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Progressing Special Education Provision: Statements (9 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The recently published NCSE policy document, which is called An Inclusive Education for an Inclusive Society, details a level of research that was done to try to move the country towards a more inclusive education system in the future, where all children with mild general learning disabilities, MGLD, and other disabilities will be catered for in their own local school and only children with...

Europe Day: Statements (8 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I am proud to have the opportunity to contribute to this debate on behalf of the Labour Party. Robert Schuman, a Luxembourger by birth and a German by heritage, spent his life contributing to French politics. Like many of his generation, the experience of two world wars that devastated the Continent drove his determination to forge a Europe bound by trust, respect and peace rather than...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It absolutely is true.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is true.

European Union Migration and Asylum Pact: Motion [Private Members] (1 May 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: On behalf of the Labour Party, we want to show solidarity with the Minister of Justice and with her family, after the difficulties she went through last week, and indeed, with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman. This is the inevitable consequence of people in political life and people with influence not tempering their language and making their case or arguments in a more restrained manner. Over...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I apologise; I may need to leave the Chamber as the Joint Committee on Justice is sitting at the same time. The Bill has two main purposes: to enable the provision of certain health and educational supports to survivors of abuse in residential institutions; and to dissolve the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board, commonly known as Caranua. The Bill provides for the amendment of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Has he tried asking the Tánaiste?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Tánaiste does not agree with the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Tánaiste does not agree with you.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (30 Apr 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Tánaiste does not agree with the Taoiseach.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It was amendment No. 33.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Yes.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 33: In page 56, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “Prohibition of advertising 67. (1) A person shall not advertise gambling, or cause gambling to be advertised. (2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and is liable— (a) on summary conviction, to a class A fine, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding...

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The frustrating thing is-----

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Well, after half an hour, I am delighted to hear what he has to say about my actual proposal.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I will not take it personally.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I do not wish to stifle the debate, and the Leas-Cheann Comhairle was not present for the past little while, but there is a practice whereby we speak to the amendment. I tabled this amendment in good faith and waited for the Minister of State to address it in good faith, yet the debate went elsewhere about other issues, albeit valid ones. On that basis, I am happy to withdraw the amendment.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 16: In page 23, to delete lines 25 to 31.

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

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I move amendment No. 15: In page 23, line 22, after "1956" to insert, "other than section 36". I am used to clearing rooms when I start talking. The practice in this country for hundreds of years has been that gambling debts are not enforceable in a court of law. This means that a bookie cannot force a person to pay a gambling debt, nor can a person force a bookie to pay out on a bet....