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Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: Like previous Senators I welcome Ms McGuinness to the House. Given that her contribution focused heavily on agriculture, what work she would do with her Six County MEP colleagues to achieve the best deal for Irish agriculture and the Irish agrifood industry throughout the island? Ms McGuinness spoke about food labelling, and substantial transformation holds that a product originates in the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Courts Service Review (30 Jan 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The Courts Service is embarking on a detailed evaluation of District Court locations and in County Cavan specifically, it is looking at Virginia and Ballyconnell. In the event of a decision to close either of these venues, business will be moved to Cavan town. I believe there were approximately 240 District Curt venues when the Courts Service...

Seanad: Private Rented Sector: Statements (6 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House. I live in rented accommodation. I am fortunate that I have had a very good relationship with my landlord. I have not had any problems with him. It is a very professional relationship but I know not everyone is fortunate to have that kind of relationship. Along with other Members I spend a good deal of my time doing constituency work with people who...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (6 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I raise a point in terms of section 6(2) on the separation of powers between the Executive and the Judiciary and whether it is possible for the Legislature to put a stay on pending cases. The Minister has just mentioned that the Attorney General has stamped a copy of the legislation but in terms of precedent, the 1947 case Buckley v. Attorney General related to a disputed set of funds from...

Seanad: Future of Further Education and Training: Statements (20 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I join colleagues in welcoming the Minister of State to the Seanad for this important debate on the future of further education and training. We all know that investment in education and training is vital for the economy and society. It is even more important during a time of recession to address people's skills deficits and to improve their employability so as to empower them to move from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Future of Ireland and the European Union: Discussion (21 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I thank our guests for their presentations. One of the concerns regarding economic and monetary union is that it created specific difficulties for smaller member states. In the context of monetary policy, interest rates were set with the economic performance of large member states in mind. During the early years of the euro when the German economy was sluggish, ECB interest rates were kept...

Seanad: Ireland's Presidency of the European Council: Statements (26 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The theme of the Irish Presidency is stability, jobs and growth. I would like first to focus on the European Commission economic winter forecast and the statement therein that the eurozone is expected to remain in recession, with a 0.3% contraction in 2013, which is disheartening. Words such as "sluggish, weak, vulnerable, modest and fragile"...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Free Travel Scheme Eligibility (26 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter on the Adjournment. I have raised it because a replacement bus service for west Cavan has recently discovered that it cannot accept free bus passes, as the service will be considered a new applicant. Local representatives and residents are arguing that the route does not necessarily constitute a new application, as a different company is...

Seanad: Taxi Regulation Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I move amendment No. 42: In page 35, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following subsection: ?(13) Where an application is made by the person referred to in subsection (11) to the appropriate court, the appropriate court in making any determination whether to refuse the application, shall have regard to the terms and objectives of the Good Friday Agreement, namely, the reintegration of...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Emer Costello, MEP (28 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I join my colleagues in welcoming Ms Costello to the House. It is apt that we are discussing employment and social inclusion this week following the agreement that has been reached on the youth guarantee at today's EPSCO meeting. EUROSTAT released interesting statistics earlier this week relating to social inclusion. The economic crisis, which has stripped away many social welfare rights,...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Youth Services (28 Feb 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank him for taking this motion. The debate is timely given the publication earlier this week of EUROSTAT data on poverty and social exclusion and the recent circular about funding from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs to youth organisations. Irish children and working age adults are more at risk of poverty or social exclusion than any...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I will not go into the legislation in detail given that we do not have enough time to debate it. We have tabled substantive amendments for Committee and Report Stages but we know we probably will not reach all of those with only 45 minutes allocated for the debate on the Remaining Stages. Last December we saw the previous Bill rushed through the Oireachtas in a shameful way. There is a...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: It is its tax. It was negotiated by it with the troika, and it was included in its 2012 pre-budget submission.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: It was included in the National Recovery Plan 2011-2014. Now that Fianna Fáil sees the strength of the opposition to it, it pretends to oppose it but everyone knows, based on what they have seen in the past, that if Fianna Fáil was in government it would be imposing this unfair tax on struggling homeowners.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: Shame on the Labour Party and Fine Gael Senators for supporting this legislation and breaking their promise on the property tax.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: Shame on them for punishing struggling homeowners. Sinn Féin has said we will repeal this legislation and publish legislation to give effect to that. It is up to TDs to support that legislation in the other House when we introduce it. Mention was made earlier of what is happening in the North in terms of rates, and Sinn Féin was accused of hypocrisy in opposing the introduction of a...

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: When we get political power we will happily examine ways to raise additional revenue.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: I thank the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: The difference between this Government and the Executive in the North is that we keep our promises.

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Mar 2013)

Kathryn Reilly: In 2011, the Government promised not to increase the tax burden on struggling families. We see clearly that promise is broken. That is what we are here to demonstrate. We will publish our repeal Bill. There is no amending the fact that this is a fundamentally bad tax. We have shown that alternatives exist but the Government has turned its back on discussion and is only interested in...