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Seanad: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: On Tuesday next, 29 September 2015.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (29 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: I call on the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the Department's review of the post-primary school places that will be required from 2017 onwards, specifically concerning Newbridge and south Kildare. When is it expected that the review will be completed? A colleague of mine asked me to raise this issue. Today, we will announce the Government's capital spending plans...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (29 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: I thank the Minister for that comprehensive response. My only question, which I doubt the Minister will be able to answer, is how he defines the word "shortly" when it comes to the report being compiled? Is it today, this month or this decade? That word is vague in terms of an answer, but I appreciate the comprehensive nature of the rest of the information in the reply.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: I support Senator Mary White in her comments and general campaign on inheritance tax. It is something about which I spoke previously. In fairness to Senator Mary White, she highlights how effective the Opposition can be in her campaign on the issue. She had a very good meeting on it and has got a great deal of publicity - fair play to her. It is not uniquely a Dublin issue, as it affects...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: I commend Senators Crown, Barrett and Power for this Bill. I welcome the Minister to the House. The situation referred to by Senator Moloney sounds like double punishment to me; marriage and then lack of a pension. I support the Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015. It seems nonsensical to have public servants in the areas of law and politics, and in other areas, who can work until they are...

Seanad: Longer Healthy Living Bill 2015: Second Stage (30 Sep 2015)

Catherine Noone: At 10.30 tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the Minister and her official to the House and thank them for all their work on this very important legislation. I welcome those in the Gallery who are involved in this area, in particular John Cunningham, the chair of the Immigrant Council of Ireland. They are all very welcome. As a strong advocate for the welfare and well-being of children, I strongly welcome this Bill which,...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: Yes. Exactly-----

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: I will try to continue.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: I will try to continue.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 2015: Second Stage (6 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: Over the last two decades child pornography and online grooming, in particular, have become increasingly widespread both at a national and international level. As such, I am particularly encouraged that this Bill includes two new offences that target online sexual predators so as to protect children from exploitation by way of new technologies, including social media. This Bill includes...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: The Healthy Ireland survey conducted by the Department of Health was released yesterday. More than 7,000 households were included in the survey. It shows there has been somewhat of a plateau when it comes to obesity and that 60% of people are still overweight. It found that four in ten men do not get enough exercise. The most commonly desired lifestyle change is that people wish to be...

Seanad: Order of Business (14 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the measures in the budget. From the point of view of jobs and small businesses, it was a great budget. Every sector of society was positively helped, particularly in the area of health. As Senator Burke mentioned, GP care for the under 12s is a great move. I welcome the extra nurses and extra investment generally in the respite grant and so on. There are two areas I wish to...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Oct 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the rounding to be introduced for one and two cent coins from 28 October. There is an awareness campaign running. There was a successful trial held in Wexford in 2013 and 85% of participants were satisfied. As I said previously when I called for this to happen, people tend to hoard one cent coins because they do not want to carry them. Therefore, I welcome the development. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I support my colleague, Senator Mullins, in his call to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality here to discuss the recently announced Operation Thor and other recent positive announcements by the Department. Although there is a major problem with burglaries, I have a feeling it is being somewhat overplayed and the very negative incidents that occur throughout the country are less frequent...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: A penknife, if one has some use for a penknife, or a Stanley knife, if one is a handyman. If there is no justifiable reason for a person having a knife, it would be a popular move among the public that there would be a mandatory sentence for carrying a knife. Until we start to take really tough measures such as this-----

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I am looking for a debate. I join my colleague, Senator Mullins, in looking for the Minister to come to the House for a wide-ranging debate in this area. It is welcome that she has been proactive in recent months on this issue. We need to highlight the positive moves that have been made but we also need to work further on the issue of the safety of citizens.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Forensic Science Ireland (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. She will see that the motion reads that there is "the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the position regarding the provision of a purpose-built forensic science laboratory on the previously identified site in Kildare following her correspondence to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality in this regard." I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Forensic Science Ireland (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I thank the Minister of State. It is not fair to press her on it, because she will not be familiar with the ins and outs of the project, but there is not much news in this for me, in that it will be, on the face of it, 2019 before construction actually begins. The money seems to be there in the new capital programme and I welcome that, but really I am none the wiser. I will correspond with...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I join Senators Bacik and Mullins in extending my sympathy to Gillian and Ronan Treacy, the parents of Ciarán. We are all appalled by Ciarán's needless death.I join Senator Bacik in mentioning Judge Keenan Johnson, who spoke very eloquently and sensitively about this matter. He imposed as strong a sentence as we might have expected in this country but there is a need to go towards...