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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 - Acting Chairman (Senator Diarmuid Wilson) Is Senator Ruane pressing amendment No. 15?
