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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: Withdraw that remark.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: He did say at the outset that-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I call for a debate on child benefit and hope the Leader will agree to my request.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I rise today to raise the issue of the price women pay for motherhood. An OECD report published this week indicates that the gender gap in Ireland widens as women have children. Irish women begin to earn less than men after they have children. I am speaking not about equality between men and women but about the earning potential of women after they have children. The OECD report also...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister and thank him for what is a very strong document on the environment and the issue of climate change. My first question was going to be on the climate change Bill, but he has stated it will be up for discussion on Tuesday. I was delighted to hear him state climate change was not an academic concept or a scientific process but an urgent reality for billions of people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: It is an important issue for Ireland. Does the priority substance in water issue include fluoridation of water, an issue the committee has discussed? I welcome the blueprint to safeguard EU water supplies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I asked about the fluoridation of water. F-gases were mentioned, the only man-made gases over which we have control and which can only be destroyed by sunlight. When the strategy is being set for various countries, will this be taken into consideration? This issue will also be discussed at next Tuesday's meeting. Will it be possible for us to discuss it at some stage? Councillor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I apologise to Deputy Kevin Humphreys.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I do not want an answer on the issue of F-gases today because it will be discussed next Tuesday. However, the committee must be briefed on it. The EUFORES conference on climate change and energy efficiency will be organised by the Minister, Deputy Pat Rabbitte. There will also be The Gathering programme and the Minister will receive an invitation as a speaker. It has been recognised by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: European Union Presidency and Environment Council Meeting: Discussion (13 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I asked about it because of the priority substances in water issue.

Seanad: Youth Work: Motion (12 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister to the House. The full title of her office is the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, which is no accident. It was designed, as she was designed, to fit the Department. If one examines her background in social work and where she came from then one will know that there is no better person, in any Department, than Deputy Fitzgerald. She has done a lot of youth...

Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: Our poet from Templeogue, Austin Clarke, who died in 1974, wrote a very nice poem that was published in a medical journal in 1970 on the issue of contraception. I do not have time to read it out-----

Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: There will be no recitation.

Seanad: Report of the Expert Group on the Judgment in the A, B and C v. Ireland Case: Statements (6 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: The debate we are having today is very sensitive and at the outset I wish to acknowledge the work of the expert group, under the expert chairmanship of Mr. Justice Seán Ryan. I also wish to acknowledge the work of the late Trevor West, a former Senator, who worked alongside former Senators Mary Robinson and John Horgan in presenting a Bill on contraception to this House in the 1970s, which...

Seanad: Statute of Limitations (Amendment) (Home Remediation-Pyrite) Bill 2012: Second Stage (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I am aware he is standing in for the Minister, but this is also his baby. I thank those who brought forward this Bill as it deals with an important issue. It is important to keep this issue and debate live and to ensure that every pressure possible is applied to ensure action is taken. On that basis, I welcome the Bill. I am not sure the Bill...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: The Senator spoke of corruption and then said there is no corruption at all.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: If there were that type of politics then I would admit it.

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: Politicians should not suffer amnesia and what one says today should count tomorrow. With regard to climate change, I support Senator Aideen Hayden. The Government has given a commitment and it is contained in the legislative programme for the climate change Bill in section G. I would support moving the measure forward, if we could, to section A. The Minister for the Environment, Community...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: I wish to thank Fáilte Ireland from which I met a delegation yesterday. The body has given great support to me and the Leader of the Seanad, Senator Maurice Cummins because we shall bring over 200 MEPs and MPs to Ireland in 2013 for a conference on energy, its production and preservation. Senator Michael Mullins spoke about The Gathering earlier. I thank Fáilte Ireland and the Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business. (5 Dec 2012)

Caít Keane: Politicians sometimes suffer from amnesia. Fianna Fáil Members signed up to a property tax and now they oppose it. Reference is made to corruption and then Members say there is none at all.