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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: By all accounts it has. It cannot be extracted and the Minister of State knows that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: None and we all know it. That is the problem.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: There is none I said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: You should know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: No but you are responsible for this industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Impact of Peat Shortages on the Horticulture Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Nov 2022)

Regina Doherty: You are responsible for the single raw product that is needed for this industry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise about that. I am on the campus and, hopefully, am secure in making a contribution. I thank the gentlemen for their contributions. The information is very pertinent to what we are doing. I have two brief questions and then a matter for consideration. What is the status of the drafting of the heads of the Bill-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I refer to the incapacitated pensions legislation. Are we at draft heads stage yet? If not, when can we expect to see them? My second question is around Judge Catherine Murphy's report on child maintenance. Despite the long delay in receiving the report due to Covid - Judge Murphy worked very hard during the Covid pandemic to try to get the report to us - the fact that it has not been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise. In the programme for Government, we established that we were going to bring forward an incapacitated parents' pension payment for all those parents who, at a very early stage in their working lives, might give birth to a baby who would need lifelong caring. Therefore, their capacity to even reach the ten-year threshold was never going to be met. It is now being assigned as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I apologise for interrupting again. It appears to me, from the details published a number of weeks ago, that when a woman is not working, her pension payments are not being made by herself, by the State or by her employer, which is perpetuating the situation we have with regard to the current contributory State pension when women do not work for years. To date, and before the new model is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: No. I am good.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Sorry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Gender Equality: Recommendations of the Report of the Citizens Assembly on Gender Equality: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I have been listening all morning. I am concerned about this issue. I said to the Taoiseach, when he appeared before the committee a couple of weeks ago, that it is a bizarre situation when a brand-new policy that is 20 years in the making will continue to perpetuate a pension pay gap, as obvious as the nose on our face, that exists with the current State contributory pension. We need to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I also welcome Ambassador Nader on his return visit to Ireland. My son did an Erasmus programme in Austria a number of years ago and was made very welcome. I hope the ambassador is also receiving a warm welcome here. I also draw my colleagues' attention to the presence of Mr. Conor Dolphin in the Visitors Gallery. He is from Galway to do intern work with us and is very welcome. The Order...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I join you, a Leas-Chathaoirligh, in those congratulations. It is lovely when somebody else, not just your own, recognises your brilliance. I wish the Cathaoirleach congratulations and continued success. Senators Dolan, Carrigy, Ahearn and Lombard have looked for probably two debates. One is about special schools and their locations and, particularly, the length of the journeys some of...

Seanad: Sitting Arrangements: Motion (26 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in the Standing Orders relative to Public Business, unless otherwise ordered, the following arrangements shall apply in relation to the sitting of the Seanad on 27th October, 2022: (1) The Seanad shall meet at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 27th October, 2022, and the following arrangements shall apply: (a) Standing Orders 29 and 30 shall stand suspended;...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding arrangements for the sittings of the House on Tuesday, 25 October, and, Wednesday, 26 October 2022, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, Private Members' business, Seanad Electoral (University Members) (Amendment) Bill 2020 – Second Stage (resumed), to be taken at 1.15 p.m., to conclude after 20...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I will do that.