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Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Today, we have all been listening to the budget and I know we will debate it later. Today is also World Homeless Day. We are now in 2017 yet we have 8,270 people in emergency accommodation and 3,048 of them are children. When I heard a Fine Gael Senator say that housing is being built I was a bit surprised. I am a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Planning and Local...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Some 3,048 of those people are children.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Today is also World Mental Health Day. Again, I address my comment to Fine Gael. There are 678,438 people on some form of a hospital waiting list. Again, this matter needs to be addressed. We need to make sure that these people, like previous speakers have said, are not waiting for operations or waiting for surgery. That is uncalled for. I ask that we make sure that the money that is in...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I will give an example.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know of instances where medical cards have been refused.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I will.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I heard of a case yesterday where a medical card was refused-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: -----and the lady is blind.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: She is blind yet she was refused a medical card because she was just over the limit.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Government needs to address these issues which are not being addressed.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is ten years on now.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Leader can only use that excuse for so long. Mistakes were made but we are seven years on now. He should take responsibility.

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Unless it is proven right we will have to-----

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No. I am delighted with the good news.

Seanad: Order of Business (4 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: We are all waiting anxiously for the budget. My concern is asthma. I have been speaking to several people, as have other Senators, about this condition. It is frightening to think 470,000 people in Ireland have asthma and up to 60% of those have an uncontrolled asthma, meaning they are at risk of an attack any time. Approximately, one person dies every week from asthma. Every 26 minutes,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (4 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Senator O'Sullivan asked one of my questions. It is very positive today. It is great to see there are 23,000 engineers because in recent years we all saw the effects of recession. My own son has a qualification and he had to emigrate. He is a civil engineer in Calgary in Canada. Is there an issue in this regard? We can speak about apprentices. We are in a housing crisis and there is to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the Draft General Scheme of the Building Control (Construction Industry Register Ireland) Bill 2017 (4 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes. That is very good .

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Oct 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I raise a local issue that I have raised several times previously with the Minister without success. Four months ago, we received the bad news that a proposed respite house in Bagenalstown would not proceed. Four or five months prior to that decision being taken, the HSE indicated to me that it was considering placing a deposit on a house in Tullow. Several weeks ago, in response to a...