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legislation until last night, when he indicated new laws would need to be introduced to give gardaí greater powers to stop and search people they suspect of carrying knives. Can the Taoiseach or the Minister tell the Dáil when the Government became aware that existing knife crime powers

Síochána. That is part of the solution. Another part has to be powers for An Garda Síochána in order that gardaí can stop and search people so that they can seize knives from them if they suspect they are carrying knives. The Deputy will be aware

reality at the moment is that gardaí have a very difficult job to do. However, I also think that the power to stop somebody and search them on the street is a hugely significant one. Obviously, people are protected constitutionally from the abuse of that power. That … that criticism. What I do have a concern about is if, for example, I am a garda on patrol and I stop somebody, conduct a search and put into my notebook all the details that I am supposed to under the Act, well and good, but what happens

medicating for traumas that may go back generations in some part. Every single day in this country, people of all ages are stopped and searched, charged and shamed, often for having been caught with a small amount of drugs for personal. In reality, that should be a matter … prison for drug offences has dropped, drug-related deaths have declined and, crucially, drug use did not increase. That is because when we stop treating people like criminals, we create a space for them to be treated like human beings. I represent communities where drugs have done untold

shameful. As a signatory to the genocide convention, this country has a legal obligation to do whatever it can to stop genocide. Instead of searching planes at Shannon for weapons, the State is strip-searching peaceful protestors

Racism study published in the past couple of days. It found that survey participants described traumatic experiences while being stopped by members of An Garda Síochána, including strip searches, property damage and wrongful arrests, some of which had long-lasting psychological impacts. Rural and Dublin groups spoke about

Against Racism study that had been published at the time. It found: "...survey participants described traumatic experiences while being stopped by members of the Garda Síochána, including strip searches, property damage, and wrongful arrests, some of which had long-lasting psychological impacts." Rural and Dublin-based groups spoke

bound cargo planes, some lined with explosives, have used our airspace as a pit stop on the way to what the UN has called the "killing field" of Gaza. Why are we not searching these aeroplanes at Shannon? How can we expect Irish mammies to comply with

bloodthirsty action that will continue to have serious consequences for many years to come and we need to do everything we can to stop it. There will be long-term scars, obviously for the families of the innocents who have been killed but equally for those who have … recognition of the Palestinian state. In our search for peace we need to move to where we go after this and to how we can guarantee the horrors we see now - and we have to stop them - can never happen again. How can we build some sort

Gridziuska was travelling was stopped by the Garda. There was no tax, no NCT and the insurance had been secured fraudulently. Driven by one known criminal, the passengers comprised of other known drug dealers, including Gridziuska, but there was no search, no arrests or no seizure

Ireland coming here in search of a better life. The only foreigners you could possibly accuse of being responsible for the housing crisis are the vulture funds and other international financiers, but primarily the fault lies with successive Governments that decided to stop building social and public housing

reasonable means to search for the disappeared children, so let us put that one away. Some of those means would be geophysical surveys, radar, electrical resistivity and magnetometry. I will finish by saying the Special Advocate for Survivors has called for the Government to stop. That is someone

waiting for both of them to stop. President Zelenskyy's visit to Ireland yesterday was cut short due to another deadly attack on Ukraine. At least 17 people were killed and more than 50 injured overnight after missiles rained down on Kyiv. As we speak, emergency workers … collapsed nine-storey apartment searching for survivors in rubble. This is the biggest attack on Kyiv since the war began. The mayor has declared a day of mourning tomorrow to remember those killed. This has been the reality of life in Ukraine for more than four years

homicide when it is being investigated by the Garda. The families and friends of these individuals need to do some deep soul-searching. They need to look at the incredible gifts that are showered on them and ask themselves what is really funding them. Is your son really … think he is, or is he a monster, wrecking lives and taking young people's lives with him? Some politicians also need to stop fraternising with the drug-dealing community. We must take back our communities and resource our Garda. We need to expand CAB and reclaim

European Union is fuelling a genocide that they cannot stop on their own. The only thing that can stop this genocide now is decisive international action. The only way that will happen is through people power, international solidarity and resistance. We cannot rely on the same governments … examples of the oppression being meted out against Palestinian protestors. Other examples include protestors from Mothers Against Genocide being arrested, strip-searched and called liars by An Garda Síochána and the Minister for Justice, Deputy O’Callaghan, and Kneecap facing terrorism charges for speaking out against the genocide

most powerful testimonies that many of us have heard. She spoke at length about what she was put through in search of justice. Everybody in the House should watch her testimony. If the Minister has not seen it, he should go back and have a look. When … camera rule. She said it was having a detrimental impact upon victims of domestic abuse and is no longer fit for purpose. That stopped me in my tracks and I hope it would stop anyone else. When somebody who has lived through what she has lived through

will ask the Minister for Transport to again pursue the issue the Deputy has raised with regard to Lufthansa. We cannot physically stop planes but we can certainly take actions subsequently. There are no planes landing at Shannon with weapons for Gaza. People should not be referencing that … precision. This line gets trotted out about Shannon Airport and Gaza wrongly and falsely. Equally, Deputy O'Callaghan mentioned in passing about strip searching and so on. I know the Minister for Justice has pursued this with the Garda Commissioner. I have asked the Minister for Justice

problem" foreign policy, is a terrifying indicator of how the world will respond to the millions of Sudanese who are fleeing in search of safety. If powerful governments can watch atrocities from space and simply shrug, what hope do displaced Sudanese families have when they come knocking … cruelty matters. Challenging self-interested decision-making matters, every single time it appears, no matter how exhausting it becomes. The moment we stop holding governments to account, the moment we stop naming injustice for what it is, we become part of the silence that lets these horrors continue

colleague, Deputy Daly, his father lost his life in the Whiddy Island disaster. That has clearly motivated him to try to stop other families from enduring the same cruelty, unnecessary cruelty in many instances. It is about learning the lessons of tragedies and ensuring they are not repeated … might recall it is about fishermen and a terrible weather occurrence on the east coast of the United States. I remember how the search and rescue team was sent out. It was an incredible movie in how it conveyed the unbelievable danger people endure when they are sent

April, four gardaí with a search warrant barged into the home of a therapist. They shouted at her and her daughter to put down their phones, not to move and to tell them where her files were. They would not let her take a photograph of the warrant … daughter, who has health conditions, and said her mother knows what she has done. The therapist had to ask them to stop shouting, such was the level of aggression. What were they looking for? They were looking for the counselling notes of a client. They were not looking

very systems that should have protected them had failed. For many survivors of child sexual abuse, the abuse does not end when it stops. Its impact can last a lifetime and can affect every aspect of a person's life - their mental health, their relationships, their sense … know they have felt isolated, disbelieved in some instances and forgotten in others because they have told us that. Some have spent decades searching not only for justice but simply for an acknowledgement of what happened to them. No apology can undo that harm or give back what

used AI before, he definitely has. Even if he has not used a particular AI app, if he put a search into Google this evening, he would have got an AI summary whether he wanted it or not. As a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Artificial … would like it to have more of a role in advocacy and literacy. It has the opportunity to be a one-stop shop with a cross-sectoral approach that will look at health. We know that people are turning to AI at the moment to get advice

board. In many instances we are talking about individual cases where the State has failed. We are talking about the Coast Guard search and rescue. Ask anybody on the street what that means and they will say it is people who go above and beyond, who are risking … relation to this to provide answers, not some sort of cop-out that he has no role in regulatory oversight. The buck stops with him, simple as that. The Irish Aviation Authority also needs to be in front of the committee, as does Bristow Ireland which has come

what was at stake. They forced that Minister into a reversal, and they saved the service. They did it because they understand what search and rescue is. They know it is not something you play around with, and not something you denigrate or diminish. Another issue must … will the issue still remain for the new entrants to the service? Our motion seeks something really straightforward and overdue, which is to stop the unsafe factoring practice, to record hours honestly and fairly, to comply with Irish and EU law, and to ensure that the people

must do more. We must stop the use of Shannon Airport, stop the use of our airspace, enact the occupied territories Bill and stop the facilitation of Israeli war bonds. Women have always been to the fore of this activism. Women like the workers in Dunnes Stores … Palestine and they cannot let this go on. They were arrested and detained as a result of this. They want the planes searched. I want the planes searched. The Tánaiste cannot control what other world leaders do. He can only control what he can do and what