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Seanad: Order of Business (21 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: What about the health service?

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The publication of the latest daft.iereport shows that average rent levels across the country are at an historic peak. We in the Dáil and Seanad recently brought in new legislation for rent caps for certain areas, including Dublin, Cork, Galway and Kildare. This seems unfair to me when one looks at this market because the lack of supply in housing is driving rents higher. When there...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: The Fine Gael Party has been in government for the past six years. Senator Buttimer is telling the House that there is money there.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: That is what we heard at the general election.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Yes, it is.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: On a point of order, we have been told the recession is over. Six years---

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: On a point of order, a Leas-Chathaoirligh.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I am entitled to make a point of order.

Seanad: Establishment of a Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (16 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Maurice McCabe was failed by the State in the most fundamental and damaging way. It is incredible to see how such a devastating administrative error with such serious personal ramifications could be allowed to go through the child care and justice system for so long. It is crucial that this horrendous episode be fully investigated. From listening to what was said in the Dáil today, I...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I want to highlight the issue of the Saplings school for children with autism and complex needs in Carlow. As was seen in this week's edition of The Nationalist, parents have had to come out to fight for their children's school. This school was started in 2007 by parents with autistic children. In 2010, the Department took over the school but its accommodation is too small with problems...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: These are issues involving disabilities, however.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I understand that but it is serious. I have raised the issues of Tír na nÓg and Holy Angels respite and day care services three times but got no answer from the Minister. I now have brought up Saplings but will get no answer. Will the Minister come into the House to address these issues? I am getting no answers. The Tír na nÓg service is still closed, which is a disgrace.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: Children with disabilities are being forgotten.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know the Leader will say I have raised these issues before.I am asking that the three issues relating to children with disabilities be addressed together by the Minister. I am not blaming the Seanad for this. I have asked before that the matters be addressed together because they relate to the same area. However, I have been informed that they have to be addressed separately. There is...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: No, it is about all schools.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: When Irish Water was formed it had a service level agreement, SLA, with local authorities. That was to go until 2025. Three years of that contract have now elapsed. The talk is that Irish Water are now contracting out work, and that the SLAs with local authorities will be shortened. It seems that Irish Water hope that the SLAs will not go until 2025, as they are saying that in the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: I know it is, but I might not get the chance again to ask that question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: When representing a constituency, anything to do with Irish Water and local authorities are the questions that need to get answered because they are the questions that constituents come back on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: If he could answer them I would appreciate it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Water Supply Project for Eastern and Midlands Region: Irish Water (15 Feb 2017)

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: It is not fixed.