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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise about that. I am on the campus and, hopefully, am secure in making a contribution. I thank the gentlemen for their contributions. The information is very pertinent to what we are doing. I have two brief questions and then a matter for consideration. What is the status of the drafting of the heads of the Bill-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I refer to the incapacitated pensions legislation. Are we at draft heads stage yet? If not, when can we expect to see them? My second question is around Judge Catherine Murphy's report on child maintenance. Despite the long delay in receiving the report due to Covid - Judge Murphy worked very hard during the Covid pandemic to try to get the report to us - the fact that it has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise. In the programme for Government, we established that we were going to bring forward an incapacitated parents' pension payment for all those parents who, at a very early stage in their working lives, might give birth to a baby who would need lifelong caring. Therefore, their capacity to even reach the ten-year threshold was never going to be met. It is now being assigned as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise for interrupting again. It appears to me, from the details published a number of weeks ago, that when a woman is not working, her pension payments are not being made by herself, by the State or by her employer, which is perpetuating the situation we have with regard to the current contributory State pension when women do not work for years. To date, and before the new model is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: No. I am good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I have been listening all morning. I am concerned about this issue. I said to the Taoiseach, when he appeared before the committee a couple of weeks ago, that it is a bizarre situation when a brand-new policy that is 20 years in the making will continue to perpetuate a pension pay gap, as obvious as the nose on our face, that exists with the current State contributory pension. We need to...

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

Regina Doherty: I welcome the group to the Gallery and it is lovely to see smiling faces. The Order of Business is No.1, motion regarding the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022, referral to committee, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate.

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

Regina Doherty: I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach and my colleagues for their contributions. It is lovely to see a large multinational being ethically responsible to their own communities; we all know we rely on them for jobs, investment and corporation tax, among others. The most impressive thing Senator Maria Byrne said this morning was about employees going out and working in the communities. That is...

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

Regina Doherty: I also will accept the amendment to the Order of Business.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (10 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That the proposal that Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022, a copy of which has been laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 2nd November, 2022, be referred to the Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, in accordance with Standing Order 71(2)(b),...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 4) Regulations 2022: Referral to Joint Committee (10 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: Before I answer, can I ask something on a point of order? I am not disagreeing that it is the Standing Orders but how are Members supposed to accept an amendment to the Order of Business to introduce a Bill when they have no idea what the Bill is?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: Change the law.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: No, change Irish law. It is that simple.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise Chair.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank colleagues for allowing me to come in today to speak on an industry that it very important to me in north County Dublin. I thank the Minister of State for attending today because she is not the only person responsible for fixing this but she sits at the Cabinet table with officials from the other two Departments who are responsible. Therefore collectively, the three Departments have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: To respond, I assume from the answer the Senator has given that she has not asked or had discussions with her own colleagues about drafting primary legislation to make the consent a single process as opposed to a dual process. Changing the law might have challenges but it certainly would be an action to show the industry we are trying to do something to alleviate the problems it has. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: By all accounts it has. It cannot be extracted and the Minister of State knows that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: None and we all know it. That is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: There is none I said.