Results 121-140 of 5,587 for speaker:Kevin Humphreys
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I support Senator Kelleher's requests, but the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, must attend the House today. For three years an all-party committee has been raising the issue of the lack of support for people with dementia, but its requests have fallen on deaf ears. The group has met the Minister and organised several open days in the AV room which many Members have attended....
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I formally propose an amendment to the Order of Business that the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, attend the House today to take statements on dementia services.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Under Standing Order 62(3)(b) I request that the division be taken again other than by electronic means.
- Seanad: Beef Sector: Statements (3 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I hope the Minister will take it into consideration that I am probably the most disconnected person from rural Ireland. When I went back through my family tree recently, I discovered that on the Humphreys side we have to go back to the 17th century to find somebody involved in agriculture. It is a little more recent on my mother's side - I think we had someone involved in agriculture in...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Oct 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I wish to raise an issue in respect of National Breastfeeding Week. I have raised many times in the House the lack of supports for women who wish to breastfeed but do not have the opportunity. One of the major concerns is Brexit, which is imminent. People might ask how it will affect breastfeeding but the only breastfeeding milk bank is in Northern Ireland. As yet, there is no clarity as...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: The Minister of State is welcome. I am going to bring him back to his most recent visit to this Chamber on 29 May at which time I raised an issue about apartment dwellers. During the Celtic tiger, more than 200,000 apartments were built. Of that stock, there are approximately 130,000 around our cities and towns and, of those, an estimated 90,000 were built through self-certification during...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: We have a responsibility to deal with this and to help those unfortunate people who have been stuck with these apartments. The questions they are asking are not overly onerous on the Government to fix. There has been mention of supply. The Minister of State was here in 2017 when we talked about the building regulations that permitted co-living and I was the only Senator in the Chamber who...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Forgive me, this will be very quick. I am involved in trying to progress a project comprising 40 public housing units on Fenian Street. The Department seems to be doing its best to delay the building of those 40 units by constantly asking for additional information. Those units will be public housing for people on housing lists. I fully support the project. During the summer, the...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is a pity the Minister of State's Fine Gael colleagues on the council did not see it that way.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: We can stay until 5 p.m.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: Will the Chair allow a second round?
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: If the Minister of State would give way-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: -----on a point of clarification-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is within the Standing Orders-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It is very important, if the Minister of State will yield through Standing Orders, to point out that rent assistance-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I very clearly remember that HAP came in because in the 2000s the rent assistance, which was originally an emergency payment, unfortunately became the norm as a housing policy. It was a huge mistake by that Government. Essentially it was the privatisation of housing. HAP was intended to allow people to go back to work while they were on a rental allowance. Rent allowance should never have...
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: I was not criticising the Minister of State-----
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: It affects the whole of the centre of Dublin.
- Seanad: Housing: Statements (26 Sep 2019)
Kevin Humphreys: No, it is not all of Dublin.