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- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am unclear as to what the Deputy means about the Oireachtas committee. Is he saying that members are speaking more outside of the committee as opposed to speaking in it? I thought the debate in the committee during the week was reasonably constructive. There was no outcry, as such, within the committee anyway, but there was a conversation and people had different perspectives. What...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Ruairi Ó Murchú: We are all aware of the geopolitical difficulties and the fact that many people are game playing on an international basis but that does not change where the Irish people are on neutrality. They see the ending of the triple lock as a step in a direction that they would not like to go. We would like those opinions to be taken into account. In a report on the Defence Forces serving with...
- Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (16 May 2024)
Micheál Martin: We should take the opportunity to congratulate the Chief of Staff, Seán Clancy, on being elected by his peers as chair of the European Union military committee, which involves a role in co-ordination and consultation across EU militaries in respect of peace enforcement, peacekeeping and conflict prevention. That reflects well on the Defence Forces and needs to be said. When the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reasonable Accommodation for Dyslexic Students in State Examinations: Discussion (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses. It has been a Pandora's box, to be honest. It was a comprehensive opening statement. The statistics and the numbers are rising because the spectrum is broadening. We have to talk about one specific point and how we can accommodate it. I do not want to nit-pick but we are a committee, but we are also legislators. If there was a legislative change to make things...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reasonable Accommodation for Dyslexic Students in State Examinations: Discussion (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: The teachers will probably kill me. They are under enough stress as it is without more being put on them.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reasonable Accommodation for Dyslexic Students in State Examinations: Discussion (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for their answers. I was fortunate enough to sit on the autism committee. A good deal of material came in regarding education and accessing services. That we are having this conversation is great. I suspect that people on the other side of the table sometimes think that, when they appear before a committee, they will get ripped apart and there will be a big...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Reasonable Accommodation for Dyslexic Students in State Examinations: Discussion (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: Yes, and that has to be acknowledged too. I thank Ms Feeney.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: No, Chair, but I agree with that. We have seen what has come back and it is fairly substantive.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I agree with that. We received a comprehensive response from the Secretary General. We will see what the petitioner says.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: Agreed.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: I agree with that.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (16 May 2024)
Pat Buckley: No.
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
The following motion was moved by Deputy Marian Harkin on Thursday, 9 May 2024:
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I must now deal with a postponed division relating to challenges facing the childcare and nursing home sectors. On Thursday, 9 May 2024, on the question, "That the amendment to the motion be agreed to", a division was claimed and in accordance with Standing Order 80(2), that division must be taken now.
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 66; Níl, 47; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Marian Harkin and Michael McNamara.
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
Tá James Browne, Richard Bruton, Colm Burke, Peter Burke, Mary Butler, Thomas Byrne, Jackie Cahill, Ciarán Cannon, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, Niall Collins, Patrick Costello, Simon Coveney, Michael Creed, Cathal Crowe, Cormac Devlin, Alan Dillon, Stephen Donnelly, Paschal Donohoe, Francis Noel Duffy, Bernard Durkan, Damien English, Alan Farrell, Frank Feighan, Joe Flaherty,...
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
Amendment declared carried.
- Challenges Facing the Childcare and Nursing Home Sectors: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 May 2024)
Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to. The Dáil divided: Tá, 66; Níl, 47; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Hildegarde Naughton and Cormac Devlin; Níl, Deputies Marian Harkin and Michael McNamara.