Results 61-80 of 98 for long speaker:Lorraine Clifford-Lee

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Apr 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I want to know how long will the process take to get the project manager in place. I know the framework has been completed but what kind of timescale is involved? Is it one month, five months or six months? Once the project manager is in place, how long will the tender for the design stage take?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Mar 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: Senator Buttimer's party has been in government for long enough.

Seanad: Period Poverty: Motion (27 Mar 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...many young people right and has started them down the road of political activism, which is to be encouraged. It is part of the overall debate on reproduction that we are having but we still have a long way to go. I also welcome the students in the Gallery. I commend them on the work they have done. I particularly commend Mr. Senan O'Reardon and Ms Fathia Rasheed from Donabate community...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...Ryan. Last night's documentary on "Claire Byrne Live" was a great public service.RTÉ should be proud of it. It gave a voice to Clodagh, her sons and the Hawe family that had been missing for a long time since their deaths in August 2016. Mary and Jacqueline, Clodagh's mother and sister, gave a great account of her and her three children. It made the brutal description of their...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Feb 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...any thought into how they would be processed and the increased demands they would put on the service. We are concerned about this. The issue of women's health has been pushed to the side for too long. This is concerning. Therefore, I would like the Minister for Health to come into the House to talk about the cervical smear scandal which is ongoing and from which many think we have...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage (13 Feb 2019)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...for consistency in sentencing, the Government has failed repeatedly to prioritise legislation of this nature. As judges, victim groups and Opposition parties have been calling for such legislation for a long time, I would like the Government to address the issue. While I welcome the Bill, it is only a first step. Perhaps the Minister of State might bring that message back to the...

Seanad: Order of Business (20 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...nor is Dolphin House. Childcare matters are heard in the Bridewell court house and that is certainly not fit for purpose. We are waiting on this combined family law court in Hammond Street for a long number of years and it needs to happen now for the judges, the people using the Courts Service and the legal practitioners because we will continue to see incidents such as the one that...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Rail Services (19 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...move to the village do not realise that trains are at capacity. There has been a 5% increase in passenger numbers on the northern line year on year. People who have been living in Donabate for a long number of years are distressed at the capacity issues. I ask the Minister to prioritise the northern line. Ring-fenced funding is required to provide extra carriages as an immediate...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...people to thank for bringing us to this day. It is a very emotional time for us all. We took the bull by the horns and finally dealt with this issue. I wish to spare a thought for the women who for too long travelled and those who lived with stigma and shame in this country. At last, women can be looked after at home in their time of need and do not have to go abroad alone to face...

Seanad: Order of Business (11 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...director on the board of the new hospital and, if so, if he or s he will have powers to act. It is very important that we get everything right in the construction of the National Maternity Hospital. For too long, women have been sidelined and their healthcare has been treated as a second-class issue. We need to get this right for women and the children who will be born in the new...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: I thank the Minister for coming here today. He has had a long number of days debating the legislation in the other House. It is a great relief to have legislation before us eventually. I pay tribute to the Minister and everybody who worked in a collective manner to bring us to this point today. I refer specifically to the committee that debated it for many months. It took a very acute...

Seanad: Order of Business (21 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: There is very little green space in Dublin's inner city and long-established clubs have no playing pitches.

Seanad: Commencement Matters: School Accommodation Provision (6 Nov 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...the Minister to the Chamber and I congratulate him on his appointment to the Department of Education and Skills. I look forward to working with him over the coming months and years or however long the Administration remains in office. I am based in north County Dublin where there are many educational issues. I already been in correspondence with the Minister on a number of these and I...

Seanad: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (Gender Pay Gap) Information Bill 2017: Report and Final Stages (3 Oct 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: That is fine. I urge the Minister of State to accept the Sinn Féin amendment, not to push this to a vote and to allow the passage of this Bill. We cannot wait any longer for the gender pay gap to narrow. There are gender pay gap deniers out there and we need to confront their denials with hard data. I do not want my daughter facing the gender pay gap but, equally, I do not want my...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...building work. As a result of sustained pressure, we eventually got a bit of progress last February when a technical team visited the school. Unfortunately, seven months later, we are no further along this path. The technical report is still awaited. We are now into another academic school year with predicted extreme weather conditions for the rest of the winter. I am very afraid, as...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Schools Building Projects Status (26 Sep 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...school get sight of that draft report? What is the next stage? When will the next stage take place? When will St. Molaga's have its actual school building? This has been going on for far too long. The new prefab to which the Minister of State referred is to facilitate the reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio so that a few classes have gone into the new prefabs but the vast majority of...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: .... Senator Ruane rightly pointed out the access programmes available in many universities which allow people to come through. However, getting a law degree is just the very first step on a very long ladder. Fair enough, people might be getting their law degrees, but they are not moving on to practise as solicitors or barristers. There might be a minimum wage for trainee solicitors but...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Garda Stations (29 May 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...let me know where stands this process? Has the assessment been completed? If not, when is it envisaged that it will be completed? When will the tender process be commenced if the assessment is completed and how long is it envisaged that this process will take? It is also important to note that extra Garda resources are required when the station does eventually reopen. Fingal is the...

Seanad: Commencement Matters (Resumed): Swimming Pool Programme (22 May 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...readily avail of swimming lessons, which are now seen as almost a standard part of the school curriculum. They cannot avail of something as basic as swimming lessons without having to travel long distances and incur the additional costs of that travel. Children with autism and ADHD particularly benefit from water-based therapies but unfortunately the distances such children would have to...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Lorraine Clifford Lee: ...scheme which was published in 2012 and approved by the Joint Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality in 2013 so it is to be welcomed that Fine Gael is finally acting on its promise. For far too long there was no political will to do anything about white collar crime. I can pre-empt what my good friend, Senator Conway, will say. He will throw some shade at Fianna Fáil and add...