A Chathaoirligh, I am very pleased to be here today at the resumption of the Committee Stage of this important Bill. Senators will be well aware of my own strong opinions on the need to amend the current section 37(1) of the Employment Equality Act 1998 and that I was together with Senators Bacik & […]
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My Speech to the Seanad on Committee Stage of The Employment Equality (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2013
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Launching the Report on Improvements to the Protection Process including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers
Yesterday I had the honour of launching the Report on Improvements to the Protection Process including Direct Provision and Supports to Asylum Seekers with Minister Francis Fitzgerald. After almost a year of solid work, the Working Group looking into this matter, returned with 173 recommendations. In its extensive overview of the system, the group has outlined […]
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W.B. Yeat’s Walking Tour of Howth with Pat Liddy, 2.30pm Saturday, 20th June
In 2015 Ireland celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, William Butler Yeats. W.B. Yeats spent some of his late teen years in Howth, living in a house above the cliffs on the Balscadden Road. Join local historian Pat Liddy and Aodhán Ó Ríordáin on a walking tour of Yeats’ […]
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