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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...just dabbled in the stock market and I was lucky enough to have made a serious amount of money. I cannot understand why the ICMSA is opposed to any further increase in the capital gains tax rate. Does it mean purely on farm gains or just generally? Similarly, why should there be no further reductions in the CAT tax free thresholds for gifts and inheritances? Irish society has been very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...years to 25 years when it comes to income supports. It is offensive to young people in Ireland that those over the age of 18 are deemed to be different from others who are unemployed in the labour market. Does Mr. Doorley have any comment on that? It is also of great concern that in other areas, such as rent supplement and local authority social housing, it is being suggested, for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Sep 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ..., going back to some of the overall comments, it seems that we need to move outside the box completely. Perhaps what we should be considering is something like a minimum income system that does not deflect from those who are either making a choice to stay at home - for the sake of argument, if they wish to be with their children - or re-entering the work force. In this way, everybody,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...there is less emphasis on the need for a stimulus package and more on how to use existing taxation and VAT structures to stimulate investment. While this is not part of IBEC's submission, does it have any thoughts on how the money should be spent were the Government to engage in a €1.5 billion investment package as TASC suggested this morning? I was interested in the reasonable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Overview of 2014 Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (11 Sep 2013)

Aideen Hayden: .... In particular, I compliment Social Justice Ireland for the excellent briefing material it provided. Starting with TASC, I note that it is proposing an investment of €1.5 billion but it does not go into detail on how it sees that money being invested. I am thinking in particular about how we might stimulate the domestic economy. We need to ring-fence that investment in order...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...argument, is born to a drug addict in one of our Dublin hospitals is in the same position and needs the same care as a child who may be born because there is a threat to the life of the mother. It does not matter how the child comes into the world; the State's responsibility is the same. Either that child is cared for by parents who are capable of caring for it or the State cares for it....

Seanad: Special Olympics Ireland: Motion (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: .... Special Olympics fosters inclusion in our society. We live in a society which, whether we like it or not, is deeply divided. It is not just divided for those who suffer from disability, which does not involve disability but rather a different form of ability. People are excluded financially or because they live in certain parts of towns and villages. They are excluded for economic...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: If the Leas-Chathaoirleach does not mind, I will carry on with my point.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Why does Senator Ó Domhnaill not stick to it?

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...as I do not want to go beyond the Pale here - Strumpet City in that these people do not matter as far as our lending institutions are concerned. It is important to recognise the idea of home. It does not matter whether one lives in a principal private residence, social housing or rented housing. A home is a home and the way people are treated should reflect that. Will the Minister...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...it is national and its product is variable, as resources are not sufficient for a distressed borrower who must approach a lender offering a debt solution or even before that point. Such a lender does not have anybody to bat for them who has legal advice and accountancy expertise. Where is the person to put the lender in the same ring with the lender? When I studied law I was taught...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: .... John B. Keane wrote The Fieldand it is a bit of a cliché but the truth is that it matters to Irish people. They do not default easily. I will not support the Fianna Fáil amendment, although that does not mean I do not have sympathy with it, as I do. The Minister has the option of delaying the implementation of this legislation and I want to see how the personal insolvency...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...it will limit those seeking terminations. It will give reassurance to women in Ireland that medical professionals can put their best interests first. I regret, as many other speakers have said, that this legislation does not go further. We have failed Irish women, in particular in the area of fatal foetal abnormalities. However, that is a matter for another day. The serious threat to a...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...importance of the principal family home. I have made this point on a number of occasions and it is worth making again. The Governor of the Central Bank, Professor Honohan, has indicated that he does not foresee many principal private residences being repossessed. However, one in five families is living in a rented home and in Dublin it is one in three. There is a very significant...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...contributions were excellent. It is sad to think, when one considers the many column inches that are given in the newspapers today to the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill, that the Seanad does not feature at all. The reality is that when the aforementioned Bill comes before this House next week, there will be more column inches devoted to which Senators on which side of the House...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Second Stage (9 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: This Bill is viewed with concern by many for whom I have the deepest of respect as part of a wider strategy to permit easier repossessions, coming as it does on foot of the revised mortgage arrears resolution process, which appears to place lenders in an even stronger position than heretofore. Well-respected organisations such as the Free Legal Advice Centres, FLAC, have stated that the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...It proposed a number of solutions that were subsequently adopted by the Government and made a positive contribution. I am aware that I am up against the clock. Having had the experience of sitting in this Chamber, it does a very valuable job that cannot be lightly cast aside. With the confidence in the system as it currently stands, with a lack of a significant local government element...

Seanad: An Bille um an Dara Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Deireadh a Chur le Seanad Éireann) 2013: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-second Amendment of the Constitution (Abolition of Seanad Éireann) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Jun 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...It proposed a number of solutions that were subsequently adopted by the Government and made a positive contribution. I am aware that I am up against the clock. Having had the experience of sitting in this Chamber, it does a very valuable job that cannot be lightly cast aside. With the confidence in the system as it currently stands, with a lack of a significant local government element...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jun 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...sole custody in order that the children will be housed with that parent. As it is a human right for children to have a full family relationship with both parents, that means that the parent who does not have sole custody needs accommodation where the child can spend the weekend with that parent and not, as happens, outside what would be regarded as a proper family home. I ask the Leader...

Seanad: Housing (Amendment) Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2013)

Aideen Hayden: ...Minister of State's statement that she will legislate for a new tenant purchase scheme along the lines of the incremental purchase scheme. One of the benefits of incremental purchase is that it does not necessarily relate to the dwelling a person is in. The beauty is that a tenant who is receiving social housing supports, through the housing assistance payment or the rental accommodation...