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need to constantly bear in mind the need for online safety, particularly when it comes to our children. As many Members of the House of a certain age might be able to say, we are digital immigrants. On the other hand, our children are digital natives. Social media … report it. Coimisiún na Meán also developed educational resources for post-primary schools that advised students, parents and teachers of their rights under the online safety framework. These educational resources were produced with the support of the Irish Internet Safety Awareness Centre, better known as Webwise, and include

very fair and balanced debate on the pros and cons, as there always are with these matters, of the proposals before the House. As set out by the Minister of State, Deputy Buttimer, in moving the amendment to the motion, the Government is committed to delivering sustainable transport … facilitating remote work in a way that maximises the economic, social and environmental benefits. As outlined earlier, the Government has provided a right to request, which supports and facilitates remote working at the same time as supporting a productive and competitive business environment. There has been significant uptake

neoliberal ideology, step up and show some ambition and urgency. As the Government’s own Housing Commission recommended, a radical reset of housing policy is needed and the Government needs to accept that we can fix things with political action. This is message is coming not just from … Ireland just do things? It’s not for want of money.” I do not agree with all of his points, but he is right to say that Ministers have more powers to change things than they actually use. So, why does the Minister not step

thank Deputy Sheehan for raising this matter. He said he has raised it on numerous occasions in this House. He outlined the huge success rate of CCTV in Moyross and Limerick. CCTV across the country makes us feel more secure in the community and in our own homes … Community safety is a top priority for me, with delegated responsibility for youth justice, and for my Department. Everyone has the right to feel safe and free in their communities. Community CCTV plays a huge role in achieving this. CCTV in public places gives people a greater sense

Gabhaim buíochas le gach duine a labhair ar an ábhar tábhachtach seo. I commend Deputy Bacik on bringing this Bill before the House. I acknowledge those survivors and welcome them to the Chamber. They worked to raise awareness of this issue, often at considerable personal cost, long before … that legacy. Their choices have had a direct and profound adverse impact on victims and survivors, not only in the past but continuing right up to this present day. I welcome again the survivors this afternoon. This Chamber cannot even begin to comprehend how distressing

Ukraine and against Russian aggression, and in support of sanctions where appropriate and necessary. A number of Deputies across all sides of the House have reflected on the role of the EU in what is going on in the Middle East. It is an extraordinary situation … upon it. It has been trying for years to negotiate the EU-Israel association agreement clause 2, which makes it clear that human rights have to be complied with. There is no doubt that clause 2 has been broken thousands of times over the last number of years

pitches for water attenuation schemes because these areas are becoming quite built up. My constituency of Dublin Rathdown is an area of high house building, which is what we need, but we are losing many potential water absorption areas. In conjunction with installing these flood mitigation projects … heavy rains. Likewise, I am sure the Minister of State has no desire to listen to me do so. The Government has rightly placed a very high priority on our infrastructure. Robust flood defence systems are an integral part of our national infrastructure

mobile home? Seán Meehan from outside Clonmel in County Tipperary is being brought to the courts for putting up a nice timber house around a mobile home. He needs to be looked after, as do other people like him. There are thousands of Seán Meehans. We need … should not even be called "landlords". These are people with a second, third or fourth property. They are being crucified. They have no rights whatsoever. They are getting no support. The Government needs to make it easy for them, especially now that holiday lets are going

should be no need to bring this issue, which is the annual crisis of school place shortages in Dunshaughlin, County Meath, before this House. I thank the parents who contacted me and my colleague Councillor Fionnan Blake. I also thank Councillor Blake for his hard work on this … local and national media or have their case pleaded on the floor of the Dáil for what a basic, fundamental and constitutional right. The families of Dunshaughlin have run out of patience with last-minute crisis management. They need action and they need it now. This time last

Houses of the Oireachtas. The negotiated agreement has two main aims and components, one relating to the necessity of ensuring public security by means of exchanging PNR data with the Swiss Confederation, and the other relating to the protection of privacy and other fundamental rights and freedoms … option that can arise after the agreements are concluded by the EU and the Swiss Confederation. I commend these proposals to the House and seek the approval of the motions for the signing and conclusion of the agreement concerned

children. The United Nations has warned of the war crimes. We know these are war crimes. Netanyahu is a war criminal. Human Rights Watch has stated bluntly that starvation is being used as a weapon of war. This is a reality. This is not just a humanitarian catastrophe … illogical what is occurring among us but there is a shift occurring across EU states. We saw what occurred in the House of Commons yesterday. Ireland has been a moral voice before. In the 1980s, we stood firm against the apartheid state of South Africa, started

stakeholders for their ongoing efforts as facilitators; deplores the loss of so many civilian lives, in Gaza and in Israel; recalls that this House has condemned the brutal attacks by Hamas in Israel on 7th October, 2023, and has emphasised that the taking of hostages is unconscionable; reiterates … belief that there can be no sustainable peace in the Middle East until the Israeli and Palestinian peoples alike can realise the same rights to self-determination, statehood, peace, security and dignity; reiterates its support for the two-state solution based on 1967 borders, with the State

multifaceted. There are fees, living costs, accommodation costs, transport costs and materials costs. We have been through this a few times in the House, but I will recap. One of the many ways that I hope to tackle the cost of education is by producing a cost … right and proper because it costs more to get there. Deputy O'Hara talked of a family in his constituency. I am happy to take that discussion offline. If he brings me that case, I will investigate it. That goes for any Deputy in the House if there

social and affordable housing will be at the heart of the next multi-annual financial framework and at EU budgetary level? I am aware the Taoiseach focused on that in his speech. Before I finish, I will speak briefly about workers' rights. It is concerning, in a country

have been doing everything right, and they want to leave something behind them. The previous speaker talks about millionaires, billionaires and the rest of it, but this affects a lot of people. I know of people in my constituency who inherited a small house from an uncle

Leinster House bike shed. Almost €100,000 was spent on a bike shed at Holles Street, and now we have another bike shed, costing €127,000, at University Hospital Kerry. It is another slap in the face to ordinary people right across this country, workers and families

Every Member of this House knows that families are at breaking point, struggling to access supports for children with additional needs. Behind every policy discussion are parents trying to hold things together in a system that is not holding them. This motion is right: the State is failing

associated housing and public transport needs. Most crucially this morning, the Minister of State has failed to recognise the solutions we are trying to bring to these issues, the ones that are staring him in the face with regard to affording more people the right to flexible

Bill before this House. I would urge the Government, again, to bring that before us to continue to move it forward. It will require a referendum and a national conversation about youth participation and about young people's voices, opinions and, ultimately, right to engage in the most

came in here, acted rightly at all times and on behalf of the people of Ireland. It is time we got down to the work we have to do, with the tariffs coming in probably tonight, and all the other issues such as housing - you name

issues of animal welfare. Unfortunately, for progress to be made and for laws to be changed, we need a majority across this House. In 2020, I was part of programme for Government negotiations on a wide range of issues. I remember being in the room when we debated … know from the speeches given today already, that when a vote is taken on Deputy Murphy's Bill, there is not a majority right now for this change and there is not a majority for some of the other changes that have been debated. It will be interesting

grandparents on the Cork-Kerry border. I understand the importance of what the Deputies are talking about. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae is right. Soft talk is no good. We need to have a plan. The plan is here. Depopulation did not happen yesterday or today; it has been … needs to happen and which is why the Minister of State, Deputy Cummins, is drawing up the draft statement and guidelines on Gaeltacht housing and planning. Everybody who says we need more people living in rural Ireland is correct. Second, it is about work. Some Members who referenced

correct way. There are good reasons for this but I wonder about the interplay over time and it is something the House should reflect on more broadly. To answer a question asked by Deputy Rice, it is the case that explanations were advanced by surgeons which were discounted … taking the right steps on behalf of their children in a properly governed, properly functional system with professional consultants making correct decisions. I want that other perspective also to be heard clearly. Ministers of State have articulated it. Deputies on both sides of the House have articulated

right thing. At the weekend, I met a lady who was upset about this whole issue, about the Government and the European Union not doing what is expected of them and that the genocide and murder continues. I do not know what it takes for this House … have not achieved a free track of supply of humanitarian aid to where it is most needed. We can argue about who is right and who is wrong in relation to what is happening, but the bottom line is that it is not the fault of the women

obstacle to implementing contributions to accommodation costs for international protection applicants in asylum and trying to blame EU law for housing delays, it is bizarre that it has yet to realise that tying us into an EU framework that will not only tie the Minister's hands … also the hands of future Ministers is the wrong approach. There has been a lot of focus on the international protection system, and rightly so. It is a broken system. I have been clear and unapologetic in stating that it has failed local communities and raised divisions