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Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: -----and who is still a member of the Cabinet today, cannot come to this House and address-----

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: -----the House to tell us exactly what happened regarding the appointment of Máire Whelan.

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is absolutely outrageous.

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I do not know what type of point Senator Devine is trying to make.

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I sat on the council and my views on the eighth amendment are very clear. My colleagues in Fianna Fáil and I all have differing views.

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: To what was Senator Devine referring?

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: What exactly is Senator Devine inferring?

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: What was Senator Devine inferring when she said we were trying to slip away?

Seanad: Special Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Motion (20 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Members of my party all have different views. We are a broad church and everyone is welcome to have whatever opinion they like. Unfortunately we will not be supporting the amendment. We will be supporting the Government on this amendment.

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jun 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I welcome the establishment of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution and hope its work can take place as soon as possible. I wish to raise two issues, the first of which relates to the maternity services group which was charged with developing a maternity strategy for 2016. It has met only once in the past 18 months. It was set up by the Taoiseach-in-waiting,...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to raise the pending retail IPO of AIB. It is the view of the Fianna Fáil group that the Minister, Deputy Noonan, should press the EU for a relaxation of the fiscal rules to allow the proceeds from the sale of the stake in AIB to be used for capital investment. Not a day goes by in this Chamber when one of us does not raise the issue of homelessness, substandard maternity and...

Seanad: Domestic Violence Bill 2017: Committee Stage (31 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister for attending the House and for her dedication to the Bill over the course of this Seanad term. I thank also the Women's Council, Women's Aid, Barnardos and Safe Ireland in particular for aiding the Fianna Fáil group in tabling some of its amendments. As many of my colleagues have pointed out, those groups have done a good deal of the hard work on the Bill for...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: It is with further horror that I raise the issue of the continued neglect of our children who are suffering at the hands of this State. I raised the issue last week in light of the report of the Ombudsman for Children.Today, I highlight the report by Government rapporteur for child protection, Dr. Geoffrey Shannon, who commented that there was a much greater co-operation needed between An...

Seanad: Order of Business (24 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I congratulate our colleague, Senator Lorraine Clifford-Lee, and her husband, Mr. John Lee, our colleague in the press, on their birth of their son, Edward Anthony Lee, on Monday. She will be back with us soon. The Ombudsman for Children, Dr. Niall Muldoon, published his annual report this week in which he raised his concern that homeless children and children with disabilities are not...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I send my deepest sympathies, and those of the Fianna Fáil Party, to the families of those victims murdered and injured in yesterday's brutal attacks in Manchester. It is hard to fathom the extent of this depravity. Why anyone would attack innocent children at a concert is beyond the realms of belief. The people of Manchester, as we know, are resilient and will not stand for this type...

Seanad: Order of Business (23 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: Psychiatric beds.

Seanad: Order of Business (16 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I wish to discuss the issue of homelessness again. I would like to discuss the fact that very urgent reform is needed for people who live in emergency accommodation. On a daily basis there are evictions and the human rights of the people who live in emergency accommodation are encroached. I call on the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government to establish an office or...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I rise today to call on the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to attend this House and explain what she knows about the current saga of the alleged misappropriation of millions of euro at the Garda training college in Templemore. There appears to be a huge disparity between the evidence given by a senior civil servant within the force, Mr. John Barrett, and that of the...

Seanad: Gender Recognition (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I congratulate Senator Warfield on introducing the Bill. I was delighted to meet members of TENI yesterday and get the proper lowdown on all of the Senator's hard work. Fianna Fáil supports the Bill, the purpose of which is to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2015 to provide a right to self-determination for persons who reach the age of 16 years, to introduce a right to legal gender...

Seanad: Litter Pollution (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (10 May 2017)

Catherine Ardagh: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Many people have asked me what exactly this Bill provides for. Substantively, it increases fines in accordance with inflation to correspond with the seriousness of the offences involved. It further provides for a civil claim to be taken against an individual who causes damage to a person or property where section 22 of the original Litter...