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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Enterprise Ireland Annual Report 2012: Discussion with Enterprise Ireland (23 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will try to do so but Senator Cullinane is not the easiest man in the world for whom to substitute. I echo the sentiments expressed and wish Mr. Ryan luck in whatever he turns his hand to. I thank him for his great work and for his presentation. I will be a bit parochial today. If people went to Galway today where the Arts Festival is taking place, they might think the place was...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ach an oiread le mo chomhghleacaithe, ba mhaith liom fíor chaoin fáilte a chur roimh an Seanadóir Hildegarde Naughton. Tá a ceapachán suntasach ar chúpla bealach, is bean í, is Gaillimheach í agus is Gaeilgeoir í. Tá mé cinnte go mbeidh sí ag tacú linn ó thaobh chur chun cinn na Gaeilge. I note the importance that the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I thank the Minister. I am glad more detailed statistics will be available. Does the Minister accept, on behalf of the Minister for Justice and Equality, that the system was set up as almost a short-term solution to a situation and that it is totally unacceptable that 1,849 people in this system have been waiting more than five years for their applications to be dealt with? We must address...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire. Táim buíoch dó as ucht fanacht anseo don díospóireacht seo ar an Athló. I am again raising the issue of direct provision. I have raised it before on numerous occasions from different perspectives. It would be good at this stage to get an update from the Minister for Justice and Equality on the 53 direct provision...

Seanad: Membership of Committees: Motion (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: A Chathaoirligh, faoi Ordú 62(3)(b), ba mhaith liom go dtógfaí an vóta ar bhealach eile seachas ar bhealach leictreonach. Iarraim vóta siúil.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What about all the people emigrating?

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Senator brings out the best in us.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: More likely he stuffed them.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I ask the Leader to call on the Minister for Health to ask HIQA to initiate an immediate review of hospital procedures regarding CJD in light of the discovery that potentially CJD-infected instruments were used on patients at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin. It is important that this be done. In light of the BAI report on public service broadcasting, I ask the Leader to arrange for the Minister...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Official Languages Act (18 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I am concerned with part of the answer that indicates that due to budgetary constraints any State body is allowed not to implement the law of the land. The Official Languages Act is the law of the land, whether we like it or not. I cannot think of any other law that any semi-State body would be allowed or ordered not to implement because of budgetary constraints. The use of the phrase...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Official Languages Act (18 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as ucht teacht anseo. Tá aiféala orm é a choinneáil ó Shligeach. I apologise for keeping the Minister of State away from Sligo. I raise an issue that was brought to my attention recently. The Official Languages Act, which has been in place since 2003, places obligations on semi-State bodies and Departments to introduce...

Seanad: Courts and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (18 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We do not have any particular issue with any of the amendments that have been put forward. A number of the amendments we tabled had been ruled out. A long debate took place on Second and Committee Stages on the accreditation of journalists who would appear in a court. We have very good contributions from Senators Jillian van Turnhout and Ivana Bacik on the use of notes from people who had...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tacaím le cuid mhaith den mhéid a bhí á rá ag an Seanadóir Ó Murchú maidir le Sráid Uí Mhórdha. What is important on the issue of Moore Street is that the Minister, as indicated yesterday, meet with the 1916 relatives' group as soon as possible to discuss the development of the site in an appropriate manner. It will also bring to the...

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Second Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Tá cuid mhaith de na pointí a bhí le déanamh déanta cheana féin. Tacaím le cuid mhaith den mhéid atá ráite. Is maith an rud é go bhfuilimid ag smaoineamh an bealach céanna. It is unfortunate that we are taking all stages of the Bill tonight. When so much forward planning has gone...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Although I commend the logic of the Fianna Fáil amendment, I liken it to putting an Elastoplast on the hull of the Titanic as it went down. The mortgage crisis is much bigger than this Government admits. Listening to the debates on this Bill I get a sense that the Government is totally out of touch with the mortgage crisis, the 190,000 households that are in mortgage distress, the one...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. A cháirde, seasaim anseo inniu os bhúr gcomhair le mo thacaíocht a thabhairt don reachtaíocht fíor thábhachtach seo. Fáiltím roimh an deis mo smaointe i leith na reachtaíochta seo a chur in iúl. Tá cuid mhaith daoine ag rá gur cóir an díospóireacht seo a...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (15 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Gabhaim míle buíochas leis an Aire Stáit as bheith anseo linn. Coincidentally the Minister of State was present when I raised a similar issue previously on the payments relating to direct provision. I have forwarded, as part of my question, a receipt that a person who is in direct provision gets from the Department of Social Protection. The question is around the figures....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Direct Provision System (15 Jul 2013)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I gather that the figure of €186 is a factious amount and that €166.90 is not handed over to any third party. The basic social welfare allowance of €186 is the mechanism used to pay a person in direct provision and that a technical deduction is made of €166.90 which does not go anywhere. I take it that is the issue. I am not sure if we can get the Minister of...

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Not agreed.

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

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I generally agree with what has been said. It is good that Senator O'Donovan notes that there was a kind of consensus between the banks and Fianna Fáil when it was in government. However, that is just being followed through with this Government. There is a very cosy relationship with the banks which are being given preferential treatment. It is a disgrace that the Government has not...