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Capital Support for Sports Facilities: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...the future and about investment and the potential of Dalymount Park, Tolka Park and Richmond Park to improve, as well as of grounds around the country including Finn Park in Donegal, the grounds in Sligo and various stadiums. That investment is needed. There is potential for our League of Ireland clubs to advance and become regular participants in the group stages of European...

LGBTQI+ and Equality: Statements (23 Jun 2022)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...referred to the hate crime legislation which is coming down the tracks. I greatly appreciate that because we have been campaigning for that for quite a long time. When we see what happened in Sligo, there is a marked difference, as the Minister will know, between hate-based or hate-motivated crime and other crimes. My colleague, Deputy Nash, asked me to impress on the Minister the need...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to facilitate a debate on an issue and no Minister turns up. Senator Rose Conway-Walsh raised the interview on "Morning Ireland" with Dr. Hickey and what he is projecting for the winter months for Sligo hospital. I found it quite frightening. Regardless of political persuasion, and before we get into arguments about how things should be paid for and using phrases such as "leprechaun...

Seanad: Direct Provision: Motion (27 Jan 2016)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...State owned accommodation centres. For the information of the House, I have visited many of the centres, two in Waterford, three in Dublin, Mosney, Laois, Galway, two in Limerick, Clare, Mayo and Sligo, so I know what I am talking about. The State funds the service providers and I reiterate once again that it is open to any group which feels a better service can be provided to make such...

Direct Provision Report: Motion (12 Jun 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...and approximately one third of those have been in the system for more than five years. Since my appointment as Minister of State last year, I too have visited centres in Waterford, Dublin, Sligo, Laois, Mosney, Galway, Limerick and Clare to see for myself the conditions in which these residents live. The dry facts set out in official documents and reports cannot properly convey the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Direct Provision: Minister of State at the Department of Justice and Equality (1 Apr 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...to the country of origin and so on. Members of the committee have visited centres to see for themselves the conditions in which residents live. I have done so too. I have visited a centre in Sligo, two in Waterford, two in Limerick, one each in Galway, Laois and Clare, three in Dublin and also Mosney. Members will have seen, as have I, that all residents share the common experience of...

Seanad: Direct Provision: Statements (22 Jan 2015)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...direct provision centres up and down this land over the past number of months and since I was given the opportunity to serve as a junior Minister. I have visited centres in Waterford, Limerick, Sligo, Laois, the Balseskin Reception Centre in Dublin and Galway. Hand on heart, as an asylum seeker, I could see myself spending a period of weeks or months in some centres but there were some...