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Seanad: Situation in Palestine: Motion (21 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ..., besiegement and bombardment for decades. I believe the ultimate goal of this assault is the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Israel has always sought to claim the maximum amount of Palestinian land, with the fewest number of Palestinians living in it. It has achieved this historically through massive and indiscriminate violence. All of this horror is being broadcast on our...

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (Resumed) (20 Feb 2024)

Frances Black: ...There are four times more settlers in the West Bank than there were before the Oslo Accords and those settlers receive state subsidies and are defended by the IDF even when they murder, pillage and steal from Palestinians, driving them off the land. I know the Tánaiste knows this. The question is what the Irish Government is going to do about it. I keep hearing from Government...

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

Frances Black: ...and, might I add, by the hypocrisy of the Government. For example, when the Government offers special temporary protection to Ukrainians and refers the state illegally invading and occupying that country's land to the International Criminal Court but then declines to take the same stand to defend Palestinians, it becomes clear, I believe, who we value and who we do not. While I welcome...

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Frances Black: ...war crimes and acting outside of their mandate. The ultimate goal of this assault is the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Israel has always sought to claim the maximum amount of Palestinian land with the fewest number of Palestinians living on it. It has achieved this historically through massive, indiscriminate violence. In 1948, Zionist militias ethnically cleansed 750,000 people...

Seanad: Control of Exports Bill 2023: Committee Stage (11 Oct 2023)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 3: In page 8, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following: “ “Convention” means the Convention on Cluster Munitions adopted in Dublin in May 2008 which Ireland is party to;”. This set of amendments relates to Ireland's international obligations as a party to the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Ireland played a key role in the...

Seanad: EU Migration: Motion [Private Members] (27 Jun 2023)

Frances Black: ...only are European institutions failing to provide adequate search and rescue services but they are actively making an already dangerous situation worse. The Government's amendment promises that Ireland will be a voice for upholding refugee human rights and international law within EU institutions. How can it credibly claim this if it is afraid or unwilling to name the bad actors...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Frances Black: ...'s response around this but, frankly, I am just not sure the reasons offered are really acceptable. The State has the power to compel the perpetrators to pay. Some of the religious orders responsible still own significant land and assets in Ireland that could be seized. Some of the pharmaceutical companies responsible for the trials still operate in Ireland and would have no choice but...

Seanad: Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (24 May 2023)

Frances Black: ...the Bill to provide greater protection for privacy and personal property. With the current wording we fear the Minister is unintentionally blurring the lines in respect of the powers of An Garda Síochána to enter somebody's home or personal land without justification. With a warrant or some other safety mechanism, reasonable grounds of some kind must be demonstrated. The...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 Feb 2023)

Frances Black: ...'s raid, why is the Irish Government abandoning them in their struggle? Let us be clear. These raids are designed to terrorise Palestinians with the goal of ethically cleansing them from their land and destroying any resistance against Israel's apartheid regime. I believe this Government and, in fact, the whole world has lost all connection to the realities that ordinary Palestinians...

Seanad: Planning and Development and Foreshore (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (6 Dec 2022)

Frances Black: ...of the proposed provisions of the Bill until Committee Stage. The Minister has indicated that he will bring forward amendments to provide for the accelerated delivery of social housing on local authority lands in exceptional circumstances in the absence of normal planning prerequisites such as environmental impact assessments. I am particularly concerned by reports that the Minister...

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Frances Black: ...home, including the freedom to explore, participate in new spaces and form adult relationships while learning new things about themselves and the world. This is denied to so many of them in Ireland. Many people may have recently seen the poem by Alice Kiernan about the relationship many young people feel they have with our capital city. She said: "I love my home but my home doesn't love...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: ...referred to at subsection (12B)". Section 34(12) of the principal Act specifies that a planning authority shall refuse to consider an application to retain unauthorised development of land where the authority decides that if an application for permission has been made in respect of the development concerned before it was commenced, the application would have required that one or more than...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 4: In page 4, line 33, after “land” to insert “, for a related purpose,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: Amendment No. 4 seeks to add a condition to the provision in the Bill that a person who applies for substitute consent in respect of a development of land can also apply for permission for substitute consent for adjoining land. The condition our amendment would add is that the development on adjoining land must be for a purpose related to the original development. This is to ensure that...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 5: In page 4, line 33, after “land” to insert the following: “for a related purpose where such development has a commercial value of not greater than €5,480,000 million,”.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: This seeks to add the condition that, where a person applies for substitute consent for the land subject to the application, the development cannot have a commercial value of more than €5.48 million. This is to stop scenarios where large development projects are rammed through the planning process and are not subject to strict criteria. Amendment No. 7 is similar, in that it seeks to...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 Jun 2022)

Frances Black: I move amendment No. 7: In page 4, to delete lines 35 and 36 and substitute the following: “(b) development of land adjoining the land, for a related purpose to the subject of the application for substitute consent, where such a development does not have a commercial value of greater than €5,480,000.”,”.

Seanad: Situation in the Middle East: Statements (1 Mar 2022)

Frances Black: ...report, which is the result of years of research and lays out in great detail the crime of apartheid as committed by Israel against the Palestinian people. I welcome Tim Hanley from Amnesty Ireland, Frank Connolly from ICTU, Mags O'Brien, Brian Allen and Yara Alagha, and extend an especially warm welcome to the Palestinian ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Jilan Wahba Abdalmajid. This is the...

Seanad: Animal Health and Welfare and Forestry (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2021: Second Stage (8 Feb 2022)

Frances Black: The Minister of State is very welcome to the House. I am in broad support of the Government's proposed legislation and welcome its provisions on the welfare of certain farmed animals in Ireland and related biodiversity. However, I have significant concerns about the sections of the Bill that relate to forestry licences. As previous speakers acknowledged, the practice of farming animals...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: ...under the SHD legislation, only 72 have been acted on by the applicants. In the case of the other 138 permissions, many applicants have chosen to simply sit on the vacant sites, watching as the land value increases month after month with the SHD permission attached. The SHD legislation clearly did not have the impact the Government thought it would in terms of the number of SHD units...