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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Community Partnership Mobilisation Programme: ConnectIreland (14 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the members of the deputation and congratulate them on the work they have done in such a short time. This is a great example of local communities in Ireland and our diaspora empowering themselves to create jobs in Ireland. I was pleased to hear Mr. Dowling refer to the local enterprise offices in local authorities. I had planned to ask a question on this. This will be the key....

Seanad: Department of Social Protection Payment Methods: Statements (2 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Kevin Humphreys, and the debate taking place in the Seanad. As the Minister has outlined, post offices are the largest retail network in the country with 1,150 post offices employing 3,700 people, 1,100 of which offices are operated by postmasters who are locally based SMEs providing employment, facilitating economic activity and community engagement....

Seanad: Department of Social Protection Payment Methods: Statements (2 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: That is not right. That is not the point I was making.

Seanad: Order of Business (1 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I, too, welcome the announcement this morning by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, of 250 extra Garda recruits. That brings the total since September to 550, which is a very welcome development. We all know the pressure on Garda numbers and this news is very much to be welcomed. The Government recognises the pressures and the Minister, Deputy Frances...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: "That the Bill be recommitted in respect of amendment No. 25."

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: "That the Bill be recommitted in respect of amendment No. 50."

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Report and Final Stages (1 Apr 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I move: "That the Bill be recommitted in respect of amendments Nos. 66 and 67."

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Nursing Staff Recruitment (31 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: Sorry Senator, you can discuss only what is on the Commencement Matters list.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Drug Treatment Programmes Availability (31 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I thank the Minister and the Senator.

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the fact that Galway is one of 11 counties that has increased its grant allocations to third level students. In the 2013-14 academic year, almost 5,400 students received third level funding. Since the introduction of the centralised system there has been a general reduction in grants given to people living in rural areas and an increase in the number given to people living in...

Seanad: Order of Business (30 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I support my colleague, Senator Ivana Bacik, in her call for a debate on the issue of domestic violence. I also raise the issue of a vaccine for meningitis, which was raised by Senator Sean D. Barrett. Ireland has the highest incidence of meningitis in Europe. Ms Siobhán Carroll who founded the campaign group Act for Meningitis, with her husband Noel - they are from Oranmore, County...

Seanad: Order of Business (27 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: Today is national daffodil day, the Irish Cancer Society's biggest fund-raising day of the year. There is not one member of the Chamber who has not been directly or indirectly affected by cancer. The funds raised today will go directly to families and people affected by cancer. I urge everyone to support the Irish Cancer Society's fund-raising event. I wish to raise the five-day delay in...

Seanad: Order of Business (26 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I want to raise the issue of community enterprise centres, particularly the largest once in the country which is in Galway. The Galway Technology Centre is currently home to 41 start-ups and growing companies and SMEs. The centre has supported more than 140 companies and 1,200 jobs since it commenced in 1994. This week, the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Richard...

Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

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Seanad: Order of Business (25 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I wish to raise some positive news on the jobs front for Galway and the west. This comes soon after Apple's major jobs announcement for Athenry. IDT911, a data protection company, will establish its European headquarters in Galway, creating 60 jobs in the area. This company credited its move to the very good pool of talented graduates available locally and also due to the support it got...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House and commend Senators on their very powerful speeches and true words. It is very important to place this issue in its context. It is not, and nor should it be, a polemical or ideological context but rather a very personal one. The letter on the front page of the Sunday Independentlast weekend was very poignant. It was from a 60 year old gay man who was...

Seanad: An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (25 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: Could Senator O'Brien move closer to the microphone?

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Second Stage (24 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House. We live in a time when, for various cultural and economic reasons, we can no longer think of traditional marriage when we discuss the family. The traditional stereotype of mum, dad and two kids is just that - a stereotype. Until the introduction of the Status of Children Act 1987, the concept of bastardry and illegitimacy was alive and well in our...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: I raise the issue of court proceedings against those who are in difficulty with their mortgages. Some 400 such cases are listed before the registrar in Galway and I fully agree with the Taoiseach when he said that issuing proceedings is not the way to engage with people in financial distress. Even if there are some who have difficulty facing up to their problems and engaging with lenders,...

Seanad: Workplace Relations Bill 2014: Committee Stage (Resumed) (5 Mar 2015)

Hildegarde Naughton: Next Tuesday.