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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I thank the Chairman. I echo his thanks to the witnesses for their patience. Somebody else raised the matter of the numbers that ought to be available and I had in fact asked whether IBEC had the numbers. I do not think Mr. O'Sullivan came back to me with any figures. I was arguing with Mr. O'Sullivan about the Rights Commission hearing. Does Mr. O'Sullivan have the figures for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Thank you. We have seen how SUSI was clearly set up in good faith to make that system better. I am not saying the Department's system is the same but sometimes when people start bringing things together and amalgamating them with language about making it better or world-class, some things that were there get lost in the rush of enthusiasm that takes over. I would be very concerned, as the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Like other members, I thank Mr. John O'Sullivan for attending today. I can only imagine the perseverance and the effort on his part. I know what it takes to pit oneself against the expertise of everyone else. Many people who have lost their job have probably never heard of the EAT and the apparatus around it. Those who face it can lose their confidence in the system when jargon and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Employment Appeals Tribunal: Public Petition No. P00027/12 (18 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I apologise, but there is a vote in the Seanad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Reform of Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy: Discussion with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Like Deputy Martin Ferris, I would appreciate clarification on the consultation process. People will approach us. I appreciate that the Minister wants to consult in phases, but the early autumn deadline for Pillar 1 is short. If he has a date in mind, it would be easier for us not to misguide people on when the moment will pass. The Minister stated that the sugar issue would be a purely...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: On a point of order-----

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

Susan O'Keeffe: On a point of order and through the Chair-----

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

Susan O'Keeffe: As a member of the Joint Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions to which the Ombudsman made the report, I can tell the Senator that what he said is absolutely and categorically untrue. The Department of Health-----

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

Susan O'Keeffe: It is a point of information or clarification. What the Senator is saying is not true.

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

Susan O'Keeffe: I thought I could make a point of information.

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

Susan O'Keeffe: So Senator Cullinane can say what he likes but I am not allowed to.

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

Susan O'Keeffe: This sunny evening in July is a good moment to talk about something we all appreciate, although we often do not realise how much we appreciate it. It is hard to find words to thank the people who have been involved in Special Olympics, as Senator Eamonn Coghlan said, some for many years but particularly in the past ten years as the movement has built up and become ingrained in our...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: I concur with Senators Burke and Bacik in regard to the constitutionality of this Bill and that were we to try to amend it to include fatal foetal abnormality, we might find ourselves back where we do not wish to be. This is a moment when a kind of common sense applies. We have heard the stories and have seen the courage of the women who have come forward to tell their stories and we...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Like many others, I am disappointed, concerned and shocked by the refusal of the religious orders to put their hands in their pockets to contribute to the scheme of compensation for survivors of the Magdalen laundries. I urge them to reconsider their position and respond in a better way to the women whose lives have already been very damaged and who have shown great courage, strength and a...

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

Susan O'Keeffe: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Prison Development (Confirmation of Resolutions) Bill 2013: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: When is it proposed to sit again?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: I have two supplementary questions but given that the Chairman has not spoken, I will hold off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: The National Consumer Agency referred to a compliance blitz. Ms Goggin said that in 2012 the Competition Authority carried out visits to 349 traders. I wanted to clarify if this was done on the authority's own activation. Was the Competition Authority concentrating on one sort of trader as against another? Why were 349 traders visited? Is the authority being pushed to the pin of its...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: Will the agency do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Groceries Sector: Discussion with the Competition Authority and the National Consumer Agency (16 Jul 2013)

Susan O'Keeffe: That is not an answer. I do not believe everything I read in the newspapers.