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Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (13 Jul 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...the decision to give candidate status to Ukraine and Moldova. We visited Moldova. There is an understanding that this is not an instant process. It is a slow process, but these countries wish to feel embraced and on track to be part of the European family and that they would be supported in developing their own systems to ensure that they measure up, if you like, to the standards we...

Seanad: Night-time Economy: Motion (13 Jul 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...have closed in the past two decades. This does not just impact our night-time tourist offering but also affects the cultural life we have in the city as a place for young people to go where they feel they belong in a vibrant European city. When people speak about what is on offer in Dublin, they speak about blandness and sameness. There are places people go to pay for overpriced...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Summer Economic Statement: Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (13 Jul 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...on this in recent weeks. Undoubtedly, if we assume a fixed number of workers in the economy over the medium to long term, then the cost to the State of pensions will be enormous. However, I feel labour force participation and how it may change or expand over time has been absent from the debate. I am particularly struck by the fact that the largest measure of unemployment pre pandemic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...and throughout the country, and particularly in housing estates that were built less than 20 years ago, homes would have no front gardens but would have parking bays at the front. Many people feel excluded from getting on board with EVs. They have the money for the EVs but they cannot charge them. Is that being teased out - the bridging of what is essentially the width of a path - in...

Seanad: Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Jul 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...heard very much from the Department in that regard. For almost 18 years I have been a visitor to the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal and it is where my husband comes from so I know the depth of feeling, desperation and anger felt among that community. There is a real sense of frustration that the company that sold the faulty blocks that were used in affected houses cannot be held to...

Seanad: Electoral Reform Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (7 Jul 2022)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...should be larger where it is reasonably practical to do so. We had a discussion on Second Stage on respecting county boundaries. Some Members on the Government side did not necessarily feel that respecting county boundaries is the way we should go about it as that would excessively limit a constituency commission. The amendment is primarily concerned with ensuring that constituencies are...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Jul 2022) See 1 other result from this debate

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: What we are trying to express here is the reality on the ground, which is that schools do not feel supported. I must strongly make the point that the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, saw fit to malign four schools, two of which are in my constituency and all four of which are Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, DEIS, schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Annie Hoey: I thank Dr. Lambert for his presentation. The additional information has been very useful. People regularly contact us about long Covid. People explain their symptoms and sometimes feel that they are not being believed and that it is in their head. It is great to have this session today. I am interested in how long Covid relates to workplace issues and how we might manage that. Some...

Back to School Costs: Motion [Private Members] (5 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to the issue of school costs. Far too many of our conversations in our school communities are not about education, children, child development, literacy or numeracy. They are about money. I feel like I have made this speech about 14 times. I am quite sure Deputy Ó Laoghaire, who I thank for putting forward this motion, is sick of hearing me making the same speech over and over...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2022)

Marie Sherlock: ...strike. It is important to say that minimum levels of care continue to be provided, so people are being looked after today. These workers, however, have been forced to go on strike because they feel they have no other option and that nobody is listening to them. Talking to one of those workers today, Jacinta, I was struck by her talking about the frustration of doing one of the most...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...and contraception measure that everyone in his Department is in favour of delivering on. I ask him to give it some attention. The delay in the continuation of the free GP care scheme is something we feel very deeply. The Labour Party brought this in when we were in the Government. We are very proud of it. Everyone likes it. Everyone remembers other stuff we did in Government but no...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., we step up and it is not a point of political debate. However, the point has been made about ensuring we do this correctly and ensuring those who have come to Ireland seeking asylum do not feel there is an injustice in how they are being treated compared with the programme refugees we have from Ukraine. There have been suggestions that in the education system, for example, it is...

Remediation of Dwellings Damaged By the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...doing the remediation work that needs to be done to make these homes safer, the more unsafe they will be and the more uncertainty prevails. It would be useful if the Minister in his closing remarks, if he feels it is appropriate in the context of the debate will tell us what we can expect to see with regard to the Construction Defects Alliance campaign in the budget in the autumn. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Jun 2022)

Ivana Bacik: ..., such as family carers, when they were in before us of a frustration about a lack of co-ordination on data. It was a real issue they identified, as did the citizens' assembly. They did not feel that there was enough information about levels of care, in particular, unpaid care. It is good to hear there is likely to be an improvement in the extent of data available.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Communications (Retention of Data) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (30 Jun 2022)

Brendan Howlin: ...an observation and ask three questions. The observation is as follows. In response to the Chair's question to Mr. Kelleher, I think, having been here a long time, that Departments sometimes feel they are the legislators and we are here simply to rubber stamp. An evolving situation should involve us, as the Oireachtas, and the general public, so we are all party to the development of...

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: ..., it got to the European Parliament and then went to the European Commission. We got there in the end with that measure and that is why we have the standardisation we have now in this context. I feel that we need to be leaders on this issue. I do not accept the Minister of State’s arguments regarding the appropriateness of this provision being in this Bill. Any examination of...

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (29 Jun 2022)

Brendan Howlin: There is a certain feeling of déjà vuabout this particular annual process when you could really print out last year's scripts and recycle them into the record of the House. That is never a good situation. Let us start from first principles and ask what we have been asked to do today. We have been asked to continue in force certain provisions of the Offences against the State...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022) See 4 other results from this debate

Alan Kelly: ...again. The disability awareness strategy, DAS, to get people into employment is again tokenistic. I am working with a number of people to try to help them get into employment because of the stigma they feel every time they notify potential employers of their autism. For the Government to say it needs more time and that it will not start off with this legislation, which we are not...

Emergency Budget: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (28 Jun 2022)

Gerald Nash: ...by a reference in a recent report from the ESRI that essentially, and I am interpreting this to a degree, stated that for many people on low and middle incomes the Ireland of 2022 is starting to feel like 2008 again. This is a comment and a reference that will resonate with many people. The difference, however, between 2008 and 2022 is that we have the resources now, if properly...

Seanad: Higher Education Authority Bill 2022: Second Stage (28 Jun 2022)

Annie Hoey: ...notice. The old argument is not a strong enough reason not to stipulate that one needs HEA board approval for all nine areas. In the past few days I spoke to representatives of different groups who feel very strongly about this matter. It seems that we have nearly gotten there with three areas and we should go the whole way with the remaining areas. As a former member of the HEA board...