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- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: So we will have statements compliant with the Act.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: That is grand. The clarity is that there will be further statements that will comply with the 2015 Act.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: When I hear Senator Buttimer state that there are no climate change deniers, I wonder that he does not look more closely at his party and its record over the past three budgets. Senator Lombard stated that he welcomed the seven line Ministers to the House. They have to come here because they are obliged to do so under the relevant legislation. The Government has not honoured the Climate...
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I know the Leas-Chathaoirleach is in a difficult position-----
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: -----and that he needs to protect the Government so I will sit down at this stage.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: However, I very clearly state our disappointment at the coach and four this Government is driving through what I thought was decent legislation enacted in 2015. It is totally despicable.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I have. I have been here.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: We are talking about Government action, not about the actions of farmers. They are custodians of the environment. I accept that.
- Seanad: Annual National Transition Statement on Climate Action and Low Carbon Development: Statements (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: We can adjourn the debate.
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I thank the Minister for her comments on the situation at Grafton College. I attended the protest yesterday evening and many of the teachers had never had any direct involvement with the social protection services. Will the Department provide an official to give them solid advice over the coming days to ensure they get their entitlements? It is a short period between now and Christmas....
- Seanad: Employment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (4 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Everybody knows what Senator Ruane wants to do and we are all supportive of that, including the Minister. I accept the Minister's commitment in that regard, which I believe she will honour if at all possible. I understand that she cannot put it into legislation but could she give a commitment on Report Stage that, for example, the WRC would be commissioned to carry out a review on it within...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I echo Senator Boyhan's complaint about the fact that this House was treated with contempt yesterday in the context of the Climate Action and Low-Carbon Development Act 2015. That Act clearly states that Ministers are to be held to account by both Houses of the Oireachtas. The Ministers clearly failed in their statutory duty yesterday. They lined up in the seats beside the Public Gallery,...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Again.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Hear, hear.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: Rather than oppose the Order of Business, I seek clarity from the Cathaoirleach or the Deputy Leader on the proposals concerning the debate on climate change. I asked for the legislation to be honoured not only by the letter but by the spirit of it. The legislation was passed in 2015, which means we take a whole-of-Government response. What happened yesterday evening was a disgrace. I ask...
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: That was a disgrace.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: It was a disgrace.
- Seanad: Order of Business (5 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: What mechanism is open to Seanad Members in regard to the enforcement of the 2015 Act? Is it open to us to make an official complaint to you, a Chathaoirligh, or to a committee of this House on what happened here yesterday evening?
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: I welcome that the Dáil voted through the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018 last night and that it will be coming to the House this afternoon. At the forefront of my mind in debating the Bill is the responsibility we have to the citizens that voted overwhelmingly in the referendum that the legislation should go through and that we should deal with it in a timely...
- Seanad: Order of Business (6 Dec 2018)
Kevin Humphreys: If An Bord Pleanála makes a decision on the issue we will get 350 units, because that is all the current legislation allows for. An Bord Pleanála has no other option than to make a decision on that basis. In all conscience, I cannot allow a situation whereby the 550 units would not go ahead. They are to be part of the affordable rental scheme and possibly the rent-to-buy scheme....