Results 961-980 of 1,013 for speaker:Colette Kelleher

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I support Sinn Féin's motion today. I speak as a former member of the diaspora who lived in England for 17 years and as somebody who always considered herself part and parcel of this country during that time in London. I also speak as the mother of a son who lives in France. He was born in London and is an Irish passport holder. He went to...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nicola Sturgeon (29 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the First Minister. Given the great amount of sharing and learning that we have done today, how can we build on that to co-operate and learn further from the significant leaps that Scotland has taken in terms of child care, dementia and social housing? How might we make use of the new office based in Dublin to copperfasten those links?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I call for a debate with the Minister for Health on gynaecology services. The lack of gynaecology services, particularly in Cork, has moved beyond unacceptable to dangerous. This is not an ordinary crack in a broken system. Women in Cork are being made wait drastically longer than women elsewhere in Ireland. It is a crisis on the boil which is having a devastating effect on women and...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Funding: Statements (24 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister for her time yesterday at the dementia awareness training. The mental health reform agenda makes a clear case to me, as it has to other Senators, for the retention of the €35 million funding and some areas have been identified as suitable for the money to be spent, such as an adequate investment in peer support services and a greater availability of other social...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following:"(viii) information as to what percentage of the proposed development will meet the definition of "universal design" as set out in section 52 of the Disability Act 2005, as well as plans to ensure the accessibility of any proposed development to amenities and services.". I will be brief because it is getting...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: At the end of this process we will need a sufficiency of housing stock, both social and otherwise, for everyone, including people with disabilities and older people. We need to ensure we do not end up with stocks of houses that are not suitable. In my neck of the woods, there is housing in the old Our Lady of Lourdes Park in which nobody will live because a sufficiency of thought was not...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Dementia is one of the great global challenges of our time. In Ireland, 55,000 people have dementia. Most of us will know somebody with dementia or somebody who is caring for a person with dementia. It will have touched our families. By 2026, at the end of the much-anticipated future health care strategy, the number of people with dementia in Ireland will be 80,000. Are you finished?...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: There was a lot of muttering going on.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I was not saying the Senator was muttering.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: As we all know, the services and supports for people with dementia are patchy and fall short of what people need. That is why we need political courage, imagination and resources to respond to the dementia challenge. That is why, with Deputy Mary Butler, I have convened an all-party Oireachtas group on dementia so Ireland, like similar sized countries such as Scotland and Denmark, can be a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Too late.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Correct.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister to the House again. I welcome the Bill and its provisions. In particular, I welcome the provisions in Part 3 that provide additional protections to tenants. I refer to measures to prevent another Tyrrelstown where over 40 families were served with eviction notices when a vulture fund took over the properties. I welcome the measures to close the loopholes in the...

Seanad: Heritage Bill 2016: Committee Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Today, the Minister is asking the Seanad to sign a blank cheque, particularly with regard to section 8(3), which I know does not relate to the amendment at hand. As a result, I am opposing this Bill for the sake of our beautiful countryside. I will address the amendment at hand. This Bill is poorly structured and does nothing to address road safety issues. Road safety has been raised as...

Seanad: Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2016: Second Stage (9 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I strongly support the Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2016, as presented by my fellow Senators, Senators Hopkins, Richmond and Colm Burke, during Private Members' time. Home care enables people who have a disability, people living with a chronic condition, people with dementia, people who are frail or elderly. Home care enables people to live well with their disability,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recognition of Traveller Ethnicity: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: The case is so strong and has been so clearly made that it is terrible that the witnesses have to go to the trouble of making it again but we will push on. If the Taoiseach or Minister stood up today in the Dáil and recognised Travellers, as this committee recommended two years ago in 2014, what would be the impact on the morale and mental health of Travellers, particularly in the wake...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I am a visitor - a gatecrasher.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Colette Kelleher: There is a big reorganisation of local therapy services called "Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People". What links has the Department of Education and Skills made with that health service reorganisation? It would probably not be wise to split the education therapies from the health-related therapies because it is being done on a geographical basis. How soon will...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: Children with Special Educational Needs: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I apologise but I have to leave It is rude to have asked a question and not to wait for the answer, but I will tune in to the Oireachtas television service to hear the answers. I thank the witnesses.

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter (No. 2) Bill 2016: Second Stage (26 Oct 2016)

Colette Kelleher: She has put it up to me now.