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Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Second Stage (29 Jan 2015)

Tom Shehan: Tuesday next at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Broadband Service Provision (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Shehan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I raise this matter to seek a date for the commencement of the provision of fibre-optic broadband infrastructure in County Kerry, specifically in Dingle. Public representatives have been heard complaining all the time that the IDA is not inviting potential foreign direct investors to Kerry or having site meetings there to attract foreign direct...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Broadband Service Provision (3 Feb 2015)

Tom Shehan: I thank the Minister. He has really grasped this area of the provision of broadband. It is great that we will have broadband in the first half of 2015, I believe, in Dingle. The Government's roll-out plan for the other rural areas will take anything up to two years. Can anything be done to expedite that? The rest of the country outside of urban areas will wait an additional two years...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Feb 2015)

Tom Shehan: I wish to ask the Leader the whereabouts of the Coroners Bill and when it can be expected in the House. This is one area that badly needs modernisation as it is an antiquated service or exercise. It needs to be made more humane. Could the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport come to the House to have a debate on road safety? There has been a significant change in the profile of road...

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Tom Shehan: The Senator should not believe everything he reads in the newspapers.

Seanad: Regulation of Lobbying Bill 2014: Committee Stage (5 Feb 2015)

Tom Shehan: The Senator should be querying it with the journalist who wrote it.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: Before I begin, I wish to confirm to the House that I understand the separation of powers between the Judiciary and the State. I call on the Leader to arrange an all-day debate on several matters. The first of those matters is sentencing. Some of the sentences handed down by members of the Judiciary are an absolute joke. The second matter to be discussed during the all-day debate I am...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: The case in question is in the public domain in any event.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: A couple from the part of the country in which I live travelled to Australia recently in order to visit their daughter. Both were very badly injured when they were involved in a car accident that involved one fatality. The person who caused the accident was incarcerated within seven weeks. If the accident had occurred in this country, it would not be dealt with by the courts in under two...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: I welcome the Minister to the House. I wish to speak about a case I have been dealing with for a number of years and it disturbs me every time it comes across my desk. In 2006, a young mother committed suicide and left two children after her, one aged 18 months and the other aged three years old. That day her sister went to collect those children in another province and brought them home....

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Brendan Howlin, to the House for a debate on recruitment in the public service. As many sectors in the public service are suffering, I do not have to name them. People know the sectors about which I am talking, but I want to make a case for one, in particular. Report after report and projections-----

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform should release funds for recruitment in the public sector. I will bring it down to the health service and make it parochial. We are always talking about how we can enhance our tourism product and, in fairness to the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, he has brought forward many initiatives. The trajectory in the tourism scheme is...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Deputy Heather Humphreys, has been trying to obtain funding, but we must direct this request to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform to make funding available to recruit staff. The Muckross House Visitor Centre has been closed for the past three years. If we are trying to build and grow our tourism product, that is not the way to...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (31 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: We will now take Second Stage of the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015. No. 4, a motion pursuant to section 23 of the Referendum Act 1994 on the proposal to amend the Constitution contained in the Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015,...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Aois Intofachta chun Oifig an Uachtaráin) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Age of Eligibility for Election to the Office of President) Bill 2015: Second Stage (31 Mar 2015)

Tom Shehan: Senator Keane, without interruption.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Tom Shehan: Contrary to what Senator Michael D'Arcy stated, it is welcome that €62 million has been allocated to County Kerry for the provision of social housing. That said, however, I seek a debate on housing, particularly in the context of what Senator Colm Burke said about expenditure. The funding to which Senator Michael D'Arcy and I refer is being allocated for new builds, long-term leasing...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2015)

Tom Shehan: There is a proposal in the offing to require farmers who are herd owners to publish their names and addresses and the amount of money being received from Europe in single farm payments. This is very dangerous and I have spoken to a lot of people in rural communities who are very fearful of it. This proposal raised its head a number of years ago but was dropped. I understand that the money...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Fishing Industry (16 Apr 2015)

Tom Shehan: Will the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine request the European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries to put into law a requirement that any member state’s fishing vessels entering or operating in another member state’s waters be required to inform that member state’s authority by phone, fax or ERRS, electronic recording and reporting system, of each...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Fishing Industry (16 Apr 2015)

Tom Shehan: I thank the Minister of State. I call on him to arrange a meeting with the Minister, Deputy Coveney, because the reply did not address my proposal. If it were introduced, be it through legislation or a directive, it would give the enforcement agencies such as the Naval Service and the Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, the knowledge and power they now lack. These vessels are owned...

Seanad: Valuation (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2012: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (16 Apr 2015)

Tom Shehan: During the whole debate in this House on this Bill, it was Senator Byrne who insisted there should be meetings between the interested parties. At the time, the Minister of State gave the commitment that there would be. Now Senator Byrne turns around claiming the Bill has been hanging around for too long and that, in some way, the Minister of State dragged his feet on it.