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Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I wish to share time with Senator Conway.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister of State. This is an important subject. The Minister for Social Protection outlined the importance that the Government placed on youth unemployment and unemployment generally. Unemployment has been the Government's main focus since entering office, as demonstrated by the Action Plan for Jobs and our strong economic activity. The Government has managed to stabilise...

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Exactly. That is why I am saying this. I tell the truth in politics and, unlike you when you stand up and ask why we have lost jobs, I am prepared to explain why.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I am prepared to acknowledge the truth.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Senator Wilson was criticising this Government for having lost all of the jobs. I am taking half of the blame for being a part of the last Government, which lost all of the jobs,-----

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: -----particularly in the construction industry.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: He does not tell lies. I did not say that he did, but that I was acknowledging the facts.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: "You do not acknowledge the facts" differs from "You are telling lies".

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I will withdraw my statement that the Senator does not acknowledge the facts.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: The facts speak for themselves.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: The people acknowledged the facts the last time out.

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I have wasted my three minutes. Senator Conway, might I-----

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I will return to the important business of youth unemployment. The Minister, Deputy Burton, outlined the size of the problem, but it is being tackled by the Government. I congratulate the Minister on the EU initiative that is being advanced. She said much about it. Unemployment is being tackled on an EU-wide basis. As it is such an important issue, the Irish Presidency of the EU has made...

Seanad: Youth Unemployment: Motion (12 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I wasted time. The figures will speak for themselves. I hope that Senator Conway will address them.

Seanad: Hospital Services: Statements (13 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire chuig an Teach seo le haghaidh an díospóireacht an-tábhachtach atá ar bun againn inniu. I am speaking today on behalf of my party's health spokesperson, Senator Colm Burke, who cannot be here today and who sends his apologies. I commend the Minister for Health on the launch of the report on hospital groupings. The Minister has signalled...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. The Bill amends section 31(5) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 and I will not go through the technical detail of the amendments and deletions it makes as the Minister of State has already done so. I welcome this legislation, the primary objective of which is to achieve a level of harmonisation of local authority rents at...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: Next Thursday.

Seanad: Public Service Management (Recruitment and Appointments) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I also welcome the Minister. The Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland was set up pursuant to the Good Friday Agreement signed in Belfast in 1998. We are all familiar with the Patten report published by the commission in 1999 which contained 175 recommendations, nine of which related specifically to transfers between the Garda Síochána and the PSNI, with a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Garda-PSNI Transfers (18 Jun 2013)

Caít Keane: I have a few questions for the Minister. Occasionally members of An Garda Síochána have gone to work with international organisations such as the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. In these cases the members resigned with an option to reapply to An Garda Síochána when they had completed their work. Is the position similar for Garda members who...