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Seanad: Budget Statement 2006: Motion (6 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: Transport 22 will be coming along shortly.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: The Donegal Bar Association, which represents a majority of solicitors in Donegal, has highlighted a significant backlog of cases in the Donegal District Court and the Circuit Court for the northern area. Many of these cases would relate to family law, such as separation and divorce cases. There are examples of a three-year waiting list. This call comes with a backdrop of the population of...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: It is up to the farmer to trim the hedgerow.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: Will the Leader provide clarification on charges for long-term psychiatric patients in residential units? As far as I am aware, some patients have been notified that they have to make payments dating back to July 2005. The Leader need not necessarily reply today. Many young men and women operate at the coalface of the fight against crime, and are engaged in taking on the crimelords. It is...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments. (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Batt O'Keeffe. I acknowledge the presence in the Distinguished Visitors Gallery of the Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture and Food, Deputy Brendan Smith, to whom this matter will be of interest. This issue relates to the Donegal Bar Association's call for the...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments. (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: I thank the Minister of State for his response but it is evident that there is no will to change the situation. Extra judges are deployed to Donegal and there are extra sittings but these will not solve the problem, clear the backlog or relieve the trauma experienced by many clients in family law cases. Who is responsible for this? On the one hand, the Bar Council says it needs extra...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments. (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: How many of those nine will be assigned to the northern circuit?

Seanad: Judicial Appointments. (14 Dec 2006)

Joe McHugh: The Minister of State should not be getting up on his high horse. No extra judges are going to Donegal.

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: I echo the remarks of my colleague Senator Finucane. We had a meeting with HSE officials for one and a half hours this morning and, to say the least, we noted a lot of anger and frustration on the part of politicians across the political divide. One official acknowledged that the parliamentary questions facility for Deputies in the Dáil has collapsed. This is very serious in terms of...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: I appreciate Senator White's ongoing efforts concerning ageism, including the paper she produced on that subject. She should also try to highlight an anomaly with respect to people with disabilities. When one reaches the age of 65, one is not entitled to a motorised transport car grant, which is discrimination against people in that age group. I wish to refer to health carers working...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: They do not get the motorised transport grant.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: They are not entitled to it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: I wish to raise some issues in an all-Ireland context, or, more accurately, in a cross-Border context. The Leader might raise them with the Minister for Education and Science. An anomaly exists in respect of postal votes, whereby a few students from County Donegal who attend the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and Queen's University, Belfast, have been informed they are not entitled to...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: They are not entitled to postal votes for a general election. For example, a person from Carrickart who attends University College Cork is entitled to a postal vote, while someone from Buncrana who attends the University of Ulster at Magee College, which is ten minutes across the Border, is not so entitled. This anomaly could be cleared up if it was brought to the Minister's attention. The...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: Members need to look at the capacity of communities, villages and towns along the Border. Although such communities are working on their local area plans and are being proactive at a local level, they are disintegrating into two communities. Two groups of people live side by side.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: They are not interacting or working at an intercommunity level because they live in one jurisdiction and go to school in another and it is not coming together. Working with communities on both sides of the Border, a formula or map is required as to how capacity can be built in places——

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: ——such as Newtowncunningham, Killea, Carrigans, Muff and Quigley's Point. Senator Maurice Hayes will agree that——

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: ——a community in which people simply sleep is undesirable. People should contribute to that community and involve themselves in it.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: Moreover they should be part of that community.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 Feb 2007)

Joe McHugh: I am delighted to have had an opportunity to debate the issue a little. Yes, a major debate is needed.