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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Research has shown that a three-year-old from a middle-class advantaged background will have 1,200 words in their vocabulary, while a three-year-old from a disadvantaged background will have 400 words in their vocabulary. Even by the time children are three years old, there is a massive gap in their capability to reach their full potential. This is before we bring in issues such as...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: I call Deputy McDonald.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I think everyone was expecting a prayer. They have all become very holy, a Cheann Comhairle.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: We can do one, if the Deputy wants.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Whatever you think yourself.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Healy-Rae: We might need a prayer.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: I would rather not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Entire rosaries and novenas would probably be more in our line.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Seán Ó Fearghaíl: Maybe a Hail Mary.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: Absolutely. That would be nice. Yesterday, I raised with the Taoiseach the very shocking case of Tori Towey. Tori is, as he knows, a 28-year old young woman from Roscommon. She is living and working in Dubai as an airline attendant, and she married last March. Since then, Tori has been subjected to sustained and brutal domestic violence and abuse. When she went to the authorities to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Deputies: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I agree with every word Deputy McDonald said on this issue. I thank her and Deputy Kerrane for engaging with me on this matter, along with Deputy Feighan. This is a really distressing case. It is important that everybody around the world, including in Dubai and the United Arab Emirates, know that we are speaking with one voice in this House on this situation. An Irish woman - an Irish...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: I thank the Taoiseach for that update. Let me just say this: Tori is not, as the Taoiseach says, a criminal. She is, in fact, a victim. Our first concern is to get Tori home safely, and that must happen immediately. These charges must be dropped and Tori and her mother Caroline must be allowed to travel home freely and unimpeded to Ireland and to Roscommon. That is the call from this...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Michael Ring: I thank the Deputy. That concludes the debate.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Question put and declared carried.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cuireadh an Dáil ar fionraí ar 11.54 a.m. agus cuireadh tús leis arís ar 12 meán lae. Sitting suspended at 11.54 a.m. and resumed at 12 noon.

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Cian O'Callaghan: I commend Ms Bláthnaid Raleigh, the Women of Honour and the women in the FAI for speaking out, which they should not have felt the need to do. I commend, in particular, Ms Natasha O'Brien for challenging homophobic abuse. I and many others like me enjoy a degree of freedom in our public spaces because people like Ms O'Brien defend us. It is a diminishing degree of freedom in our...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Holly Cairns: I thank everybody who contributed to the debate. The Minister correctly identified that changing cultures and institutions is not easy and takes time. We know that. That is why it is so frustrating that the relatively easy first steps, such as updating and introducing regulations, simply have not been done. If the Government is not willing to do the easy stuff, how on earth can we have...

Domestic, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence: Motion [Private Members] (10 Jul 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I thank the Social Democrats for this important and thoughtful motion. It provides us with a further opportunity to highlight the blight of domestic, sexual and gender-based violence in our society. I again pay tribute to the fantastic Natasha O'Brien, Bláthnaid Raleigh, the courageous Women of Honour - and men - and the many others we know who have been, and still are, suffering in...