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Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Shónagh Ní Raghallaigh: More than a decade ago, a citizens' assembly gave a clear recommendation to change the Constitution to give citizens outside the State the right to vote in presidential elections. Tugadh comhartha soiléir. Vótáil 78% de bhaill an choinbhinsiúin ar son cearta a thabhairt d'Éireannaigh atá ina gcónaí lasmuigh den Sé Chontae is Fiche. Sinn...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Johnny Mythen: I am delighted the Government is not opposing this motion. I thank my party for bringing this motion to extend voting rights in presidential elections to all citizens on the island of Ireland and to progress that same right to our diaspora, often aptly referred to as the children of the far-flung, as in the book by Geraldine O'Connell. I believe citizenship should have no borders. Once a...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Johnny Guirke: I welcome the Minister of State's work on reciprocal driving licenses. I know he is committed to it, so I thank him for that. Sinn Féin has long called for the extension of voting rights in presidential elections to all on the island. It is about equality and shared identity as Irish people. In 2013, the constitutional convention recommended that Irish citizens living outside the...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Louise O'Reilly: The constitutional convention met in 2013 to consider the issue of voting rights for citizens living outside outside this State. A clear majority backed voting rights for citizens in presidential elections. Sinn Féin first tabled legislation to give effect to this recommendation in 2014. The Bill passed First and Second Stages and we have retabled it in every Dáil since. A...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Louis O'Hara: The office of President is one of great symbolism and standing and our President is the representative of all the Irish people on the international stage. The Good Friday Agreement recognises the birthright of the people of the North of Ireland to identify themselves and be accepted as Irish, British or both, while the Irish diaspora around the world were and continue to be a driving force...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Neale Richmond: I really appreciate the opportunity to contribute to this debate. I can confirm the Government is of course not opposing this motion. From my time in this Chamber and before that in the Upper Chamber, I know we all share a long-standing desire to deepen the connections between Ireland and the global Irish, but especially on this island. I know there are very few of us in the Chamber who...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Seán Crowe: The ability of Irish citizens, regardless of where they reside, to vote in presidential elections is an issue I have been working towards for quite some time. Gerry Adams and I cosponsored a Bill to that effect more than ten years ago. Tá bród orm go bhfuil mé fós ag leanúint leis an bhfeachtas. That Bill, the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn: Where I live gives me a unique insight into the failure we have seen over the past decade. The Inishowen Peninsula has seen so many of our people emigrate, forced to go to England and the United States back in the day and more recently to Australia, Canada and the Middle East. That is the story of my peninsula and my county. Just half an hour away is Derry city, an Irish city with Irish...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Mairéad Farrell: In the North, there is an incredible situation in which Irish citizens who live on the island of Ireland have a Head of State in the President of Ireland but are unable to vote for that Head of State. These citizens feel there is an othering of them, that they are somehow different and not equal as Irish citizens who live in Ireland and have an Irish Head of State for whom they cannot vote....

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Martin Kenny: My constituency runs along the border of Sligo-Leitrim into south Donegal. The people in Kiltyclogher and Cashel are the same people. People in some parts of Ireland do not understand that. They are related to each other. They are the same people in every way. Their farms straddle the Border. We all understand that yet this artificial division made on the island of Ireland almost 100...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Denise Mitchell: Irish people living in the North can stand for the Presidency and serve as President, as Mary McAleese did, but cannot vote for the President if they live in the Six Counties. That unfairness is at the heart of this motion. We recently saw the Assembly support the call to extend voting rights to all of Ireland. The President is the representative of the Irish nation, and that nation does...

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Presidential Voting Rights: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Lou McDonald: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the 1998 Good Friday Agreement recognises the birthright of all the people of Northern Ireland to identify themselves, and be accepted as, Irish or British, or both; and — the Fifth Report of the Convention on the Constitution - Amending the Constitution to give citizens resident outside the State the right to vote in...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Carol Nolan: To call what we have seen revealed in some of our nursing homes a betrayal would be an understatement. It is brutality and the vicious erosion of trust. It is sickening to the core. I hope that each and every person who was seen abusing our elderly people will be arrested. I want to see their ability to ever work in such settings removed for life. These people who abuse our elderly are...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Danny Healy-Rae: Like everyone else, I was horrified by the "Prime Time" exposé. We have great nursing homes both public and private in County Kerry. We have great staff. They are second to none and do their very best. I cannot understand why different rates are paid to public and private nursing homes. I cannot understand that. There is no better place for elderly people to age than at home. We...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Kieran O'Donnell: I thank all the Members. Some 40 Members spoke in this debate. People were very constructive. Like everyone else, I was shocked by the programme. It was wanton neglect and abuse. I thank the Members for their very constructive engagement. I will attempt to cover the areas that people brought up. What we saw happening on the programme was pure wanton neglect and abuse of older...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Cathy Bennett: The State has a long, sorrowful and shameful history of failing those within its care. Women, especially mothers, and children have endured the brunt of that long, sorry history. Whether we are talking about survivors of institutional abuse or the degradation of babies' organs; those responsible for delivering justice not only failed to deliver it but actively sought to deny justice. What...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Michael Lowry: For generations in Ireland, elderly people were mainly cared for in the family home. It was a given that younger family members committed themselves to caring for elderly parents and grandparents. Most homes throughout the country had three generations under the same roof. It was not always easy but it worked. It had to work because there were very few suitable alternatives available. ...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Gillian Toole: Everybody here is ageing. We are here to represent older people and it is incumbent on us to act with a focus on solutions and a sense of urgency. Most people will, hopefully, age well at home with the necessary community and healthcare supports initiated by older person's councils through the Age Friendly Ireland initiatives. I think of Ita Healy and Barbara McCool in Meath, who are...

Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons: Statements (Resumed) (24 Jun 2025)

Mattie McGrath: Everybody was shocked and disgusted at what we saw in the recent television programme but it is the tip of the iceberg as regards big business and what is going on with big conglomerates. I salute all the care workers and nurses in the small nursing homes in Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel, Cahir, Cashel and Tipperary town. I salute them and the work they do. I challenge HIQA. It is not fit...