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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Duncan Smith: ...traditional stationmasters as well as workers present on platforms, who have authority by virtue of being public transport workers, it would go a long way towards increasing security so people can feel safe on our public transport system. We used to have inspectors on Dublin Bus. We need to go back to a system where we have inspectors. They are not there to throw their weight around but...

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

Duncan Smith: ...is the failure to recruit and retain healthcare professionals throughout our health service. As we move towards the end of 2022 and into 2023, the people who are suffering long Covid are increasingly feeling forgotten by our health service and political class. That is why it is important we are discussing this issue. A related issue, which I have raised with the Minister...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: European Media Freedom Act: Discussion (9 Nov 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...that would seem to me to be almost an extreme example of conflict, where the body would be adjudicating something and funding it. At least at a minimum, those should be separated out. However, I feel based on what Dr. Flynn has said there is an opportunity for a lot more dispersing.

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: .... A few weeks ago I was going door-to-door and came across a woman who had just come home and was getting out of her car in her driveway and was taking a moment to compose herself. I had that feeling with which we are all familiar of trying to deliver a leaflet and wondering what to do. She took the leaflet, called me back and asked me to come in. She had come from providing a couple...

Seanad: Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (8 Nov 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ..., security of tenure for renters, but it does not go far enough. While we sit here and Members on the Government side laud Housing for All and say it is working, by any measure and yardstick people feel that Government housing policy is failing. Why is that? It is because house prices are up 14%. While house prices are collapsing elsewhere, because of our lack of supply, our prices...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (8 Nov 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...on the sentencing guidelines in this context. I again submit for her consideration, however, that there is a difference between poisoning and spiking. I know it may be subtle and the Minister may feel it is already covered, but I still contend there is a difference. As a committee and an Oireachtas, we must be quite sure that in our legislation anybody intending to spike a drink is...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Second Stage (27 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...; whether the scheme should be extended to make provision for recognising persons who were boarded out as children, as relevant persons; whether there is a need to provide for additional institutions in Schedule 1 of the Bill, because we feel it is not an all-encompassing Bill in that regard; and whether the requirement imposed on applicants by section 27(3) should be removed. Section...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...be the lead Department, but there are significant roles for the Departments of Social Protection, Education, Health, and Housing, Local Government and Heritage. I could go on. Does Mr. McCarthy feel that everybody, across all those Departments and other bodies, is working at the same pace as his Department? I know this is a loaded question, which is difficult for him to answer in a...

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

Gerald Nash: ...have been reduced to coming into my office or stopping me on the street and asking, for example, for references for private landlords for properties they will probably never be able to rent. They feel they have no agency. They have been on a housing list for up to 12 years. I feel, as a public representative of 23 years' standing, that I have no agency with the local authority. We are...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Surviving Cohabitant’s Pension) Bill 2021: Second Stage (26 Oct 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I welcome the Minister for Social Protection to the House to debate what we feel is an important and necessary change to the social protection system. I want to heartily welcome some visitors to the Gallery: Damien Peelo, chief executive officer of Treoir, the national federation for services for unmarried parents and their children, and...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...having a running fight. The video is 20 or 30 seconds long. It is another in a long line of videos that are quite disturbing and show a level of violence that would make anyone in the vicinity feel very frightened. I saw one of the videos was shot from a bus. People who were on public transport would have felt paralysed and, if these people had forced their way onto the bus, they would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...but those who it does not suit do not tend to make the rules. Can Ms Foley expand on that and use the opportunity the committee presents to tell us from her organisation's perspective how she feels the exam system impacts on mental health and how it could be changed?

Coercion of a Minor (Misuse of Drugs Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (20 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...of empowerment and because they perceive they are locked out of mainstream society. This is the only way they can get respect. A child is given a gun and told to do a run. That is the only way they feel they can get respect. There are also, as Deputy Gannon quite rightly said, people who are so immersed in pain and trauma that they turn to addiction because it eases the pain. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (20 Oct 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ...all her life, she voted for mediocre men and that just once, she would like the chance to vote for a mediocre woman. That is the reality. That is why we need quotas. I am sorry I have gone rather but I feel passionately about this. The citizens' assembly clearly endorsed the quota model rather than voluntary targets. Some comments on that would be welcome. I will go first to Ms Duffy...

Central Bank (Individual Accountability Framework) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (19 Oct 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...speakers. The chair of the Irish Banking Culture Board, Mr. Justice Hedigan, said when the board published its Éist survey this year that more work needs to be done to address the deeply ingrained feelings of distrust towards the banking sector among the public. Mr. Justice Hedigan went on to remark that continued positive behaviour on behalf of the retail banks is necessary to...

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...data protection regulation, GDPR, and the ethics or lack of ethics when it comes to taking all of that information and putting it into an archive without going back to each person who presented to that confidential committee. They rightly feel aggrieved that their testimony was not treated with the respect it deserved. There are issues in that regard that still need to be dealt with in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Education Issues: Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (19 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...disadvantaged or Traveller backgrounds or they could be from the North or overseas. Some of those barriers relate to the Irish language. This is a difficult one to verbalise because many people feel very strongly about the Irish language, as I do myself; I have a degree in Irish. I try to pronounce my name to people with great difficulty in every election. The serious point is that the...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (12 Oct 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...exercise. Therefore, when a group of Deputies and Senators who are Oireachtas Members from different political parties collectively come together to make recommendations to Government on what they feel, having dispassionately, if you like, scrutinised legislation, one would hope that what they say would make its way into the Government's Bill considering that those who signed up to these...

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

Duncan Smith: ...we are training and then retaining in our services one, three, five or ten years later. That is vitally important because the CDNT issue is so big. The 28% figure we have for vacancies not filled feels like it is higher in respect of service delivery and in the lack of service delivery. In my experience, service users have been devolved from existing services - which may not have been...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Alternative Aftercare Services for Young Adults: Discussion (11 Oct 2022)

Seán Sherlock: ...the proof of it, we can ask where the Department was in its engagement with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We can ask why we have been left with a situation whereby foster carers feel extremely patronised by the fact the allowance was a paltry sum by any objective analysis. The great job they do is acknowledged in the language that is used but concrete supports are not...