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Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Welfare Services (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire. Tá mé an-bhuíoch dó as ucht an am a thógáil, cé go bhfuil sé an-ghnóthach ag an aimsir seo. I am returning to an issue I raised previously with the Minister's predecessor regarding the social welfare offices that were closed in rural areas and in the Connemara area in particular. As the Minister, Deputy Leo...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Community Welfare Services (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Nach maith é go bhfuil a fhios agat. I suppose using the frame of a business model in respect of people engaged in employment services indicates the type of language that a client of a State agency now becomes a customer of the State agency. My concern is the use of that type of language. I am unhappy with the cutbacks that have happened in the ENP because even with the figures...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tá mé ag ardú ceiste ar maidin atá thar a bheith tromchúiseach. A number of months ago a man in Ballinasloe was woken up by gardaí coming to his door. They took him out of his bed and brought him to prison in Dublin. Subsequently, when this was being challenged in the High Court, the Garda National Immigration Bureau backed out of the case. The man was...

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That has been done.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The case is with the Minister.

Seanad: Order of Business (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Go raibh maith agaibh.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire. Tuigim go bhfuil cúrsaí gnóthach go maith na laethanta seo agus aimsir an bhuiséid agus mar sin de orainn. In the time since this Bill was first before the Dáil, we have had a report from the Simon Community confirming that the problems in the private rented sector...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We do.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Ba mhaith liom buíochas a ghabháil leis na daoine a labhair sa díospóireacht áirithe seo. An article in the Galway Advertiserin June, with the headline, “Huge rent increases across Galway”, puts this into context:Over the last 12 months, rent in Monivea has skyrocketed by almost 60%. In early 2015, average...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: If they want to get out of the market, why not let the local authorities buy them out and put that housing stock back into their hands? It has been thrown at us by Fianna Fáil that this legislation is highly flawed and it has a great policy for this area.Where is its legislation? It should bring forward its own Bill and we will examine it.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: If the Fianna Fáil Members cannot bring themselves to support our motion, they should at least have the decency to abstain so that the remaining Senators can vote on it. It is ironic that Senator McDowell called our legislation mistaken but well-intentioned. That is from a man who was the leader of a former party whose members were the architects of our boom and bust economy. Some of...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: -----through local authorities and voluntary housing trusts. That is a fundamental difference. We are not the only ones proposing rent certainty. There is a great deal of support for rent certainty. The organisations that support this approach are Focus Ireland, the Peter McVerry Trust, the Simon Community, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, DEPAUL Ireland, Merchants Quay Ireland,...

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It absolutely is relevant. The Government told us what it put in its budget. Surely it is relevant for me to say what we would have done differently with the same moneys.

Seanad: Rent Certainty (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I would try to if I was not being barracked. Senator Coffey should know that all the figures are available. They all add up and they have been checked by the Department of Finance. Rent certainty is essential. It is a short-term immediate measure that would make a huge difference to all those who are in jeopardy of losing their homes. We know the human stories. This is not about playing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh na bhfinnéithe. Tá brón orm go raibh mé ag teacht is ag imeacht ansin, ach bhí gnóthaí Seanaid againn. I have an interest in the area. I worked as a manager of a partnership company in Connemara, and the Connemara examples typify what has been wrong with the development of the sector during the past ten years. From day...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs: Sustaining Viable Rural Communities: Discussion (12 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: What about the availability of property and factory spaces?

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: In loco parentis.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is nonsense.

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Oct 2016)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Ba mhaith liom cuidiú leis an moladh atá déanta ag mo chomhghleacaí go ndéanfaí leasú ar Riar na hOibre ionas go dtabharfaí níos mó ama don díospóireacht ar an mbuiséad inniu. The budget will not offer much solace to those people who have been struggling with mortgages or paying almost double in car insurance compared with what...