Results 361-380 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I understand. However, there is recognition within the Act that it is possible that the adopting mother could die and there is no way of extending the adoptive leave to the father. Question, "That the words and figures proposed to be deleted stand.", put and declared carried.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 22: In page 7, to delete lines 49 and 50. This amendment relates to an adoptive parent who becomes ill while on leave. On return, such parents are no longer entitled to take the remainder of the adoptive leave due to them. This arises as a result of a lack of understanding, albeit not on the Minister of State's part, and I am surprised to find it in the Bill. If a mother...
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: So am I.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I have studied the debate on the Bill and a continuous trend runs through it at all times. The fact that a recommendation was made by the group which advised the Minister of State on the Bill does not necessarily make it right. No one is infallible. We are not the holders of all knowledge, which is what debating is all about. It is surely people's experience when they debate a matter. One...
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: It would go some way towards doing it. The Bill states "The employee shall cease to be entitled to any leave not by then taken." I want this deleted and the amendment would go some way towards doing so. The provision in the Bill is almost a virtual punishment. Some women who adopt children will become ill and will not take what they naturally would, such as disability benefit, in between the...
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: The Minister of State is correct in that the amendment would not have that effect but if the subsection were deleted, it would clearly be optional then.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Yes. As matters stand, and we have had this argument before, what is in the Bill will be applied and rightly so. This is what legislation is about. the new subsection (4) states: (a) The absence from work of the employee owing to sickness after the termination shall be treated in the same way as any other absence from work of the employee owing to sickness, and (b) the employee shall cease to...
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I clearly did not initiate this Bill. If the Minister of State agrees with what I am saying, he should amend it to ensure that what I am asking for happens.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Yes.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: The person might not have that choice.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Yes. It is compulsory.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: It is still available.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: We have a very clear law but it is unjust, which is not what the Minister of State wanted.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: It is unjust. To deprive someone of what they expected to have at the onset of a particular situation due to events they did not foresee and could not possibly control is unjust. A clear law is one matter but an unjust law is another matter entirely.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I move: That, in accordance with Standing Order 128(1), the Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 be recommitted in respect of amendment No. 23.
- Adoptive Leave Bill 2004 [Seanad] : Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage. (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Minister of State and his officials. The drafting of legislation is never easy and formulating answers to our opposition to most new legislation is equally difficult. One must be on top form and on one's toes. As the Minister of State said, this legislation is long overdue and will make life for people who form families by adopting children much easier. I wish each and every one...
- Written Answers — Transport Investment Plan: Transport Investment Plan (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 136: To ask the Minister for Transport, in the context of the ten year plan for transport, the traffic modelling work he has commissioned to review the impact on traffic volumes of not proceeding with infrastructure developments promised under A Platform for Change and which were built into the environmental impact statements of already committed or part completed projects such as...
- Written Answers — Road Safety: Road Safety (19 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 166: To ask the Minister for Transport his proposals to introduce a compulsory training scheme for motorbike users. [29067/05]
- Garda Operations. (20 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the period of time in which Operation Anvil has been in existence; the cost to date; the number of overtime hours worked by gardaÃ; if he proposes to extend the programme and if so, for what period and on what terms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29760/05]
- Written Answers — Prison Education Service: Prison Education Service (20 Oct 2005)
Kathleen Lynch: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform if his attention has been drawn to the recent report by the inspector of prisons that the training unit at Mountjoy should not be moved to the new Thornton Hall site in north Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29761/05]