Results 15,901-15,920 of 16,057 for speaker:Mary Coughlan
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: This is not necessarily so, when we go further down the line. The best interests of the child are paramount when one examines adoptions and all those other issues that have not come to any finality. The precise information the Senator is talking about would go to the court and then a determination would be made on parentage. The court would have to make that decision. When this legislation...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: We have looked at this section which provides for the Title of the Act and the commencement of the different parts. I have received advice from the Office of the Attorney General and through the Parliamentary Counsel that the words should stand and that all the drafting of the provisions of this section complies with best current practice. It would give no additionality to the Short Title and...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: I knew when I came to the Upper House that I would find a few more complications with the legislation.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: I appreciate there is some written opinion by some journalist who has a particular issue with this legislation personally and, as a consequence, it has got a good deal of airing. Senator Brian Hayes said the explanatory memorandum reflected the issue of bestowing rights as a consequence of life events. That is true, but it only reflects the life events referred to in the legislation. It would...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: On the issue of surrogate children, if, for example, the child is born in the United Kingdom, that child would be registered there. Given that we recognise British birth certificates, the involvement of the Ard Chláraitheoir is something we would query because the child has actually been registered and has a birth certificate. The Senator is talking about a child who has been adopted as a...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: We are getting ourselves into an area well outside the parameters of this legislation. Our only focus would be on the basis that the child would have a birth certificate. What the Senator is speaking about is a legal quagmire.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: That is correct. By right, if anyone accepts money for a child â we all have our views on that issue â that child probably would be in a legal limbo because if the biological father's name was on the birth certificate, then that child would have a father. However, that man's wife would not be that child's mother.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
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- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: ââto adopt that child because that child's birth mother is someone else in the United Kingdom.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: Under the legislation as it stands, that child could not be adopted by that woman even though she is the wife of the father, on the basis that there is a legal mother.
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: That mother cannot remove that right of being the mother. One cannot quench the fact that one has ever been a mother in this world. It leaves that child in a legal limbo. I am speaking off the top of my head and I am not a legal person. If one is talking about the real father of the child and the wife of the father, I assume they would get legal advice on the basis of guardianship. I am not...
- Seanad: Civil Registration Bill 2003: Committee Stage. (18 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: Not from the United States. What we are looking at is an issue which is well beyond the realms of this legislation, although there is obviously an issue there. All we can do is draw to the attention of the Ard Chláraitheoir that there is an issue, especially on the basis that the child has a birth certificate and the legalities of where that child stands, and more particularly where the...
- Written Answers — Departmental Funding: Departmental Funding (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: The detailed information requested by the Deputy is being compiled and a letter enclosing the information will issue to the Deputy in the near future.
- Written Answers — Consultancy Contracts: Consultancy Contracts (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: The detailed information requested by the Deputy is being compiled and a letter enclosing the information will issue to the Deputy in the near future.
- Written Answers — Community Development: Community Development (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: The family and community services resource centre programme provides financial assistance to projects to assist with the staffing and equipping community development activities. The emphasis in the projects is on the involvement of local communities in developing approaches to tackle the problems they face and on creating successful partnerships between the voluntary and statutory agencies in...
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: The North Eastern Health Board was contacted on behalf of the person in question and has confirmed that an application for rent supplement was lodged on 27 January 2004. The board has advised that it will assess the person's application on the basis of the provisions which pertained prior to 31 January 2004 and a determination will be made as soon as all of the necessary information has been...
- Written Answers — Departmental Staff: Departmental Staff (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: There are three staff in the Department's press office. They include the press officer who is a higher executive officer on a payscale of â¬37,520 to â¬47,606, the deputy press officer who is an executive officer with a payscale of â¬26,006 to â¬41,143 and one staff officer, who is in charge of administration, on a payscale of â¬28,250 to â¬37,599. I have also appointed on a contract...
- Written Answers — Press Statements: Press Statements (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: All press statements issued by the Department are posted to the Department's website which can be accessed at www.welfare.ie The Department's website enables the Department to deliver its information and other services effectively. The press office area of the website has a mailing list which enables a subscriber to receive the press releases of the Department by e-mail, as soon as they are...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: Under social welfare legislation, the social insurance status of spouses and relatives engaged in a family business can vary with the circumstances. A number of different situations can arise. Spouses or relatives who are engaged in a business partnership are treated as individual self-employed contributors and can make social insurance contributions which may allow them, in due course, to...
- Written Answers — Social Insurance: Social Insurance (17 Feb 2004)
Mary Coughlan: According to the records of my Department, no PRSI contributions were received in respect of the person concerned, from the beginning of 1985 up to the year ending 5 April 1988.