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Seanad: Gambling Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (14 May 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...thank the Acting Chair. I thank my colleague, Senator Ahearn, for allowing me to go ahead of him. I say "well done" to the Minister of State on this Bill because it is a long time in the making and I know how much work and effort he has put into it in the past number of years. I want to say at the outset that it will certainly be a very positive legacy once it is passed. I very...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Regina Doherty: I wish to raise a revision that was made by the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Roderic O'Gorman, to the appointment of the power of attorney process. A year ago, when the power of attorney legislation was transferred from the Department of Justice to the Department of disability and inclusion, the amendment that we made on behalf of the State made...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Regina Doherty: I want to speak today about cash. In recent weeks we have seen major inroads in announcements of policies by the European Commission and the European Parliament to introduce a digital euro and immediate transfer payments to try to commercialise and digitalise how people interact and do their business in society.While that is all very welcome and most of us have probably easily transitioned...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: Christopher Norris is a 53-year-old gentleman who has been living in a nursing home for the past 13 years, since he had an operation that went desperately wrong and resulted in a brain injury. The nursing home he is living in is absolutely gorgeous. I know that because my dad was there for 18 months. My dad shared a corridor with Chris and lived two bedrooms up. They look after him...

Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chair. First, I thank Senators Black and Higgins, not just for this particular motion and for the opportunity to debate yesterday. We have had multiple debates over the past number of years and if I was to be asked by anybody on the road tomorrow what the most important issue to Senator Black is, this is the one I associate most with her and that she has raised so often in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: European Elections 2024, Voting Rights and Combatting Disinformation: Discussion (21 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: .... Mr. O'Leary referred to trying to validate the commission's existence as an independent authority with regard to information. I think it has already done a superb job. For politicians like me and my colleagues, it is lovely to be able to have somebody who is independent to whom we can point people. They do not have to believe what I am saying to them because there are probably equal...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...on Assisted Dying, extension of reporting deadline, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023 - Committee Stage, to be taken at 3.15 p.m. and to adjourn at 4.30 p.m. if not previously concluded; No. 3, statements on the situation in the Middle East, to be taken at 4.30 p.m. and to conclude at 6 p.m. if not previously concluded,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: First, I thank everyone for their kind wishes. They are greatly appreciated. I could not agree with Senator Gallagher more. There is a race to digitalise society, which is grand, because it is much more efficient, less costly and much easier to manage but there is a whole cohort of people who cannot even send a text message. That should not be a judgmental kind of thing. It should be a...

Seanad: Orders of Reference of the Joint Committee on Assisted Dying: Motion (20 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...Assisted Dying, as agreed by Order of the Seanad of 2nd February, 2023, be amended in paragraph (4), by the deletion of ‘within nine months of the first public meeting of the Joint Committee’ and the substitution therefor of ‘not later than 27th March, 2024’.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (7 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, it is proposed that the business will not be taken today, and expressions of sympathy on the passing of former Taoiseach John Bruton will be heard now. On the conclusion of expressions of sympathy, the Seanad will adjourn to 9.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: Quite rightly, there will be many tributes paid to John Bruton today, as a politician, our EU ambassador, a former Taoiseach, a public representative and one of the youngest people ever elected to Dáil Éireann. He was all of that and more to me and to many of us here. He was a role model and, for me, a supporter as I began my political career. My earliest memory of him is from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023 – Second Stage, to be taken at 11.45 a.m. and to conclude at 1.15 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the time allocated to the opening remarks of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, those of group spokespersons not to exceed ten minutes...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...we are doubling the offering so quickly is a real intention to recognise that the CAO process is sometimes difficult. I have done it three times with three of my eldest children - two perfectly, and one completely messed up - and I do not think I am an unintelligent person. It is a difficult process to navigate, but it is wonderful we now have alternative choices for our young people to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Senator. Senator Conway spoke about the Wayfinding Centre, which is a lovely and wonderful initiative that was opened by Vision Ireland yesterday with the support of certain Departments. It allows people with mobility issues to access public modes of transport, to make sure they can navigate them and, if they cannot, for the State to learn why they cannot so we can make changes....

Seanad: Finance (State Guarantees, International Financial Institution Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (1 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...to allocate €50 million of current MFF funding. It shows the strength of unity in the European Union behind Ukraine against the illegal invasion by Russia. The €50 million will be made up of grants and loans to the Ukrainian people through the MFF. This legislation will allow us to increase Ireland's allocation to current 2022 to 2027 MFF funding. It also allows for the...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...do ten times as much if they were let but I put on record that their commitment really shines through. I commend the HSE on the near-annual recruitment of NCHDs. We have this two-year rotation and go off to other countries to make sure we get our doctors back so that we have junior doctors in our hospitals. We do the same for our nurses. We go off to the four corners of the world...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Jan 2024)

Regina Doherty: On our group's part and our party's part, I express the real sadness we felt about the news we got about John Connor's passing on Saturday. I will not outline again his esteemed career, which you have just outlined for us, a Chathaoirligh. He was undoubtedly a public servant to his core. While you are correct in saying he was a man of real intellect, he was probably one of the most humble...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, the Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023 - Committee and Remaining Stages, to be taken today at 12.45 p.m. and the proceedings thereon shall, if not previously concluded, be brought to a conclusion after three hours by the putting of one question from the Chair which shall, in relation to amendments, include only those set down or...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Jan 2024)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Chair and everybody here. I did not realise until recently the value of kindness and how much it means to people when they are distressed, so thank you. Senators Conway, Ahearn and Dolan, led by Senator Casey, are looking for a debate on the hospitality sector. We hear daily of the struggles, not just from Adrian Cummins, who is famous in nearly every household at this stage,...