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Houses of the Oireachtas Commission (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (6 Nov 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...short time a member of the commission. I was grateful for the opportunity to see the inner workings. It is important to express our gratitude to the staff of these Houses of the Oireachtas. I feel that every staff member is motivated by a sense of public service and a deep sense of the institution that they are serving and the importance of that institution to the functioning of this...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Nov 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...something I fought for for a decade in Roscrea, on a new site or on a HSE site. This is something the people of the area will support 100% because Dean Maxwell is so important. Does the Taoiseach feel that the HSE will be in a position in the future to support this as part of its capital plan? That is where this decision needs to be made.

Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: From the Seanad (23 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...and to continue on the path of inclusion and not exclusion, separation or demeaning have to be clearer. We have to be even stronger in our determination, to be clear and not to be put off, because if people feel that a campaign has made the Government retreat on this, they will feel there will be another issue on which it will retreat, and the people who will lose out from that are the...

Public Health Service Staffing: Motion [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...start of this Dáil term. For those two years, our healthcare workers were quite rightly celebrated and recognised by the Government, the Opposition and people up and down the country for the heroic work that they did, that they have always done and that they continue to do. Unfortunately, our healthcare workers feel that that moment has passed and that they have been forgotten. At...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Citizens' Attitude to Democracy and the Rule of Law: TASC (23 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: I thank both of our witnesses for their written contribution. I feel a little bit nostalgic, because this will be my last committee meeting of any kind after 42 years in the Oireachtas. I am going to be conceited enough to believe that I have some understanding of the workings of democracy, not only as a representative for 42 years, but being dependent, on very regular intervals, on testing...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (22 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...and TD. The majority of cases that come to me have always been about housing, but in the past three years, the majority of those housing cases are young people who may have a deposit saved but still feel they are a million miles away from owning a home. They are wondering whether they should take the €15,000 or €20,000 they have scraped so hard to save for a number of...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...As regards commentary among the public, a €2.2 billion project is put in the ha'penny place by a bike shed out at the back of this building when it comes to the public's consciousness. All of us feel that because it is constantly brought up. It was brought up with me yesterday. It is brought up all the time. Fundamentally, the OPW has undermined the public service and the way...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (17 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...and put on record my and our deep appreciation for the valuable work Irish peacekeepers do as part of the UNIFIL force. In the Tánaiste's view, where do we go in terms of UN peacekeeping? It feels that we may be at a tipping point with this mission and the direct attacks from Israel, which may be geographically in the Middle East but culturally places itself with its allies in the...

Extension of Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (16 Oct 2024)

Brendan Howlin: There is a certain feeling of déjà vu about this particular resolution. The Minister of State has given the single recurring speech. The grounding Act followed on from Covid restrictions and was introduced in 2021. Since then, the Minister has come to the House six times to seek an extension. When this happened the last time, which was in May, a firm commitment was given that it...

Finance Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...of the provision of free GP care to more children and families. All told, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael, once rivals but now virtually indistinguishable, have managed to make this rich country feel poor for too many. This is not the stuff of political rhetoric or an empty political charge. There is much made, after each budget, and rightly so, about whether or not a budget is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Chair Designate of An Post: Discussion. (16 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...similar principle at play here with these pensioners. I imagine many of them are watching here today, because any time this comes up in the Dáil or in committee, they are a very engaged group. They feel hard done by and rightly so. Since vesting day, their contribution became a class D contribution, and the way things have evolved, their real income is less than what it would be...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2024)

Marie Sherlock: ...this is an attempt to silence or to ram one set of views about gender down the throat of others. I could not disagree more with many of the comments we have received. I find it sad that people feel so threatened by people saying there is something other than biological male and female. Any of us with life experience in this House should recognise that while our world is still built...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...especially on the recognition of the Palestinian state. There are other EU member states which share our view and increasing numbers of citizens of the 27 countries share the utter horror everyone feels on witnessing the horrific slaughter in the Middle East.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Electricity Grid (15 Oct 2024)

Mark Wall: ...when they work from home and called the situation absolutely ridiculous. Another correspondent told me they live in the Athgarvan area. Two people in the household are working from home and they feel that when no notice of outages is given, it is very frustrating. Another correspondent told me that in the past three months, the Mountrice and Lackagh area has had five planned power...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: .... Netanyahu's Government has lost all sense of moral compass, international law and compliance. As a small state here in Ireland, where people share such outrage at Israel's actions, sometimes people can feel helpless and ask, "What can we do?" Certainly we have done some important things, such as the recognition of the State of Palestine, which was very important. We can, should and...

Spending of Public Funds by the Government: Motion [Private Members] (8 Oct 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...provided to them, services to which they are entitled by dint of the fact that they are taxpayers and have contributed, those issues get multiplied tenfold. It is a reflection of the anger people feel about the lack of delivery of basic public services. A central theme tonight is child and adolescent mental health services, but it seems to me that the key driver of a shortage of those...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (2 Oct 2024)

Ivana Bacik: ...insecurity impacting people's lives and impacting far too many children. It would end the Hibernian Paradox of Ireland being a cash-rich country with poor infrastructure and services, a country, which, as Deputy Nash said, is rich but feels poor for far too many people. We know the Taoiseach is likely to call an election very soon. He should name the date now and enable real debate on...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...of the Irish people. The tragedy of this Government is that it has contrived to waste a boom. Strangled by its own crippling conservatism, the Government's ideology has made this rich country feel so poor, all presided over by Schrödinger's Taoiseach, Deputy Harris, the man who manages to be both in government and in opposition at the same time. It used to be the case that no...

Finance (Provision of Access to Cash Infrastructure) Bill 2024: Second Stage (26 Sep 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...remain very real threats. We should not be forcing people to simply accept these risks as we remove their access to cash. Access to cash is a protective measure in and of itself. It makes people feel more secure. I do not want to give the impression that protecting cash is just a matter for older people. That is not the case. There is still a genuine appetite for cash. A European...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (26 Sep 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerald Nash: ...and a lack of vision. That has been the consistent pattern here from what I describe as a very conservative coalition. Ireland is a rich country, but the Government presides over on that continues to feel poor. I want to put one key question to the Tánaiste on the status of the residential zoned land tax. The ESRI did not put a tooth in it today in pointing out that land...