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Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: May I extend the debate for another 15 minutes to allow the Minister to respond?

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to extend the debate by five minutes.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose an extension of five minutes.

Seanad: Social Welfare and Pensions (No. 2) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (3 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: I propose to extend the time to 6.10 p.m.

Seanad: Credit Reporting Bill 2012: Second Stage (11 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House. The Bill’s purpose is to promote more responsible borrowing and lending practices among borrowers and lending institutions. Much has been lamented about our Celtic tiger years and how too many people are now paying the cost of reckless lending by our financial institutions to industry and the consumer back then. Banks lent moneys to developers...

Seanad: Order of Business (19 Dec 2013)

Hildegarde Naughton: The House will soon rise for Christmas. I, like other Senators, find it important to be aware that Christmas can be a lonely time, rather than a time of celebration, for many people who are experiencing difficulties. I refer to the launch yesterday of the Samaritans Impact report. I am especially conscious of elderly people who have fallen victim to elder abuse. The House should send out...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the witnesses. How much was saved by establishing Irish Water under the auspices of Bord Gáis? Do the witnesses have a figure for those savings? Second, the witnesses might feel they are answering the same question a second time, but perhaps they would clarify a matter. If the systems were based on those of Bord Gáis, was it not possible to ask Bord Gáis's system...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I seek clarification from the witnesses. Are they categorically saying that the expertise was not within Bord Gáis for particular services in the set up or establishment of Irish Water?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Expenditure Issues: Irish Water - Uisce Éireann (14 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: Is this being done in Scotland and Wales?

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I wish Senators a happy new year and wish us all every success in our role in the Seanad in 2014. I welcome the positive news story of the significant investment in the rural development programme and I call on the Leader to ask the Minister, Deputy Coveney, to come to the Chamber at his earliest convenience. It is a good positive news story for job creation in rural areas. I also call on...

Seanad: Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (21 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House and the Road Traffic (No. 2) Bill. The overall purpose of the Bill which has been highlighted is to improve safety on our roads and to bring about a reduction in collisions, fatalities and serious injuries. The main provisions of the Bill include the introduction of the concept of a novice driver class, changes to the penalty points system, taking blood...

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: The Irish Water consultative group strategy document is replete with references to accountability and transparency as between the new utility, its auditors and the Department. It is surely not acceptable to any Member of this or the other House, of any party, that the head of Irish Water should see fit to answer questions on establishment costs on the national airwaves while Members have to...

Seanad: Irish Water: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: Everybody would accept that it is not feasible to answer specific questions in regard to the costs in the middle of a tendering process. There is a reasonable concern in regard to commercially sensitive information. The reality, however, is that this whole debacle could have been avoided if there had been some straight talking at the outset. The establishment costs are justifiable, but...

Seanad: Common Agricultural Policy and Rural Development Programme: Statements (22 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House and congratulate him on his work to date, particularly on the success of his negotiations on CAP which took place during a difficult economic period. The sheep grassland scheme which has been subsumed into Pillar 1 will mean a loss for many farmers in the west. Are there proposals to compensate them for that loss? In 2009, farmers lost €1,000 in the...

Seanad: Recent Severe Storm Damage: Statements (23 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The storms that ravaged the west have caused more than €19 million worth of damage to Galway city and county. The preliminary cost for Galway city is €1.282 million. The four main areas of coastline damage in the city are Silver Strand, Blackrock in Salthill to Birdoo, Blackrock to South Park Claddagh and Ballyloughane beach. A...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Education and Skills to the House to debate the respective responsibilities and liabilities in the primary school sector, and the sector's interaction with the State. I am delighted that Ms Louise O'Keeffe received the result she deserved in the European Court of Human Rights. All the Members of this House can unite in praise of her determination...

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Jan 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I am asking the Leader to invite to the House the Minister for Education and Skills to discuss the respective responsibilities and liabilities in the primary school sector and the sector's interaction with the State.

Seanad: Youth Guarantee: Statements (5 Feb 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome the Minister to the House to discuss this very welcome and important implementation plan. A failure to reverse the tide of youth emigration and unemployment would mean allowing our brightest and best to depart, possibly for ever, and would denude the country of its future leaders in every sphere of life. Several stark statistics illustrate the extent of the challenge the...

Seanad: Youth Guarantee: Statements (5 Feb 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: At 2.30 p.m next Tuesday.

Seanad: Recent Flooding: Statements (12 Feb 2014)

Hildegarde Naughton: I welcome that €70 million in funding is to be provided, in addition to the €25 million in humanitarian assistance already announced. I note these funds are intended to cover damage incurred prior to 6 January. Local authorities and the Government are to be commended on the speed with which they have responded to the storms and the emergency services have done Trojan work on...