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Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...it is vital that mainstream primary and post-primary schools, as well as other stakeholders, are made aware of this plan and that the value of schools, such as their own, are known and recognised. They feel extremely isolated at present. They feel the Department is dealing with them in an underhand and forceful way. Whatever plan the NCSE has, it must do it in collaboration with the...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...falls far short of what survivors want and even further short of what pre-legislative scrutiny by the committee on education asked for. Unfortunately, survivors are left in the position where they feel ignored and their voices unheard. In an article yesterday's Irish Examiner, campaigners outlined their difficulties with the Bill: Campaigners say a Bill that is due to be progressed in...

Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Report Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...this space. I do not think anybody would suggest now that we should have listened more to people who said that curtailing smoking advertising was a bad move or to those who suggest the same about alcohol advertising. I feel the same way about gambling advertising because it is absolutely everywhere. I am a sports fan but I understand that for half of young people, or possibly more, the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Legislative Measures (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...because he did not speak English. We have had 23 arson attacks on accommodation centres over the last number of years. Members of the LGBTQ+ community and their families know what it is like to feel afraid that they will be assaulted for who they are. We are behind every other European country when it comes to legislation in this regard. I am aghast at Government backbenchers who,...

Acknowledgement and Apology to the Families and to the Victims of the Stardust Tragedy: Statements (23 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., William, Julie, Teresa, Gerard, Caroline, Donna, Helena, James, Susan, David, Kathleen, George, Brendan, John, Margaret and Paul, all of whose faces rightly hung up on the wall of the Rotunda inquest hall. An injustice on this scale can fester and make you feel that you can never trust the State again but earlier I saw a rose in the Gallery. From this darkness, maybe something can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Pre-legislative Scrutiny of the Proceeds of Crime (Amendment) Bill 2024: Discussion (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...people in various communities who are very taken with the glamour of the life of crime. It is very lucrative. People do not need many qualifications to enter into the parallel economy. If they feel they are not empowered or respected by gardaí, teachers, politicians or social workers and somebody gives them some power or empowerment, it is very easy for them to find themselves in...

Accommodation for International Protection Applicants: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...I used to hear when I was in the Department at the time - not the same Department as the Minister's but the Department that was dealing with this issue - was pull factor, pull factor, pull factor. I feel there is a percentage of thought within the permanent government that wants to see images of people in tents in Mount Street because it suits the agenda of "Do not come here". I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Allocations of Special Education Teachers: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...have to accept this and go from school to school, sometimes going to up to 20 schools. We now have this new provision from the Department. I do not want to be unfair to the Department, but I feel this is an area that it does not embrace, love or celebrate. It feels like it is a massive drag on the resources and the money it needs to spend. I know that because even within the system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...place in the House. During it, quite a number of political groupings focused on issues with the immigration system, the failures of that system, communication issues and all the rest of it. I feel we have reached the point where there is almost a legitimacy being given to those who block roads, board buses or protest outside people's homes. I was a bit taken aback that the outcry about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...Ms McDonald for answering the question on the response of political parties and what they have to do. I want to flesh out this ignore-versus-tackle dynamic more. Taking what Mr. Malone said, it feels to me after his presentation that we are just waiting for somebody to be killed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Arson Attacks: Discussion (5 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...those officiating or stewarding at any sort of protest have to deal with incidents that are in the same vein. Do the witnesses share my assumption that the direction of travel is going only one way? I feel it is very hard not to describe 23 arson attacks over the course of five or six years as domestic terrorism. The level and threat of violence and temperatures are rising all the time....

Recent Arson Attacks: Statements (27 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Let us return to what this topic is actually about. In a debate like this, when we discuss the road blockers, protesters and people who feel they get on buses to check passports, we are actually talking about domestic terrorism when we talk about people setting stuff on fire. While it is open season for people from the Government and, indeed, from the Opposition to start talking about the...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...inquest that is currently under way. Families waited a very long time for that full inquest. Having spent time with the families from my own constituency, I know how it hard it was for them to feel that the State had not exhausted every avenue in trying to understand what happened to their loved ones. The dignity and persistence of the families in their search for the truth is truly...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., the Judiciary and the Garda, take drugs but they do not end up in court because this is actually a point about social justice. The people who end up in front of courts are those who society feels do not have power. This is a discussion about power and people. Do we honestly think we will affect a person's life for the better by giving them a criminal charge? Do we genuinely think...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...action is not just down to the Minister of State but to all of us. It is not just down to the Government; it is down to civil society, trade unions and the Irish people to make a determination of what we feel should be our ongoing relationship with Israel and how we can halt what it is doing. Its actions may come to an end. There may be a resolution, a ceasefire and diplomacy but this...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...we have deep political relationships that they are wrong, because some things are more important. The sad point is that every time I leave Leinster House and I see the Ukrainian flag, it makes me feel that we are all hypocrites. That moral certitude we had - the sense of truth and justice that the West speaks about, and the sense that we are all in this together and that when we see...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., youth services or other agencies. I really want to impress on the Minister the importance of community gardaí. Communities in Dublin are saying they are just not as available as they were and there is no feeling that their numbers will be enhanced in the future.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...knitting together as neatly as they should. A lot of community infrastructure has come after the fact, such as schools and other basic provision for people. A Garda station lends itself to the feeling of community, security and togetherness. Is it envisaged that other Garda stations may close to facilitate the opening of this divisional headquarters? It was suggested in a previous...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: An Garda Síochána (12 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The development of this site and this divisional headquarters will be crucial to the faith local people will have in agencies of the State. A lot of them feel let down. The Minister mentioned there are two local authorities. There is any amount of campaigning that consistently goes on for basic provision of community infrastructure in the wider area of Clongriffin, Belmayne and Parkside....

Residential Tenancies (Deferment of Termination Dates of Certain Tenancies) (No. 2) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...by the Government's decision to table an amendment virtually identical to that debated in the House last week. This amendment does little more than give cover to those Government and Independent TDs feeling the pressure in their constituencies but who will nonetheless support the Government in its indefensible action, namely, the decision to lift the eviction ban without reasonable...