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Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (1 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister for taking on board the extensive feedback he has received. It is good to see included here that the direction of travel could specifically be about all employees. The Minister knows where I stand on this. We have had a trial of remote working and we have heaped too much pressure on it as an option for all employees, when it does not work for all roles. This was an...

Seanad: Project Ireland 2040: Statements (1 Mar 2023)

Emer Currie: I am a big fan of the Project Ireland 2040 ambition and framework. It is about future-proofing the country, communities and our economy, by looking at population growth, the necessary investment in climate resilience and ensuring we are supporting Housing for All. We do not just live in houses and homes but in communities and the infrastructure must be there. I am aware of the investment...

Seanad: Moving Towards Zero Tolerance of Violence against Women: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the Minister. I thank him and the Minister, Deputy McEntee, for their work on this issue. Thanks are also due to people like former Minister Frances Fitzgerald who contributed so much to the women's agenda. I have two wee girls aged eight and ten whom I have reared to be proud of their bodies and their gender. They are now at an age at which I am beginning to introduce them to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economic and Social Benefits of the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement: IBEC (9 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: I congratulate IBEC on an excellent report. I did not know how much we needed this report until I read it. Twenty-five years on, it is very valuable to have a reflection on the successes since the Good Friday Agreement. It is my opinion that partition has been a disaster for this island, which many other people would share. However, we have clawed back good results over the last 25 years...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Economic and Social Benefits of the Belfast-Good Friday Agreement: IBEC (9 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank Ms Gallagher.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: I too express my sympathy to the Breathnach and Broderick families on their loss. They and the Labour Party are proud and rightly so. I wish to raise two matters today, the first of which is the windfall tax on oil and gas profits. I understand legislation is being worked on regarding this issue in the Department with responsibility for energy. Legislation is urgently needed and I call...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: I welcome the move by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O’Gorman, to formally bring childminding into childcare regulations. I welcome the language he used when he said that it is to be in a way appropriate to the home environment. My family has used childminders and I had a childminder in County Tyrone all those years ago. In fact, her...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: The Minister of State is welcome. I thank him for being here. I know the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, has to attend a funeral and cannot be here, but she is aware of the issues I am about to raise. I hope there can be action on them. Danu Community Special School opened in November 2019 under the patronage of Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education and Training Board, DDLETB, in a...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (1 Feb 2023)

Emer Currie: The experience of the school is that because it has 36 children, everything is capped according to that, and their needs and what they need to excel are not being accommodated appropriately. It is a one-size-fits-all approach, as opposed to a child getting additional support where he or she needs it. As for the building, the classrooms are not purpose built and teachers are spending a long...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I represent Dublin 15, which contains Ashtown. We all know what happened in Ashtown, not only at the migrant camp last week but the community also faced the murder of a woman, Maud Coffey, a few short weeks ago. Ashtown is a multicultural place to live. It is a growing and diverse community of wonderful people. What happened last week was a disgusting and disturbing act. Probably one of...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I move amendment No. 13: In page 13, line 2, after “arrangements” to insert “including”. All the amendments in my name in this group make the same point. I will talk about the Title first. I do not believe the Bill at any point stipulates the kinds of working arrangements that might be available. Much emphasis has been put on remote working over recent years...

Seanad: Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Committee Stage (31 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I thank the Minister for taking on board the direction of travel regarding what we would like to see in the review, although this was an opportunity to include it here and now. For the reasons I stated, there is a difference between legislation that will predominantly help women and, on the other hand, gender equality legislation. The knock-on effect of that is that we are dealing with...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I hope the Cathaoirleach will forgive me for sounding like I am in a time warp but it has been a year since the Covid-19 bonus recognition payment for front-line workers was announced. Unfortunately private nursing home staff and a lot of non-HSE staff have yet to receive the €1,000 bonus payment at this stage. We know that a third party was responsible for managing the payment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: No pressure there, Chair. It is wonderful to have this opportunity to put these questions to Sir John about the run-up to the Good Friday Agreement. We did not get Sir John's opening statement until we sat down and it has changed the experience of hearing his first-hand testimony. It was lengthier than we would normally get, and for that I am grateful. I do not think I broke my...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Architects of the Good Friday Agreement (Resumed): Sir John Major (26 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: That is fine. I think Sir John for that. I have another question. Sir John mentioned how the violence scarred our whole way of life in the North and extended across the island, and he also mentioned the importance of the in-depth relationship. I have spoken about Sir John's personal bravery in this process. At difficult times, he continued on. I want to ask him about the legacy...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I was in Westminster yesterday on British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly business and left just before the House of Lords started Committee Stage of the legacy legislation. I believe there was considerable criticism of it, just as there has been from the Commissioner for Victims and Survivors for Northern Ireland; the Northern Ireland Assembly; the Government; all the political parties on this...

Seanad: Transport Police Service: Motion (25 Jan 2023)

Emer Currie: I am at a massive disadvantage in that I have not heard any of this debate, but I did want to contribute to it. The area I represent is Dublin West and Dublin 15. We have the train line and we have buses.Nobody is in any doubt about the increase in antisocial behaviour on public transport. There have been ongoing issues in Pelletstown, Ashtown and Castleknock. It is a recurring theme for...