An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business Seanad Éireann — 2026-06-23 ============================================================ Evanne Ní Chuilinn (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach Déanaim comhghairdeas leis an Seanadóir Ahearn. He said to me when I first came into the Seanad that he hoped his mam would be proud. I think it is fair to say she always was and definitely is. I congratulate him on his new role. It is great to have his family here to celebrate. I raise something that was brought to my attention on Saturday night - four nights after it actually happened, which in itself is shocking. There is a national school in Cherry Orchard called St. Ultans. It is an integrated care and education setting, one of very few in Europe. It is not just a school but also a care centre. It has a preschool and an after-school but also has many therapies available on-site for needs in the area. Because it is not just a school, it has a general manager. Sue Menton did a brilliant job over a number of years but she has retired. A new general manager came in and is fantastic. She is not an Irish person. Last Wednesday night after a concert at the school, she was surrounded by people on scramblers and on foot. She was dragged from her car and assaulted. She has what has been described as a significant laceration to her face. She is only a couple of weeks into this job. It is an exciting job and she is well qualified but she does not feel welcome in Cherry Orchard. I cannot believe I found out about this on Saturday night, four days after it happened, through the chair of the school. I did not see it in any media or discussed anywhere. If it was anywhere other than Cherry Orchard, it would be everywhere. I have reached out to the Minister. I want to know what the justice Minister is doing. I want to know what senior gardaí are doing - not just local gardaí, who are firefighting, frankly - in terms of the strategy and what extra funding is going in for youth engagement and youth work in Cherry Orchard, not just from a criminal point of view. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2026-06-23/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:55:05+00:00 Sitting date: 2026-06-23