Working for the Foreign Affairs Committee I can say Ireland’s development aid programme does invaluable work because it makes a difference, it is poverty focused, it is about community... Read more
Deputy Maureen O’Sullivan: I acknowledge that there are some positives in the reply of the Minister of State, but it was rather vague on PESCO spending. I want to go back to... Read more
It is obvious to us that protecting the Good Friday Agreement has to be paramount but not, I believe, to people in Britain. The Good Friday Agreement was hard won and it is positive that a g... Read more
I put it urgently to the Minister, that the understaffing and workload are so significant in the Mater Hospital at present that it is having a detrimental effect on the mental and phy... Read more
As the dust settles on Budget 2019, I’m posting snippets of my post budget speech made the day after it was announced to argue that there is no doubt but that inequality is growing and... Read more
The figures – €30 million here, €1.4 billion there, €110 million there – all sound very impressive but we need the breakdown and we need the answers to questions such as “W... Read more
Dublin Bus In spite of current criticisms of Dublin Bus, for example, people getting on in the outer suburbs and there being not enough room on the buses by the time they come to the inner s... Read more
INTO had an excellent briefing in the National Museum of Ireland last July. The message coming across was that teachers are undervalued by the Department; I questioned Minister Bruton regar... Read more
I was delighted to support my colleague Deputy Thomas Pringle with his tremendous work on bringing this bill through the legislative processes. The bill was passed with cross party support.... Read more
