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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Jul 2024)

Ivana Bacik: I acknowledge, as others have done, the announcement today by Deputies Shortall and Catherine Murphy and I add my voice to those wishing them well. As Deputy McDonald has said, it is rare to see an outbreak of girl power in this House, or women power as I prefer to say. There are far too few women here and it makes their extensive careers in public service all the more noteworthy. I...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I welcome the Tánaiste and thank him for his statement. I join him in recognising the work being carried out abroad by Defence Forces personnel. In the context of UNIFIL, as the Tánaiste stated, tensions have heightened recently. There was a meeting yesterday with humanitarian agencies in respect of the civilian communities out there. UNIFIL was involved in that as well. The...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: The Tánaiste indicated earlier that we are prepared to evacuate our troops if we have to in the event of serious hostilities breaking out. We hope that does not happen. If hostilities break out between Hezbollah and Israel, it would be a catastrophe. I understand that Hezbollah is more powerful than Hamas. Will the Tánaiste comment on the Syrian refugees in Lebanon? Have we...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I was asking about Syria. It was interesting to hear the Tánaiste comment on the pressures on Lebanon, the number of Syrian refugees there and the fact that they cannot go back. This leads me to my next question. We are talking about the Golan Heights, the situation in Syria and how that is affecting the UN's presence in Lebanon.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: My final question is about our troops. Is recruitment pressure having an impact on people volunteering to go to Lebanon and UNIFIL? What progress has been made regarding reservists serving overseas, which is something we discussed in the past?

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I think Deputy Cronin has covered most of what I wanted to ask. It reminds me of some old soldiers I met a long time ago who had gone out to Congo and to Jadotville, of all places, in the 1960s. They were extraordinarily badly equipped. The uniforms were made of bull's wool and were up to the neck. They had heavy boots, old Lee-Enfield rifles and Bren guns, and armoured cars you could...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: It was called bull's wool.

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: I thank the Tánaiste. If we are here in the autumn, we might invite some of those experts to talk to the committee about the risks. I would be interested to know what the contingencies are if some of these cables are damaged, blown up, tapped into or whatever else happens. I would be interested to hear what the impact on our economy and everything else might be. I mentioned...

Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Proposed Approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland's Participation in Two PESCO Projects and Two European Defence Agency Projects and the Report Regarding Service by the Defence Forces with the UN in 2023: Motion (2 Jul 2024)

David Stanton: That is great.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: I thank Deputy Pringle for raising two important issues which are clearly intertwined here - the issue of concrete blocks and particularly the devastating impact that is having in his constituency to community childcare facilities. He made specific reference to Ardara but also referred to Raphoe and Letterkenny. The Department of children is aware of the service in Ardara and it is aware of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jul 2024)

Thomas Pringle: I thank the Taoiseach for his response. I also thank the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, because it is vital that this is recognised. This requires a whole-of-government approach. This is a crisis that will only get worse. Community buildings, private buildings, factories and farm buildings across Donegal will all be collapsing over the next few years because of the defective concrete crisis....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I thank Mr. Keegan and his team for the presentation. I acknowledge the very significant amount of information that the team at the RTB provides when many of us ask for it, both through the online system and over the phone. I acknowledge that because I know folks are very busy. It is greatly appreciated. It will probably be a pity that we do not have the annual report before the meeting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Senator Cummins will keep him here as long as he can. We are normally a tag team. First of all, can the witnesses give us any further information as to where things are with the CSO and the RTB in terms of the correlation or the gap between the two sets of figures? I know one is registrations and the other is declarations in the census. Can the witnesses tell those of us who are too...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Can Ms Crimin share with us the figure for registrations at the end of 2023?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Crimin will give us at least one nugget in advance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Ms Crimin should absolutely call them out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: I only have 55 seconds left but will Ms Crimin address AHB bulk registration and the recruitment and training of adjudicators? According to the clock, she has 20 seconds for each.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: Is there a timeline for that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Residential Tenancies Board: Discussion (2 Jul 2024)

Eoin Ó Broin: What about recruitment and training for adjudicators?