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Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: That is an inquiry we can make.

Committee on Public Petitions: Decisions on Public Petitions Received (6 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: All of those responses and recommendations have been agreed. There is no further business.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 2:In page 88, line 3, to delete “Dáil Éireann” and substitute “both Houses of the Oireachtas”.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: This recommendation is simple. It proposes that the promised report on a vacant and derelict property tax be laid before both Houses of the Oireachtas and not just Dáil Éireann. As a matter of good practice when reports like this are produced they should be presented to all Members of the Oireachtas. Senators may remember that in February last I seconded the Derelict and Vacant...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (12 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am disappointed by the lack of urgency I am hearing from the Minister of State. At a time when people are perishing on the streets because they do not have access to houses, we are talking about a report on a tax, rather than something that will bring properties into use. I am disappointed that the Minister of State does not seem to consider it important to bring the report in question to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Professor Joyce O'Connor, Dr. Brendan O'Shea, Dr. John O'Brien and Dr. Brian Osborne, who have various titles and accomplishments. It seems to me that the pyramid that Professor Joyce O'Connor presented needs to be turned on its head, which we can do in our report. We often start either here or there when what we need to do is turn it on its head. That is where most people are and...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I wish a happy new year to the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, and to all the Members of the House. I warmly and wholeheartedly endorse the committee's report and all the recommendations it contains. Sadly, crisis pregnancies are an everyday reality for women in Ireland. It is something we have to face up to. So far the debate in the Houses has been characterised by kindness,...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I have waited for 35 years and I am almost finished.

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Motherhood, when it came, freely chosen by me, has been the very best role I have ever had, by far. My daughter is here tonight. It has been exhilarating, exhausting, exciting and joyous. My daughter and my son have given me so many challenges, as well as learning and love. When I think of my lovely daughter, now a young woman, I see in her the attributes of someone who would be a...

Seanad: Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Repealing the eighth amendment to the Constitution is a start to making Ireland that kind of country for women a reality; a reality denied to so many of us for so long. The question before us is not about whether we think abortion is right or wrong. The question is whether that decision should be left up to the woman with the advice and support of her doctor to hand. I truly believe it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Mr. Reaney and myself worked together around disability issues in a previous life. It is nice to meet Ms Gleeson. The briefing was really clear - the main document and its appendices - so I thank the witnesses for that. I also welcome the ethos around recovery and co-production which they have outlined. It is important to have principles and values guiding decisions. I live in CHO area...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: That is good to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I asked about the services for those aged under 65. That is the issue.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: No, for people with dementia. There is a significant number of people who fall through the cracks because they do not fit in to the silos.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: With regard to the CAMHS waiting list, where would CHO 4 like to be at the end of the year? If Mr. Reaney cannot answer that today, I ask that he forward the information to the committee in writing because it would be helpful for us to know. In terms of the increasing rate of homelessness and the crisis in that regard that all present know exists, to what extent have the services provided by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: If Mr. Reaney writes to the committee in that regard, it will be able to support that initiative.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I propose to share time with Senator Grace O'Sullivan. Despite what the Minister of State has said and the efforts he has outlined, the Irish housing system is broken. It is broken for the 3,079 children living in emergency accommodation. It is broken for the hundreds of people with leave to remain but who are still stuck in direct provision centres because of the lack of housing. It is...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Good. I am glad to hear that and it is on the record.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: We can have Government radicalism and rethinking about housing. I set out some of my ideas in an article I wrote that was published by the Institute of housing last year. I will leave a copy for the Minister of State. We urgently need an activist and interventionist Government like we had before. We also need Government to make the right interventions. There were some €400 million...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: They were out-----