Results 881-900 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher

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

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, and our guests from TENI, in particular Dylan and Kirsty who spoke so movingly and lovingly to us yesterday in the audiovisual room during the briefing on the Bill. I am delighted to support it and commend Senators Warfield, Norris and Grace O'Sullivan for bringing it forward. Senator Grace O'Sullivan is my colleague in the Civil Engagement group. I...

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

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister. I am delighted to support the Bill and I thank and commend Senator Ardagh and her colleagues for bringing it forward. More needs to be done to prevent litter in our streets, parks and public spaces. A big reason I support the Bill is because of litter in the form of dog foul. I am particularly concerned about dog foul and the harmful effects it can have on our...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank everyone for the cross-party support I received for the Adult Safeguarding Bill which I brought forward last Wednesday in Private Members' time. I am looking at the next steps to be taken to progress this urgent legislation. I would be delighted to have the continued input and support of the House. Yesterday the national safeguarding committee chaired by Patricia Rickard-Clarke...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: For some time I have been referring to the fact that Cork University Maternity Hospital, CUMH, has the longest gynaecology waiting lists in the country. This causes fear and endangers the health of women who are desperately waiting for an outpatient appointment or an urgent procedure or treatment. For a change, however, I want to report some positive developments and give credit where...

Seanad: Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I commend the courage of the Government, Senator Ó Ríordáin, and the Minister of State, Deputy Stanton, led and inspired by people working on the front line from Ana Liffey. I also speak from my experience of eight years working for the Cork Simon Community. It is above all a matter of dignity. It is bad enough to have an addiction but for a person to have to crawl into a...

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am delighted to introduce the Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017. I welcome visitors from the National Safeguarding Committee, the Support and Advocacy Service for Older People, SAGE, and my sisters from the south in the Public Gallery who are here for this occasion. In many ways this Bill is greenfield site legislation that I hope will become...

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Goodness me, it will be hard to capture it all in five minutes. I will come to what the Minister of State said at the end of my contribution. There was a fantastic endorsement by Senator John Dolan. Last night we received a briefing and one of the points Mervyn Taylor of Sage made was that instead of expressing indignation, which we all express and are good at here - I am getting even...

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am not a lawyer; I did not have enough points to do law and did social studies instead. I was helped greatly by and received support from Ms Patricia Rickard-Clarke and Senator Colm Burke also. I believe we have only seen the tip of the iceberg in what is going on in homes and institutions. This is about not being drowned by what will come through. There is a need for a clear pathway...

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill: Second Stage (5 Apr 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to take No. 17 before No. 1.

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act for the purposes of making further and better provision for the care and protection of adults who are at risk; to establish the national adult safeguarding authority; to require certain persons to make reports to the national adult safeguarding authority in respect of adults at risk of abuse or harm in certain circumstances; and...

Seanad: Adult Safeguarding Bill 2017: First Stage (30 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I am sharing time with Senator Frances Black, five minutes and three minutes. I hope we also have time to allow Senator Alice-Mary Higgins to speak. I warmly welcome this Bill and praise Senators Warfield and Ruane for bringing it forward. I also congratulate the National Youth Council of Ireland, the Irish Second-Level Students Union and the Union of Students in Ireland who have...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: With average room rents of €80 per week, thousands of young people are left with €20 per week on which to survive. Those in work face the exploitation of zero-hour contracts, JobBridge and unpaid internships, even in this House. Those who wish to study now pay the second highest fees in Europe, with pledges to freeze fees having been shattered. Care leavers have been left to...

Seanad: Electoral (Amendment) (Voting at 16) Bill 2016: Second Stage (29 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: In my home city of Cork, I am constantly struck by the positive active citizenship of young people. I spoke previously about the work of Reimagine Cork and another group, Mad About Cork, comprising young people who are painting vacant properties, planting flowers on neglected quays and cleaning up alleyways that have long been forgotten. Young people have a powerful curiosity and fresh eyes...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with Financial Services Ombudsman (22 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I thank Mr. Deering for his presentation and for coming before the committee. I want to turn to a particular group of people - those who are older - in respect of which there is widespread financial abuse. This was captured very well by a study conducted by Dr. Corina Naughton from the School Of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems at UCD and published in 2010. The study reported that...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with Financial Services Ombudsman (22 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: Given the scale of the problem and the amount of money involved, enforcing codes is one thing and the dispute resolution service is more effective because it is more human and people get to talk to a person. Sometimes the exchange of documents does not always tell the full story. Is Mr. Deering satisfied that this is enough for the protection of people in those categories given that we know...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with Financial Services Ombudsman (22 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I will come back again.

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with Financial Services Ombudsman (22 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: I will be bringing forward an adult safeguarding Bill in the next few weeks and financial abuse is part of that. I would not be quite as content about the measures and systems we have around people who may be vulnerable. The fact that someone is old does not mean he or she is vulnerable but abuse of people with disabilities does exist. An example would be family members collecting...

Committee on Public Petitions: Engagement with Financial Services Ombudsman (22 Mar 2017)

Colette Kelleher: A great number of people experience financial abuse - a much greater number than we think - and that has been uncovered. It is much larger than indicated by the number of individuals who approach the FSO. This has been proven by research. A significant amount of public money is involved in those transactions, particularly things that are transferred through pensions. I am concerned that...