I move amendment No. 117: In page 82, to delete lines 7 and 8.

I move amendment No. 118: In page 82, to delete lines 9 and 10.

I move amendment No. 119: In page 82, to delete lines 11 and 12.

I move amendment No. 123: In page 82, to delete lines 26 and 27.

I move amendment No. 125: In page 82, to delete lines 37 to 39.

First, I welcome Senator Martin's Bill. Even today, I am working with a woman who is going through domestic violence and needs access to services. In March 2020, before I was nominated to the Seanad, I was supporting a woman with five children who was living on the streets of Dublin to seek refuge and because she had fled her home country and was at no major risk from her abuser, she was denied access to a woman's refuge. That led her into addiction and criminality, and her kids have now been taken away from her. T…

Yesterday, I brought up the issue of hate crime legislation and asked where that legislation is now. I and other members of ethic minority groups, as well as LGBTQI+ communities and disabled people, believe this legislation is extremely important. Sadly, it is evidently required in society. I again call for a date to be set for Committee Stage of the Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022. I ask the Leader to make it a priority to write to the Clerk of the Seanad in that reg…

I am glad to have the opportunity to speak on this very important matter this evening. Care is at the core of our communities and our connections. We need to start looking at care differently and speaking about it differently. We should not use cost to measure the impact of care because our society is built on care. Care often lays the foundation for persons to live independently. This motion states that those in need of care are not mere passive recipients of care but are themselves persons with standalone rights.…

This afternoon I want to call again for strong hate crime legislation. Unfortunately, due to the volume of emails received over the summer and in the last few months about its hate crime legislation, the Government has paused it, ignoring the fact that many NGOs and people from minority groups, including the Irish Traveller Movement and Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, have been fighting for years for strong hate crime legislation to be passed. We were more than half way there, with the Bill due to be debated on Comm…

I welcome the Minister of State to the House.

Has the Senator changed the person’s name? We are not allowed to identify a person.

Did the Senator get permission to use their name?

Okay. It is just the rules of the House; it is not me.

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte.

I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond.

I welcome our students and their teachers this morning. It is lovely to see young people in our Gallery. I thank them and hope they enjoy the rest of their visit.

I welcome the students from Glasnevin and their teachers. It is powerful to see our young people coming into the Houses. We hope they enjoy the rest of their visit.

Hear, hear.

Hear, hear.

First I want to say to Senator Keogan: a few weeks ago you had a health scare. It is public knowledge. When you went to the hospital-----