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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...? How much home care are we talking about here, as survivors are evidently fearful it will be inadequate? The seventh recommendation states: Access to education is critical in terms of addressing the long-term and intergenerational effects of residential institutional abuse. The legislation should include a provision expressly providing for educational supports for survivors and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Legal Aid Board: Chairperson Designate (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...I missed the presentation. I apologise if my questions have already been asked by other members. I want to drill down into the €18,000 threshold figure. When was that figure arrived at and how long has it been the threshold?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion (Resumed) (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...myself have been willing to give this pact a second look. The history of this whole area has been very problematic in Irish politics. We have had difficulty within the Department of Justice for a long time and I have been critical of this myself, having spent 18 months as a Minister of State. The direct provision system allowed people to languish in the system for ten years, with...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...10, which are in my name. There is an important history to amendment No. 9 and an important question about the entitlement of the Dáil and Seanad to know what precisely they are legislating for. For far too long, this question has been hidden in administrative omerta and legal obfuscation and the law as we understood it has been ignored and unenforced. The issue I refer to is the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed) - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Public Sector Pay (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the Minister for Education mentioned my daughter on the floor of the House. Her sister Anna is very excited. On the matter at hand, the INTO has spoken at its recent conference about 2,000 long-term vacancies within the primary school sector, as the Minister knows. It predicted this last November. The reason I keep mentioning the potential of the Dublin allowance is that there has...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 673. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the availability of paid for prosthetic limbs on the HSE to amputees beyond the first prosthesis and give full life long support to amputees in line with other long term health conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16146/24]

EU Police Co-operation: Motion (10 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to prevent abuses of human rights and labour rights. Big firms, household names in many instances, have got away with turning a blind eye to human rights abuses in their supply chains for too long. France was the first EU member state to introduce such laws, in 2017. Germany and Norway followed suit in 2021, and parliamentary processes are under way in several more of our EU...

Housing Targets and Regulations: Motion [Private Members] (6 Mar 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the cycle or where the economy is, if we have our own direct hires and our own company under the LDA, we will be able to look after the most vulnerable in the decades to come. We need that sort of long-term planning. This Government does not have it. Housing for All and its success or otherwise is predicated purely on the private construction sector and we do not have the confidence...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...I ever got was that I should place the child at the centre of all my decisions. In all interactions with the board management, the patron body, the Department of Education, staff or parents, as long as there is a child at the centre of a principal's decision, then no one can ever question their integrity. They will not always win, but they should keep that focus. Since I have gone into...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...people's homes. I was a bit taken aback that the outcry about those in one particular location, who were seen quite clearly to be intimidating women and children getting off a bus, did not last long in the public mindset. It is not today or yesterday that these arson attacks started. They have been going on since 2018, as far as I know. I think there have been 23 such attacks, but I...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Student Accommodation (14 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...on students by private student accommodation providers in Dublin and Cork, such as a company (details supplied) that owns 11 properties nationally and is offering students leases that are 52 weeks long. [7061/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children in the greater Dublin area are currently without a second level place or are on long lists for admission to a second level schools place; what measures are being taken to address the issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6262/24]

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the deceased at a time of trauma in their lives. When talking about the role of the coroner, I must make reference to the Stardust 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...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...are going to say. If Ministers were not to go, they would be congratulated by the Labour Party and we would support them in that. I acknowledge the relationship we have with the United States is a very long and valued one but if Joe Biden was to come here next week, we would not sit in these seats. We just would not be able to countenance welcoming Joe Biden, with all his Irish-American...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...would not handle South African fruit. That changed the world. The Irish Government should do something similar. It should say that we cannot go to the White House this year. This country has long historical and political links with the US but at this moment in time we just cannot morally look the US in the eye, hand its President some shamrock and say that everything is fine while its...

Organisation of Working Time (Reproductive Health Related Leave) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...unions such as the INTO and Fórsa, which have been supportive of our move in pushing this Bill forward. If this issue predominantly affected men, not only would it have been legislated for a long time ago but it would probably be in the preamble to the Constitution. What we effectively have here is a silent wound and trauma that is not given proper attention or focus. That is...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...with notices to quit who have nowhere to go. I urge the Government and the Minister of State to recognise the reasonable nature of this Bill and support the reinstatement of the eviction ban. The long saga in the run-up to the lifting of the ban has been on of the truly depressing debates in this House. The allegations of parliamentary theatrics from the benches opposite show just how...

Immigration: Motion [Private Members] (6 Dec 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...increase in the funding allocated to the National Integration Fund 2023, and invest in community and volunteer groups providing crucial local supports; — fully resource the National Action Plan against Racism, and pass the long-awaited Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022; — reduce the waiting time to work for those in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Policing Matters: Discussion (Resumed) (7 Nov 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...? I ask the Minister to speak to the issue of morale. The second issue relates to the number of people charged this year for the possession of drugs for their own personal use. I am going to keep raising this as long as I have breath in my body. The figure for 2023 is 6,396 but, in 2017, that number was 3,692. We have seen an almost doubling of the number of people who have been...

Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...up to do. I have listened intently to the contributions of the Minister of State in this area since his appointment and I have been impressed with some of the comments he has made. We have had a long-standing issue with the betting levy. It goes towards one fund, namely, the Horse and Greyhound Fund. The betting levy could probably be increased to support other sporting endeavours....