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Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 13:In page 10, between lines 39 and 40, to insert the following:"(iii) the Water Framework Directive,". This Bill proposes to insert a new section 31S into the Planning and Development Act 2000. The new section provides for various policies, objectives and requirements to which the regulator must have regard. This list already includes a number of EU directives. The...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: When I consulted Green Party councillors on this Bill, they recommended that these amendments should be proposed. Like Senator Humphreys, I do not see a problem with naming specific directives in order to strengthen the Bill. I would like to hear the Minister's reaction to that.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I withdraw it.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I take the Minister of State's response in good faith. If all these directives are implicit in the Bill, I am happy to withdraw these amendments.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: Based on what the Minister of State has said, I will withdraw the amendments and bring them to Report Stage.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Reports on Homelessness: Discussion (14 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: This is one of the most fruitful and beneficial meetings of the joint committee that I have attended. It is very useful to have an evidence based report and I note also that we are already discussing what we, as legislators, can do to advance some of the issues under discussion. Does Focus Ireland intend carrying out an analysis in other counties? Can the findings of the report be...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I wish to raise the recently announced public consultation on the British Government's plan to develop a new reactor at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, England. Like my colleagues in the Civil Engagement group, I came to the Seanad from the world of activism. In my case it was ten years on Greenpeace ships combatting nuclear weapons and nuclear waste in the Pacific,...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I move amendment No. 4:In page 11, to delete lines 17 to 20 and substitute the following:“(2) A technological university shall be allowed to describe itself as a technological university. The Minister, with the consent of the governing authority of a technological university, may by order specify a name, other than the name specified in the order under section 36, by which the...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: The Bill is unclear in respect of whether technological universities will be allowed to use the word "university" in their titles. It is clearly the Minister's intention that these new institutions can have the certainty to be able to market themselves as technological universities. The legislation should give effect to the Minister's intentions. Without this amendment, future Ministers...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I remind the Senator that the title "university" means a lot to people. It is a great entitlement for those who have spent many years going through a university to have that recognition. It might be all very well for the Senator, having had the opportunity to go to university, to be able to say-----

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: Many have aspired to reach university standard and are very proud of that fact. That is why the title is so important.

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I accept what the Minister of State said. I recognise that some institutions have been named in unsympathetic or unsuitable ways. It would be best to have it written into the legislation. I accept the Minister of State's point that there would have to be agreement between the Minister of the day who might not be the current incumbent and the institution concerned. In good faith, I will...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (21 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I cosigned this amendment. I support Senator Norris and have to say that the amendment is better worded than that which I brought through on Committee Stage. The institutions in question have an existing ethos and it is worth exploring it. The report that led to the founding of regional technical colleges, RTCs, in 1967, the Mulcahy report, is the North Star of these institutions.It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I will follow on from what Senator Paudie Coffey said. Mr. Grant addressed in particular communities and the public interest. Because there is a history with the brand of Irish Water, I emphasise that whatever financial efficiencies are being made throughout the company, resources must be put into ensuring the public will receive every service possible. I understand the hotline is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Irish Water: Discussion (22 Feb 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: On providing information to the public, it is really good when graphics, video, etc., are used as they are easily accessible by everyone, the young and the older.

Seanad: Foreign Affairs: Statements (Resumed) (7 Mar 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I take this opportunity to welcome the Minister back to the Seanad and to raise a number of issues in the areas of foreign affairs and trade with which my group and my party are concerned. Two weeks ago, the Minister's former Department opened a public consultation on the plans for a new nuclear reactor at the Hinkley Point plant in Somerset in the United Kingdom. I raised the issue of the...

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. Like the previous Senator, I will indulge a little in discussing my own region of Tramore.

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (7 Mar 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I will take the opportunity to talk about Tramore, Waterford and the south east. In that regard, there is a lot to like in the published plan with Waterford being recognised as the capital of the south east and as an urban centre with huge potential for job creation. The north quays strategic development zone regeneration project offers the prospect of a serious injection of new life into...

Seanad: Flooding: Statements (Resumed) (8 Mar 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: To refer to the expression that time and tide wait for no man; tide, time and climate change will wait for no man, woman or human being on this planet. My party's stance on the issue of planning and construction on flood plains is well known to the Minister and State and others so I will not labour it too much today. However, I do think it bears repeating that any approach to flood...

Seanad: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Mar 2018)

Grace O'Sullivan: I second the amendment.