kildare who are tenants in receipt of HAP. I have spoken to many of...

Social and Affordable Housing Supply: Motion [Private Members] (26 Oct 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I thank People Before Profit for tabling this motion. It is timely we are having this conversation because on Monday my colleague, Councillor Noel Connolly, brought a motion to Kildare County Council seeking the establishment of a dereliction task force. The meeting was told the council is in the process of setting up a town regeneration team, which it is hoped will make some effort to...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Patricia Ryan: The Government continues to fail people with different abilities. The recent budget is the latest step along that road. The lack of respect shown for people seeking to access services or any kind of supports is very poor. I often say in this Chamber that some Deputies must have nobody belonging to them seeking to access services or get help for loved ones with different abilities because...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Patricia Ryan: My apologies, I need to catch my breath. The Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill provides for the establishment of a multi-person media commission, including an online safety commissioner. It also dissolves the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland and assigns its functions to the media commission and transposes the revised audiovisual media services directive. This directive provides for...

Energy Security: Motion [Private Members] (21 Sep 2022)

Patricia Ryan: I thank the Rural Independent Group for bringing forward this motion and I welcome the opportunity to speak on it, especially coming as it does on the back of Sinn Féin's motion on retrofitting last night. I fully agree that Ireland, as a direct consequence of poor Government policies, is the worst prepared country in Europe for an energy crisis. We are now one of the most energy...