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Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Catherine Noone: Why make a big deal out of it then?

Seanad: Legal Services Regulation Bill 2011: Report Stage (Resumed) (1 Dec 2015)

Catherine Noone: Come on. This is getting-----

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. I raise the need for him to clarify the issue of a second year of free preschool care for a child who already has received his or her first year of free preschool care. I have met a number of people who had children who were almost four but had missed the cut-off date to enable them to attend school. As they already had participated in the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I agree wholeheartedly with the final paragraph of the Minister's response. There is no question that the recent budgetary change represents a major improvement for children. The specific point in the matter I raise relates to the fact that one of the particular children whose parents I spoke to will start school next September. The child is already in a second preschool year. It appears...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Early Childhood Care and Education (25 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I accept what the Minister said. I appreciate where he is coming from but it does not really answer my question about the children who have a potential second year that was not intended before they go to school. I gather that the cut-off point is the crux of the issue for the child in question. I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Tax Credits (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I also thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to take this Commencement matter which concerns the need for the Minister for Finance to outline the current position on the home carer tax credit, the number of people in receipt of same and if there are plans to reform it. As the Minister of State is probably aware, the home carer tax credit is outlined as being available to a...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Tax Credits (24 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I thank the Minister of State for the reply, which is adequate and answered what I asked. On a positive note, I know the figure we have is from 2013, but it states that in 2015, the Revenue relief automatically applied to 81,000 and previously in 2013 some 82,500 families availed of it. Clearly, only a very small number of people do not have to actively look for it. It would be interesting...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: This week RTE's "Prime Time" programme was on an important investigation into new drugs that are currently legal due to the Misuse of Drugs Act being outdated. I was surprised to learn that the Garda cannot pursue a prosecution for the sale and possession of many of these so-called legal highs. We urgently need to update the Misuse of Drugs Act to quash the new drugs emerging on the market....

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I join colleagues in wishing the former Senator, Jimmy Harte, well with is recovery. I also wish the former Senator's family well. Jimmy Harte is a gentleman and a nice colleague. We will miss him. I trust his family will pass on our regards. I welcome Senator Cahill and wish her well. I think she will be a positive voice in the Seanad. She certainly has something new - arising out of...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: Of course they are.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the announcement today of 300 new jobs in Dublin at the recruitment website, Indeed.com. I also welcome the 1,000 new jobs for Cork. It is ridiculous to suggest the Government has not had some role to play in the creation of these jobs. If we were not creating jobs and were still haemorrhaging jobs at the rate which applied when we took over, we would be facing criticism for...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: -----it is a hell of an improvement on where we were when we took over and it is an own goal for Fianna Fáil to make statements like that. The Dublin City Development Plan-----

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: The Dublin City Development Plan 2016-2022 is currently being prepared. I know I will get feedback on this but I will be calling on Dublin City Council and the other three Dublin authorities to consider the implementation of a no-fry zone. Chip shops near schools are targeting children with value deals after school or during the school lunch break. We have a serious obesity crisis....

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: We all know that hotels in Dublin have become very expensive. We have been hearing that across the board. I read with interest in the past few days that the journalist, Billy Keane, suggested hotels sign a pledge not to increase prices for certain events in this city. We are in the process of recovering from the crash. Hotels obviously suffered during it but no one benefits in the short...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: The Minister for Finance, Deputy Noonan, gave what was really a warning to Dublin hotels in the budget. One does not need to be the Minister for Finance to see that hotels are overcharging in Dublin on an ordinary day in many cases. However, when there is a special event on in the city, they seem to really go for it. Billy Keane's idea is a good one and I agree with it. It would be good...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Forensic Science Ireland (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. She will see that the motion reads that there is "the need for the Minister for Justice and Equality to outline the position regarding the provision of a purpose-built forensic science laboratory on the previously identified site in Kildare following her correspondence to the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality in this regard." I...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Forensic Science Ireland (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I thank the Minister of State. It is not fair to press her on it, because she will not be familiar with the ins and outs of the project, but there is not much news in this for me, in that it will be, on the face of it, 2019 before construction actually begins. The money seems to be there in the new capital programme and I welcome that, but really I am none the wiser. I will correspond with...

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I join Senators Bacik and Mullins in extending my sympathy to Gillian and Ronan Treacy, the parents of Ciarán. We are all appalled by Ciarán's needless death.I join Senator Bacik in mentioning Judge Keenan Johnson, who spoke very eloquently and sensitively about this matter. He imposed as strong a sentence as we might have expected in this country but there is a need to go towards...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: I support my colleague, Senator Mullins, in his call to ask the Minister for Justice and Equality here to discuss the recently announced Operation Thor and other recent positive announcements by the Department. Although there is a major problem with burglaries, I have a feeling it is being somewhat overplayed and the very negative incidents that occur throughout the country are less frequent...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Nov 2015)

Catherine Noone: A penknife, if one has some use for a penknife, or a Stanley knife, if one is a handyman. If there is no justifiable reason for a person having a knife, it would be a popular move among the public that there would be a mandatory sentence for carrying a knife. Until we start to take really tough measures such as this-----