Kieran O'Donnell
Teachta Dála of Ireland
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Jul 3, 2026
Review highlights need for nursing home regulatory reform in key areas
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1:38JustinHOST
Can you be sure it's not happening today?

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
Um, after the RTE Investigates program, uh, HIQA have carried out an intensive body of work in terms of the Emeis group.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
Uh, the two, um, nursing homes that were, that were pa- were, were subject to the RTE Investigates program, there's subjudiced issue there.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
They're not, they're not published in the report, but they will be once the, the, the, uh, case has been heard with it, uh, by the courts.
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5:15JustinHOST
Do you want to see more inspections of nursing homes, m- a greater number of them taking place? Because that is clearly one of the best ways of ensuring that there is compliance.
Aughinish Alumina
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Cormac Ó hEadhraHOST
But Minister, we have reports today suggesting that the amount of alumna that goes from here to the European Union is minuscule compared to Russia.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
I've seen that speculation in the Irish Times this morning, but that's not what the company are saying.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
And I think what the point Taoiseach made is that in the overall European and Irish context, Anish are supplying alumna to plants in France and Sweden.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
I know myself, I'm a TD in Limerick City, but I have a lot of people that work in Anish.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
They are employing roughly about 800-900 people between direct and people that are on contract.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
And furthermore, if you've seen in that area, I think it's important to make this point that in that area, White's, which were there for nearly 50 years in Eskeeton, just a short distance away, closed fully in April with the loss of 500 jobs.
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Climate Action Plan 2026
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Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
Is that true, Minister? Well, Minister Dara O'Brien is out during the week and he wants to bring about a more focused climate action plan.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
And if you look through it, we've increased the grants around retrofitting over 600 million a year through the carbon tax, which Sinn Féin are opposing, which is bringing a benefit.
Security preparedness
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Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
He's the expert in the area and I think you're speaking there about the triple lock.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
In real time, you saw just in the last period where an Operation Iranian in the Mediterranean, where there was four Irish Navy troops out there.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
And because sanction wasn't continued under the UN, those troops had to, Irish troops had to withdraw from that, which was a peacekeeping effort, which used to stop arms going to a certain country.

Kieran O'DonnellGUEST
And that puts in real time because the sanction wasn't re-endorsed by the UN.
Lynn BoylanGUEST
And the triple lock protects the Irish people and protects our neutrality from that.