Results 321-340 of 1,065,988 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Tom Kitt OR speaker: ) in 'Committee meetings'
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (1 Jul 2025)
Mary Butler: The question asked the date for the next planned census. All three Deputies have raised issues relating to health and I am not in a position to answer them. What I will take on board is the importance of the CSO and the data it provides. It is very useful to plan for services. Deputy Tóibín said we do not have enough nursing home beds. I am very proud to stand here, as the...
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the members of the LGBT+ Restorative Justice Campaign, Kieran Rose, Brian Sheehan, Karl Hayden and others, for their work. I am delighted to co-sign this Bill on behalf of the Social Democrats. It is now 32 years since homosexuality was decriminalised, but some men are still living with the negative impact of criminalisation. Let us be clear: the...
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Paul Murphy: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the campaigners on this issue. It is outrageous that there are still people today walking around with historical convictions for the so-called crime of being gay. The Government, of course, will say no one should be criminalised for consensual sexual activity, but a working group was set up to examine disregarding those convictions back in 2021 and still...
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Roderic O'Gorman: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh for bringing forward this legislation and the campaign group for highlighting the issue. I want us to recall the original provision under which these men were convicted. Section 61 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 states that "Whosoever shall be convicted of the abominable crime of buggery, committed either with mankind or with any animal shall be...
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Catherine Connolly: Go raibh maith agat. I thank the campaigners and Deputy Ó Snodaigh for bringing forward this Bill. It aims to provide for the disregarding of certain criminal convictions that arose from a selection of legislation all through the 19th century and, indeed, one Act going back to the 17th century, as well as the Common Law. It had nothing to do with justice or fairness. It was...
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Is the Bill being opposed?
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Mary Butler: No.
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Question put and agreed to.
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Since this is a Private Members' Bill, Second Stage must, under Standing Orders, be taken in Private Members' time.
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Aengus Ó Snodaigh: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time." I would love if the Government also adopted this legislation as quickly as possible.
- Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Question put and agreed to.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Paul Murphy: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 to improve the welfare of pigs by prohibiting teeth-clipping, tail-docking and castration, limiting the use of tusk reduction and regulating sow stalls and farrowing crates. I start by thanking the National Animal Rights Association, NARA, especially Laura Broxson and Dr....
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Is the Bill being opposed?
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Mary Butler: No, it is not opposed.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: I reject totally what the Deputy has said.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Deputy, this is First Stage.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: We have had Roughty Valley Co-Op-----
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Verona Murphy: Before the Deputy says another word, it is the First Stage.
- Animal Health and Welfare (Welfare of Pigs) Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)
Danny Healy-Rae: -----with 6,000 pigs in Kilgarvan for the last 53 years.