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Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I welcome our guests in the Gallery. It is great to have such interest in this issue from an academic point of view. I offer the formal support of Fianna Fáil for this Bill. We have continued to support this Bill and we see it as vitally important for women in Ireland today.

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: That is fine. I urge the Minister of State to accept the Sinn Féin amendment, not to push this to a vote and to allow the passage of this Bill. We cannot wait any longer for the gender pay gap to narrow. There are gender pay gap deniers out there and we need to confront their denials with hard data. I do not want my daughter facing the gender pay gap but, equally, I do not want my...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Education and Skills, Deputy Mary Mitchell O'Connor, for coming to the Chamber to discuss the urgent situation at St. Molaga's senior national school in Balbriggan. When I submitted this Commencement matter, may I point out that I used the following wording: "The need for the Minister for Education and Skills to fast-track the essential...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: -----of two primary schools. I thank the Minister of State for that correction. I am sure she will understand, in particular, the frustration faced by the very excellent principal of this school, who has done everything in her power to facilitate the Department and the learning environment for these students. St. Molaga's senior national school is an excellent school. It has an excellent...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: We do not have an update on the position. There is a draft report. When will the school get sight of that draft report? What is the next stage? When will the next stage take place? When will St. Molaga's have its actual school building? This has been going on for far too long. The new prefab to which the Minister of State referred is to facilitate the reduction in the pupil-teacher...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: When will St. Molaga's get its school?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: When will St. Molaga's get its school?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I understand that there is a process, but how quickly can we get the school?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Can we fast-track the process?

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: That related to the prefab.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: The Minister of State's comment was disingenuous.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I apologise for missing the first half of this session. I was in the Seanad speaking on a matter but the contributions I have heard from this committee have been excellent. I thank the witnesses for that. I have read other contributions also. I was very happy to hear that the approach being taken is to not pitch different groups of women against each other. I strongly believe that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Would Ms O'Reilly's organisation be happy with the removal of the economic element if we were to keep the article in the Constitution rather than deleting it entirely?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (Resumed) (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: No. I was eager to pose that question and I appreciate the responses I received.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (25 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I thank the Minister for his comprehensive overview of this extremely important legislation which I agree is vital to protect the financial system. Such legislation is becoming increasingly important, given the globalised nature of the world in which we live and the cross-border terrorism that often takes place. Fianna Fáil welcomes the transposition of the directive into domestic law....

Seanad: Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (25 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I will stick to that. Like everyone else, I was horrified when the facts of this scandal unfolded over a number of weeks. As a woman, they were horrific to hear. I have had a number of smear tests over the years and have been grateful for the screening programme, as have been the many hundreds of thousands of women who have gone through it and received results, be they clear or indicative...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Like Senator Ardagh, I wish to raise the issue of BusConnects, which is a major issue here in Dublin. As a matter of priority, the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport, Deputy Ross, should come to the Chamber for a full, dedicated debate on the BusConnects issue. The BusConnects plan proposes a redesign of the bus network in Dublin. This was announced in July, conveniently when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I suggest to the Minister that the reason it has not been dealt with in 25 years is that it was not really on the political agenda. The Government saw the strength of the "Yes" vote last May and that is what got it onto the political agenda after 25 years, rather than the fear of constitutional challenges in the court. If this article is deleted, how does the Government propose to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: The issue of childcare is very real. We do not need a Citizens' Assembly to dissect it. We know it is a problem and we can see the solutions but will this Government realistically provide for gender equality by addressing the childcare issue? It locks a huge number of women out of the economic workforce and the women I talk to who are caring for their children in the home are there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Thirty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Role of Women) Bill: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I would like to direct this question specifically to the NWCI, but if anyone else has any views, I would like to hear them also. Given that the vast majority of care in the home is performed by women, will shifting everything to gender-neutral language do anything to shift the cultural default setting whereby care in the home falls to women to the detriment of their own economic independence?