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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: There are a lot of elderly people. It is not far from the town of Swords, but it is a rural area and people have no other public transport.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I think Mr. Ryan would agree that having the last bus out of the city centre at 6 p.m. is too early. I have been working in different working environments all my life, but I have never left the office by 6 p.m. in any place I have worked in order to get home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Many people have said that to me. They are just not able to leave the workplace at that or at any time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I challenge Mr. Ryan to take one of those buses to see how long it would take him to get home.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion (29 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: That is perfect. I thank the Leas-Chathaoirleach.

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I move amendment No. 2: In page 20, lines 28 to 33, to delete all words from and including "(1) Subject" in line 28 down to and including line 33 and substitute the following: "It shall be an offence for a person to advertise a nicotine inhaling product in a cinema." This is a very important amendment from my two colleagues. I am sure everyone agrees that it makes sense. The cinema...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I appreciate the Minister’s response. It was proportionate. The passage of this legislation as quickly as possible should be the priority of everybody in these Houses. I understand the Minister not wanting to pass comment while the public consultation process is under way. I appreciate that and hope that in the fullness of time, we will see this issue encapsulated in the second...

Seanad: Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (28 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the Minister for coming to the Seanad to discuss this ground-breaking legislation. I commend him on introducing it because it is long overdue. It brings us into line with best practice in other leading European countries. The Minister has quite ably outlined the two aspects to this, the organ retention and post mortem side of it, and the organ donation side of it. As he mentioned,...

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: People are waiting on this. They have waited for this Bill for years. The Irish Kidney Association and many others have been working towards this day and the completion of this Bill. I commend the Minister on working so hard to bring this about. Organ donation has always been a difficult topic to discuss with next of kin because such discussions invariably happen in the context of a very...

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: It was before my time.

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (22 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The Minister of State is very welcome. I realise this is not his Department so I appreciate his taking the time to come and answer this on behalf of the Minister for Justice. My Commencement concerns the long-awaited family law court complex at Hammond Lane. We are long past needing a new family law court complex for Dublin. Dolphin House and Phoenix House are not fit for purpose. The...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I am left feeling a bit cold after that answer, to be honest. It is not the Minister of State's fault - I know it is not his Department - but there was absolutely nothing in that that we did not know. I want to know why the projects were decoupled. When was that decision made? We all know the two Garda stations were decoupled. Why was that done? Why did the Minister say in October 2022...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: That is very broad.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Court Accommodation (8 Nov 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The second half is five years.

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

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I start by welcoming ambassador H.E. Dana Erlich and Jeremy Wilmshurst from the British Embassy who are here in our Gallery to witness this very important debate and the range of views across the House. Like everyone, I am devastated at the scale of human suffering since 7 October. We have all been looking at appalling images on our television screens, on our phones and in our newspapers....

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank our colleague Senator Pauline O'Reilly and her colleagues in the Green Party for proposing this very important motion. It is great to have the opportunity to discuss it, coincidentally on World Menopause Day. We cannot discuss women's health enough because such discussions were sorely lacking for years. It was never discussed in these Houses or beyond it and that has stored up an...

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The Senator should join Fianna Fáil. He would be more suited.

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Tomorrow at 9 a.m.