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Road Safety: Statements (17 Apr 2024)

Imelda Munster: The increase in the number of roads deaths in the last year has been shocking. Every life lost on the roads is a major tragedy. The last few months in particular have been totally devastating. Sixty-three people have died on our roads this year. These are 63 families left to grieve and lives ruined by loss, not to mention those who suffer serious injuries, sometimes life-changing. There...

International Women's Day: Statements (5 Mar 2024)

Imelda Munster: As we mark International Women's Day this week, I want to use my time to speak about the women in Gaza, who are living in hell on earth. Their conditions are indescribable. It is like nothing we have seen before in our lifetime. Five months in and the people of Gaza are starving. Israel has deliberately blocked the delivery of aid into Gaza. What we are now witnessing is an Israeli-made...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Since the Minister's bizarre decision on Thursday to appear on "Prime Time", her actions and the resignation of Siún Ní Raghallaigh have dominated the news cycle. It is clear the Minister should not have done that interview. Yesterday, at the media committee, she admitted she had been aware the then chair was threatening to resign, yet she went ahead with that interview. In fact,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I raise the issue of the problems caused by the Government's policy of privatising immigration and impact it has on communities, services and people seeking international protection. Not once were public representatives, the TDs, in Drogheda contacted in advance of that contract being signed to ask for our opinions or how it would impact our town. It was only after the contract was signed...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (21 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I presume he is not just stringing people in Drogheda along.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Television Licence Fee (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 12. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht given that she has previously expressed a preference for direct Exchequer funding to replace the television licence, if she can provide an update on any correspondence, communications or meetings she has had with her Government colleagues in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6921/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: 1. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the two reports recently commissioned and published at RTÉ on Toy Show The Musical and the voluntary exit programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7245/24]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: I ask the Minister for her views on the two reports recently commissioned and published by RTÉ on Toy Show The Musicaland the voluntary exit programme and if she will make a statement.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: First, I have to say that again I submitted a question to the Minister around bogus self-employment at RTÉ and once again, it was rejected. I am running out of ways to word the question in the hope that the Minister will actually answer it. I see that she met Mr. Bakhurst in the last couple of weeks and she also met the unions, which would suggest that it is something that comes under...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Semi-State Bodies (15 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: Yesterday, the director of HR who was responsible for putting through that exit package, which came in at a cost of just under €500,000 to the taxpayers, appeared at the committee. The director of HR put through the procedure with that exit package, knowing that it did not meet the criteria and knowing full well it broke the rules and was not compliant with the scheme. That person...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: It is nearly ten years since the public service broadcasting charge was due to be introduced. Since then, we have had committees, commissions and all sorts of research, time and money invested into this question. Successive Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael Governments have not had the political courage to make a call on this. In 2020, the Government again handed over the job to the Future of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Feb 2024)

Imelda Munster: The saga of the driving test centre in Drogheda has been going on for nearly six years. At this stage, it is frankly ridiculous. I raised the matter with the Taoiseach last year. The Road Safety Authority, RSA, has been promising a centre for years. Fourteen sites were identified. The RSA rejected some without even giving a reason and rejected others on the basis that there was too much...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Imelda Munster: -----and that the council has broken the Freedom of Information Act.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Imelda Munster: Let me rephrase it so, a Cheann Comhairle. If there were concerns that there were any breaches of the FOI Act or the Local Government Act, would the Tánaiste have serious concerns about those breaches, and what would the Government actually do? Would it look at reforming the FOI Act, or indeed what safeguards exist when local authorities breach them? Is that a matter he takes...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jan 2024)

Imelda Munster: Last May, the CEO of Louth County Council disallowed a motion put forward by councillors around rescinding the freedom of Drogheda from Br. Edmund Garvey, a man who devised that legal strategy designed to frustrate the efforts of child sex abuse victims in achieving justice. "The Michael Reade Show" on LMFM radio submitted several freedom of information requests and appeals seeking...

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

Imelda Munster: The horrors Israel has been committing in Gaza since October are frankly indescribable. I think I speak for most people when I say we watch TV screens and we cannot believe what we are watching because of the utter barbarity of it and also the fact nobody is doing anything to stop it. The civilian population of Gaza have been subject to the most depraved, indiscriminate bombing campaign in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Media Sector (5 Dec 2023)

Imelda Munster: 50. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she can outline the Government’s options, or if relevant, plans, regarding long-term funding for public service media, the licence fee; if she can outline any discussions that have taken place between herself and other relevant Ministers regarding same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53582/23]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I am looking for time to be set aside to discuss RTÉ's strategic plan. RTÉ workers heard about job cuts in the region of up to 400 jobs and they heard this from leaks to the media which is shameful in itself. The Government needs to come in and outline its plan for RTÉ. I understand the director general met with staff this morning and the information was quite sparse....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: I would not normally raise an issue such as this and would deal with them myself but I have been left with no option. This is something that is very serious indeed for the residents involved. A section of Cearnóg Brugha in Drogheda and surrounding areas has been left with no water. They are mostly elderly residents but there is also one family with a young baby. As they have a...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (7 Nov 2023)

Imelda Munster: As the housing crisis deepens, we are all aware Fine Gael has been in government for 12 years and has been propped up by the Minister and Fianna Fáil for seven of those. In every one of those years, the housing crisis has worsened. Under the Government, house prices have increased by €70,000 and rents have increased by just under €4,000 per year on average. Homelessness...