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Seanad: Consumer Protection (Regulation of Credit Servicing Firms) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (2 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: I will be brief. Likewise, I thank the Minister. On a point of clarification, is the legislative retrospective to loans that have already been taken over? What the Minister said was that loans would from now on be covered by this legislation and the owners of the loans would be covered. Under the code of conduct, is it right and correct and proper that they have consistently refused to...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: I listened to Senator Darragh O'Brien. He makes some sense-----

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: -----but I would query his confidence in the process that TLAC goes through. I understand the Bill will come back to the House on Tuesday next. Senator Darragh O'Brien makes valid points which the Minister of State is taking on board but one has to have confidence in TLAC, its procedures and the way it works. I suppose I have to come clean. I am a member of the commission and I would hope...

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: The other point that comes to mind on this issue is that this is being done, in essence, for the purposes of transparency, clarity and openness. It is an open process but, realistically, few people will leave the private sector to come in here to do the job that needs to be done.

Seanad: Houses of the Oireachtas (Appointments to Certain Offices) Bill 2014: Second Stage (15 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: The Senator seems to know how it works.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (16 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: There is a need for the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government to recognise the additional workload county councillors have since the enactment of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 and to carry out a survey of all councillors, in conjunction with their representative bodies, to ascertain how these changes have affected their personal, professional and public lives. I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Members' Remuneration (16 Jul 2015)

Tom Shehan: I thank the Minister of State for the reply. I have been in discussion with the Minister. I understood that he could not be here this morning but he did want to be here. I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter on the Minister's behalf. This issue is not about money. Councillors need other supports. When we say councillors are working between 30 and 40 hours that includes...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Sep 2015)

Tom Shehan: Is it possible to bring to the House the Minister for Health to debate the HSE's recruitment of nurses from abroad? The HSE is in Britain and further afield trying to entice nurses back to the health service here by offering them inducements. I call for a debate because hundreds of people in this country left the nursing profession for various reasons, such as raising families. They are...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: I welcome the Minister of State. When the Fine Gael-Labour Party coalition took office in 2011, we all knew the state of the State's accounts and that austerity was ahead. At the time, I appealed to the Government to maintain compassion at all costs. I have previously raised the issue of the provision of primary medical certificates to people with Down's syndrome, and I recognised that it...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Services for People with Disabilities (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: I thank the Minister of State for delivering the response. As she said, this is only the beginning. The ball has only been thrown in by me here today now. I see no reason that the qualifying criteria cannot be expanded to encapsulate and include Down's syndrome. I know people in each category of the qualifying criteria who have driving licences and can drive. People with Down's syndrome...

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: That is very good, Senator, but this section is about the business of the advisory council.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: Amendment No. 25 is in the name of Senator Sean Barrett.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: Amendments Nos. 26 and 27 are related, amendment No. 27 is a physical alternative to amendment No. 26, and they may be discussed together by agreement. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: As amendment No. 33 and amendments Nos. 35 to 38, inclusive, are cognate, they may be discussed together.

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: When is it proposed to take Report Stage?

Seanad: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: I welcome the Minister to the House. He is a frequent visitor and is the one Minister who will always provide great clarity. I will turn first to the Haddington Road agreement. Fine Gael believes that the Lansdowne Road agreement strikes an appropriate balance between the legitimate aspirations of public servants for pay recovery while ensuring sufficient resources for tax cuts for all...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: On Thursday, 26 November.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Autism Awareness (26 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: I welcome my fellow county man, the Minister of State, Deputy Jimmy Deenihan, to the Seanad. I raise the need for the Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for primary care, social care, disabilities and older people, and mental health to introduce Ireland's first ever national autism awareness week from 1 April to 8 April 2016 and to have Ireland's first...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Autism Awareness (26 Nov 2015)

Tom Shehan: I thank Deputy Deenihan for his reply on behalf of the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. I am quite disappointed that she does not feel there is a need to introduce a specific national autism awareness week. Why is that the case? We want to highlight autism and it would be of no cost to the State or Department. I believe strongly that we should have a...