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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: The Organisation of National Ex-Servicemen and Women, ONE, started when three veterans died on our streets. These people served the Tricolour with pride, often in places of conflict, as the UN's most distinguished peacekeepers, and often in the North of Ireland during the Troubles. It is a charity and it needs support. Former members of the Defence Forces are going to highlight the plight...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I support the amendment tabled by Senator Reilly and many others. It is bizarre that the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland is allowed to describe itself abroad as a university of medicine and health science but is prohibited from doing so in this State. For almost a quarter of a millennium, the RCSI has been a leader in the field of medical education. It is a statutory body, which was...

Seanad: Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: At 2.30 p.m. next Tuesday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reserve Defence Forces: Discussion (7 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: The witnesses are very welcome. We really appreciate that they have given up their time to come in. Deputy Jack Chambers must have read my scribbled notes because he said literally word for word everything I wanted to say. I commend the association on the work it has done on maintaining what it has and trying to build on it. The Vice Admiral reviving the office of director has probably...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reserve Defence Forces: Discussion (7 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I apologise. I am under bit of pressure. I am on duty in the Chamber so excuse me if I have to run.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Reserve Defence Forces: Discussion (7 Feb 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I apologise but I have to leave. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vacant Properties (31 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I thank the Minister. I appreciate the fact that he is here again today. I know how hard he is working on housing and homelessness. There are a lot of things I would like to mention but I do not have time for everything. One of the things I always look at is houses that are in probate and sitting idle while the bereaved family goes through the necessary procedures. Could there not be an...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vacant Properties (31 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: Could we introduce legislation to allow for it?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vacant Properties (31 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I welcome the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy. While most logical people understand the difficulty in reviving the building industry after the carnage wrought on it by the disastrous Fianna Fáil-led Governments, it is good to finally see real growth in the numbers of new houses being built. However, when many members of the public pass a...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Mr. John Horan (29 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: Come on Westmeath.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: We are all aware that we need water to live, thrive and survive. I commend progress now being made in developing water infrastructure following decades of neglect by previous Governments. Irish Water has a planning application before Westmeath County Council for a raw water intake works and a water treatment plant at Portaneena outside Athlone. While I understand why we need a new water...

Seanad: First Aid and Mental Health in Schools (Initial Teacher Training) Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I welcome the Minister of State to the House and commend Senator Gallagher on bringing the Bill before us. I am happy that it has opened a very important conversation. A great deal has been said about the first aid side of things from a physical point of view but I feel very strongly about the mental health side of things. That is what I would like to speak about. We all know about the...

Seanad: First Aid and Mental Health in Schools (Initial Teacher Training) Bill 2018: Second Stage (23 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: I was talking about the increase in mental health issues.

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (22 Jan 2019)

Gabrielle McFadden: Maidin amárach ar 10.30 a.m.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I am extremely upset about an article in today's edition of The Irish Times. Cancer patients are being hounded by debt collecting agencies if their treatment bills are not paid within 47 days. It is a policy of the HSE to pass the debt on to debt collecting agencies. These agencies are threatening cancer patients with legal action if they do not pay within 47 days. This is disgusting. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: It was a she.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: Last year RTÉ reported a loss of €6.4 million, despite a subvention from the State in the form of licence fees of €186 million. Given that level of loss it was a source of great disappointment to me to hear last week of the large salaries paid to top earners in the State broadcaster. For example, one of them received a pay rise of €50,000 to give him a total income...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: But we are still paying for it.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Extraterritorial Jurisdiction) Bill 2018: Second Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: I had not intended speaking but this is something I feel very strongly about and I will only take one minute. This is a very badly needed piece of legislation and I am very proud that it has been initiated here in the Seanad. One in four women experience physical or sexual violence from a partner. I speak regularly here in the House about equality and there can be no real equality between...

Seanad: Centenary of 1918 General Election and Irish Women’s Right to Vote: Motion (13 Dec 2018)

Gabrielle McFadden: The Senator thinks women should be at home.