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Neighbour Disputes (Vegetation) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...with storms and these people are constantly worried that a tree will fall through their window or roof. At this point insurance will kick in and it is straightforward but we need to be able to get to the point long before this. At times we create a situation that could impact on people's safety. It impacts on their mental health. I accept that from time to time if we had cool heads and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Urban Development (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Chris Andrews: ...the resources to respond to the huge levels of violent crime in the inner city. I am concerned that if the Government does not get its act together and put more gardaí on the beat, it will not be too long before we see residents taking the law into their own hands. That is hugely worrying. The Government must ensure it does not come to that, must give communities the gardaí...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Jackie Cahill: ...my party colleague, the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, on the great work she has done on the fair deal scheme. As a rural TD, this is something I have been seeking for many years. It has long been promised and there were many false dawns regarding the fair deal scheme. Thankfully, it is up and running now. It is hugely important that we have the three-year cap on assets for family...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Thomas Gould: I am talking about long-term leasing. Long-term leasing-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 May 2024)

Peter Fitzpatrick: ...equal health and safety leave provision while pregnant. They are given just 21 days' leave if deemed at risk in the work environment. This means they have to use other leave to compensate for long-term absence if they encounter risk in the early stages of pregnancy. Contagious diseases are more common in younger children and these diseases are considered a threat to babies' health. ...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Bus Éireann (16 May 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...are available but Bus Éireann is not able to use them. This is a real issue, especially at this time of year. I ask the Minister to engage so we can get a solution to the problem in the short and long term.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...the strategic rail review since the establishment of the Northern Ireland Assembly? Will the Minister give some indication of when this rail review, which everyone has been waiting for for a long time, will finally be published?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...is such difficulty with many of the timetables. This measure involves difficult political decisions where we have to reallocate road space, which we all know is not popular in the short term. In the long run, and even in the short- to medium-term, it is the only and best way to make the best use of the drivers and mechanics we have to ensure buses are not stuck in traffic. Through that...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Rail Network (16 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. I have a long list of questions and replies going back to September 2021. It is nearly three years ago since he told me that the review was scheduled to be completed within 12 months. In November and December 2021, and October 2022, he told us that the review would be published shortly. This is going on for more than three years. I know there was a short delay...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Airport Policy (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...concerning the one car park that was for sale. We must be careful not to intervene in a separate legal process. This will make its own way through the appropriate planning system. I believe the long-term future for Dublin Airport, which is important, is best served through the major enhancement of public transport, which is what we are doing.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Road Safety (16 May 2024)

Martin Kenny: ...around the country are losing their loved ones and suffering the tragedies of road collisions and accidents. People are dealing with terrible injuries. We have been speaking in this House for a long time about issues regarding enforcement, technology and trying to get a grip of this but we seem to be making little progress.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Brendan Smith: ...the important work that was carried out in our Army barracks and by Army personnel in dealing with difficult situations. Unfortunately, paramilitarism has not gone away entirely. We have a long land Border. A person would need no military experience to see clearly on a map that there is a lacuna with regard to military installations along the Border on this island. There is Finner Camp...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...lock in simply removing the requirement a UN mandate? Is it to be an altered mechanism with some substitution for the third leg of the current stool, if you look? I would welcome clarity on that. The long-standing triple lock principle has been given repeatedly by all of us, including me, as an assurance to the Irish people during debates on EU treaties in the past when there were...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Education Policy (16 May 2024)

Joe O'Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Chambers, who, I can only imagine, was a both gifted and talented student himself. I acknowledge the long and dedicated work of a former Member of the Seanad and a personal friend of mine, Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames in this area of identifying and supporting gifted children and helping them to blossom. Her seminal work in this area, The Gifted Learner:...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (16 May 2024)

Ollie Crowe: ...to be active and equal participants in their communities. This scheme was an essential measure in meeting that aim. It is vital that the Government takes action to replace the scheme. That is long overdue.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Eugene Murphy: ...to see. People can read articles about them in the farming and local newspapers and hear about them on local radio. It might be no harm if the Minister of State made himself available for an hour-long debate some day in order that we might drive home the point and ask people to be careful. Having very young children around machinery is extremely dangerous. Accidents happen. They are...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (16 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Barry Ward: .... One of the things about rape we forget is that while it is obviously a sexual offence, it is not really a crime of sex but a crime of control and power. That is why consent is so central. This Bill goes a long way towards acknowledging the centrality of consent to the offence of rape and the decision a jury must make on an allegation of rape whether, in all the circumstances, there is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Office of Minister for Education (16 May 2024) See 15 other results from this debate

Brian Stanley: ...relation to an identifiable person or entity they will be directed to discontinue their remarks. It is imperative that they comply with such a direction. Members and witnesses are reminded of the long-standing parliamentary practice that they should not comment on, criticise or make charges against a person outside the Houses or an official, either by name or in such way as to make him...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...to add that the recently concluded pilot Time and Attendance system undertaken by the military authorities, across a number of areas within the Defence Forces, and the follow-on procurement of a long-term electronic solution, will lead to the development of a robust system to record the daily working hours of every member of the Defence Forces. This will be a critical enabler in taking...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (16 May 2024)

Eamon Ryan: ...and Galway County Council, is currently developing the Galway Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy (GMATS). The new strategy will replace the existing strategy adopted in 2016 and will provide a long-term strategic planning framework for the delivery of transport and integrated development of transport infrastructure and services in the Galway Metropolitan Area. As part of the...