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- Seanad: Housing Provision: Statements (30 Jan 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No-----
- Seanad: Housing for Elderly People: Motion (30 Jan 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy English. We are very lucky that the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, as well as the Minister of State have come to the House today. It is a good day because we have had a robust debate on housing. At the end of the day, we are here for the good of the people, including those who need houses. We may all have...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Fianna Fáil cannot be blamed for everything.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Fine Gael-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are being respectful but-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I support my colleagues who have spoken on the costs of the national children's hospital. It has been a talking point all weekend. A lot has been left untold and we are getting leaks of information here and there. There is no accountability.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Nobody wants to take responsibility. There are capital projects in my own area, such as the Holy Angels school for children with disabilities, which has been waiting for 40 years for funding to move its children out of prefabs. Will it get the funding this year or will it be one of the projects that will be left again for another 20 years without being done?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: For three years there has been no overnight respite in Carlow. While we are told that the preparations for it are nearly finished, there are problems as to whether there will be bus services, how many nights it will be open or what will happen in the long term. What will be the effect of this? It is unacceptable that the Taoiseach and Ministers launch and relaunch projects all the time but...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Hear, hear. It is.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I wish I did.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am sorry, Leader-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are not out of order.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: He said we are scaremongering. We are not scaremongering. He is confusing people.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: There are 10,000 people homeless.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: What about Irish Water, rural Ireland-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: He is not responding.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I want to talk about the Revenue Commissioners and the new system for PAYE workers, namely, real time reporting, RTR, which was introduced at the beginning of this year. This is the most significant change to the PAYE system since its introduction in the 1960s but already an issue has arisen regarding teachers. Last month, an end date was incorrectly applied by the Department of Education...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: -----and we will keep working and looking after them.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Feb 2019)
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: What are we to do about Brexit? Are we to do what the Senator's colleagues did up in the North?