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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I share the frustrations of Senators Boyhan and Higgins. I am afraid I got my times wrong and thought we would resume at 7 p.m. There has been so much jiggery-pokery with the schedule. Like Senator Boyhan, I feel that we have let the advocacy organisations down.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I appreciate that I got the time wrong.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am not suggesting anything untoward was done, whatsoever. First, it was decided to take Committee and Report Stages together in order to fit all of the debate in today. Second, changes were made right up to quite late in the day.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I withdraw my words.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Victims of Crime) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (27 Sep 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Fair enough. There is huge frustration in terms of the substance of what we are trying to do, with Senator Boyhan, which was to reflect concerns and issues that have been raised with us by people who work on the front line with people who are victims of crime, particularly issues relating to people who try to make complaints and get justice for sexual crimes. I am disappointed with the...

Seanad: Nursing Homes Support Scheme: Statements (3 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Daly, to the Seanad and welcome the opportunity to speak on this important issue. I was delighted to see the reference to home care because, as with my colleague, Senator Swanick, I want to speak on that issue. While the focus of this discussion is on the fair deal scheme, I want to focus my remarks on home care and the need to provide a real...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (4 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am delighted to second Senator Joan Freeman's motion on 24-hour access to mental health services. I support this motion and I am very much informed and driven by my eight years of experience working for the Cork Simon community. Access to 24-hour mental health services was a major pressure point for those who were looking for support and also for the staff who were trying to handle and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: There are lots of Kellehers here today. We are out in force. I am no relation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I have some questions for each witness. I commend Mr. Healy on his leadership in developing the adult safeguarding policy in the wake of Áras Attracta. It was hard to take any positives from that but the work that was initiated by Mr. Healy in establishing the National Safeguarding Committee in December 2015, on which I served, and the adult safeguarding teams in the nine community...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: There is a national safeguarding authority proposed in the Bill. That deals in a way with some of the points Mr. Healy is making.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (4 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: We have a report from the Institute of Public Administration. It arrived yesterday, so it is hot off the presses. It deals with some of the issues around the establishment of an authority and it explores the current arrangements and different options in an independent-minded way. We will have a chance to examine it next week.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: That the Minister of State has been here so often shows the depth of our interest and concern in matters that fall within his portfolio. This issue - mental health - is close to our hearts and comes up time and again. The Bill is a key example of the concrete action we can take to address this pressing issue. It is important that we hold onto that because there really is hope. We can do...

Committee on Public Petitions: Business of Joint Committee (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: We are in public session. Apologies have been received from Deputy Martin Heydon and the Chairman, Deputy Sean Sherlock. Members are requested to ensure that, for the duration of the meeting, their mobile phones are turned off completely or switched to airplane, safe or flight mode depending on the device. It is not sufficient for members to put their phones on silent mode as this...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, Ms Frances Spillane and Ms Patsy Carr. The next item is engagement with the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, on the discontinued mobility allowance and motorised transport schemes. Before we begin, I remind members, witnesses and persons in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones. I welcome everyone and thank them...

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister of State for his presentation. Deputy Dara Murphy has indicated and he will be followed by Deputy Cassells.

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I invite the Minister of State to respond.

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: There were questions relating to impact, numbers, and the most in need.

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Deputy Cassells had a question on the sense of the greatest need. Is he clear about the answer to that, and also the numbers estimates?

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: The issue of respite care has come up again, but it is probably not a matter for this committee, unfortunately.

Committee on Public Petitions: Discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Schemes: Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Oct 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I know where I would stand on it.