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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Not at all. The students are very welcome. I probably could not even count the number of times Senator Craughwell and I have spoken about search and rescue here. For the past number of months, he and I have attempted to get the tender process he has, to be fair to him, been aggrieved about for the past number of years on the work programme of the Oireachtas committee. We have invited in...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (5 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders relative to Public Business, the Seanad on its rising on Thursday, 5th October, 2023, shall adjourn until 11.30 a.m. on Tuesday, 10th October, 2023, and the following arrangements shall apply: (a) Commencement matters shall be taken at 11.30 a.m.; (b) Standing Order 30 shall stand suspended; (c) The Order of Business shall be...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare (Dogs) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (5 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I thank colleagues for affording me the few minutes to speak today. We have one dog at home. She is a goldendoodle, and she came from Wexford. As she was a little ball of red fluff when we got her - she was supposed to stay a little ball of red fluff - we called her Rua. She is now about 4 ft tall and has a tail that can only be described as a weapon of mass destruction. One would be...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: As I do not have a speaking slot on the budget later, I will comment on it briefly. I commend our negotiating team. It looks like a thoughtful budget. We have all known about the cost-of-living crisis for the past 18 months. The budget continues to support people exactly where it needs to, not only through increases in weekly payments to people who have no other income, but also through...

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I would like to say thanks to the Minister but what she has read out is not acceptable, not to me and not to this Seanad. Shane O'Farrell was killed when he was out on his bike. He was cycling training on 2 August 2011, and Zigimantas Gridziuska, a convicted criminal who we let walk into this country with no checks or balances whatsoever, knocked him down in his car and callously drove...

Seanad: Final Report of the Independent Scoping Exercise into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Mr. Shane O'Farrell: Statements (17 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I thank all the contributors. I agree with the sentiments being expressed. This is really exciting. It is wonderful to see Ireland on the map on an international level talking about the future opportunities in transport, particularly from a green perspective, and for us to be at the very centre of it. My question will sound petty but I do not mean it to be. The four-day event, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Research Arena Event in April 2024: Discussion (18 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I do not think I have ever been looking forward to a conference as much as this one. I am new to this and I only joined the transport committee at Christmas. It is such an interesting topic, notwithstanding my moaning, and it is obviously a very fast-moving industry. It is very exciting, particularly with the opportunities that we have to change the way we use energy and to change for the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Today I wish to talk about swimming because in north County Dublin we are blessed with some of the best beaches in the whole country but for the two fastest-growing constituencies of Fingal East and Fingal West there is a massive population but not a single swimming pool for more than 100,000 people. The issue has been raised on numerous occasions here by me and elsewhere by our local...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Now.

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Now.

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (25 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Minister. This is as relevant to my party as it is to the parties of all colleagues. The partnership that exists between Young Fine Gael, members of which are in the Gallery today, and the little bit older Fine Gael that exists in the Seanad has made for an incredible relationship over recent years. This Bill passing is the outcome of the campaign conducted by Young Fine Gael...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding proposed approval by Seanad Éireann of a proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing minimum standards on the rights, supports and protections of victims of crime, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; and No. 2 the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) (Cap on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I know the Senator thinks I think that.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I thank Senator Ahearn for asking for the debate on sports capital grants because it is something that is very important to all of us and to our local councillors up and down the country. We all know the value of our local sporting organisations. I suggest the problem the Senator has in Clonmel is probably replicated in various parts of the country. In my neck of the woods, we have an...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: It is true of everybody. It is actually quite worrying to hear the Dublin Airport Authority, DAA, talking about managing the cap in the middle of October as if we are going to somehow ration travel in the next eight or ten weeks before Christmas. That debate certainly will be welcome and I will request it as quickly as I can. Senator McGahon raised the very important work that Outcomers...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: If the Senator texts me, I will talk to the Minister for Education and the Secretary General in the Department to see if there is anything. These things are never as clear as they seem but, whatever is wrong, it would be a shame to see a company that is only new in the last couple of years and doing well to be in trouble because the State will not pay its bills. I will come back to the Senator.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: Senator Gallagher spoke of his joy at the 50-year celebration today of the Holy Family School, Cootehill, which caters for 182 kids. The school has gone from strength to strength and is in a brand new state-of-the-art building, which is nothing less than they deserve. We send them our good wishes. Senator Wall asked for statements on housing, particularly the housing adaptation grants and...

Seanad: EU Directives: Motion (26 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following...