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Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: I have tabled a simple amendment because I do not see any logical reason for including this provision. I want to delete the term "based on a medical evaluation of the applicant". By including such a provision we are inferring that transgender people are ill. They are not ill, far from it. They know exactly what they want. By including a psychiatrist, are we inferring that they have...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: I do not think that transgender people are going to grow out of it either.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: When Senator Norris and others came out, they certainly did not need a medical opinion to tell them they were gay. I ask the Minister of State to accept this simple amendment, if he sees fit, because I do not see the logic for including the term it seeks to delete.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: My voice is almost gone, so I will be brief. I welcome the representatives of the various organisations to the Visitors' Gallery. I thank the Minister for giving his time yesterday to meet with the Members who requested a meeting with him. Some of us travelled many miles to get here yesterday afternoon, when the House was not sitting, but we considered it important to achieve a consensus...

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Committee Stage (3 Feb 2015)

Marie Moloney: Great stuff.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I think so too but I wanted to see it. That is what is going on now.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I hope that is not a sexist thing.

Seanad: Gender Recognition Bill 2014: Second Stage (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to take this Bill. I welcome to the Visitors Gallery many of my newfound friends, with whom I have met over the last year or so. The Yogyakarta Principles postulate that:Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Persons of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities shall enjoy legal capacity in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Information Technology in Schools: Camara Ireland (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I will be brief as, unfortunately, I must leave for a debate in the Seanad. On the issue of computers, I come from a rural area where there is a small rural school. It barely has enough room for the students in the classrooms. In one school, the resource teaching takes place in the hallway because there is no room. When it comes to having enough computers to cater for all of the students...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister of State. I appreciate what he says and agree that the Department has a responsibility to its clients. Is it not doing unnecessary work? This woman felt harassed. There must be something we can do to alleviate that feeling among people. People who claim illness benefit have paid pay related social insurance, PRSI, for their entitlements. This client was intimidated...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Social Welfare Benefits (28 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Social Protection, Deputy Kevin Humphreys. I will keep it short and sweet because the issue I wish to raise speaks for itself. I tabled this matter because I know of a person who was transferred from illness benefit to invalidity benefit when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, MS. The day she was transferred a social welfare...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I welcome the Minister to the House. I strongly support the motion before the House to investigate the treatment of mothers and children in institutions across the State in the past. The appalling scandal of what went on in mother and baby homes between the 1920s and 1970s was known to the State, State agencies, the church and Irish establishments. These homes were registered, regulated...

Seanad: Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Motion (27 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I pay tribute to and congratulate Ms Patricia King, the general secretary-elect of ICTU. She will be the first woman to take over this role and she was the first woman to serve as a national officer of SIPTU when she was appointed vice president. She is very formidable woman who was a lead negotiator in the Croke Park and Haddington Road agreements and is also a member of the body tasked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I also apologise for not being present for the entire briefing because, again, I was in the Seanad for a vote. I thank the delegates and while I am not into all of the ESRI's figures and so on, I do know about the social welfare system and what people on the ground are getting. That is my strong point, not figures. While Dr. Donal de Buitléir stated we had the most progressive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: If four people were earning over €275,000 and two of them lost their jobs, that would be a decrease of 50%. It sounds awful but it is only two people.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: Are the data accessible to us?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: Senators cannot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: We are all heading in that direction. We believe it is great.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Impact of Social Protection Payments on Income Distribution: Discussion (21 Jan 2015)

Marie Moloney: I would like to hear the opinions of the deputations on corporation tax. Is it a good thing or a bad thing? Do the witnesses believe we should hold it or change it? I believe people overlook some of the facts. Some say the multinationals in this country are not paying enough tax. If they left the country we would have a cohort who would be unemployed and we would not have tax coming in...