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

Kieran O'Donnell: ...Murphy. He is ideologically driven. His suggestions are not based on the practicalities of building houses. The State cannot do everything and, effectively, he has basically come up with suggestions. He is like the dog who wants to chase every car that goes by. The bottom line is that we have to work in a balanced way to get houses built. The State needs to build houses, which we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism: Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...a hard question. The Chairman has referenced it and many here will be aware that the St. Joseph's Foundation has a horse riding residential establishment and horses have an enormous impact, as do dogs and animals in general, on people with autism. What would the witnesses like to see happening, including around the skill sets people with autism have? I know I am asking a direct question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...and thank them for their forbearance. On behalf of the committee, I welcome Mr. John Fulham from the Irish Wheelchair Association, IWA; Mr. Tim O'Mahony, CEO, and Ms Léan Kennedy, Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind; and Ms June Tinsley, Ms Lorna Fitzpatrick, advocacy and engagement manager, and Ms Joanne Murphy, service user and advocate, National Council for the Blind of Ireland, NCBI....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: ..., and we will take up these points then. There is no substitute for personal experience, and in that vein, I have some questions for Ms Kennedy, whose daughter has autism. She has an assistance dog. What has her experience been in the context of the operation of e-scooters in public now? I am interested in the personal story in this regard and what the experience is like day-to-day for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: Ms Kennedy can tell us about her own experience of having a guide dog and being out and about and the interaction day-to-day in the context of e-scooters as they are operating now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...of Transport specifically stating that we have had the various groups in before us in terms of people impacted by disabilities. I am referring to the Irish Wheelchair Association, the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind and the National Council for the Blind Ireland. I will state that they have made submissions to the Department and that we have noted that the submissions have been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, and Disability and Transport: Discussion (19 Jan 2022)

Kieran O'Donnell: .... We will go through how we can get this right in terms of footpaths, speeds and general safety. We cannot have a situation whereby people who are visually impaired, on their own or with a guide dog, or people who are disabled feel threatened as a result of a measure that has been introduced that should be a positive measure. The witnesses' submission was sent to the Department in early...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Resolution of Non-Performing Loans: Discussion (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...from EBS called to her home a number of days before Christmas. She rang me and was absolutely petrified. I rang a personal insolvency practitioner I know who had a contact in EBS and the dogs were called off. Mr. Burgess needs to understand our role. Many of us are accountants.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Mr. Padraic Kissane (8 Mar 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...rang a personal insolvency practitioner, PIP, who was dealing with Permanent TSB. Obviously, we are dealing with Permanent TSB on a daily basis now. He made a quick telephone call and the dogs were pulled off. Why do the banks not say that they need to put this matter to rest, sort out these customers and move on? It is doing incredible damage to the banks in terms of image, reputation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: There is an element of "the dog ate my homework". It is an incredibly large institution. How many solicitors are employed in AIB? Typically, how many are employed in-house?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Tracker Mortgages: Allied Irish Banks (23 Jan 2018)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...the bank did not have a record of the commitments and obligations of the banks. If the banks were enforcing them with customers, they would have them in chapter and verse. It has echoes of "the dog ate my homework". Am I correct in saying the bank has identified, based on the figures I extracted from Mr. Byrne's presentation, roughly 9,348 customers who are affected? There are 3,509...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Engagement with the Central Bank of Ireland (19 Oct 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...believe they have not been impacted on and that they will have to go to the Financial Services Ombudsman. It appears that in the case of the banks and the Central Bank, the tail is wagging the dog. The Central Bank has not included in its update that under existing legislation it did not have the power to do anything in cases prior to 2013. What powers does it need from the Oireachtas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Banking Sector in Ireland (Resumed): Customer Experience (12 Oct 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...the Central Bank does not have the power to insist on the banks coming forward with the information in a matter of weeks? To the ordinary person looking in, it appears that the tail is wagging the dog. The banks are telling the Central Bank they cannot come up with the information in the requisite time. Is that credible?

Seanad: Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...Bill 2017 and wish to make a number of observations on it. This is an issue that has been coming up a lot. Anyone who has canvassed in recent years will have noticed the increase in the number of dogs generally. More and more people have pets nowadays. The increase in the past five years, in particular, has been significant and has given rise to the problem of people not picking up...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (27 May 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...in terms of the quality of personnel, in terms of their experience and their ... and their qualifications, and the quantity of personnel, to properly supervise the banks or was the tail wagging the dog?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (30 Apr 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: We've had various, we'll say people, in before us and I would just ... it kind of brings in analogies like the dog stole my copybook, that ... the worry here is that we are seeing various publications and minutes saying that there was a guarantee in place, a draft guarantee brought by the two institutions that went to the Government on the night. So we have minutes of the group liquidity...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: .... At what point in time prior to the guarantee does Professor Honohan believe the banks were insolvent? Was there a scenario in the context of financial regulation that the tail was wagging the dog in the relationship between the regulators and the banks?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (15 Jan 2015)

Kieran O'Donnell: Does Professor Honohan believe during that period that the tail was wagging the dog?

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: ...reserve function in terms of capital acquisitions. Was the chief executive bypassing the board? Was there proper reference back to the board? Was it simply too loose? For me, it is simple. Bord na gCon does great work in the dog and greyhound industry, which is of major importance. The Greenpark racecourse is a fantastic amenity in the city. I come from a county and I represent a...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 86 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Bord na gCon (27 Nov 2014)

Kieran O'Donnell: Has the Deputy got a dog running?