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Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 3: In page 4, between lines 21 and 22, to insert the following: “(ii) the deletion of subsections (4), (4A), (5) and (6),”.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: “(ii) the deletion of subsections (4), (4A), (5) and (6),”.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “(ii) the deletion of subsections (4), (4A), (5) and (6),”.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 6: In page 5, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(b) by the deletion of subsections (3C) and (3D),”.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 7: In page 5, line 11, after “subsections” to insert “(9), (9A), (10), (11),”.

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 8: In page 5, to delete lines 14 and 15 and substitute the following: “8.The Criminal Justice Act 2007 is amended by the deletion of section 25.”.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I welcome the Minister. I am glad to see him here this evening as we debate this important legislation, which, I hope, will be an important piece of the puzzle in terms of addressing the housing crisis. I broadly welcome the Bill which, in my view, addresses many of the issues that existed in the SHD legislation it will replace. I took serious issue with many of the elements of the SHD...

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: The Minister is very welcome to the House. I am proud to be a co-sponsor of the Bill, along with my Civil Engagement Group colleagues. I commend Senator Gavan on introducing the Bill. I also commend Together for Safety on drafting this important legislation and its advocacy for the introduction of safe-access zones. As the Minister well knows, following the 2018 referendum to repeal the...

Seanad: Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People: Statements (9 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I warmly welcome the Minister of State to the House. I thank her for all the work she is doing in this area. I am very aware she works extremely hard and no better woman for the job. I agree with my colleague, Senator Seery Kearney, that there should be a full Cabinet Minister with responsibility for disabilities. As we work towards a national reframing of services for disabled young...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I would like to address the issue of the designation of six Palestinian human rights groups as terrorists by the Israeli Ministry of Defence on 22 October. This designation by the state of Israel is a clear attack on civil society organisations working in defence of human rights and international law. Such actions do little to challenge the view of Israel as a repressive, apartheid regime....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: It is good to see the witnesses and I thank them for the work they are doing. It is great to see that they are opening it out. That is warmly welcomed. I have a couple of questions, including a final one around a community in north Antrim I am very close to. I have touched on it before. As the closing date for submissions for the North-South research programme is next week, can the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I appreciate that. What internal criteria are being applied to ensure we achieve a balance between science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, and social sciences, as well as between large and small projects?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: That would be helpful.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I will speak on behalf of the small island community I touched on before when I spoke to Ms O'Donoghue about Rathlin Island. They would love to get a meeting and connect with the witnesses. I know they have had public and political representatives talking to the witnesses but their main aim is for the witnesses to go to Rathlin. It would be a lovely trip and they would love to meet them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Shared Island Unit: Department of the Taoiseach (4 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I thank Ms O'Donoghue. That is all I have to ask.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I am here today to raise the same issue I raised two weeks ago, namely, adult safeguarding. I stated then that we are in desperate need of adult safeguarding legislation. That week I was responding to a horrendous report in The Irish Times, which revealed that more than 108 instances of abuse were experienced by adults in a HSE care facility in Donegal and that the HSE not only failed to...

Seanad: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: The Minister is very welcome. It is only a few short weeks since we gathered in this Chamber to debate the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021, which saw the sunset clause on emergency powers extended by resolution until the 9 January 2022. We were all hopeful in the intervening weeks that the epidemiological situation would improve to such an extent that these emergency powers, while...