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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...was going to go up. For anybody to suggest that what happened on Thursday night was in any way a surprise is absolutely delusional. We heard a statement from the Minister on Saturday night that spoke about dog units, horse units and water cannons. Is she serious? We then heard a statement about facial recognition technology. Is the Minister really suggesting that any of those things...

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the children they are dealing with will be in a position to move beyond the situation they are in and perhaps maximise their potential. The potential of these children is unknown, but it is being dogged by the circumstances of where they are from, intergenerational poverty, intergenerational trauma and intergenerational educational disadvantage. The proposal was made to the Department...

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., Aoife Robinson, plays for Bohemians. She recently cut through the anti-immigrant narrative online by posting her Refugees Welcome Bohemians shirt, because she knows that football is Ireland. The first player to score in Dalymount Park, Harold Sloan, died in the First World War, because football is Ireland. Football is partitioned because football is Ireland. Football has been dogged...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the Rural Independent Group for tabling this very important motion. At the heart of it are some matters we need to address, of which planning is the most fundamental. Planning controversies have dogged the political system for as long as I can remember. The Labour Party is interested, and we had a long discussion on this at our parliamentary party meeting yesterday, in the log cabin...

Residential Tenancies and Valuation Bill 2020: Second Stage (28 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... It seems strange, when a measure introduced in March has been seen to work to keep people out of homelessness, that we would change the provisions that were made. Homelessness and housing have dogged political debate for years now. They are one of the greatest crises we have had to grapple with as a nation. Measures have finally been taken that have seen a drop in the numbers...

Employment Rights: Motion [Private Members] (15 Jul 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Party three years ago and yet these are the same essential workers that he was happy to applaud during this pandemic and to state that without them our country would have fallen apart. That is classic dog-whistling. The Labour Party and other parties in the Oireachtas have gone to great lengths to introduce legislation to improve the lot of workers in Ireland in recent years and that...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 May 2020)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 912. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the fact that there are particular difficulties for dog owners and animal welfare caused by lack of access to dog grooming services; the steps he plans to take to assist such services in resuming; and his views on which stage of the 5 stage Roadmap for Reopening Society and Business is appropriate...

Seanad: Equality of Access to Education: Motion (12 Jul 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: .... Before the last general election, my own party made commitments which were not lived up to. I greatly regret that but one either stands by one's belief in free education or one lets it lie and let the commitment dog one forever. What we managed to do in five years of Government was stop Fine Gael's manifesto promise of having tuition paid for through a graduate loans system. That...

Seanad: Migrant Integration Strategy: Statements (16 May 2017)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the dehumanising of people because of their religious beliefs because that is exactly what the Irish went through in America and in Britain. We understand the signs that said "No blacks, no dogs, no Irish". We understand that stuff instinctively, and that is why I believe no political party will ever go down this line. It would not be to the credit of the Minister of State's Department...

Seanad: Appointment of Receivers: Motion (6 May 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...exceptions to the general behaviour of receivers. Let me make it clear that the Minister condemns the use of heavy-handed actions by receivers in this type of instance and deplores the use of men with dogs and balaclavas turning up in the middle of the night to effect a repossession, as highlighted in recent reports. The Minister is conscious that the appointment of a receiver over...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: VAT Rate Reductions (12 Nov 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 105. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has considered lowering the VAT rate on dog grooming to bring it in line with vets practices; and if not, if he will do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48198/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Children in Care (8 May 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the X case legislation for the next two and a half months, during which time parliamentary party meetings will be convulsed in heavy debate and we will all be under intense pressure to deal with an issue that has dogged us for 20 years, yet when a problem pertaining to 6,300 children in care and their educational needs arises, there is only one backbencher - me - to raise it. I find the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Absenteeism Costs Arising from Musculoskeletal Disorders: Discussion (27 Mar 2013)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Are we talking about a recurring illness - not something that will go away overnight, but one that will dog somebody for a considerable period of time?