Results 101-120 of 1,170,385 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Ciarán Cuffe OR speaker:Marian Harkin OR speaker:Bríd Smith OR speaker:Peadar Tóibín OR speaker:Joe O'Brien OR speaker:Colm Burke OR speaker:Martin Heydon OR speaker:Brendan Smith OR speaker:Pearse Doherty OR speaker:James O'Connor OR speaker:Pádraig Mac Lochlainn OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh OR speaker:Bernard Durkan OR speaker:Alan Farrell OR speaker:Aodhán Ó Ríordáin OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh01 OR speaker:Joe McHugh OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh06 OR speaker:Marc MacSharry OR speaker:Frank Feighan OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh25 OR speaker:Noel Grealish OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh07 OR speaker:Pádraig O'Sullivan OR speaker:Eoin Ó Broin OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh30 OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh12 OR speaker:Kieran O'Donnell OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh14 OR speaker:Michael Fitzmaurice OR speaker:Matt Carthy OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Charlie McConalogue OR speaker:Chris Andrews OR speaker:Michael Creed OR speaker:Colm Brophy OR speaker:Helen McEntee OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh6 OR speaker:Willie O'Dea OR speaker:Danny Healy-Rae OR speaker:Richard Bruton OR speaker:Aengus Ó Snodaigh17) in 'Committee meetings'

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Write some new stuff.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mattie McGrath: You would never manage at a race meeting.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: This is the 11th time since I have been elected to the Dáil that I have been asked to agree to give tens of millions of euros, now almost €100 million, to the horse and greyhound racing industry. I added it up and, over the time I have been in the Dáil, the Dáil has voted time after time, all in all, to give almost €1 billion to the horse and greyhound racing...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: What exactly are the priorities of the Government? What is important to it and what is not? There are people out on the streets forced to go rattling tins to raise money for domestic violence centres and the Government decides to give almost €20 million to the greyhound industry. Does the Minister of State not know this is a cruel industry? Deputy Murphy said one quarter, and my...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Danny Healy-Rae: We do not listen to rubbish.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: This industry would not survive if it was not for State money propping it up. The stadiums are 90% empty. This is in the wake of all of the animal cruelty scandals. I will leave aside, for reasons of time, the Government's plans to give €80 million to the horseracing industry with the Shannonside Foods abattoir scandal still fresh in the memory. It is outrageous that the Government...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Michael Lowry: A negative focus was brought to bear on the horseracing industry earlier this year. Revelations from the abattoir in County Kildare shocked and sickened people in every corner of the country. They portrayed an image of horrendous practices that tainted the sport of horseracing. People were justifiably sickened and disgusted. Ireland is recognised globally as a nation of animal lovers. To...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Alan Kelly: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: - while it is acknowledged that the horse and greyhound racing sectors do not qualify for sports capital funding, they are unique in Irish sport in that they are supported by the State through their own ring-fenced statutory fund; - that payments into the Fund have...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Holly Cairns: Greyhound racing has been in decline for decades but the Government has handed the greyhound industry €94 million over its term in office. It has increased funding this year by €4.1 million. This year, like every other year, I have to ask why. Why is the Government so insistent on propping up this industry? Why is it so insistent that greyhound racing is an integral part of...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Martin Browne: We welcome the Labour Party amendment and will not oppose it, as it is similar to the one brought by Deputies Kerrane and Mythen last year. The same review was sought by Sinn Féin last year and the Minister committed to carrying one out. He also committed to it several times at committee meetings, but no results have been forthcoming. There is little room for doubt about the fact...

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Johnny Mythen: I thank the Minister of State for his statement and acknowledge the importance of the horse and greyhound industries and their annual impact on the economy. The thoroughbred sector generates approximately €2.6 billion, directly and indirectly supporting more than 30,000 jobs, and the greyhound racing industry supports more than 4,000 jobs, almost all of which are in rural Ireland. ...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: War bonds.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Pauline Tully: As there are only 30 seconds left, the next question will be taken tomorrow.

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of the Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024: Motion (22 Oct 2024)

Martin Heydon: I move: That Dáil Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2024, copies of which were laid in draft form before Dáil Éireann on 3rd October, 2024. The horse and greyhound sectors are embedded in the social and economic fabric of our country, and that of rural Ireland in particular. Successive governments...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Richard Boyd Barrett: At what point does the Taoiseach think Israel's crimes against the Palestinians reach the threshold of horror and unacceptability that mean it deserves the same sort of sanctions as apartheid South Africa? I ask that because the crimes it has committed are way in excess of even that horrific regime. Long before the genocide of last year, many South African representatives, going right back...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Paul Murphy: Relatedly, did the Taoiseach raise with Keir Starmer the need to stop arms exports to Israel? Britain is a major arms supplier to Israel. Five days before the Taoiseach's meeting, the British Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, announced the suspension of only 30 export licences out of 350 to Israel. He was at pains to emphasise that this was not an arms embargo and that the point was "in no...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Mick Barry: The Taoiseach met Keir Starmer, whose government is arming Israel. He met Joe Biden. The Biden Administration is arming Israel big-time. These men have funded and armed a genocide; just look at the horrific events in Jabalia. After shaking the bloodstained hands of those men, has the Taoiseach had to wipe blood away from his own hand? He told Ryan Tubridy that he cries when he thinks...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: Like many others, I am very concerned by the proposals to continue with the ICRIR, to appeal court judgments and to block an inquiry into the killing of Sean Brown against the recommendations of the coroner. The UK Labour Party needs to end the failed approach of the Tories and deliver on its promise to repeal and replace. This Government and any future government must continue with the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 Oct 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I agree that at any engagement with world leaders of states involved in supplying weapons to Israel, we have to bring up the brutal genocide and unacceptability of any of that. I agree with what many Deputies have said about ensuring that we have repeal of the legacy Act and that we find a fit-for-purpose solution to provide truth and justice to the families of those killed in Dublin and...