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Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...beaten to death in an anti-immigrant attack last month. This is about members of the LGBTQ+ community, who are afraid they will be beaten up, or worse. This is about the 23 accommodation centres that have been destroyed by arson attacks in the past number of years. He should ask his former Ministers to tell those terrified families that this is some woke agenda. The Taoiseach must...

Policing, Protests and Public Order: Statements (28 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...absolute collapse in Garda morale. We came within an inch of Garda overtime not being used for every Tuesday during October, which would have included Hallowe'en, which in turn would have absolutely destroyed the policing potential of An Garda Síochána on Hallowe'en night. We have had 116 resignations, unprecedented numbers, up to the end of October. A couple of years ago it...

Planning and Rural Housing: Motion [Private Members] (10 May 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We have developments in my constituency that are deathtraps. We had planning regulations and oversight that did not work, which allowed people to make a quick buck and destroyed the lives of those who were living in those dwellings. They bought them in good faith and, when they discovered those dwellings were defective, had no ability to move against the person, persons or entities that...

European Union Directive: Motion (19 Apr 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...said. The Labour Party welcomes this proposal with regard to this particularly troubling type of crime and area. The lives of those who are at the rough end of this criminal endeavour are often destroyed and it is disproportionately women and children who are affected. As Deputy Costello said, to raise public consciousness of this issue we need to raise the voices of those who are...

Building Defects: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...about their children growing up in entities that could seriously harm them can have the prospect in a short time of resting their heads on their pillows and not worrying. This issue is soul destroying and life defining. Imagine reaching 60, 65 or 70 years of age, looking back on your life and realising that, for 20 years or more of it, you were terrified going to bed every night and...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it was like when I was a child, when the bookie's office was a place we might go once a year to place a bet on the Grand National. Now it is all around us, on our phones every hour of day and night. It is destroying families and it will only get worse. I get the sense from this area that we are at the beginning of an epidemic, if we are not already there. It is so silent. We will be...

Rent Reduction Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...housing. If we want to reduce rents in this country in the long term, there is one clear way to do that. The Government must build tens of thousands of State-owned cost-rental units and destroy the business model of those who expect to make rack-rent profits from the rents paid by ordinary workers. Since 2016, this House and the Seanad have debated a multitude of housing Bills and...

Dublin Fire Brigade: Motion [Private Members] (7 Dec 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Marie Sherlock organised that briefing for us. I felt that we were potentially looking at a situation like what happened in the UK when a major fire incident took place. Lives were lost and destroyed, bodies were maimed, children's lives were torn apart and children's parents were lost. We we were told at that briefing that the capacity of Dublin Fire Brigade to deal with such a major...

National Autism Empowerment Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (29 Apr 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...; notes that: — the long-standing adversarial approach taken by the State, when services which children are entitled to, or urgently need access to, are absent or failing, has put major strain on families and carers, and destroyed the trust of many in the State; — early diagnosis and intervention for children with autism is critically important, but waiting times for...

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Second Stage (17 Feb 2021)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...two parties with a long history of delivering for the private sector. In Fianna Fáil in particular we have a party whose toxic relationship with private interests in this sector crashed the economy, collapsed the housing industry and destroyed capacity to build houses, resulting in the current drastic undersupply. Part of the function of a land development agency is to try to break...

General Practitioner Contract: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...promote the document. That is obvious because it did not promote the document. In the words of Dr. Maitiú Ó Tuathail himself, "no doubt it will take the wind from the IMO's sails... I would love to destroy IMO too." Is it not really the case that the NAGP was falling apart? There were all sorts of questions about its corporate governance, its dealings and how it managed its...

Credit Guarantee (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (21 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...outlets. We completely understand that many people have been devastated not just by the collapse of the economy caused by Covid-19 but also by the fact that the dreams that they had up until Christmas have been destroyed. Many feel that they may not open their doors again. We want to support the Bill and what the Government is trying to achieve but we cannot – we will be...

Covid-19 (Communications, Climate Action and Environment): Statements (27 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...greatest challenge for us all is ensuring that new jobs are available in places where the older jobs are being lost and that the gap between the old jobs vanishing and the new jobs appearing does not destroy people's ability to sustain themselves and result in the economic destruction of our communities. Running quickly through some of the measures the Minister outlined in the Government's...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 Nov 2019)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...legislation to allow stakes of €5 in gambling machines versus the current limit of 3 cent, with the maximum payout increasing from 50 cent to €500. These gambling machines have been proven to destroy many lives. I remember a campaign in the 1980s to ban one-armed bandits, as they were then called. I am completely perplexed as to where this has come from. Who is advocating...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Feb 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...remarks you made in Seanad Éireann on January 30th in relation to our proposal to deliver 536 housing units on lands at St Paul's School, Raheny. You stated that our proposed development would "destroy St. Anne's Park" and would result in a loss of playing pitches and community facilities. Your remarks are fundamentally inaccurate and are the latest example of a catalogue of...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Jan 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...order was handed land from Dublin City Council in the 1950s but has now sold that land to a private developer. A planning application for a huge development has been made, which will effectively destroy St. Anne's Park on the north side. We also have a situation on the south side, about which Councillor Deirdre Kingston in Dún Laoghaire has alerted me, whereby the Edmund Rice...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Fire Safety Regulations (16 May 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...for several Governments. The former Minister with responsibility for the environment commissioned a report after five houses in the Millfield Manor estate in Newbridge, County Kildare, were completely destroyed by fire in less than half an hour.I understand that this report has been completed and that the current Minister is in possession of it. I am anxious to know what the report...

Seanad: Clarification on Statements made by the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs: Statements (15 Feb 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The media performances of other members of the Government in the past few days are just not credible. What we are dealing with is a family whose names have been destroyed. There are people wondering why anyone would bother being a whistleblower. They are asking themselves what would happen if they were to see a great injustice or a terrible wrong being done in the institution in which they...

Seanad: International Protection Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (7 Dec 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., (c) has not made reasonable efforts to establish his or her identity, (d) intends to leave the State and without lawful authority enter another state, or (e) without reasonable cause—(i) has destroyed his or her identity or travel document, or (ii) is or has been in possession of a forged, altered or substituted identity document. The section makes it clear that a person...

Palestine: Motion [Private Members] (9 Dec 2014)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...remain displaced and are in need of food, water, health services and shelter solutions. According to the United Nations Works and Relief Agency, UNRWA, some 20,000 people are still living in schools in Gaza. It is estimated that 18,000 homes were destroyed or severely damaged, leaving approximately 108,000 people homeless. Damage to public infrastructure was extensive, and despite...