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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Lisa Chambers: I thank the Cathaoirleach. I also thank the Members who contributed to the Order of Business. Senator O'Loughlin welcomed the fact that Diageo will be able to move ahead with its investment into its plant in County Kildare. This will be worth €200 million and will create 1,000 jobs, now that the single objector has withdrawn their objection. I wish the company and County Kildare...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Sharon Keogan: The amendments are of critical importance. As I and others have noted during the course of the debate, both inside and outside Houses, the Bill has a deeply totalitarian undercurrent. Its enactment would severely damage and limit legitimate constitutional rights, including the right to protest and freedom of expression. In the past, some have attempted to portray the Bill, like the hate...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024) See 9 other results from this debate

Pauline O'Reilly: ...Swanick, which showed that loneliness is the public health crisis of this generation; - the 2021 study by the UK Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, which noted that younger farmers were less likely to confide in anyone about poor mental wellbeing and more likely to report feeling lonely; - research conducted by Calor and Macra na Feirme (2016) which found that 27 percent of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 10 other results from this debate

Mr. Conor O'Brien: The Health and Safety Authority welcomes the opportunity to meet the committee today. I am the chief executive of the authority, and I am accompanied today by my assistant chief executives, as introduced by the Cathaoirleach earlier. I thank the Chairman of the committee for inviting us to speak and outline our general role and operations. Established in 1989 under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 14 other results from this debate

Ms Audrey Cahill: I thank the committee for the invitation to appear before it and for the opportunity to outline the important work of the Workplace Relations Commission, its statutory functions and, in particular, how the WRC is supporting and assisting people with disabilities to access WRC services to assist them in realising their rights under the United Nations Convention on the...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Renewable Energy Generation (1 May 2024)

Peter Burke: ...Joint Oireachtas Committee on Enterprise, Trade and Employment’s Report on Offshore Renewable Energy is comprehensive, and forward-thinking, and sets out recommendations on diverse but connected topics. Shortly after the publication of the Report, a Memorandum for Government Decision proposing the development of an industrial strategy for offshore wind was brought forward on 9...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: UN Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Mr. David Donoghue: It is a pleasure to be here. While serving as Ireland’s permanent representative to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017, I was asked to take on the role of co-facilitator, or co-chair, for global negotiations to agree a new development agenda in succession to the millennium development goals with which many members of the committee will be familiar. This...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Defective Concrete Blocks: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Rose Conway-Walsh: We will split up the Donegal representation and go to Mayo now. Obviously, a lot of the issues arising in Donegal are also happening in Mayo. We have a whole list of things that need to happen in Mayo for people to get on and I really welcome the opportunity to talk to our guests here today. I want to start with Engineers Ireland and its opening statement. In one paragraph, Mr. O'Dowd...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Relating to the Provision of Dentistry Services: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 7 other results from this debate

Mr. David O'Flynn: I thank the Chair and the committee members for inviting us here today to talk about dental regulation. Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the Dentists Act 1985. The Act is a legacy of a different time. As L.P. Hartley wrote, "The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." The Dentists Act predates the Internet, emails and mobile phones....

Joint Committee on the Irish Language, the Gaeltacht and the Irish Speaking Community: Pleanáil Teanga Lasmuigh den Ghaeltacht: Plé (1 May 2024)

Thomas Gould: Tá brón orm ach níl ach cúpla focal Gaeilge agam so I have to speak English. First, I will start with Seán Ó Laoi in Gael-Taca. I am lucky and am very proud that both my daughters can speak as Gaeilge. My children can do something I could never do. As a parent, you always hope your children will take one extra step. My wife has a good bit of the language....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Our Rural Future and Town Centre First Policies: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Mr. Fintan O'Brien: I thank committee members for their invitation to this meeting today to discuss the implementation of the town centre First policy. As the Chair mentioned, I am head of rural development and regional affairs in the Department of Rural and Community Development. I am joined by my colleagues Andrew Forde, principal officer with responsibility for rural regeneration...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Departmental Schemes (30 Apr 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Neale Richmond: I thank Deputy Nash for raising this issue with me this evening. I love Drogheda too. My mother went to school there. She was in the Drogheda Grammar School for many a year, although it was many years ago. It is a small city that I visit regularly. I appreciate Deputy Nash's passion, which is shared by my colleague, Deputy Fergus O'Dowd, whom I know Deputy Nash has worked very well with...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Waiting Lists (30 Apr 2024)

Christopher O'Sullivan: ...in 2022, there were fewer in 2023. Therefore, something has gone awry. I appreciate that the Minister is not here and that the Minister of State has inherited a bit of a mess, but that mess needs to be sorted because people like Anna Russell are suffering. I am sure the surgeon, for whom I cannot speak today and who operates out of Crumlin, would state the whole thing is a bit of a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Renewable Energy Generation (30 Apr 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Fleming, for attending and the Office of the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this important Topical Issue. Cork Harbour has often been described as an energy hub. It has the Port of Cork, the National Maritime College of Ireland, a naval base, the ESB, Irving Oil, Deepwater Quay and so on. Last Thursday, members of the enterprise, trade and employment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Bríd Smith: It would be lovely to hear the exact figures for the number of places that the Minister plans to increase by. It sounds like he has a plan, but to me and to all childminding organisations, it is complex and cumbersome. The Minister will be aware that in the Dublin area, almost 60% of providers have reported that they have severe waiting lists for childcare places. After housing, it is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Parental Leave (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am also asking this question on behalf of Deputy Leddin. There has been huge progress in the amount of family leave that is available and things like work-life balance, in particular working from home. I think of the difference between when I had my first young fella versus my third. I had three days leave for the first. By the time it rolled around to the third fella, it was two weeks'...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Early Childhood Care and Education (30 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I am smiling wryly at the Minister's previous answer. Teachers are very protective of their classrooms: "If they come into mine, they better not mess up the copies or anything else." As regards the fourth strand of the together for better programme, we have ECCE, the access and inclusion model and the national childcare scheme. The first three I understand quite well, but we have a...