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Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: If anybody is talking about blame for failure to deal with Croke Park II, I would refer him or her to the previous Government. This Bill is a surprisingly short one comprising only 13 sections and is reasonably succinct in its aims. It enables the reduction of remuneration for certain public servants on higher rates of pay in excess of €65,000, it suspends the payment of increments...

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: That is unfair.

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Is this a fig leaf for Sinn Féin's lack of economic policy?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Is €65,000 not enough for the Senator?

Seanad: Financial Emergency Measures in the Public Interest Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: We all favour that. The Senator should tell us something we do not know.

Seanad: Special Educational Needs Services Provision: Motion (29 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: There is a great deal of expertise in the area of education in this House. My expertise is limited to third level but undoubtedly there have been some interesting contributions and I imagine the Minister will agree that there are some expert people in the House. I thank Senator Mullen for bringing forward this good motion. It is important to take some time to recognise that we have come a...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I would also like to raise the issue of the "Prime Time" programme last night on crèche care. I express my sympathies to the parents of the children featured in the programme and those whose children were being cared for in the various crèches. I can fully understand why the programme is not being rebroadcast on the RTE Player website. I raised this issue in the House last week....

Seanad: Criminal Law (Human Trafficking) (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I think what Senator Norris is alluding to is some of the concern expressed publicly when the Bodies exhibition was touring Ireland. There was more than a suggestion that the provenance of some of the bodies on display was deeply suspect. Senator Norris is to be congratulated for putting forward this and the previous amendment. There is no doubt that what we would regard as normal and good...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I remind the House that today is the last day for filing property tax returns online. I note that up to now 1.35 million people have filed returns.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Will the Leader ask the Minister for Finance to grant an extra couple of days because older people are finding it somewhat difficult to deal with the returns? I believe that in time this tax will be seen as one of the most progressive introduced by a Government and will bring genuine accountability at local authority level.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: More importantly, it will put money in the pockets of local authorities.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I wish-----

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: -----we had been able to bring this in before the Opposition had destroyed the economy when it could have been used to replace central taxation.

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: On a positive note, I notice that residential property transactions were up by 14% in the first quarter of 2013. As the Leader knows, I have a particular interest in housing. What is interesting is that the number of loans issued fell by 19% and that the market is effectively being taken over by cash buyers at a cost to first-time house buyers. We are also seeing rents rise. What we are...

Seanad: Order of Business (28 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I am. Will the Leader request that the Minister for Health come to the House to set out his plan to improve maternal care services?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I concur with Senator Norris's comments on the recording of the very brutal murder of the young soldier killed in London. I do not know whether it is true, but there is a rumour that the footage is available to be viewed on YouTube. It is wholly inappropriate and we must be very conscious of it. It is absolutely outrageous. I am not in favour of censorship but this goes beyond any concept...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (23 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Like many in Ireland, I am proud of the prominent role played by Google and Apple in our economy. I accept the statements by the Tánaiste and the Taoiseach that we comply with all of the OECD requirements and are not designated as a tax haven. However, an explanation of two statements is required. According to Apple's CEO, incentive arrangements that it was offered in 1980 factored...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (21 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Irrespective of there being or not being any legal obligation on us to legislate, and I believe there is, would the witnesses accept there is a moral obligation on us to legislate, given in particular the evidence this committee has received in the last number of days, especially the evidence of the experts in the fields of both psychiatry and obstetrics? I refer to an earlier question...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (Resumed) (20 May 2013)

Aideen Hayden: The answer is "No."