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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Dental Services (16 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: My Commencement matter this morning relates to a crucial issue that affects many parents throughout the country who have kids with additional needs. The simple act of a routine dental appointment is an overwhelming challenge and experience for these children, particularly those on the autism spectrum. The sensory overload from the lights and sounds etc. can induce stress in those children...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Dental Services (16 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Minister of State. He stated few dentists who have specialist training outside of orthodontics or oral surgery are employed within the public health system, but there are dentists working in the private system who have that additional training to work with kids with special needs to make sure they are able to get treatment. I want to ensure that within the public system, there...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I take this opportunity to ask Senator Sherlock to pass on my sympathies to Senator Moynihan regarding the death of her mother. I wish to raise two issues relating to education. The first is in respect of Ballymahon Vocational School in County Longford and the application for additional temporary accommodation it has submitted. Perhaps a request could be passed on to the Minister for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I have just a couple of issues to raise. I recently met representatives of the NARGC with regard to rural pursuits in Ireland. Several reports in 2021 recommended the setting up of a nature advisory committee and a national biodiversity forum. Neither has been set up. The firearms consultative panel, which was in place, has not been re-established. I ask for a discussion on that.We have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I also pass on my sympathies to the family of the late Michael D'Arcy. I will raise another issue that affects a significant number of parents of children with additional needs, which is the issue of getting a routine dental appointment. The reality is that a considerable number of parents cannot get a dental appointment because there are not dentists within the HSE system who are trained...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the Minister of State and our guests, some of whom I have known and met in my role as Chairperson of the Joint Committee on Autism. I commend the Bill and support it. Unfortunately, I must have missed the correspondence and did not get the opportunity to sign it or I would have done so months ago. When it came before the House a number of Government Members supported it to allow...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I have been in the Seanad for four years and I think Senator Clonan's was the best contribution I have heard here. Similar to the Senator, I have a young son and want to make sure he is looked after when I am gone. That is what drives me and what led me to my position here, the same as Tom, to advocate on behalf of kids with various abilities. We want as parents to make sure that, when we...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the town and village funding announced yesterday by the Minister, Deputy Humphreys. There are a number of projects in my home county such as a community park in Ballinalee and a project with a district development association in Edgeworthstown where a derelict building was purchased under the building acquisitions measure. We secured funding of more than €379,000 to develop...

Seanad: Flooding on Lough Funshinagh: Statements (30 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I too want to lend my support and I compliment my colleagues Senators Dolan and Murphy for bringing this to the fore, which they do on a regular basis. As secretary of the Fine Gael Parliamentary Party, I know that Senator Dolan brings the matter up weekly at our meetings and highlights it with the Taoiseach as an issue we need to get solved. Our role in politics is about helping people and...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I compliment Senator Seery Kearney on her work on the motion and I welcome the Minister. I concur with the comments of Senator Cassells. I worked on the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act. When it started here in the Seanad, we had 27 hours of debate on it. The Minister, Deputy Martin, was here for 26 or 27 hours. There was no guillotine implemented....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I thank the Chair. I welcome the staff representatives and thank them for coming. The one thing that needs to be made clear, as a punter and public representative, is that I have full trust in the staff and in the quality of the product of the public service broadcaster. It is important all of us on the committee say that and that it goes back to the staff. We have full trust in the...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: It is disappointing to hear the opportunity was not afforded to engage at those levels. That is extremely disappointing. Deputy Griffin asked a significant number of questions earlier and he did not get an opportunity to get answers. These are questions coming from members of staff who could not be here today. We as a committee should actually go out to RTÉ and have the opportunity to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: Perhaps I will have the opportunity to get answers to the questions Deputy Griffin asked about the Eversheds report.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I would hope to get further answers from both the NUJ and SIPTU rather than one representative saying she concurs. They are two separate organisations. I would like to hear a more a detailed view on it.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: One of the questions asked by Deputy Griffin was about union subs that were charged over those years, yet people were not represented over this issue.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: Some workers feel they were abandoned and were not properly supported on this issue. Would the unions do anything different if they were doing it again?

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I am not grandstanding by any means and I ask that Mr. Byrne withdraw that comment.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Culture and Governance Issues at RTÉ: Discussion (24 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I ask that Mr. Byrne withdraw the remark that I am grandstanding. I am asking questions, which I am entitled to do, and I am asking witnesses to give answers. I am not grandstanding. I am asking questions that have been put forward by employees, which I am entitled to do. There is no grandstanding going on here. We are asking questions as we have done ever since this started 12 months ago.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I echo the comments of Senator O'Loughlin. We, too, support the Garda but in any discussion everybody needs to be at the table to discuss matters. To be honest, it is disappointing to hear those comments. I welcome the announcement today by the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, of multimillion euro funding for local improvement schemes throughout the country. Those of us from rural...

Seanad: Cost of Doing Business: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Micheál Carrigy: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Burke, to the Chamber. It is an honour for me, as a constituency colleague of his in Longford-Westmeath and on behalf of all the members of Fine Gael in Longford-Westmeath, to welcome him and congratulate him on his new role on this his first time in the Seanad. It is well deserved and I wish him every success and luck with the role. It is important to...