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Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, to the House and thank him for taking this matter on the Adjournment. This is an important issue which has become more so in recent weeks since the announcement of the decision on the locations of VEC headquarters. Having spoken to managers, tutors and administrative staff who work in VECs, I have found the general reaction, not just to the...

Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: We have been advised by a departmental official that Cavan and Monaghan VECs were tied in the amalgamation process until the decision was made for a new education campus in Monaghan. The current plans for this campus do not even include a VEC. Will the Minister provide information as to the criteria used in the amalgamation? What were the two VECs tied on? Cavan was leaps and bounds ahead-----

Seanad: Vocational Education Committees (25 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: Is there more detailed information about the criteria used rather than this quote about the advice to the VECs? Was the criteria uniform for all VECs or were there differences by location?

Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. Lately it seems that I have seen him in the House more than I have seen some of my colleagues in Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: We are all aware of the problems homeowners face. Young couples and families are in distress having bought homes at highly inflated prices during the boom. People not much older than me were saddled with vast mortgages they have no hope of paying now as a result of the economic recession and job losses. We know these people were given mortgages almost without question. The banks were...

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I did not do anything like that.

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: With the permission of the Chair, I wish to share two minutes of my time with Senator Ó Clochartaigh.

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: Sinn Féin had sought to seek to amend the original Fianna Fáil motion to include the closure of Garda stations and to deal with some of the terminology and the loose language, that could be seen to undermine the arguments and fails to reflect the situation in the North. I deplore the amendment put forward by the Government parties. I take offence to the line which mentions the opposition...

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: Does that make any sense to anybody? Yes Minister, it is required. It is the responsibility of the Minister to employ dynamic and constructive thinking to ensure their roles are of value to the State. Shutting the barracks is not the answer. The ruse of savings, no alternatives and appeasing the troika will not wash.

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: The IRA is not here. I am not the IRA; I am a member of Sinn Féin.

Seanad: Army Barracks Closures: Motion (19 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I was born in 1988.

Seanad: Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: The issue of financial regulation - of ensuring the probity of financial institutions - goes to the core of the economic issues faced in the State. Failures of financial regulation have played out on a macroeconomic level and have had a direct impact on local communities and the local economy, with businesses failing to get access to credit and mortgage holders struggling to meet payments....

Seanad: Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: -----but continued to support the pouring of taxpayers' money into failing banks, including €3.4 billion to Anglo Irish Bank every year for the next 14 years and €700 million to one unguaranteed, unsecured bondholder in the coming weeks. In this legislation we are creating the ability for future Ministers to do what the Labour Party objected to in the past but has failed to put a stop...

Seanad: Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: Táim críochnaithe anois.

Seanad: Central Bank and Credit Institutions (Resolution) (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (18 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: Hello. Hello.

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Oct 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I would like to second the amendment proposed by Senator Wilson. Members of this House often lament the announcement of Government decisions outside the Houses of the Oireachtas. We complain that we are often the last to know. We can imagine how the staff of the vocational education committees across the State felt last week when changes in their circumstances were communicated online,...

Seanad: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House for this Adjournment matter. The Minister for Health recently confirmed that there will be a reduction in the opening hours of the minor injuries unit in Monaghan General Hospital to an eight hour, five day service to take effect from 1 November. Essentially, minor injuries will only be dealt with in Monaghan during business hours. Who knew that...

Seanad: Hospital Services (29 Sep 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: When in 2012 will the review of this temporary measure be carried out? There is a danger that the opening times will be further restricted. Will an analysis be conducted of the patients who had to attend hospitals in Cavan, Dundalk and Drogheda outside the unit's opening hours? If we are examining activity levels of patients who need minor injury care outside the unit's opening hours, it...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2011: Second Stage (27 Sep 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: I welcome the Minister to the House. I also welcome the legislation and the opportunity to address such a critical issue. Many people in all our communities are bereaved and too many crosses dot the roadside across the State because of road deaths. As Senator Noone mentioned, one positive aspect of the previous Government's record over the past ten to 15 years is that there was success in...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Sep 2011)

Kathryn Reilly: With another savage budget due to be introduced in December, the Government continues to perform flip-flops on whether it will increase income tax and, if so, in what guise and whether social welfare rates will be cut, notwithstanding commitments made to the contrary. A colleague told me a joke about this issue this morning: "Why did Enda Kenny cross the road? Because he said he would not...