Results 1-17 of 17 for other and baby speaker:Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire

Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (25 Apr 2024)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...xe1;matúil, tá sé ciallmhar agus cuirfidh sé le héifeachtacht an chórais. We welcome this legislation. That it gives greater flexibility in registering major life events is welcome. It is important this is as simple as possible. It is easier now perhaps than it was once, and I am thinking of my grandaunt, who lived to the age of 100. There was a bit of...

Select Committee on Social Protection: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (29 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, between lines 28 and 29, to insert the following: “Report on extending availability of full Parent’s Benefit to Lone Parents 8.The Minister shall prepare and lay a report before the Houses of the Oireachtas on extending the availability of the full duration of Parent’s Benefit to lone parents to examine the effect that enabling all...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Childcare Services (7 Nov 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: The Minister will be aware that I have written to him and addressed him in the Chamber on the adverse situation of childcare provision in Cork city. I am sure that is also the case in other locations but it is certainly my experience in the Cork city area. Waiting lists can often run to a year or two years. There is nothing for children under one year of age. The baby rooms are gone at...

Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2023)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I add my voice to those of the preceding speakers. It is vital that we ensure the redress process moves forward but the way this is being circumscribed is unacceptable, unconscionable and unreasonable. It is quite arbitrary in lots of ways. A man came to visit me in my constituency office on Monday. He wanted to tell me about his experience. I told him that typically when we instance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Reopening of Schools, Cork Life Centre, School Bullying and the Impact on Mental Health: Discussion. (21 Sep 2021)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I thank the Chair and the Minister for their kind wishes. They are appreciated by me and my wife. Baby and mammy are doing great altogether. Thank you very much. I will start off with the Cork Life Centre. I am encouraged by and welcome the Minister’s statement. I welcome it because it does not seem to suggest, as I feared it would, that everything has been fixed. Everything...

Maternity Leave Benefit Extension: Motion [Private Members] (14 Jul 2020)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I propose to share time with Deputies Tully and Kerrane. Having become the father of a baby boy nine months ago, I have experience of what it was like to have a newborn during lockdown. Our baby got his four-months injections before lockdown and his six-months injections during it. I hope that by the time he gets his 12-months injections the world will be a different and better place,...

Redress for Women Resident in Certain Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2019 [Seanad]: Second and Subsequent Stages (10 Jul 2019)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...about elements of it. The State has a desperate legacy in respect of the women in the Magdalen laundries. It is not an item that can be considered in isolation. It is part of a wider network and system of institutionalisation that extended to mother and baby homes, county homes and other institutions. It really is a very dark stain on our history. It is welcome that this legislation...

An Bille um an Seachtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Cion a aisghairm arb éard é ní diamhaslach a fhoilsiú nó a aithris) 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of offence of publication or utterance of blasphemous matter) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Sep 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...to the Bill which deals with the removal of the offence of blasphemy from the Constitution. It is an outdated piece of the Constitution. This is an important step forward in a society where the fundamental belief in freedom of speech must be a central tenet and valued by all. The removal of the offence of blasphemy is welcome. I am confident that the people will wholeheartedly endorse...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Great disappointment has been expressed to us at the delay in the publication of the current report. It is worth stating the process started in 2015 and arguably before that and almost four years will have elapsed by the time the commission completes its work. Many of the survivors of the institutions who had wrongs inflicted on them are reaching an advanced age and they may not be around...

Childcare Support Bill 2017: Second Stage (31 Jan 2018)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...ndéanfaidh sé an-difríocht. Is dóigh liom go mbeidh luach ann ó thaobh costais de. Tá feabhas le déanamh air, cinnte, agus tá tuilleadh le déanamh ach d'fhormhór is rud maith é. I welcome the Bill and commend the Minister for its introduction. It is a step forward. There is no doubt that child care provision is one of the most...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Foster Care Services: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: To preface my remarks, I absolutely accept that Tusla's job is very difficult. It is worth saying that Ireland has a very unhappy history in respect of child protection. Generationally, we have failed children and there is no doubt that Tusla came into a very difficult situation. At the time that Tusla was being established and the legislation to do so was passing through Dáil...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I am sharing time with Deputy Louise O'Reilly. I thank the Minister for agreeing to hold this debate which certainly is timely. It is important to reflect on the content of the interim report and the Minister's contribution, in which there were a number of additional points for us to consider. I will return to it. Some weeks before the report was issued, the House debated and voted on a...

Mother and Baby Homes: Motion [Private Members] (21 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I move:That Dáil Éireann: - acknowledges that the discovery of bodies at the Tuam Mother and Baby Home has shocked the people of Ireland and brought considerable sadness and anger to Dáil Éireann; - agrees that there are serious questions in relation to other mother and baby homes, particularly in the treatment, records and testimonies of survivors; - recognises that...

Commission of Investigation Announcement on Tuam Mother and Baby Home: Statements (9 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Yesterday was International Women’s Day, a day which celebrates women and their role in society and when we advocate for the empowerment and the equality of women. It is a day when we recognise our respect for women and demands for equality. On Sunday fortnight, we also have another day that celebrates women, namely mother’s day. Children show thanks for the tender loving care...

Commission of Investigation into the Grace case: Motion (7 Mar 2017)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: ...; i ndiaidh faillí sa chás seo, gach faillí níos measa ná an ceann a chuaigh roimis - failure after failure, each failure potentially worse than the last. What Grace endured was appalling, shocking and, in truth, heartbreaking. If revelations this weekend regarding Tuam revealed that our failures regarding child protection have deep and institutional roots, then...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: National Collaborative Forum for the Early Years Care and Education Sector: Early Childhood Ireland (19 Oct 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil le Early Childhood Ireland as a bheith anseo. I could ask any amount of questions about the early years sector. I am also interested in the appendix. The out-of-school care discussion should be the next topic for discussion as it is an important one but I shall stick to what is particularly topical at the minute. I am interested in hearing...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (17 May 2016)

Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire: I congratulate the Minister on her elevation to the portfolio of Minister for Children and Youth Affairs and wish her the best of luck in her role. Guím gach rath uirthi sa ról tábhachtach, suntasach seo. Tá níos mó aird tugtha le cúpla bliain anuas ar ghnóthaí a bhaineann le leanaí, cúram leanaí agus cúrsaí óige...