I welcome the motion and the opportunity to once again place a spotlight on the extraordinary levels of vacant housing. The motion is pragmatic and I will support it. When I think of housing vacancy rates, I think of a man dying of thirst while a giant pool of water remains within his reach. There is a stupidity and recklessness to this issue that is mind-boggling. In the middle of a great housing crisis, we are sitt…
TDs / Carol Nolan
Carol Nolan
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1,635
questions asked
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52,708
words spoken in the chamber
Across 165 contributions
317
votes recorded
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323
topics asked about
Across 20 departments
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Contributions to debates 165 in all
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| April 2025 | 39 | 9 |
| May 2025 | 76 | 15 |
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| July 2025 | 50 | 6 |
| August 2025 | 0 | 0 |
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| December 2025 | 35 | 7 |
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| July 2026 | 58 | 5 |
| August 2026 | 0 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 55 | 10 |
| October 2026 | 110 | 4 |
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- constituency Offaly 29 November 2024 to now
- party Independent 29 November 2024 to now
I welcome the debate we are having on this very important matter. Clearly, there is a need to rectify the deficits in law with respect to insolvencies and the protections offered to employees. Indeed, that need is becoming increasingly urgent. We know from reporting on this matter by Credit Connect in January that business insolvencies in Ireland hit the highest level in six years, based on research conducted by PwC.…
A mother's unwavering love for her son, a family's courageous determination to overcome the obstacles, denials, bureaucratic indifference and outright hostility to own up to the wrong perpetrated on Shane has brought us to this day. The last email I received from Shane's mother, Lucia, was in July after I co-signed a Private Members' motion calling for action and justice for Shane. Lucia has always been a model of th…
I begin my brief remarks by commending the parents and the disability advocates who are highlighting this issue. I also commend and applaud all of those therapists who are demoralised, forced to work in a system that is just not fit for purpose and against a level of demand that is simply unprecedented. There seems to be very little point in standing up here yet again and simply repeating that the assessment of needs…
-----delivery if we are to have any chance of-----
-----honouring the rights of children to timely assessments of need.
I am finishing a sentence.
Calm down Chair, I am finishing a sentence.
You do need to calm down.
You are the one blowing it out of proportion. There is no need for the drama.
You are creating too much drama.
The Gaiety is around the corner. We do not need the drama.
The Minister of State may have seen recent polling on Irish people's views on the EU. Certainly, they are at historically low levels, due in no small part to what is now almost a cliché, that is, the bureaucratic stranglehold that Brussels has on every single aspect of our lives, particularly agriculture. There is a level of intrusion and often just plain stupidity that is simply eye-watering. Only yesterday, the ICM…
Surely removing land from food production is in contradiction with that statement from the Commission. I would hope that will be challenged.
I have written to the new Chair of the Oireachtas transport committee to demand the appearance of senior management from the Road Safety Authority before the committee members. The RSA is clearly an organisation not fit for purpose, with an increasingly bad track record that is generating chaos for learner drivers and industry sectors such as hauliers. Last year there was a call, and indeed an expectation, that the R…
Tá áthas orm labhairt mar chuid de na ráitis ar an ardoideachas sa Teach inniu. Guím gach rath ar an Aire, an Teachta Lawless, agus ar an Aire Stáit, an Teachta Harkin, ina róil nua. I truly believe that education is the most powerful and liberating tool at our disposal when it comes to lifting people from economic poverty, but also the poverty of the imagination that afflicts so much of our world. I acknowledge the …
I welcome the opportunity to speak on this important matter. Obviously, it is upsetting for so many parents across the State and for even TDs here who have had personal experience in some form or other.
We should always at least try and avoid the temptation to make any single institution the scapegoat for what are clearly systemic problems around governance and the care of children in the health service. We have fan…
Married couples in my constituency on decent but modest incomes are contacting my offices in frustration following confirmation from SUSI that their children are either not eligible for grants or fees or, if they are, are just entitled to the bare minimum. I am dealing with one case where one parent is a council employee and the other a civil servant. They have always instilled a profound work ethic in their children…
The tariff trauma has begun. Even if our industries, particularly our pharmaceutical and agri-export sectors, can escape the worst of the challenges that arise, there is no doubt that we are in for a sustained period of economic uncertainty that is going to send chills through tens of thousands of households in this State.
However, I want to state clearly that we have, in effect, squandered the last four years in te…
I wish the Minister of State well in her new role and look forward to working with her on a number of issues. The Bill before us is in response to the Pensions Commission’s recommendations and implementation plan, published in 2022. Many aspects are welcome but there are also many concerns. The Government subsequently committed to introducing a range of reforms to ensure the pensions system is sustainable and that pe…
I wish to raise an issue that is of considerable importance not only to my constituency of Offaly, but to many areas nationally that have witnessed a dramatic increase in the level of demand. I refer to special education schools and the enormous pressure they are under every single day to keep the doors open, retain staff and deliver urgent therapeutic interventions to all pupils in their care.
Last November, there …
I thank the Taoiseach for his response. The pilot scheme has failed. We are certainly all in agreement on that. However, I am concerned about the backlog of children waiting for in-school therapists. I acknowledge that a disability forum will be set up, which is progress in the right direction, but there is a need and a vacuum now. Offaly School of Special Education has done its level best in working to get the in-sc…
Stop it, will you? Have respect. The Deputies are a disgrace. I spent too long with them.
I will be voting in support of the Ceann Comhairle, Deputy Verona Murphy, from one female politician to another, and as one who has had more than her fair share of spite and political attacks to contend with, particularly from one party in here. I will not sit on the fence as others have done while attempts are made to engage i…
What an example to lead by. What would that be like in government? What would the country be like? A disgrace. It is shameful. I will make my vote here today with a settled and calm conscience that this is the right thing do.
I am glad to get the opportunity to speak on this motion. I am aware that many people are yet to receive a response to applications they submitted under the humanitarian assistance scheme. I am engaging with the Department to see how this process might be escalated given that it is now almost two months since the storm. Last month, I submitted a number of parliamentary questions to the Minister on behalf of a number …