Results 361-380 of 1,760 for speaker:Aideen Hayden

Seanad: Finance (Local Property Tax) Bill 2012: Committee Stage (20 Dec 2012)

Aideen Hayden: I have raised the following matter twice on the Order of Business as well as yesterday on Second Stage. There is confusion in this measure as to whether the tax is a property tax or a local services tax. It is drafted as though it is a tax on the owner of a property rather than the occupier. If it were a true local services provision, it would be levied on occupiers. I agree with the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Jan 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I, too, welcome colleagues back for the new year and I express my sincere sympathies to Senator Deirdre Clune on the loss of her mother, the wife of the late Peter Barry, who achieved great things for this country, particularly in his work in Northern Ireland. I refer to the inauguration this week of the US President, Barack Obama. I was struck by the number of things we have in common with...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I also wish to express my sympathy to the family of our colleague, Senator Imelda Henry, and to the family of a former colleague, Éamon de Buitléar. Like other speakers, I wish to express my horror at the death of Detective Garda Adrian Donohoe. It is important to remember that there are areas of this country, and particularly of this city, where people walk around with impunity and where...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome Deputy McGuinness and congratulate my colleague, Senator Bacik, on her excellent maiden speech on agriculture.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Mairead McGuinness, MEP (29 Jan 2013)

Aideen Hayden: On food and food quality, a recent United Kingdom survey stated that the number of consumers who felt they were getting enough fruit and vegetables in their diet had fallen in the course of the recession, from 60% to 48%, and there was evidence that the recession is driving the race to the bottom in terms of consumers buying cheap processed food because the evidence is that it is more...

Seanad: Order of Business (31 Jan 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the fact that today the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, and the Minister for Education, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, will launch guidelines for mental health and suicide prevention in post-primary schools. One in ten children and young people in the country experience mental health problems. We are all only too well aware of the spate of suicides we...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Like previous speakers, on behalf of the Labour Party group I wish Senator Martin McAleese all the best in his future career. I have never had many dealings with him but he struck me as being an intelligent and dignified man who brought an enormous presence to any project in which he has taken part. I wish we had seen more of him in the House. I have every confidence the Taoiseach will...

Seanad: Private Rented Sector: Statements (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, and I welcome this debate. One in five households in Ireland lives in private rented accommodation. We have not had that proportion of people in the private rented sector since the 1950s. It is a significant turnaround in the housing context, and there is every indication that the number of people renting privately in Ireland will...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the Minister. I also welcome, in general, the very positive contribution of the Fianna Fáil Party and its members to the debate in both Houses. I listened to the proceedings in the Dáil and I thought Deputy Michael McGrath's contribution was incredibly thoughtful and thought-provoking.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Fianna Fáil's overall contribution has been very much the contribution of an organisation that was a partner in government. We all accept that we are not sitting here at 4.30 a.m. in order to make political points against each other. We are here because we care about this country and its future. I am prepared to give credit where it is due and to say that the contribution of Fianna Fáil...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: That is what this is about. We can talk about debt forgiveness. I am waiting to hear from my Sinn Féin colleagues about this. Do they know the definition of a write-down?

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: We should talk about the definition of a write-down. When I get my mortgage in 2010 and I do not repay it until 2050 that is a write-down. It can be dressed up any way but it is still a write-down.

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I am getting sidetracked. These circumstances are not of our choosing. We do not sit here tonight because we have chosen to do so. We sit here tonight because that is the deal that is on the table now and I am prepared to embrace it. I am prepared to embrace it because it is the best deal for the Irish people. This Government promised when it came into government that it would deliver a...

Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

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Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

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Seanad: Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Bill 2013: Second Stage (6 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I say to the Opposition and to Fianna Fáil in particular that I have regard for what they have done tonight and I have praised them for it because I believe they have played this justly and honestly and continue to do so.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: There is a certain sense of déjà vu for many of us in that we were here not so many hours ago debating the emergency legislation to liquidate what was Anglo Irish Bank. Like everybody else, I have been on Twitter and Facebook and have been listening to the social media. I am at something of a loss in reconciling what we did last night with what people are talking about this morning. It...

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

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Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: We are securing the future of the children of this country. This constitutes the sovereign taking over debt, which is not the responsibility of the sovereign.

Seanad: Order of Business (7 Feb 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I am looking for a full debate when the agreement is made known, whenever that may be. I agree with Senator O'Keeffe that it may not be today but I have every confidence that agreement is coming. I would like a full informed debate in this House and not the type of hysteria which I suspect is being generated in the social media.