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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Job Losses (26 Jan 2021)

Shane Cassells: ...by 25% and so the content drops accordingly and a community consequently suffers as well. No business is being left untouched by the harshness of this pandemic, as the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, well knows in the context of his portfolio. Bar our healthcare teams, there is nobody more deserving than others in that line. I am not arguing that this morning. However, there are 50...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (9 Jul 2020)

Shane Cassells: ...microenterprise fund is critically important but the coming weeks are critical for the higher end of the spectrum as well. Our work needs to be pressed further, especially by the Minister of State, Deputy Troy, and the Minister, Deputy Varadkar. I look forward to the July stimulus package because we need to protect businesses in the here and now and show there is proper investment in...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2019)

Shane Cassells: ..., on behalf of the people of Navan, Kilmessan, Dunshaughlin and the wider area, to engage with me in respect of that crucial piece of infrastructure. The Fianna Fáil plan put forward by Deputy Troy prioritises that Dublin-Navan railway line as a crucial piece of infrastructure from an economic as well as a transport point of view. There are thousands of people who depend on that for...

Promoting Cycling: Motion [Private Members] (19 Dec 2018)

Shane Cassells: ...majority of roads in Ireland, the truth is we would be looking at possible UN sanctions for grannycide. Our roads would simply not stand up to Mr. Aherne's test. We heard the statistics from Deputy Troy. I refer to the nine cyclists killed this year, the 59 killed over five years and the large number of injuries incurred by cyclists on our roads. It is imperative that more is done to...

Public Accounts Committee: Report of the Accounts of the Public Services 2015
Chapter 11 - Guardian Ad Litem Service (19 Jan 2017)

Shane Cassells: .... Deputy Madigan asked why this was not on people's radar and why no one was flagging this. We flagged this as far back as two years ago in February 2015 when our then spokesperson, Deputy Troy, introduced legislation into the Dáil aimed at tackling these exorbitant fees. We wanted to legislate for the manner in which the courts appointed GALs and the oversight of them. It was...

Financial Resolutions 2017 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...deal for people, both from a personal perspective and from a service delivery aspect. The shift towards expenditure on public services, as demanded by Fianna Fáil, is a positive change, as Deputy Troy said. There are plenty of positives to the budget. Regardless of one's political persuasion, there is no weakness in acknowledging those positive aspects. Naturally there are...

Mental Health Services: Statements (Resumed) (24 May 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...previous Dáil which recently staged a very successful and informative launch in Leinster House of the green ribbon campaign and the See Change movement. The contributions by Deputies Ó Caoláin, Troy, Doherty and O'Sullivan were all insightful but more importantly they were all positive. The people who spoke at the launch all spoke positively about mental health well-being...

Adoption (Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 May 2016)

Shane Cassells: ...and that she is focused on putting the best interests of the child at the centre of any discussion regarding adoption. In that regard, I will touch on a matter that our spokesperson, Deputy Robert Troy, raised yesterday and that can be emotive for people, namely, the provision that gives greater legislative clarity to adoption proceedings in the case of parental failure. Parental failure...