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Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I propose to take Questions Nos. 8 to 12, inclusive, together. A Policing Service for the Future is the Government’s plan to implement the report of the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland. The implementation of the plan has been overseen by a dedicated programme office in the Department of the Taoiseach and an implementation group on policing reform, chaired by an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Catherine Connolly: That was a long reply, so we have one minute per person. There are a lot of speakers.

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I will be brief. No reform programme on earth will be of any value when there is such low morale in the ranks of An Garda Síochána and such a crisis in public confidence. That is the legacy of Fine Gael. Thirteen years on, people the length and breadth of this State do not feel safe. With the inner city, I do not have time. I could write books on it. There has been an abject...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: I do not know how members of An Garda Síochána can keep on top of the amount of laws there at present. Sometimes we see gardaí involved in situations and ask why they are not implementing, say, section 7 of the Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act or as I was saying in respect of Mount Street, the Roads Act 1993. There is such a vast amount of legislation that people in this...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: What plans are there to deal with violence? I am talking about both organised violence, that is, drug dealing, drug-debt intimidation and the wholesale violence that communities have to deal with and disorganised violence. That can be the crime of chaotic families, vulnerable people who are sometimes, for want of a better term, useful idiots who are used by drug gangs. Such chaotic...

Ceisteanna - Questions: An Garda Síochána (30 Apr 2024)

Mick Barry: There are currently delays of up to four or five months to obtain an appointment for an Irish residence permit at the Cork city immigration office at the Anglesea Street Garda station. This is causing havoc for people from outside the European Economic Area, including problems with employers and landlords and with opening bank accounts. For some, it makes it impossible to travel home for...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Jim O'Callaghan: The meeting in Paris in February commemorated the second anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am sure the Taoiseach's predecessor, who attended it on our behalf, and the other leaders of the EU were fairly consistent in their desire to ensure that there was continued support for Ukraine. Obviously, from this country's point of view, we are limited in what we can do with regard...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: Is the Taoiseach taking the people of this country for fools when he suggests that his plan to dismantle the triple lock is not a full attack on Ireland's neutrality? Whenever he attempts to justify this move he is planning on the triple lock, he refers to Russia. Of course, we all condemn Russia's attack on Ukraine as an indefensible occupation and military aggression. However, at the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: The Government has been engaged in a war on what is left of neutrality since Putin's invasion of Ukraine. It has slightly changed tack in the course of that. It started out with a full-frontal attack, saying we need to have a discussion about neutrality, that it was a policy matter and it could be changed at any time. It met the reality of public opinion, which did not shift despite a...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent has the Taoiseach gleaned the conclusion that current measures taken against the Russian invasion of a fellow nation have been effective so far? Are they sufficiently progressive to ensure or bring about a change of mind in respect of the attitude of the Russians? Was there a general consensus that there needed to be a change in emphasis or a different approach in order to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: The Taoiseach will accept that across Europe and the European Union, there is movement in the direction of security and defence co-operation. We have seen that Ursula von der Leyen is very concerned about making sure there is an EU-wide military-industrial complex. That is the only way I can put it. We have seen how destabilised the world is, right across Africa and the Middle East. While...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank the Deputies. There were quite a few questions there. I realise that in questions to the Taoiseach, we stray a lot from the actual questions. On Deputy Haughey's question regarding sanctions, Ireland welcomed the adoption of the European Union's 13th sanctions package against Russia on 23 February to coincide with the two-year anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: I could have written the conclusions in advance.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: Fair play to the Deputy.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Paul Murphy: They were pretty obvious.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: A number of people contributed to that very important discussion on security and defence and they deserve to be heard. The issue of the triple lock came up at that forum and it highlighted the need to revisit triple lock requirements. As such, one of the key outcomes of the forum was the need for a new process to replace the current system underpinning the deployment of Irish troops abroad,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Thomas Gould: Last Friday, the Residential Tenancies Board, RTB, revealed that 544 families and individuals received notices to quit in Cork city in the first three months of the year. Those are people who are facing eviction in the next few months. Can you imagine being one of those parents not knowing where you and your family are going to live in a few months' time? In a seven-week period, 15,000...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Josepha Madigan: I raise the Family Courts Bill, which, as the Taoiseach knows, was published without pre-legislative scrutiny. It is well-intentioned but short-sighted in a certain respect, particularly with regard to moving divorces and separations, etc., into the District Court. Not only the Family Lawyers Association of Ireland and the Bar of Ireland but also Safe Ireland and Barnardos have concerns,...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Chris Andrews: The children in Enable Ireland Sandymount School have very complex needs. There are serious leaks in the school building and, as a result, the children have been displaced into rooms that are not suitable for their needs. The library is out of action for the entire school. This impacts everybody in the school. The repair works are needed urgently and the school and vulnerable students are...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: I will raise with the Minister for Education the need for the works to be completed at Sandymount School for the benefit of the children and Enable Ireland. I will come back to Deputy Andrews directly on the issue. I note Deputy Madigan's experience in, and passion for, the area of family law. It is a priority area for the Minister, Deputy McEntee, who has put in a lot of work on it. I...