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Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: I move amendment No. 6: In page 4, lines 5 to 8, to delete all words from and including “where” in line 5 down to and including “funds—” in line 8 and substitute the following: “where the institution is an educational or medical institution—”.This amendment would mean that paragraph (b) would apply to all educational and medical...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: We will be looking at completely different wording and a range of other issues not related to section 37, such rent supplement. It is an unusual situation. Senator Zappone and I have not pushed amendments today and instead will seek to resubmit them. This will be somewhat complicated by the fact that if we do not have sight of the actual wording of the Government amendments prior to Report...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: There is usually a deadline for submitting Report Stage amendments and if the Government did not submit its amendments until an hour before the deadline, we would only get them at that time, yet we would have to respond. I ask that the Government submit the amendments straight away so that they can be circulated now.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: Thank you.

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: Guidelines could be helpful. I understand that the Minister says the Attorney General would prefer to have a more specific three-part test because guidelines without tests are problematic under Article 15 of the Constitution, which states it is for the Oireachtas to set out principles and policies in legislation and the courts to decide within that. There needs to be more clarity. I accept...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: I move amendment No. 9: In page 4, line 34, to delete “paragraph (b)” and substitute “paragraphs (a) or (b)”.Amendment No. 9 is similar to an earlier amendment that I tabled. It seeks to ensure that the presumption arriving in paragraph (d) would apply equally to publicly and privately funded institutions, and not just to publicly funded ones. Amendment No. 10...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: Exactly. Paragraph (h) is designed to safeguard the right to privacy. It emphasises that the private life of an employee, or a prospective employee, is not the business of a person's employer. I have not been fully reassured that these two issues are dealt with in Report Stage amendments, that the Minister of State has indicated. I accept that there is now a restriction in terms of the...

Seanad: Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Averil Power: I was very optimistic before the referendum.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Harbours and Piers (30 Jun 2015)

Averil Power: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Hayes, to the House. As he is aware, last week the Committee of Public Accounts published a report into the six fishery harbour centres. On reading the report, I share the committee's concern that the harbours are managed properly and that the employment potential of our fishing, seafood processing, boat repair and other industries are maximised. The...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Harbours and Piers (30 Jun 2015)

Averil Power: I welcome the Minister of State's acknowledgement that Howth is more than just a fishing harbour, and he listed some of the major events held there that help to attract people to the area, including the prawn festival, the Asgard celebrations and major leisure events, but I cannot stress strongly enough how central the availability of free parking is to the success of such events. Howth...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Harbours and Piers (30 Jun 2015)

Averil Power: -----and the Comptroller and Auditor General. I ask him to reiterate to the Minister that the issue needs to be considered from a broader perspective and not just from a fishing point of view, which was the approach taken by the Committee of Public Accounts. That approach is deeply flawed. We need a proper cost-benefit analysis to show that the proposal stands up, and I am fully confident...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: ICT in Primary Schools: Discussion (6 May 2015)

Averil Power: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. I requested that the committee discuss this topic because there was a wide gap between aspiration and reality. The witnesses are speaking from the same page in respect of what can be done with ICT but the reality on the ground is very different. As the INTO representatives pointed out, implementation is patchy and varies between schools. The...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Averil Power: I acknowledge that the Minister has taken on some of the feedback from this House. We had an extensive discussion on the Bill in this House both on Committee and Report Stages. The Fianna Fáil Senators, Sinn Féin Senators and university Senators all spoke against the Bill and we voted against the legislation when it left this House because we had concerns about the procedure that...

Seanad: Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: [Seanad Bill amended by the Dáil] Report and Final Stages (28 Apr 2015)

Averil Power: It is the only one that qualifies.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Future Funding of Higher Education: Expert Group (22 Apr 2015)

Averil Power: I have just one question as many of my questions have already been asked. I wish to ask about flexibility of delivery. We have a system whereby free fees are available for full-time undergraduate courses but no maintenance grants, as already mentioned, for postgraduates and part-time courses, so we have a very divided system compared with other countries which have much more flexibility....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Third Level Student Grant System: Union of Students in Ireland (22 Apr 2015)

Averil Power: I thank Ms Hoey and Mr. Stitt for attending the committee today. The USI paper was excellent. Last night, I spoke at the USI student achievement awards and there has been an increasing professionalisation from that organisation over the past year, which is really positive. It is useful for us, rather than criticising the system, to propose changes that can actually be made. I have a...

Seanad: National Council for Special Education Inclusion Support Services: Statements (22 Apr 2015)

Averil Power: I welcome the Minister to the House. I will make my opening remarks and then leave because, unfortunately, our education committee is sitting at the same time as this debate, which has happened a few times and is an issue I have brought to the attention of the Leader previously. I apologise but I will read the Official Report of the debate. I welcome the opportunity to discuss the issue of...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Averil Power: I move amendment No. 2: In page 11, to delete lines 10 to 18 and substitute the following: " "DAHR procedure" means a donor-assisted human reproduction procedure, being any procedure performed in a Member State of the European Union including the State, with the objective of it resulting in the implantation of an embryo in the womb of the woman on whose request the procedure is performed,...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Averil Power: I thank the Minister for her response. I appreciate the challenge in recognising services that have been carried out overseas, particularly in such a sensitive area. That is why I did not draft an amendment to recognise services carried out anywhere in the world because that would have been very problematic. Instead, I restricted it to the European Union. I agree that there is a need for...

Seanad: Children and Family Relationships Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (30 Mar 2015)

Averil Power: I move amendment No. 26: In page 23, to delete all words from and including "that- " in line 37 down to and including line 38, and in page 24, to delete lines 1 to 3 and substitute the following:"whether the procedure was performed inside or outside the State,".These amendments are grouped and are designed to allow the courts to assign parentage in cases where somebody was conceived through...

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