Results 161-180 of 2,438 for speaker:Caít Keane

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: The appeals process is mentioned in the Bill in section 70H(7)(b). A €200 fee is payable by a household when appealing an advisory notice. I know the Minister mentioned in his speech that it would be under that amount, but I suggest that he take a zero off the €200 and apply a fee of €20 to this section. I ask the Minister to make a statement on this. A fee of €200 is way off the...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: That is the Senator's problem.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: As I said, and the Senator has admitted it, he is not proposing anything. He is prepared to keep his head in the sand and pay €9 million in fines. We are not prepared to do that. I welcome the Bill and thank the Minister for bringing it forward.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Senator O'Brien did not read the previous programme for Government.

Seanad: Business of Seanad (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Sit down-----

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Scaremongering.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Scaremongering of the highest order.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Please respect the Chair.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: I raise the issue of robberies, particularly those which affect older people. Senator Conway asked for another organisation for older people and I put on record that there are many such bodies working for older people. These include Age Action Ireland, Older and Bolder, the Irish Senior Citizens Parliament and the national council for older people. These bodies are doing a very fine job,...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Senator Whelan mentioned a precious metals and scrap Bill and I would link those issues. The theft of art on motorways is also connected. I would like a debate on the matter and we should do something about the cash for gold shops. That would be one way of stemming the robberies which affect older people in particular.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: That is sexism gone askew.

Seanad: Social Protection: Statements, Questions and Answers (17 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: I understand where the Minister is coming from because €775 million is the cost to small businesses for absenteeism. The small firms average is seven days, with a national average of nine days. As Senator Quinn pointed out, however, in the public service it is 11 days. If a person who is earning €30,000 takes eleven days off because he is ill, it costs €442 million, a huge cost to...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: I ask the Minister for Health to investigate the VHI in regard to coverage for PET and CT scans. Until this year it provided coverage for those scans but it has introduced new regulations and patients are no longer covered. An eminent medical person said it is detrimental to good patient care and PET scan use is growing elsewhere, yet the VHI is going in the opposite direction. An eminent...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Dúirt an Ceannaire go mbéadh go leor ama ag gach éinne.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Listening to some of the comments, I think the Senator has bypassed some of the Bill without reading it, because what he is asking is for measures to be prescribed in primary legislation that are more suitable for regulations. On the appointment of inspectors, the inspector is a holder of prescribed professional or technical qualifications. One of the Senators - I think it was Senator Walsh...

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: -----and complied with any other prescribed requirements. There will be many prescribed requirements.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Does the Senator want them all in primary legislation?

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: I was just listening to the discussion on the last Bill and the Minister who was here before Deputy Hogan said that something was not suitable for primary legislation. I ask the Opposition to consider what is suitable for primary legislation. I ask the Minister to correct me if I am wrong, but there is nothing in the Bill that says one cannot have an inspection carried out voluntarily....

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: Another problem. They brought that problem on themselves.

Seanad: Water Services (Amendment) Bill 2011: Committee Stage (23 Nov 2011)

Caít Keane: The other problem is that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine can go in and inspect-----