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Seanad: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (14 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I welcome the clarification on the other issue raised by the Minister of State, namely, the legacy licences that are not being used, or which could be used to block others from doing anything. I accept what the Minister of State is saying in regard to the prospecting licence and the difference between that and the actual mining licence. However, it should be left open to the Minister to...

Seanad: Minerals Development Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (14 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I move amendment No. 3:In page 53, to delete lines 33 to 40, and in page 54, to delete lines 1 to 5.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Government did nothing.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Government has been in place for four and a half years and has done nothing.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Government has done nothing since.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Tósóidh mé leis na dreamanna nach bhfuil ró-shásta, b'fhéidir. I find it amusing to hear the talk about child care announced in the budget. My understanding of the early childhood care and education scheme is that it is three hours per day. It is preschool, not child care. As a father of five, I know there is a major difference between child care and preschool.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Preschool is an education support as well. The attempt to sell a couple of extra hours per day as child care is incorrect.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Another group of people who are very disappointed today, I imagine, are lone parents who have suffered savage cuts under this Government, in particular the cuts introduced by the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Burton, last year. She reduced the age of eligibility to seven years. It is a shame that something was not done in that area. Since we are discussing child care, it is a...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Let us consider the analysis done by the Department of Finance on the way this will impact on people. We can see that people earning over €50,000, €60,000 or €70,000 benefit. The top 14% of earners are going to get three times more money back into their pockets than people on the lower levels. How is that progressive or fair? People on low incomes are finding it...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: We have shown that this Government has a great battle on its hands, especially on the water issue. There is nothing in the budget to assuage any of the people who have not paid their water charges and who have no intention of paying their water charges. There is nothing in the budget to show me that this Government has a real strategy to end the crisis in our health system, for example, the...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: There is nothing in it either to show me that there is a clear strategy around ending the crisis in housing. If anything, the strategy is putting more and more resources into the hands of private developers and allowing the market to rule itself. We have seen what a disaster that can be. When we were doing analysis of the figures on Raidió na Gaeltachta earlier we noticed that there...

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: That is not the case according to the figures we have seen. This was not denied by the Minister of State at the table with us at the time.

Seanad: Budget 2016: Statements (13 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: The Minister of State should tell us what is in this for small and medium-sized enterprises. There is little here for rural areas. For farmers, this is simply an extension of what is in place already. The Government is hammering the Gaeltacht and Irish language organisations. Basically, the Government has carried on the Tory economics. The Labour Party is on board with that agenda. The...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Cuirim céad fáilte roimh an Aire Stáit. Táim thar a bheith buíoch di as teacht isteach ar an gceist seo. I hope the Minister of State is aware of the current crisis in the psychiatric services in Galway. I know she is aware of the issue that arose at that hospital last May, which led to nurses taking industrial action in relation to health and safety and staffing...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I agree with the Minister of State’s initial statement about distressed people in situations of suicide. The family’s question is how was such a person allowed to leave the place.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: It should not be happening and we need to examine that another day. The one phrase in the Minister of State’s reply I take umbrage with is: “Any indication that Galway mental health service is an unsafe service is unfounded, . . .”. After a weekend like last weekend when an acute psychiatric unit was short four nurses and the nurses feel patient safety and their own...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Mental Health Services (8 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Is it not ultimately the Minister of State's responsibility?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Central Heating Systems: Regulation of Plumbing Standards (7 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: I will let the Deputy back in, but first we might get a response.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions: Central Heating Systems: Regulation of Plumbing Standards (7 Oct 2015)

Trevor Ó Clochartaigh: Does anybody else wish to respond to those points made by Deputy Ó Snodaigh? No. I might just ask a few questions myself. One thing that intrigued me is the fact that we were discussing the development of the Irish standards but Ms Neary's presentation mentioned the fact that the British standards are the ones that are being used. Could she explain why this is the case? Why is the...