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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I will not detain the Minister much longer, other than to make one or two minor observations. The Minister noted that the 2011 comprehensive review of expenditure was undertaken at the height of the storm. This current review is being undertaken against a very different backdrop. This shows the limits of this type of planning process in that a planning process is only as good as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I said "may not be in office". To what extent could they be perceived by the public as being undemocratic in so far as they attempt to remove expenditure options for potential future governments? I am a supporter of evidence-based research and policy analysis. However, in regard to the extent to which evidence-based policy analysis and research determines what amounts or proportions are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: If I heard correctly, the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government also made substantial savings. This is another Department with considerable needs. What process is in place to ensure the money allocated is actually spent? If it is not spent, the question arises of how efficient the process really is. In regard to more recent developments, in 2008 capital...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Comprehensive Expenditure Report 2015-2017: Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform (28 Jan 2015)

Aideen Hayden: On behalf of the committee, I thank the Minister and his officials for participating in the meeting. Deputy Sean Fleming asked for some supplementary information.

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I also raise the issue of the loss of the ferry service from Dún Laoghaire. I thank Senators Norris and Mooney for raising it. It is "Dunleary" to the people living there and I have lived there since I was 12. I used to listen to the sound of the foghorn from the boat as I went to sleep at night. It is a very sad day for people living in the area. I point out the work done by some...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: The facilities and infrastructure were not put in to preserve the service. We now have a very good and modern building, which came from the resources of the people in Dún Laoghaire, but we have no ferry service. Not to put too fine a tooth in it but the ferry service in Dún Laoghaire was neglected not just by Stena but by successive Governments which did not put in the roads...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: -----marina for the rich. The bottom line is that the ferry service was bringing in much-needed resources to the Dún Laoghaire Harbour Company and it was critical to the infrastructure of Dún Laoghaire which has suffered a lot of poverty and neglect. The establishment of the task force is critical. I ask the Leader to bring the matter to the attention of the Minister, Deputy...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I move: That Seanad Éireann: - notes that one in five households in Ireland now lives in the private rented sector; - further notes that approximately one third of all private rented households receive State support to pay their rent under the rent supplement scheme; - notes with concern the difficulties that households are experiencing in maintaining and accessing private rented...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: The Minister of State's comment to the effect that no party has a monopoly on wisdom in the context of housing is appropriate. Numerous Governments over many years have made very positive advances in the context of housing. In fact, the very first Cumann na nGaedhal Government in 1922 introduced the £million plan, which was the first extensive social housing programme of the Free State...

Seanad: Private Rental Sector: Motion (11 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I accept the point brought forward in the counter motion and the Minister of State has dealt with it to some extent. Regarding Senator Craughwell's amendment, he knows my commitment to rent regulation. I have to accept the Minister of State's commitment to examine every measure and I am committed to making sure that he does so.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I was also taken aback this morning to see the front pages of the newspapers and Willie Walsh coming out with a very gung ho attitude, saying that he was following this Government into the trenches in terms of our shares in Aer Lingus. On the question of whether the Labour Party favours the sale of the State's shares in Aer Lingus, it is a Government decision, but a number of senior Labour...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: An eminent economist from the ESRI-----

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: -----was the first person to highlight this issue and for all that he may have not noticed, he got a great deal right. Perhaps that cannot go on the record, but it is worth noting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I thank the witnesses for attending here today. As a number of other people have said, it is of major importance to Ireland not just from a practical point of view but also from an emotional point of view in that the UK is our closest neighbour and we have a very significant and extensive shared history. Let us say the euro continues to be under severe pressure and eventually collapses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (12 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: If that is the case, the question is not "Who cares?" but "Who cares more?"

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I have a number of observations to make. Mr. Aiken made an interesting point that we are not that important in this debate from the UK's point of view. In fact, giving us some of the historic preferential new tariffs, or no tariffs at all, might be against the interests of regional Britain. In terms of rational expectations, the witnesses all seem to be agreed that there will be some...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I wish to give my apologies. I will read the replies in the transcript.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: Like my colleague, Senator Bacik, I welcome the announcement of the availability of €300 million, co-funded by the European Investment Bank and the Housing Finance Agency, to the voluntary housing sector for the delivery of approximately 2,000 additional units. We all will be aware of the difficult situation we are in at present, with almost 90,000 households on the housing waiting...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: There is a need for a change in the way in which our local area partnerships are being funded.There was a protest yesterday outside the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government in which some 300 community workers and their unions, SIPTU and IMPACT, protested about this issue. I have raised it with a couple of political colleagues and noted it has very much gone under the...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Feb 2015)

Aideen Hayden: I agree with Senator Darragh O'Brien in regard to the procurement issue. The issue is not so much about SMEs but about micro-businesses, in particular where unreasonable requirements are being placed on them, such as insurance requirements and turnover requirements, in bidding for State, semi-State or local authority contracts, or any contract backed by State support. Such a debate would be...