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Seanad: Pregnancy Loss (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I commend Senators Ryan and Murray on introducing this Bill. I also suffered early miscarriage loss. As Senator Ryan said, every loss matters. No matter what the stage of one’s loss, it will place a physical, emotional and psychological trauma on one. Under the current system, women losing a child at under 23 weeks often find themselves having to return to work, many still...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2025: Second Stage (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I welcome the Minister. Fáilte, a Aire. Thankfully, at this stage, there is general society acceptance at all levels that bereavement and loss are not restricted to those who are formally and legally married but, as we have said here today, this was not always the case. This Bill is largely thanks to the campaigning work of Johnny O'Meara of Tipperary in highlighting the glaring...

Seanad: Post Office Network: Statements (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. I am delighted to be having this conversation and see there is such enthusiasm for this debate. All of us speak so warmly and fondly of the postal services because the post office network has traditionally played a special and significant role in all of Irish life, from before and after the foundation of our State. The local post office holds a...

Seanad: Transport Policy: Statements (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. I am going to return again to the matter of the western rail corridor and the other examples of significant underinvestment and neglect relating to the rail network in the west and north west. I will be echoing much of what Senator Duffy said. Most of these matters I have raised in one form or another since I have been in the Seanad and the transport...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: The witnesses are very welcome and I thank Ms Duggan for her opening address. I worked in a Tusla-commissioned service for many years and many of my closest friends work for Tusla or in a commissioned service. That is why I must talk about section 56 workers. We talk about restructuring. I worked in the Sligo-Leitrim home youth liaison service for 17 years. Many of us did. We called it...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Could we get a commitment that when organisations are putting in their budgets or estimated costs, they include an increment every year? My management team put in pay increases in theirs. Can we include that as part of the funding? That way, you could hold on to staff. People would stay in their jobs. It is an ageing workforce.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I will return to the issue of staffing. I have many friends who work in the areas of child protection or social care. I am talking about people who are either directly employed by Tusla as social workers, social carers or family support workers as well as those who provide the commissioned services. Staff are dealing with a lot of trauma. Every day they are working with people and...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That is very welcome. With commissioned services, often they are struggling on a tight budget. While there are fantastic managers, often they are not trained in therapeutic management, or even in reflective practice. It is about the therapeutic element and providing psychotherapy or counselling support for a lot of staff. Can the well-being of staff be factored in to annual budgets?...

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: That would be great.

Committee on Children and Equality: Engagement with Tusla (10 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Often, you are fighting a fire that you do not have time for. It is not factored in. I ask if that could be factored in as an essential part of the work day or work calendar.

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have learned so much from my time here and I thank all the witnesses for that. They have all mentioned that poverty often results from discrimination and inequality. Do they recommend the re-establishment of the Combat Poverty Agency? It dealt with issues such as low pay and all the structural inequalities that exist within society. Taking account of everything that we have discussed...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (8 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I thank the witnesses for coming in. My first question is about the long-term game. I understand the commercial element of it but, ideally, I would like to see the State being used. Dublin Fire Brigade was spoken about, and there are search and rescue missions and operations where I live, between sea and mountain rescue. I would love to see more advancement in technologies for monitoring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: Yes. I am referring the impact on jobs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport: Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: What about jobs? Will there be passenger drones? Is there any reference in the framework to the impact on the workforce or jobs?

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Infectious Diseases (15 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I have just spotted Keith Henry in the Visitors Gallery. There might be a Ballymote bunch here. Most people probably know that Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread through the bite of an infected tick. This is a potentially serious illness, but it can be prevented through a number of precautions. When Lyme disease is contracted, it can be treated with antibiotics if it...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Infectious Diseases (15 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I thank the Minister of State for his response. Could I get a commitment that all local authorities will be obliged to put up signs? Some have. Kilkenny County Council is bringing it onstream as well. The long-term side-effects are so detrimental and it is something that can be prevented with a bit of awareness. For example, there are signs in Cork. There is a Lyme Resource Centre....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I also want to offer my support to my colleagues on the motion on Gaza. I commend Senator McDowell on bringing it forward. I have spoken a lot here over the last couple of months about breast density. During the week, I received the following communication from a constituent, which I will read out: Dear Nessa, I am a 51-year-old woman who was recently called for my first mammogram,...

Seanad: Sport: Statements (16 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: We have all said it here today that sport is at the heart of every community in Ireland, both rural and urban. There is a GAA club with a presence in nearly every parish on our island of Ireland, as well as in the UK, Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australasia, Asia and every continent of the world inhabited by humans where there are people who have Irish roots or identify with their Irish...

Committee on Children and Equality: General Scheme of the Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Jul 2025)

Nessa Cosgrove: I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending and for their briefing documents. Many of my questions have already been asked. I welcome the impact of change in the claims under unfair dismissals and equality legislation. There is a person I am currently working with for whom this came up, so this is welcome. It has been mentioned that people find accessing the WRC and their...