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Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 11:In page 146, after line 36, to insert the following:“Gender and Equality Proofing of Taxation and Expenditure 64. The Minister shall ensure a comprehensive gender and equality proofing of Budget 2020 is conducted to include both taxation and expenditure.”. This recommendation aims to ensure that a full gender and equality proofing exercise is...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: It is very heartening that there is a framework and advisory group, but when will the exercise take place? That is the point of the recommendation. I have not been persuaded by the remarks of the Minister of State. I am disappointed that he cannot set a date and give a firm commitment on the matter.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 12:In page 146, after line 36, to insert the following:“Sustainable Development Report 64.The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report assessing the impact of the Finance Act 2018 on the progressive implementation of the Sustainable Development Goal 10, including target 10.1,...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I am disappointed with the Minister of State's response. We really need clear sight of the impact of budgetary measures on sustaining income growth for the bottom 40%. I absolutely understand the focus on jobs and the need for employment but there is such a group as the working poor, particularly in the context of very high rents. The Minister of State says we must examine cumulative...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 13:In page 146, after line 36, to insert the following: "Report on impact of Irish Real Estate Investment Funds on residential property prices 64. The Minister shall, within six months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay beforeboth Houses of the Oireachtas a report on—(a) the impact of Irish Real Estate Funds and the Real Estate Investment Trusts...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I am glad there will be a report forthcoming on this matter. The effect of these measures is tax forgone. That is money we could spend on other things, such as social housing, and on housing measures to address the crisis we are experiencing. I worked for Cork Simon Community for many years. In 2009, we were able to say there was no rough sleeping in the city. Look at how things have...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 16:In page 146, after line 36, to insert the following: "Report on re-introduction of trade union tax relief 64. The Minister shall, within three months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before both Houses of the Oireachtas a report on—(a) the impact of trade union membership, based on comparative examples, statistics and case studies across a...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I am disappointed with the response of the Minister of State. I was not in the Chamber for the response of the Minister of State on the tax relief for golf clubs. While I would not ban them, I would not have thought they were making as much of a contribution to the common good as trade union membership. I work with people from the trade union movement on housing and the need for a...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I am speaking in support of amendments Nos. 30 and 32. I have not spoken to a single community provider - a GP, the Irish Family Planning Association, IFPA, or Well Woman centres - who view section 10 on risk to life or health in an emergency as a mechanism they can use to waive the waiting period in certain scenarios or living circumstances. It will be interpreted as applying to urgent...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 27:In page 10, line 4, to delete “carried out” and substitute “initiated”.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: On a point of order, we are going over the same arguments. The point is practical but we are going over the same ground.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 6:In page 8, line 23, to delete “serious”. The amendment seeks to remove the word "serious" from the provision dealing with the risk of harm to a woman seeking a termination of pregnancy. The Minister stated in regard to the previous grouping of amendments that he does not wish to take a risk on terms that are clinically uncertain or ambiguous. There is...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (10 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I agree with Senators Gavan and Marie-Louise O'Donnell. Much more needs to be answered. Why do we need to put the word "serious" before "harm"? I find it puzzling and difficult to understand, and I have not heard anything to convince me otherwise. I understand the Minister is not for turning on it and, therefore, it is good that it will not be closely defined in the legislation if it must...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I acknowledge the bone fides of the Government in wanting to introduce safe abortion in Ireland. Having waited for 35 years we have come a very long way in a very short space of time. The Government wants to bring about positive change for women's health without delay, as Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell mentioned. This legislation falls within that context, but we have to get it right. The...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: She went on to write:I had an abortion. It was the only option for me at that moment in my life, after much deliberation and consideration. I am not a criminal and nor are those who helped me. The voting down of amendments to decriminalise is perhaps the most chilling of all the outcomes from the Dáil debates, and debating the length of the proposed sentence is to miss the point....

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Is a woman to risk life-changing injuries or disability as doctors debate when "harm to health" becomes "serious harm to health", with one eye on the 14-year prison sentence hanging over their heads? I conclude by asking the Minister, his officials and the Members to give due and respectful consideration to the matters raised and being put forward as practical amendments by myself and...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: -----and others. I was about to come to that. I would also like to acknowledge Senator Bacik's role in all of this. We first met many moons ago in London-----

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Colette Kelleher: -----when we were doing telephone lines, with people reversing calls from call boxes in rural Ireland, and trying to be a human face to women taking a lonely journey. This was well before the days of mobile phones. She and the committee has been brave and I commend the work of Senators Ruane, Gavan, Ned O'Sullivan, and Noone. I also mention Ailbhe Smyth. We would not be where we are...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Dementia Strategy (21 Nov 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State. I would like to share time with my colleagues, Senators Devine, Swanick and Humphreys. I know it is unusual, but we wish to outline a cross-party approach to the matter. We are all members of the all-party Oireachtas group on dementia. I thank Senator-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: National Dementia Strategy (21 Nov 2018)

Colette Kelleher: It was submitted in all our names.