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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I also join with my colleagues in tributes to Charlie O’Connor. He was a great friend of mine and my family for many years. He is an absolute gentleman. I am delighted to have him as a member of Fianna Fáil. He is a very warm person and he has a lovely family. I wish him all the best in his retirement. I stand today to mention ASD school places. We are doing great. Huge...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House today. Fianna Fáil supports this Bill. As the Minister of State mentioned, it provides for amendments to the Civil Registration Act 2004, as amended, to provide for online registration of births and stillbirths and faster notification of births and stillbirths by medical practitioners and institutions. It also provides for the...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Civil Registration (Electronic Registration) Bill 2024: Second Stage (3 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I propose that we suspend until 6.15 p.m.

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister for coming to the House today. We in Fianna Fáil fully support this Bill, which is very progressive legislation. The Minister is fortunate to be the Minister for Social Protection at a time when our economy is very strong, we are doing very well, and we have the resources to see increases pretty much yearly in our social protection spend. Obviously, I am a...

Seanad: Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (2 Jul 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I am delighted to introduce the health (postponement of certain leave) Bill, colloquially known as the leave our leave Bill. I would like to have No. 10 taken before No. 1. The campaign for this Bill has been driven by the Irish Cancer Society and patient advocates like Erica Tierney. The Bill is supported by my colleagues in the Fianna Fáil group and I hope it will get cross-party...

Seanad: Health (Postponement of Certain Leave) Bill 2024: First Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to amend and extend the Maternity Protection Act 1994 and the Adoptive Leave Act 1995 and for those purposes to provide a mechanism to postpone maternity leave or adoptive leave in circumstances where a person is diagnosed with or being treated for cancer and to provide for related matters.

Seanad: Health (Postponement of Certain Leave) Bill 2024: First Stage (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister for coming into the House. There are many amendments to get through but, ultimately, I agree with my colleague and the Minister that we have to get on with it. Many employees are waiting for this to happen. They do not know whether to start their own private pension scheme or whether to wait for the auto-enrolment scheme. People are watching this debate and hoping it...

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Committee and Remaining Stages (19 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I propose we suspend until the conclusion of the division in the Dáil.

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: This is probably one of the biggest Bills that I have ever seen come into this House. I thank the Minister and his Department for putting significant work into this Bill, for getting it passed in the Dáil and placing it before us today. In 2020, Senator Fiona O'Loughlin and I tabled a Commencement matter on publicly funded IVF at the time the Seanad held its meetings in the Dáil...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: What have they done to ensure we have an ethical framework for surrogacy in this country except make us stand up today, licking their lips thinking they will have loads of clickbait later on their Twitter accounts?

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: Senator Mary Seery Kearney has championed this cause for more than a decade. She had sought to ensure there is an ethical framework for the parents and the children born following international surrogacy and domestic surrogacy in Ireland. Shame on Senator Mullen today.

Seanad: Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (28 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I thank the Minister for being in the Seanad today and introducing the legislation. I am very proud that it is a Fianna Fáil–Fine Gael Government that is introducing and spearheading it. My colleague Senator Sherlock just described pension adequacy. It is for reasons of pension adequacy that the legislation is being introduced. You have to start somewhere. I remember...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: I welcome Pat and Mabyn to the House. I offer my condolences to the family of Derek Martin, who was tragically killed in a crash on the M50 on Friday. As we heard, his sister has reached out to the people who stayed with him during his last moments. Derek is remembered by his wife and two children. He was a valued member of the Irish Prison Service, serving as an officer in Wheatfield...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Policies (22 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: Go raibh maith agat a Chathaoirligh. I thank the Minister of State for coming here today. My Commencement matter is on the need for the Taoiseach to make a statement on the establishment of a south inner city initiative to support long-term economic and social regeneration of the area, similar to the north east inner-city initiative launched in 2016. In 2016, the then Taoiseach, Enda...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Departmental Policies (22 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: The task force launched by the Taoiseach in May is related to the central area of Dublin. However, my ask today relates to residential areas in the south of the city, which is some way from the city. It is very much a different space. I take the Minister of State’s point that there might be scope in the future to transfer to the south city what is being learned in the Dublin city...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (15 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: A Chathaoirligh, I do not think you can say this if you do not have the full details of what has gone on.

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad (15 May 2024)

Catherine Ardagh: It might have been appropriate for you to have spoken to the people concerned beforehand-----