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Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: With due respect to Mr. Mulligan, I do not think one can compare a bank with a soap powder manufacturer.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On page 7 of his contribution Mr. Mulhall said, "Throughout this period in RTE news we were just reporting what was happening." Would it be reasonable to say that RTE was not ever simply reporting but that the language that might be used in a report, the pictures used, the duration of the report and the position in the bulletin and that those things had a hand, act and part in how any report...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: May I clarify an issue? When Mr. Mulhall talked about the run on the banks story a little earlier, I think he said he stood by his editorial position but said if they wanted to send the Financial Regulator on the programme that was okay. Did I understand that correctly? I was not quite clear on that.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: How was that not being influenced by the Minister, if Mr. Ed Mulhall then said to the Minister, "Yes, absolutely, Minister if you need it we will let them."?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is why I am asking.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Sorry, in the interests of clarity, was it the Minister who suggested the Financial Regulator or Mr. Ed Mulhall?

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Rather than RTE say it. That is what I am trying to get at.

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Context Phase (26 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank Mr. Mulhall.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I wish to make one remark and one correction to something Senator Walsh said. All children need love, preferably from loving parents, and to have as many people as possible in their lives who can love them. The sex of the parent or parents makes no difference in their capacity to love and care for a child.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: You know that it is true.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Senator Bacik has asked me to put on record an important correction. Senator Mullen suggested that-----

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I beg your pardon, Acting Chairman. He is not but present, but I cannot see behind me. It was suggested that the Hague Convention does not permit single people to adopt. It does in fact permit single people to adopt, and there have been a number of inter-country adoptions in Ireland by sole adoptees. It is important to correct the record.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: The Senator should also state who paid for them because that is relevant.

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (27 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: On a point of order, the observation made by Senator Jim Walsh on ICCL should be withdrawn, as it is absolutely untrue. Regardless of whether he ought to get back to the amendment, it is untrue.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I support Senator Ivana Bacik in her call for a debate on the issue of domestic violence. We were struck last week by the detail of the murder trial that was ongoing which was indicative of what we did not know about people's lives. Nevertheless, we do know about domestic violence. Many people suffer in silence or behind closed doors, but we are aware of the matter which has been raised in...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: I welcome the Minister and apologise for being elsewhere, blessed with a toothache at the time. I appreciate that the Minister has a rather mixed bag of portfolios which make great demands on his time. However, the Polska Éire event is an example of the way he has managed to marry parts of the new community and a cultural event thereby breaking down the silos that sometimes exist, not...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: We do love sausages. Perhaps there is an opportunity to extend the food part because it is genuinely a place for people to go, particularly for people who do not like football, if I can say that in a whisper-----

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: -----and who may not feel able to engage at the cultural level. Food is a basic thing but such events allow people to come forward, and they have a strong part to play. The Minister has spent a good deal of the afternoon engaging with the oversight committee on the question of direct provision. That work is ongoing, and I know the Minister is constrained in what he can say until the...

Seanad: National Integration Strategy: Motion (1 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is the one thing I would urge. Whatever else the Minister of State may set out to achieve, taking the report and making it happen will be something that he has our support for and it is something I would like to see. I am grateful to him for his support of the Yeats 2015 celebration. It would be remiss of me not to mention Yeats. As much as he can talk about football, I can talk...

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis: Nexus Phase (22 Apr 2015)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thanks Chair. Good morning gentlemen. I'd like if I might open by asking you to cast your minds back to the days and weeks when you first saw what those bad loans were that you'd taken on, because obviously as time passes you sort of create a new ... a new sense of them. But if you can cast your minds back, you were if you like the citizens tasked with looking at these. You had a huge...