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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Deputy Leader.

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We all received CSO figures this week. Campaigners are calling for flexible careers for Irish women to prevent a decline into poverty after the CSO statistics revealed that 98% of carers and those carrying out household duties are female. More than six out of ten, or 61% of nearly 200,000 carers are female while 30% of those women carers provide 29 hours or more of unpaid work weekly, which...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the witnesses for the report. A Vision for Change is crucial. All of us know people who suffer from depression. On the issue of awareness, will Mr. Kane elaborate on the Let's Talk and Walk and #LittleThings campaigns? I am a firm believer in using campaigns to highlight issues because we need to speak about mental health. It is crucial that funding is provided for campaigns....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It does.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I wish to raise the national planning framework up to 2040. The last chance for submissions is 12 noon on Friday, 23 November. It is crucial for Senators, Deputies and the public to make submissions. The plan envisages that the number of people aged over 65 will more than double and half the jobs people work in now will not exist. There is a ten-year national investment plan and that is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I have concerns about planning for 2040. As the Taoiseach comments on the front page of the plan, half of the jobs that people will be working in by 2040 may not even exist today. This the reality and there will be major concerns. The Minister of State mentioned education. I am a firm believer that education can open up many doors for people. Whether it is do with apprentices or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am finished now. There are great initiatives in this and there are great plans. However, we should start with local authorities and local people who are on the ground. If we listen to them, this can be delivered on. I am sure the Minister of State will, but I have given examples of what I believe needs to be done.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I agree with the Chairman that a planning framework is crucial. The Minister is correct that everything is based on budgets and getting as much money as one can into one's local authority, tourism and all of the different areas. Under this plan, I want the weaker counties in rural Ireland to get their fair share of development and not be forgotten. The Minister when he outlined the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I did not mention HAP today.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: He is not disagreeing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: National Planning Framework: Discussion (18 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Jobs are crucial.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister of State for attending, although I am very disappointed the Minister, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, or the Minister of State, Deputy John Paul Phelan, did not attend this morning. On 15 August they attended a meeting with officials at Carlow County Council where there was a proposal from the council on a draft budget going to 2018. I am very disappointed they did not attend...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I have two minutes.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Local Authority Funding (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am disappointed with the Minister of State's response given that many other local authorities have been given much more funding than our authority has been given. There is not a fair system in place. Yesterday's budget was supposed to be fair but it is not a fair budget. If the Government does not look after the local authorities that are telling those in government that they cannot come...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I, too, want to speak about the budget. I was very disappointed that post offices were not mentioned. We have 1,100 post offices in Ireland but there is fear of 400 being closed. A programme should have been put in place to keep extra services, whether through motor tax or tourism. We are promoting hubs through housing. Why not promote our rural post offices as tourist information...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The money is still with the Department.

Seanad: Eighth Report of Convention on the Constitution: Motion (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I thank the Minister for addressing the House today. Fianna Fáil voted to delay this Bill to allow the housing committee to consider the report of the Constitutional Convention on this matter and other economic, cultural and social rights. Broadening the Constitution, the fundamental legal basis of the State, should be done carefully and should take into consideration the wide range of...

Seanad: Eighth Report of Convention on the Constitution: Motion (11 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We in the Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government should have a meeting on it.