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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy very much for raising the issue. I welcome the community from Knocklong. I have a small connection. My grandfather was in the rescue party for Seán Hogan at Knocklong when he was rescued during the ambush there. They took him away and he was a sentry in the Galtee Mountains for a while.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I see "brief" is not going to work.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: Well, the Deputy mentioned Knocklong and I was reared on the stories about it in my family. Deputy O'Donoghue raised a more serious point about wheelchair users. I was at an event recently with the Department of Social Protection in terms of supporting the employment front. The Deputy makes a fair point. In schools and some other areas of life, we do support adaptation.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Mary Butler: Local Link does it.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: There is Local Link as well whereby we give incentives and supports in terms of facilitation for wheelchair users. There is certainly more we can do now with the sports grants because to the credit of sports clubs, of all codes, they are now developing really good streams of participation in sport-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Richard O'Donoghue: For leisure.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: -----for those with additional needs.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Maybe further engagement.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: It is very good that rugby union is doing it. The GAA and soccer are doing it now as well.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: I thank the Taoiseach. Further engagement would be warranted there. I call Deputy George Lawlor.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

George Lawlor: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I recently met a Ukrainian woman who qualified as a GP in Kyiv. She practised for seven years as a GP and six as an intern. She is now working as a healthcare assistant and doing a very fine job in a primary care centre in Wexford. Last week, I met a man working with a drain clearing company in Wexford. He fled the conflict in Ukraine, where, having qualified...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Thank you, Deputy. The question is posed.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

George Lawlor: -----and keen to take part in our workforce?

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill: We are very keen for them to work here. There are three aspects to that. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, NMBI, has done good work on improving its registration times and I am confident about that side of things. CORU, for the health and social care professionals more generally, has made very significant progress, although the Taoiseach and I are discussing how we can bring that...

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the assessment of compensation payable on account of the compulsory acquisition of land; to provide for the acquisition of land by vesting order; to provide for the making of advance payments to owners, lessees and occupiers on account of compensation owed to them as a consequence of the compulsory acquisition...

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

Verona Murphy: Excuse me, Deputy. Could we have some quiet in the Gallery, please? Now, Minister. It is very difficult and I understand there is a lot of background noise.

Compulsory Purchase Order Bill 2025: First Stage (16 Jul 2025)

James Geoghegan: You have upgraded me there, too. Thanks, a Cheann Comhairle. Under this Bill, vesting orders will be served within one week of being made, compensation must be determined within six months by an independent valuation tribunal rather than a non-transparent panel of arbitrators, and once compensation is awarded, it must be paid within two months. Second, the Bill establishes the right...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Micheál Martin: An appeal was lodged yesterday at about 2.40 p.m. even though people have suggested that an appeal could have lodged a week ago, but for some reason, that did not happen. I am genuinely perplexed about how all of this has been handled - not by the Department, but just generally. Normally in situations like this, the lead association would approach the Government or a Department with a plan...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jul 2025)

Catherine Connolly: In Senator Frances Black's occupied territories Bill in 2018, she set out four categories of trade: the import of goods; the import of services; the export of goods; and the export of services. Inexplicably, the Government's Bill has left out three of those categories. This is despite the unequivocal advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice that Israel's continued occupation...