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Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: As the Bill is on Committee Stage in the Seanad, it cannot be sent to the select committee. It must complete this Stage before it goes anywhere. The committee has the power to recall the Bill if it wishes. The very most on offer with regard to my power today is a suspension of the debate to allow the hearings that are taking place to finish. We can come back and pick up proceedings from...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I can hear the Minister's frustration and she has spoken about the extensive engagement that has occurred between officials in the Department, the Irish Aviation Authority and all of us as well as IALPA. The biggest problem is that although there might have been ten Zoom meetings, there is no listening going on. There is not one iota of an acceptance of what is being asked for by the people...

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I propose, notwithstanding the order of the House today, the debate on No. 2 be now adjourned.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the Fisheries (Commercial Fishing Licences) (Alteration of Duties and Fees) Order 2022, back from committee, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion regarding the Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022, referral to committee, to be taken on conclusion of No. 1, without...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank my colleagues for the range of topics raised today. First of all, I join with colleagues and offer, on all our behalf, our condolences to our colleague, Senator Jerry Buttimer, whose daddy passed away last Wednesday and was buried on Friday. He was a remarkable man. It is not surprising when one sees the fine people Jerry, John, William and Mary are. They did not lick it from the...

Seanad: Fisheries (Commercial Fishing Licences) (Alteration of Duties and Fees) Order 2022: Motion (8 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Order in draft: Fisheries (Commercial Fishing Licences) (Alteration of Duties and Fees) Order 2022, copies of which were laid before Seanad Éireann on 17th January, 2022.

Seanad: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Motion (8 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That the proposal that Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022 a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 3rd February, 2022, be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in accordance with Standing Order 71(2)(b), which, not...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (9 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Minister for her attendance. What is distinctly unique about this Bill is not that it is the first Bill to pass all Stages in the Seanad in this Government, but that it is probably going to pass unanimously. It would be courageous if we all could work collectively together on issues we agree on, without me taking credit, someone else taking credit, or the Sinn Féin Party...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: Today's Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the address to Seanad Éireann by MEPs representing the European Parliament South constituency, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; and No. 2, Private Members' business, Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 1.15 p.m. and to adjourn after two...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank Senators for their comments. Senators McGahon and Dolan spoke about the home energy scheme announced this week and it really is a momentous amount of money being reinvested. It is taxpayers' money and it belongs to all citizens but it is about reinvestment in citizens' lives and making their homes much warmer, cosier and a less costly place in which to live. I am old enough to...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament: Motion (10 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That, in accordance with Standing Order 57(1) and the approval of the Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight, Seanad Éireann agrees that, in respect of the European Parliament South Constituency, Ms. Deirdre Clune MEP, Mr. Billy Kelleher MEP, Mr. Seán Kelly MEP, Ms. Grace O’Sullivan MEP and Mr. Mick Wallace MEP, may attend and be heard in Seanad...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: Today's Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the approval of the appointment of a member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority, to be taken on the conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion regarding Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022, back from committee, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1, without debate; No. 3,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: While Senator Black did not raise the issue this afternoon, I have the date she sought. It is in the diary with a date in the next couple of weeks. I thank Senator Black for seconding the amendment to the Order of Business. Unfortunately, I will not be in a position to accept it as the recommendations have to go through today. Both Senators Black and Fitzpatrick raised the Women’s...

Seanad: Legal Services Regulatory Authority: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That Seanad Éireann, noting that the Government agreed on 7th December, 2021, to propose, for the approval of Seanad Éireann, Síona Ryan to be a member of the Legal Services Regulatory Authority on the nomination of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, and pursuant to section 9 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015, approves the appointment by the...

Seanad: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022: Motion (15 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act (Exempted Development) Regulations 2022, a revised copy of which has been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 11th February, 2022.”

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I find myself in the very unusual position of agreeing with Senator Gavan, even though we both know our ideologies are very different. I am a former Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection. This is a Government Bill and I very much support and welcome it, but I find myself recently being at odds with the Government over what is absent from the Bill. What we are attempting to...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: The section in itself is entirely based on recompensing the people whose businesses we are closing, but I am far more worried about the 35 or 36 people who are losing their jobs because the State is intervening. We have a responsibility to make sure those people are compensated for the jobs we are closing down. We also have an absolute obligation to make sure we reskill and retrain them,...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I ask the Minister of State to confirm, because I am not sure if I heard her correctly, that she intends to come back with an amendment relating to the statutory redundancy but that she does not intend to bring it to the Seanad. She intends to bring it to the Dáil in a couple of months. Is that what she said?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: I am glad I clarified that. Can I confirm that the Department is considering tabling its own amendment with regard to statutory redundancy and the Minister of State will bring it back, either on Committee Stage the next time we resume or on Report Stage before the completion of this legislation in the Seanad?

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Feb 2022)

Regina Doherty: On the basis that the Minister of State has agreed with some of the suggestions that have been made tonight and given that we will finish in a few minutes anyway, it would be better if we did not let section 4 stand part of the Bill. That would give the Minister of State and Members the opportunity to put amendments down to section 4 when we resume on Committee Stage either next week or the...