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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Women's Aid Impact Report 2018: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...Regan referred to refuges and their inability to facilitate women. Is there a standard procedure linking refuges with their local authorities to access emergency accommodation and prevent women and children from heading back to the family home and the abuser? Is somebody equipped to liaise with the local authority? My next question concerns ease of access to legal aid. In the past...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Women's Aid Impact Report 2018: Discussion (8 May 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: They are exhausting trips for the client and often this exhaustion leads to the person involved abandoning the process. The fee structure is low for those expert reports, the children are being damaged and the process is abandoned.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Apr 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...school population is housed in 15 prefabs, many of which are 19 years old. These prefabs are not fit for purpose. They are too hot in the summer and too cold in the winter. They are leaking and damp. The children and the teachers are getting chest infections and these conditions are having a detrimental effect on those with asthma. Three of the prefabs were damaged during Storm Ali...

Seanad: Judicial Council Bill 2017: Committee Stage (2 Apr 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...their own home. The officer said that when women entered prison, their outside relationships broke down. They are not visited by their partners or husbands, though their mothers come in with their children and their sisters or other people in the community. In the men's prison, however, the wives and girlfriends continue the relationships. There is a significant difference between...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform (Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (27 Mar 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...That is the real nub of this issue. People are staying in their homes and trying to work through their mortgage distress because they have no alternative; they do not want to be out on the streets with their children. Fianna Fáil believes the Government needs to make substantial progress in that regard.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ..., her sons and the Hawe family that had been missing for a long time since their deaths in August 2016. Mary and Jacqueline, Clodagh's mother and sister, gave a great account of her and her three children. It made the brutal description of their murders even more harrowing. They also painted a picture of control and abuse within the family home. Control and abuse are often not apparent...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Feb 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I have to take one day a week to mind my children.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...from Rush. On 6 November last the Minister said that a site was being acquired. However, when my colleague, Councillor Brian Dennehy, a Fingal county councillor who lives in Rush and whose children attend St. Joseph's, tabled a motion on the matter to Fingal County Council on 8 November, he was told by a senior official of the council that there was no instruction from the Department of...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation Provision (22 Jan 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...project is a done deal, there will be a new school and the devil and all will be done. It is clear from the Minister's reply that the acquisition is not imminent. It is an absolute disgrace that children in Rush are on this site without a playing pitch, a library and with inadequate science and woodwork rooms. There is simply a capacity issue. Next year there will not be any room....

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: .... Family law is a very different type of law and tensions are particularly raised at this time of year. We are talking about families and people getting access and being denied access to their children and there are difficulties around grandparents and different arrangements. This situation happened in Phoenix House which it is not fit for purpose, nor is Dolphin House. Childcare...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Second Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...quickly. As others have mentioned, it is a very fast-moving space. It is scary for a parent to realise the dangers that exist. When one closes one's own door, one believes one is protecting one's children from predators but the predators are coming into one's home and can contact and communicate with very young children. It requires a lot of vigilance and education on the part of...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...right in the construction of the National Maternity Hospital. For too long, women have been sidelined and their healthcare has been treated as a second-class issue. We need to get this right for women and the children who will be born in the new hospital in the next 100 to 200 years. It is vital that the Minister address the issue. I am well aware that he is very busy this week and has...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Has the Senator ever even been in a maternity hospital? They do everything they can to protect children.

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I am happy to say Fianna Fáil is supporting this Bill on this Stage. My colleagues have made some excellent points. There is obviously a problem here. There are children living in this country who were born here and go to school here and who identify as Irish. Through no fault of their own, they have fallen through the cracks. It is not good for Senators to say we have a great track...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: These are things that need to be considered. The length of time it takes for people to pass through the asylum system because of a lack of resources from the starting point has allowed children grow up and go to school, form friendships, learn our language and engage in sports clubs and different community activities. We need a radical overhaul of everything but this would be a welcome...

Seanad: Irish Nationality and Citizenship (Naturalisation of Minors Born in Ireland) Bill 2018: Second Stage (21 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: That is not correct. There is free movement of workers, not children.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...It is a vaccine for chickenpox and is not part of the national childhood immunisation programme at present. The Minister should make efforts to include it in the national vaccination programme for children. As I said, it is not part of the immunisation programme, although many parents are paying privately for this vaccine for their children. It is administered in two doses and is very...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (14 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...that it is under constant review but I really want the Minister to suggest to the NIAC that it undertake a study on the feasibility of adding the VARIVAX vaccination to the national schedule for children. I will write to the Minister in this regard because it is a very serious issue that certain groups of children in Ireland are getting vaccinated while other children from less well-off...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...coast with one secondary school.Currently, there is a crisis facing the school and the town due to the fact that all the school places in first year for 2019 have been allocated and there are 102 children who have not been allocated a place. They are on a waiting list. This trend is set to continue in 2020, 2021 and after that given the current figures for students in the primary schools...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Greenways Development (16 Oct 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...on the economic development of the two towns, it would also benefit the people living in Donabate and Malahide. Fingal is the fastest growing area in Ireland and we are trying to promote a healthy lifestyle among our children. We are trying to get people out of their cars and off the sofa so that they can enjoy a vigorous and healthy outdoor lifestyle. We need to ensure our children are...