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Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Correct.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Second Stage (16 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister to the House again. I welcome the Bill and its provisions. In particular, I welcome the provisions in Part 3 that provide additional protections to tenants. I refer to measures to prevent another Tyrrelstown where over 40 families were served with eviction notices when a vulture fund took over the properties. I welcome the measures to close the loopholes in the...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Dementia is one of the great global challenges of our time. In Ireland, 55,000 people have dementia. Most of us will know somebody with dementia or somebody who is caring for a person with dementia. It will have touched our families. By 2026, at the end of the much-anticipated future health care strategy, the number of people with dementia in Ireland will be 80,000. Are you finished?...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: There was a lot of muttering going on.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I was not saying the Senator was muttering.

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: As we all know, the services and supports for people with dementia are patchy and fall short of what people need. That is why we need political courage, imagination and resources to respond to the dementia challenge. That is why, with Deputy Mary Butler, I have convened an all-party Oireachtas group on dementia so Ireland, like similar sized countries such as Scotland and Denmark, can be a...

Seanad: Order of Business (22 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: Too late.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I move amendment No. 8:In page 8, between lines 40 and 41, to insert the following:"(viii) information as to what percentage of the proposed development will meet the definition of "universal design" as set out in section 52 of the Disability Act 2005, as well as plans to ensure the accessibility of any proposed development to amenities and services.". I will be brief because it is getting...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Bill 2016: Committee Stage (Resumed) (23 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: At the end of this process we will need a sufficiency of housing stock, both social and otherwise, for everyone, including people with disabilities and older people. We need to ensure we do not end up with stocks of houses that are not suitable. In my neck of the woods, there is housing in the old Our Lady of Lourdes Park in which nobody will live because a sufficiency of thought was not...

Seanad: Mental Health Services Funding: Statements (24 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister for her time yesterday at the dementia awareness training. The mental health reform agenda makes a clear case to me, as it has to other Senators, for the retention of the €35 million funding and some areas have been identified as suitable for the money to be spent, such as an adequate investment in peer support services and a greater availability of other social...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nicola Sturgeon (29 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the First Minister. Given the great amount of sharing and learning that we have done today, how can we build on that to co-operate and learn further from the significant leaps that Scotland has taken in terms of child care, dementia and social housing? How might we make use of the new office based in Dublin to copperfasten those links?

Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I call for a debate with the Minister for Health on gynaecology services. The lack of gynaecology services, particularly in Cork, has moved beyond unacceptable to dangerous. This is not an ordinary crack in a broken system. Women in Cork are being made wait drastically longer than women elsewhere in Ireland. It is a crisis on the boil which is having a devastating effect on women and...

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I am sharing time with Senator Francis Black.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I feel like a múinteoir waiting for silence here, but anyway.

Seanad: Presidential Voting Rights: Motion (30 Nov 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I support Sinn Féin's motion today. I speak as a former member of the diaspora who lived in England for 17 years and as somebody who always considered herself part and parcel of this country during that time in London. I also speak as the mother of a son who lives in France. He was born in London and is an Irish passport holder. He went to...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State but it is disappointing the Minister, Deputy Harris, is not here.While the Minister of State has a big brief, I do not believe gynaecology is part of it. Women in Cork city are waiting longer for gynaecology services than women in any other part of Ireland. It is utterly unacceptable. There are 4,193 women waiting for an outpatient appointment in Cork, the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Hospital Services (1 Dec 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I concur with Senator Colm Burke. This matter is not being taken seriously. I wrote in September and have not had the courtesy of a response. The local consultants have been tearing their hair out trying to get a response. Yet, women are waiting, getting more ill and are bleeding and suffering. The fact that the Minister for Health is not here shows that it is not a priority for him or...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 9:In page 71, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following:“(3) The Minister shall, within eight months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a report in respect of the effective tax rate paid by companies in Ireland with recommendations to increase that effective tax rate including a consideration of the...

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Colette Kelleher: No, but we will resubmit it.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Dec 2016)

Colette Kelleher: I move recommendation No. 14:In page 109, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “59. The Minister shall, within four months of the passing of this Act, prepare and lay before the Houses of the Oireachtas a review in respect of the current policy of marginal rate private pensions tax relief and how it relates to national pensions strategy for Ireland including stated...