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Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: I do.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: The Senator has said that the people who pollute the ground with their septic tanks should not be prosecuted, but the people who pollute it through other methods should. I support the pollution Act but I support this Bill as well.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: What happened that the House failed to introduce the 1975 EU directive?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: That is a comment.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011 [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil]: Report and Final Stages (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: Ba mhaith liom fáilte a chur roimh an leasú seo. Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire as ucht glacadh leis. D'aontaigh mé leis nuair a chuir an Seanadóir Ó Clochartaigh é síos roimhe seo. Taispeánann sé an riachtanas atá leis an Seanad, os rud é gur ghlac an Aire leis an leasú. Good amendments can be made in the Seanad to Bills. I supported this amendment when it was put forward by...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: Amnesia.

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister and particularly his statement which will go down in history as setting the context for the reform of local government. The Minister has not yet made the announcement but in the context he has set I look forward to hearing it when it is made. I welcome Councillor Enda McGloin to the Chamber who is a member of the executive of LAMA and who was in the AV room last week...

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: It was an unnamed source.

Seanad: Local Government Reform: Statements, Questions and Answers (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: It is the principle of the thing.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister to the House. This is an important subject. It is World Energy Day. There is a display in Leinster House on what the Oireachtas has done for the heating system and the renewable energy used in the Houses. I commend all involved in that regard. Awareness about renewable energy has grown significantly in recent years and it is now universally recognised as being...

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: The Senator seems to have misinterpreted the proposal. Senator Tony Mulcahy will be happy to clarify it for him.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: There is such a thing as a smart community grid.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: The Senator should go down to Baltinglass and see what is being done there.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: More misinterpretation.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: I can guarantee the Senator it was written by the Members whose names are listed on the Order Paper.

Seanad: Renewable Energy: Motion (1 Feb 2012)

Caít Keane: The Senator is good at reading between the lines.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2012)

Caít Keane: I ask the Leader of the House to invite the Minister for Health to come to the House to make a statement on the current status of the Commission on Assisted Human Reproduction. That body was commissioned in 2005 and its members comprised eminent people under the chairpersonship of Professor Dervilla Donnelly. The report of the commission contained 35 recommendations and it was presented to...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Jan 2012)

Caít Keane: I ask the Leader to raise the issue of JobBridge with the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton. Certain sectors of society are disenfranchised and cannot apply for the JobBridge scheme, including the disabled, lone parents and widows. As employers can now push workplace placements into JobBridge, it further disenfranchises those sectors of society. If they want to do an internship...

Seanad: Water Services: Statements (25 Jan 2012)

Caít Keane: We all know the importance of water and the requirement to support economic growth. In Ireland, water is a valuable resource and we have the capacity, if we use it and do not abuse it, to position Ireland well in terms of competitiveness. We should never lose sight of that. We all know the €1.2 billion cost of water and ask whether it is being spent in the best possible way. I examined...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Jan 2012)

Caít Keane: I would like to say that we think of ourself as an innovating island, particularly when we look at the IT companies we have attracted to the shores. We have Facebook and Google, to name two of the big companies, as well as a number of smaller companies. We are about to introduce a statutory instrument to change a law that will affect all these companies. A previous speaker referred to...