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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2024)

Regina Doherty: ...we are doubling the offering so quickly is a real intention to recognise that the CAO process is sometimes difficult. I have done it three times with three of my eldest children - two perfectly, and one completely messed up - and I do not think I am an unintelligent person. It is a difficult process to navigate, but it is wonderful we now have alternative choices for our young people to...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 Jul 2023)

Regina Doherty: ...about Seanad reform on 27 September, arising from the invitation issued last week by the Senator’s colleague, Senator Boyhan. I note Senator McDowell's request for a debate on illegal gambling and slot machines. He explained this to me before. I will ask the Minister to come in for a debate but, as we are to get the gambling Bill, I assume she will tell us that Bill is coming....

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Jun 2023)

Regina Doherty: The Bill is absolutely necessary. While we might argue about the definition, we can all agree that the rise of hatred and ill-behaviour by some people in this country towards others has grown exponentially. I do not know whether that is to do with the advent of social media over the past ten years that we have more of a platform for people to show their hatred. Society itself is changing....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 Feb 2023)

Regina Doherty: I will arrange the debate in the next couple of weeks and I hope we will do that. Senator Murphy raised an issue that was raised at our parliamentary party meeting last night. Maybe the momentum has not grown because people are suffering from the cost-of-living crisis on top of their mortgage costs or maybe it is due to the fact that fixed-rate mortgages or interest rates generally in...

Seanad: Civil Registration (Amendment) (Certificate of Life) Bill 2022: Second Stage (20 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Acting Chairperson and the Minister of State, Deputy Peter Burke, for coming to the Chamber today and for his interventions in the Minister's speech. The bizarre nature of the response would probably be okay if this was the first time that the Department and its officials had ever had any sight of this. I spent a privileged four years in the Department and there are very large...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister is saying the AHD is silent and the current law after 12 weeks would allow he interventions to protect the life of the child distinctly, differently and separately to the life of the mother. What has legally changed since we felt the need and the Attorney General in 2015 would have felt the requirement to put in the exact clause that we are now taking out, which specifically...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister is saying the reason that it is not required is that we now have primary legislation that determines how healthcare services will treat babies older than 12 weeks and, therefore, it is implied by other legislation that a baby that has been in gestation for longer than 12 weeks will be protected regardless of whether it is silent in the AHD or of specific requests by the mother in...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I do not think I am going to change the Minister's mind. I understand the Minister is saying that changing the language means there will be interventions which will protect the woman's pregnancy or the person's pregnancy. By association, we are supposed to assume or come to the conclusion that this means we would be intervening to protect the life of the baby. Have we become so politically...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Nov 2021)

Regina Doherty: Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis. The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the draft Planning and Development (LRD Fees) Regulations 2021 and its referral to committee, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; No. 2, motion regarding the Sectoral Employment Order (Electrical Contracting Sector) 2021, referral to committee, to be taken on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Oct 2021)

Regina Doherty: ...week. I applaud Senator Clifford-Lee on the pairing arrangement she entered into with our colleague, Senator Flynn. It is something that should not be understated. It is an important arrangement and an enormous gesture but we should not need gestures. We should have proper arrangements in order that women and men can take maternity and paternity leave. It is long past time for moaning...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2021)

Regina Doherty: I thank my colleagues and join them in expressing good wishes to Ann and Mary. I thank them for all of their service and wish them a healthy and happy retirement, which will hopefully be very long. Senator Paddy Burke asked me to ask the Taoiseach to come in. I will certainly make the request but I suggest it would probably be more appropriate if the Minister comes to talk to us today. I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Mar 2021)

Regina Doherty: I add my condolences to Senator McGahon's very timely tribute. It is very sad to hear of the passing of Eoin. We extend our condolences to his wife and children. I could not agree more with Senator Lombard that there is absolutely no need for a public protest to take place in Cork. I note the irony of the call on the Minister by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties yesterday to look for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2021)

Regina Doherty: ...so if I respond to one Member, I ask Members to assume that I am responding to all who raised the same issues. Senator McGahon raised the issue of urban regeneration funding. Both this Government and the previous Government have made it an important stay of their commitments to funding projects, both rural and urban, in Ireland. We know there was literally a lost generation of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2021)

Regina Doherty: .... 1, motion regarding the arrangements for the sitting of the House on Monday, 22 February 2021, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, motion on the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) Regulations 2021, to be taken without debate on the conclusion of No. 1; No. 3, motion on the Planning and Development (Exempted Development) (No. 2)...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Feb 2021)

Regina Doherty: I join in the good wishes. Hopefully, Séamus will have a very long, healthy and happy retirement. He has served countless generations of Members of both Houses exceptionally well. I want to take the issue of Ulster Bank in the round because a number of Senators have raised it and I will not reply to them individually. Arising from the announcement this morning on Ulster Bank and,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Feb 2021)

Regina Doherty: In response to Senator Carrigy, negative interest rates are an issue that was highlighted in the House last week, I think, and the week before. To that end, I wrote to the Minister for Finance last week asking for his response to it and what plans he might have. Otherwise we need to have a debate in the House to outline the impact on those who might not even realise yet that just holding...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Feb 2021)

Regina Doherty: I will certainly pass on the comments of Senator Keoghan and her colleagues in local government on the Taoiseach's proposed visit to the White House. Essential travel needs to continue if the world economy is to continue to support those who cannot support themselves temporarily because of the impact of Covid on our lives and society. I genuinely believe and hope, as we all do, that society...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Jan 2021)

Regina Doherty: ...; No. 2, motion regarding the reappointment of the Ombudsman for Children, to be taken on the conclusion of No. 1 without debate; No. 3, statements on the Covid-19 vaccine programme, to be taken at 2 p.m. and to conclude at 4 p.m., with the contribution of group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes, all other Senators not to exceed five minutes and the Minister to be given no less...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (19 Jan 2021)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business No. 1, motion regarding the eighth report of the Seanad Committee on Parliamentary Privileges and Oversight, to be taken on conclusion of the Order of Business, without debate; and No. 2, statements on the report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes, to be taken at 4.40 p.m., or 15 minutes after the conclusion of the Order of Business, whichever...

Seanad: Report of the Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Statements (19 Jan 2021)

Regina Doherty: I thank the Minister for the contribution he made at the outset of this debate because his determination to do the right thing by our survivors and their families and children is evident every time he speaks. I do not in any way underestimate the complexity of the task the commission of inquiry into mother and baby homes undertook. Much of the report is a valuable and comprehensive history...