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Kieran O'Donnell

Kieran O'Donnell

Teachta Dála of Ireland

Jul 3, 2026

JustinHOST
1:38
Can you be sure it's not happening today?
1:41
Um, HIQA are an independent regulator, and they're inspect nursing homes.
1:48
I want to ensure that it's not happening.
1:50
Um, after the RTE Investigates program, uh, HIQA have carried out an intensive body of work in terms of the Emeis group.
1:58
Uh, they've published, uh, fifty-four of the inspection reports yesterday.
2:03
Uh, the two, um, nursing homes that were, that were pa- were, were subject to the RTE Investigates program, there's subjudiced issue there.
2:12
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.
JustinHOST
5:15
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.
1:07
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.
1:17
I've seen that speculation in the Irish Times this morning, but that's not what the company are saying.
1:24
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.
1:38
Furthermore, and they are critical materials, key materials.
1:43
I know myself, I'm a TD in Limerick City, but I have a lot of people that work in Anish.
1:48
They are employing roughly about 800-900 people between direct and people that are on contract.
1:55
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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10:44
At this moment,
1:44
action plan.
1:45
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.
1:54
We don't have one at the moment.
1:55
That's shocking.
1:57
What we have is we've an awful lot of measures in place.
1:59
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.
2:11
And the EPA report during the week...
4:47
Can I
15:47
No one country anywhere, no one
15:48
country in Europe can do it.
15:49
He's the expert in the area and I think you're speaking there about the triple lock.
15:54
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.
16:06
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.
16:23
And that puts in real time because the sanction wasn't re-endorsed by the UN.
16:29
It never went
17:27
And the triple lock protects the Irish people and protects our neutrality from that.

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