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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: I thank the Minister and other witnesses for attending. I have a couple of questions, which I will keep as brief as possible. I wish to return to what the Minister said about the targeted scheme not being fully ready by September. Does that mean people will not be able to avail of the targeted scheme if it is going to be dealt with manually? Will it be available on schedule in September?...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: Is that as a right or do various assessments have to be done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: I have to go to another meeting shortly. It was on people who have an income from a former family home which is in negative equity and who had to move out because it was too small for their family. That is a big issue in Dublin. That income should not be taken into account because it is offset against the debt.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: It is a separate issue. Many families in my constituency and right across Dublin and other urban areas only have that income. It is not on an asset, it is on a liability.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Affordable Child Care Scheme: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: It would be a very targeted measure where one could show it was one's former family home which is in negative equity and that one was now renting a new home.
- Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: As clearly outlined by my colleague, Senator Mark Daly, it is clear from Arlene Foster's disgraceful comments yesterday on the Irish language that it is coming under attack north of the Border. From speaking to European colleagues, it has come to my attention that the Irish language may also come under attack in the European Union as a result of Brexit. As the Government has decided that...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: I will be as brief as possible. My questions are directed to the Department officials. The Irish Water assumed compliance rate to the end of 2017 was 73%, with expected cash receipts of €259 million. Following the suspension of water charges in the first quarter of 2017, the Department of Finance adjusted the expected cash receipts amount by 25% to €194 million. On what...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: On what basis was it assumed that the compliance rate would be 73% given actual compliance in 2015 was 53%? On what basis was it expected there would be a 20% increase?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: As matters progressed, did the Department not see a need to readjust that figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: So there is no reality to the 73% rate?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: Is Ms Fitzpatrick speaking about an atypical pattern from abroad?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: My second question was whether the Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government will be allocating resources to the public pay deal.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: NewERA, National Treasury Management Agency (7 Feb 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: It is a question I am very eager to get a response to.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: I will keep my questions as brief as possible. I thank our guests for attending. I have three questions for an tUasal Ó Tuathail. Will group water schemes subsidised by the State be affected by any constitutional change? Will the constitutional shift place any additional pressure on them to be taken over by Irish Water? Are there international examples of explicit constitutional...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: If a number of referendums are held on the same day, would the €20 million-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: Would it increase a bit or would it be capped at €20 million?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government and Mr. Séamas Ó Tuathail, SC (25 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: And how many amendments were decided on the same day.
- Seanad: Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (24 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: I welcome the Minister to the House and thank her for her comprehensive explanation of the Bill's provisions. Fianna Fáil welcomes the Bill, as it gives legislative effect to Article 42A, which was inserted in the Constitution by the children's rights referendum. Fianna Fáil supported that referendum and I engaged in a great deal of door-to-door canvassing on it. As such, I am...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: The domestic metering contract was awarded in 2013 and had an objective of installing more than a million domestic meters over a three-year programme. It had a budget of €614 million, including VAT. There is going to be an underspend of around €148 million on that because the full level of water metering cannot be undertaken due to a number of reasons. The re-profiling of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government, and Department of Finance (18 Jan 2017)
Lorraine Clifford Lee: Has the decision already been made on that?