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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...seo chomh foirfe is ar chóir dó a bheith agus nach bhfuil sé ag admháil na bhfadhbanna bunúsacha atá ann fós. In ainneoin an mhéid atá déanta go dtí seo, níl go leor déanta. We are dealing with a very complex issue, but we have come a long way from when the first attempts were made by the State to atone for its part in...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (23 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 544. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason for the long time it is taking for a non-verbal child (details supplied) to receive an assessment of needs. [17600/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (9 Apr 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: 1071. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the reason it is taking so long for a child (details supplied) who is nearly 5.5 years of age to have their AON completed. [13765/24]

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (26 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...those who occupy something, but the only occupier was a security man who got some type of stipend from one or other of the owners. Part of the difficulty when there is a dispute - in this case a long and protracted one - is that while that is ongoing the protected structure can be damaged by the weather, as well as there sometimes being malicious damage. That is why the city council was...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (21 Mar 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I do not know where to start on this. I have been raising this issue for a long time in this Chamber. There is no ethical component to the purchasing of weapons from Israel or any other country that is at war. Given the slaughter that is happening in Gaza and the history of Israeli actions in respect of Palestine, there should never have been any purchasing of any equipment for the Defence...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I was, just to agree with Deputy Matthews about the clutter and the poles. I live in Crumlin, along the canal. Works have been done along every single junction and the authorities have put up extra poles, just to make sure. Where there were four poles, there are eight poles now. That makes it difficult for cyclists and people pushing buggies. On top of that, in these locations, there is...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I will not delay too long on this. Local authorities will obviously look at licences on a case-by-case basis anyway. This is trying to ensure that in some ways, they cannot avoid putting in place a condition relating to the Irish language. It can be tweaked. The Minister of State is correct that this is now law but this is trying to capture those who do not come under that provision so...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...use of Irish in the Gaeltacht and beyond and that this be a central remit of the national planning framework and that it be an objective when identifying national strategic development objectives and requirements. Conradh na Gaelige, which submitted amendments along these lines, made the point that the Minister’s guidelines pursuant to section 28 of the existing Act are strong in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...a preplanning meeting. I can discuss things with officials in English and have all the applications in the same language. I am big enough and bold enough to understand, though, that it will be a long time before Dublin City Council will have people at the level required to have a full conversation of this type as Gaeilge. Eight county councils, however, cover Gaeltacht areas, but I...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Phobal Labhartha na Gaeilge. I yesterday gave the Minister of State, Deputy Noonan, a copy of a letter given to us by the CEOs, of which the Minister is aware. It expressed their frustration at the lack of guidelines. The guidelines we are talking about are long awaited, which was a source of frustration for many. At least we now have a date and a commitment that before Easter, the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...but also líonra Gaeilge, that due regard is taken of the Irish language-speaking population in that area for the future. It is not overly onerous. It needs to be part of the system. For far too long, Irish has been an afterthought - "Feck, we forgot about that. Stick in a statement there on the development plan to say they supported the Irish language." That is the attitude in...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...Dún Chaoin. I was one of those kids who were transported from Dublin to Dún Chaoin to try to ensure the numbers in the school were maintained. I have, therefore, an understanding of just how precarious school numbers are and it is a long time since I was in primary school. Other families did the same in that school. There were three different families. The children of the EU...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...xed; or whatnot. This is a planning Bill. It is important that we do not have enactments that will endanger Gaeltacht areas. As I said yesterday, if a Gaeltacht village switches to English, it is no longer a Gaeltacht area, although it might still be within the boundaries of the larger area. The difficulty of re-establishing that Gaeltacht village is immense. The danger if we put in a...

Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Section 481 Film Tax Credit: Discussion (24 Jan 2024)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I thank the witnesses for the presentations. It is an area I have been interested in for quite a long time. Some of the presentations clarified some matters for me. I want to focus on the Department of Finance presentation because the opening statement refers to the introduction of an undertaking of quality employment. In many ways, that is key to some of the recent hearings and findings,...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I understand and I am around long enough to understand this. It is somewhat strange that the figure is still at €2 million, which it has been for about five years. In years previous, while it may have been even longer than five years, it was quite a small figure but, as the Minister has said, in the overall scheme of things it is not that big. This expenditure was not always under...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...of the public understand what the term "appropriation" means, what its consequences are or how important this Bill, which passes each year, is? I remember, because I have been in the House for long enough, how there was no debate on some previous Appropriation Bills. It is good that there is, and there has been in the past. I will come back to the other points I want to raise when we...

Appropriation Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...money just goes to the Secret Service. I have had this debate before. There is no other funding. It is tiny when we consider the scale of what we are doing here, so I will not delay the House too long. If it is money for informers, then it should come under the Vote for An Garda Síochána because it is responsible for that. If it is money for the Secret Service, it should...

Private Business - The Royal Hibernian Academy (Amendment of Charter) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Dec 2023)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: ...academy on these changes and I will not be opposing the Bill. However, it is important that we reflect on these provisions and I have two questions in this regard. This is only the first or second opportunity there has been to deal with such a Bill. The previous private Bill was back in 2003, if I am correct. It is a long while ago. My first question is why certain private bodies...