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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Bill reported with amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - The amendment now makes reference to schools and teachers on one hand and students and parents on the...What is the arbitrary distinction between schools and teachers and students and parents?...Could the Minister elaborate on the amendment?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-09/16/
9 Oct 2019 - Bill entitled an Act to entitle certain employees who are relevant parents in relation to a child to...employment leave for the purposes of enabling them to provide, or assist in the provision of, care to...leave on the death of a relevant parent; to provide for the payment of parent’s benefit to certain persons...and, for that purpose, to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005; for those purposes to provide...for the consequential amendment of certain other enactments; and to provide for related matters.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - I note the amendment brought forward by my colleague with reference to the ombudsman and the response...The Bill seeks to establish a charter to improve and strengthen communication and co-operation between...I recognise the proposal made in the amendment on the involvement of the Ombudsman for Children....For that reason, I welcome the Bill and, in particular, the charter....It is critical that we have a charter outlining that parents and students have a right to know how a
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - With regard to amendment No. 6, no ombudsman would intervene too early in a matter....I do not foresee a position where parents or children would be confused about the role of national and...A student or parent would only look outside the local procedures if they struggled to operate within...Possible confusion is not an adequate reason to not push this amendment....I am willing to withdraw amendment No. 4 but I will be pressing amendment No. 6.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - I am confident the specific reference in the Bill to a "student council (where one has been established...prepare its student and parent charter....This is specifically reflected in the large number of provisions in the Bill....I am confident the provisions in the Bill will allow that student voice to be heard....That is why I will unfortunately not be accepting amendment No. 15.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-15/33/
15 Oct 2019 - in view of our commitment to introduce the leave and benefit with effect from 1 November 2019....on or after 1 November 2019....Section 16 provides for the entitlement of an employed surviving parent to the untaken leave if a parent...of the Parent's Leave and Benefit Bill by 1 November....A number of amendments were tabled on this matter and have been ruled out of order.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh Amendment No. 4 would require the grievance procedures under the charter guidelines...On Committee Stage I advised the House that while I did not think it was necessary for the Bill to provide...Having examined this proposal further, I am satisfied that including this in the Bill is not the appropriate...It is not appropriate, nor would it be possible, to summarise in this Bill or in school grievance procedures...Doing so in this Bill risks casting doubt on or limiting the statutory role of the Ombudsman for Children
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - Amendment No. 5 was discussed during the debate on the Bill last week....Its content now forms part of the Bill, having been voted through last week....In particular, I need to reflect on the additional administrative burden the amendment places on schools...From a technical drafting point of view, I also need to consider whether the amendment is inserted in...the most appropriate section of the Bill and whether it may need to included in a separate section.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Before I say whether I will press these amendments, I would like to know more about the working group...The parents I have been supporting are concerned about the use of exclusion in some circumstances in...I wonder what kind of engagement is happening between parents and the working group....I wonder what kind of engagement is happening with parents who are in this position....I am happy to withdraw these amendments on the basis that there will be further engagement between now
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - As I stated on Second Stage, I strongly support the Bill in general and welcome its return to the House...communities that surround them to collaborate to produce bespoke charters that will underpin how students, parents...Nevertheless, I propose a number of amendments with the aim of strengthening the Bill and hope they will..., either within his Department or more regionally, to work on resolving such issues among students, parents...is the motivation for amendment No. 3.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-13/11/
13 Nov 2019 - My amendment seeks to amend the section, which amends section 9 of the Ombudsman for Children Act 2002...by this Bill....This exact amendment was proposed in head 7 but it has been dropped from the Bill, as initiated....can only investigate the actions of a school on foot of a complaint from a parent or student where the...as I am concerned about the levels of oversight that will be possible under the provisions of this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-02-24/14/
24 Feb 2021 - Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú I move: That, notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders, leave be given to...withdraw the Organisation of Working Time (Workers Rights and Bogus Self-Employment) (Amendment) Bill...2019.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - It is an important amendment and I am happy with the Minister's response....I will leave it at that but I thought that was an important point to make.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Seanad to reverse the will it previously expressed, although attempts have been made in the Dáil to amend...or remove amendments made in the Seanad....The points made by Senator Byrne on the effect of Senator Gavan's amendment are inaccurate....It would not be the case that students' family situations or the names of parents would be printed on...I urge the Minister to rethink the amendment because this section of the Bill as it stands would provide
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh The amendment provides that the national charter guidelines would have to include...They have different pupil and parent cohorts, policies, activities and so on....That is why the approach taken in the Bill allows for the guidelines to contain different provisions...The approach taken in the Bill, as drafted, allows the Minister flexibility in developing model charters...I thank Senator Craughwell for tabling the amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-09/17/
9 Oct 2019 - Senator Maura Hopkins This Bill is positive....As the Minister of State said, the Government intends to increase the paid leave available to new parents...Obviously, there have been changes to parental leave....Since September 2019, a parent can take 22 weeks of parental leave for each eligible child and that has...We have heard the concerns today in regard to ensuring that all parents have access to this leave, and
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Bill, as amended, received for final consideration.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh I thank Senator Craughwell for tabling the amendment....Amendment No. 11 provides for the deletion of the provision in the Bill that provides for the Minister...Amendment No. 12 is a consequential amendment that removes the obligation on the Minister to publish...As amendments Nos. 11 and 12 are connected, I note the new section 27D proposed in the Bill provides...Therefore, I cannot accept these two amendments.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - for Children in the procedures set out in this Bill....I appreciate that we do not want to disincentivise parents and students from using the local procedures...I also appreciate the concern that there may be confusion among parents if there were both local and...It is surely not outside our abilities as a State to properly arm parents with clear and comprehensive...I urge the Minister to take these amendments on board.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2004-06-15/3/
15 Jun 2004 - It would result in granting bereaved adopting fathers a more generous leave entitlement than that of...a bereaved natural father....The increased leave provisions are also available to bereaved fathers in certain circumstances depending...in this amendment....natural and adoptive parents.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2021-03-24/13/
24 Mar 2021 - , the Family Leave and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2021....This Bill seeks to amend the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 to increase the duration of parent's...Each parent will be given an additional three weeks of paid leave and the period in which this can be...This legislation will also apply in respect of children born since 1 November 2019....I encourage all Deputies in the House to support this Bill.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-10-19/29/
19 Oct 2005 - Fahey I cannot accept theses amendments, which rely for validity on earlier amendments that were ruled...Section 6 of the Bill amends section 10 of the Adoptive Leave Act 1995, which makes provision for additional...unpaid adoptive leave for bereaved fathers in certain circumstances following the death of the adoptive...However, the principal Act and this Bill confine adoptive leave to adopting mothers and in this scenario..., when the mother dies, the leave can only be available to the surviving parent, namely, the father.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-15/34/
15 Oct 2019 - Deputy Robert Troy I bring forward this amendment because in the ordinary course, leave legislation...This is the case with regard to maternity leave, as governed by section 22 of the Maternity Protection...Act 1994, as amended, and parental leave, as governed by section 14 of the Parental Leave Act 1998....It is difficult to understand why this is being approached differently in this Bill, placing a significant...We have moved the amendment to try to keep consistency in how protective legislation is being dealt with
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - The amendments that I brought in here today arising from Committee Stage stem from the different suggestions...The purpose of this Bill is to give young people and parents a voice, and it is particularly focused...I hope that this Bill will act as a mechanism to meet that demand coming from young people.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-15/34/
15 Oct 2019 - Deputy David Stanton The proposed section 21 put forward by this amendment is taken from the Parental...Instead, these Acts rely on provisions similar to section 20 of this Bill....There is also an error in the amendment. One paragraph refers to "while on parental leave"....This is the Parent's Leave and Benefits Bill and does not relate to parental leave, which is unpaid....In contrast, parental leave is unpaid.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - The closing date for making submissions was 25 October 2019 and my Department is considering the submissions...The purpose of the guidelines will be to provide clarity to school authorities, parents and guardians...The amendments proposed by the Senator involve really important issues....approach and aims of the legislation to single out particular policies in the manner proposed by these amendments...Unfortunately, for the reasons I have outlined I will not be accepting the two amendments.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - I am happy with much of his response on the amendment, which I welcome....It is wonderful that parents, pupils and others are involved.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - Deputy Joe McHugh This amendment is in two parts....the relevant period, which is every five years starting from the date on which this section of the Bill...I could not accept the Senator's amendment as worded at that time, but I agreed to introduce an amendment...be reviewed at least once in every five-year period starting from when the relevant section of the Bill...It is important that the Bill provides for a mandatory periodic review of the guidelines while also allowing
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-09/17/
9 Oct 2019 - Fianna Fáil is proud and happy to support this Bill, which will provide each parent of a child under...This benefit will be available to parents of children born after 1 November 2019, which is quite soon...This benefit is separate from parental leave, which is unpaid....Parental leave policies that support fathers' involvement are a powerful policy tool in tackling gender...Senators were given a limited number of hours to consider the Bill and submit any proposed amendments
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-09/17/
9 Oct 2019 - Adoptive benefit is paid to parents to support them during a period of adoptive leave....The Cabinet last week approved the general scheme of the Parental Leave and Benefit Bill 2019, which...gives effect to previous announcements on parental leave and will also close the adoptive leave legal...The Bill itself is fine. Obviously, it is a good Bill....It seems to me that LGBT parents, in particular, are left behind.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Lynn Ruane I move amendment No. 15: In page 10, between lines 17 and 18, to insert the following...I welcome the proposed changes in section 7 of the Bill that student councils will now have set out in...The Irish Second-Level Students Union criticised the general scheme of the Bill during pre-legislative...scrutiny on these exact grounds, based on the view that the Bill was changing only the aims of the student...My amendment would give a student council genuine democratic autonomy and legitimacy.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - I was heartened by his contribution and am happy to leave it at that.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-10-02/17/
2 Oct 2019 - First, I welcome greatly the tone and approach of the House to the Bill, on which we will work together...with capitation funding because when one talks to schools, boards of management, school principals and parents...and the Office of the Attorney General before a decision is made on introducing this provision as an amendment...to the Bill on Committee Stage....There are very strong relationships between parents and students and many of these issues, as Senator
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-10-15/33/
15 Oct 2019 - It is important that it provides each parent of a child under the age of one with two weeks' paid parental...leave....This legal loophole is not being rectified, and again, it is disappointing that the amendments Fianna...The final point I will make concerns the shared maternity leave Bill that my colleague, Deputy Lisa Chambers...That Bill would provide for the sharing of maternity leave.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Victor Boyhan I move amendment No. 14: In page 10, line 17, to delete “the” where it secondly...I note we are dealing with section 7 and the two amendments....I formally move the amendment and would like to hear the Minister’s considered response to both amendments
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Debate: Joint Committee On Education And Social Protection
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_education_and_social_protection/2015-02-18/3/
18 Feb 2015 - Niall Egan The reforms to the one-parent family payment were first announced in 2010 and the first reforms...The second exemption is for those who are recently bereaved....I wish to bring to the committee's attention the fact that the Social Welfare Bill 2015, which was published...As part of that reform, we have always engaged with lone parent representative groups....We continuously brief them on new changes and amendments and on the impact they will have.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-12-18/12/
18 Dec 2019 - The Senator stated that transparency is the motivation behind his amendment....There is already provision in the Bill to ensure that each school is obliged to give a full account of
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Sinn Féin intends to support Senator Ruane on these amendments....We all appreciate why these amendments are so important....Sinn Féin intends to support Senator Ruane on these amendments.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-12/17/
12 Mar 2021 - Bill entitled an Act to amend the Adoptive Leave Act 1995 to enable a couple who jointly adopt a child...of the adoption; to amend the Parent’s Leave and Benefit Act 2019 to extend the period to which a relevant...parent is entitled to leave from his or her employment under that Act and to extend the period in which...such leave may be taken; for those purposes to amend the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005 and certain...other enactments; to amend the Child and Family Agency Act 2013 to increase the number of ordinary members
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Acting Chairman (Senator Frank Feighan) Amendment No. 2, in the name of Senator Craughwell, and amendments
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Section 2, as amended, agreed to.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - It is a simple amendment and it should not be complex to introduce....I thank Senator Gavan for bringing the amendment forward. He has my support.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Victor Boyhan I move amendment No. 6: In page 6, lines 15 and 16, to delete all words from...I wish to hear the Minister's response to the amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Victor Boyhan I move amendment No. 2: In page 6, line 4, to delete "grievances" and substitute...As I am conscious that these amendments are in the name of Senator Craughwell, I will be happy to hear
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Paul Gavan I move amendment No. 7: In page 6, to delete lines 24 to 27 and substitute the...following: “(7) The Minister shall review the charter guidelines every 5 years; and may make such amendments...This amendment concerns the review element of the guidelines....It is for that reason we have tabled a very sensible, moderate amendment to have a review conducted by
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - He has made a reasonable offer to work with Senator Craughwell on the rewording of the amendment....He is positively disposed in principle to the idea or the concept of the amendment and therefore I propose
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Acting Chairman (Senator Frank Feighan) Is the amendment being withdrawn?
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - Senator Lynn Ruane I do not support any of the amendments tabled by Senator Craughwell but I consider...it appropriate to speak on this amendment in particular....I am not sure we will get to it today, but in a later amendment I am trying to do the complete opposite...I strongly disagree with the amendment, which I was disappointed to see....I wish to voice my strong opposition to such an amendment.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-11-06/9/
6 Nov 2019 - It was taken together with amendment No. 14.
