Results 641-660 of 866 for speaker:Catherine Ardagh

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: They are still astronomical.

Seanad: Order of Business (9 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is not correct.

Seanad: Order of Business (8 Nov 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to raise the issue of the Paradise Papers. We have all been hearing in recent days about different individuals who have been able to take advantage of some of the fruitful tax arrangements to which these papers refer. Ultimately, it was a database of information that highlighted the tax affairs of some of the wealthiest individuals and companies in the world. Why is this matter...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I want to raise two matters today. The first concerns a report from the European Committee of Social Rights, a European watchdog, which found there to be inadequate standards of living accommodation in certain housing estates in Ireland and shows that there has been a serious deterioration in the standard of accommodation since the financial crisis. The report names housing estates in...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: The Leader has not addressed the question I asked. He is not answering the right question.

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I would like to raise two issues, the first of which is health care, while the second is leniency in sentencing. According to the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, the State and the Government are condemning acutely ill patients to experiencing unacceptable delays which will result in avoidable deaths in acute hospitals because of a chronic lack of capacity. Speaking at its...

Seanad: An Ghaeilge: Ráitis (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Cuirim fáilte mór ar ais chuig an Seanad roimh an Aire Stáit. Ní bheidh mé ag úsáid mo chuid ama go léir.Tá sé mar chuspóir ag Fianna Fáil ó thráth a bhunaithe an Ghaeilge a chur chun cinn mar theanga bheo i measc na ndaoine agus cearta na ndaoine a labhraíonn an teanga a chosaint. Tá an teanga...

Seanad: Report on Lone Parents in Ireland: Statements (25 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Fianna Fáil welcomes the publication of the report on lone parents and commends the work of the committee. As the report points out, lone parents are not a homogeneous group. However, being a lone parent carries its own particular difficulties. Lone parents represent one of the household types most at risk of poverty and almost 58% of lone-parent households experience deprivation....

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Today I wish to raise the tracker mortgage scandal. It is absolutely horrendous and morally reprehensible how the banks have treated those who were entitled to be on a tracker rate. There seems to have been systemic abuse of customers by banks and this seems to have been endemic, across the board and nationwide. Banks seem to have been acting in an orchestrated fashion and collectively...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: -----and has done absolutely nothing-----

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: -----to address this matter.

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: The €5 million communications unit has taken heed of callers to "Liveline" and of victims who presented to the finance committee. What we really need to see now is action and not more rhetoric. We need to see action by the banks and we need to see the Government ensuring that pressure is being put on the banks to ensure that these customers are compensated and that they are given...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Is it €5 million a year?

Seanad: Order of Business (24 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: No new funds-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Yesterday was International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. Ireland has some of the most staggering poverty statistics with 59% of lone parent households currently experiencing severe deprivation. There are some 3,000 children living in emergency accommodation and lone parents continue to struggle to make ends meet on the one-parent family payment and family income supplement. It is...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I convey my sympathy and that of the Fianna Fáil group to the families of Ms Clare O'Neill, County Waterford, Mr. Michael Pyke, County Tipperary, and Mr. Fintan Goss, County Louth, who tragically lost their lives yesterday in Hurricane Ophelia. I congratulate those who worked tirelessly yesterday on the front line from the ESB, Dublin and other fire brigade services around the country,...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Today I would like to raise two matters, the first of which is hidden homeless. There is a cohort of people who are relying on the charity of their siblings, parents and grandparents to live and to bring up their families. A lady came to me who, along with her four children, was living with her sister. She was sleeping on the sofa in the living room with her four children. There were ten...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is my pleasure to speak on the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017, brought forward by Fianna Fáil before Seanad Éireann. A significant contribution to the formulation of the Bill came from Mental Health Reform, representatives of which are in the Gallery today. I thank them for the support they have given to Fianna Fáil and particularly Deputy James Browne in spearheading...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House to address this issue. As my colleague, Senator Black, said, his commitment and dedication to this issue is evident and that is most welcome. I reaffirm my gratitude and thanks to Deputy James Browne for putting a lot of work into this Bill and bringing it to this Stage. He has done that with the help of Mental Health Reform, especially...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (11 Oct 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Next Tuesday.