# seanad - Tuesday 9 May, 2017
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
Senator Joan Freeman originally praised the Taoiseach for his involvement, but took a different view today in the Seanad .
# seanad - Sunday 30 April, 2017
# Pieta House
# Pieta House
Senator Joan Freeman talks to us about mental health services and being ‘a pain in the government’s neck’.
# seanad - Sunday 9 April, 2017
# Safeguarding
# Safeguarding
During a debate on proposed new laws to protect the vulnerable, Senator Lynn Ruane opened up about her own experience.
# seanad - Sunday 2 April, 2017
# They've Earned It
# They've Earned It
Put forward by Sinn Féin senators, the law aims to ensure “transparency” over where your tip is going.
# seanad - Wednesday 29 March, 2017
# Talkin' 'bout My Generation
# Talkin' 'bout My Generation
Proposed legislation would reduce the voting age for local and European Parliament elections.
# Your Say
# Your Say
The proposal will be debated in the Seanad today.
# seanad - Monday 20 February, 2017
# Galway
# Galway
Sinn Féin senator Trevor Ó Clochartaigh says he has received documentation showing abuse of the council housing system by officials.
# seanad - Monday 30 January, 2017
# Pay Back
# Pay Back
Senator Ray Butler received the payment after he lost his Dáil seat in Meath.
# seanad - Sunday 15 January, 2017
# Opinion
# Opinion
Voters chose by a narrow margin in a referendum in 2013 to retain the Seanad . It’s unlikely they are happy with that decision, writes Senator Gerard P Craughwell.
# seanad - Wednesday 14 December, 2016
# Compulsory
# Compulsory
The Registration of Wills Bill 2016 will introduce compulsory registration of wills in the country.
# seanad - Monday 5 December, 2016
# Senator's Life
# Senator's Life
Independent Lynn Ruane has been an active campaigner on social issues since her election to the Seanad .
# seanad - Tuesday 29 November, 2016
# Seanad Address
# Seanad Address
Scotland’s First Minister is on a two-day visit to Dublin, but is not meeting Taoiseach Enda Kenny.
# seanad - Sunday 13 November, 2016
# Heritage Bill
# Heritage Bill
The Irish Wildlife Trust has said that Minister Heather Humphreys ‘isn’t taking the protection of our natural heritage seriously’.
# seanad - Friday 11 November, 2016
# Renovations
# Renovations
The move, which is expected to cost around €1.5 million, is to accommodate renovations at Leinster House.
# seanad - Wednesday 2 November, 2016
# Vagrant Senators
# Vagrant Senators
A statement from the national trust said the museum “has no spare space for the convenience of vagrant senators”.
# seanad - Thursday 20 October, 2016
# Full-blown Crisis
# Full-blown Crisis
The Agriculture Commissioner said the UK can’t “have its cake and eat it” and dismissed Brexiteers’ “posturing and fancy talk”.
# seanad - Tuesday 18 October, 2016
# Relocation Relocation
# Relocation Relocation
Refurbishment of the Seanad is expected to take two years.
# seanad - Wednesday 12 October, 2016
# Let It Go
# Let It Go
The Seanad was today discussing a bill concerning its own reform, and ended up covering some well-trodden ground.
# seanad - Wednesday 22 June, 2016
# Ready To Swoop
# Ready To Swoop
They’re tearing refuse bags to pieces and don’t seem to understand bedtime, a FG senator complained.
# seanad - Wednesday 1 June, 2016
# Suicide Prevention
# Suicide Prevention
Joan Freeman was named as one of the Taoiseach’s nominees to the Seanad last week.
# seanad - Saturday 28 May, 2016
# Spruce Up
# Spruce Up
Leinster House is to undergo its most significant restoration work to date.
# Change Of Heart
# Change Of Heart
In a 2013 statement calling for the Seanad to be abolished, Reilly labelled it “very undemocratic” and said it had “no power.”
# seanad - Friday 27 May, 2016
# The Chosen Ones
# The Chosen Ones
The Taoiseach picked some Fine Gael TDs who lost their seats in February’s general election.
# Your Say
# Your Say
The Taoiseach’s nominees to the upper house will be announced today.
# seanad - Friday 20 May, 2016
# Slow And Steady
# Slow And Steady
Kevin Humphreys said that the Seanad appointments and ministerial appointments would amount to “jobs for the boys”.
# seanad - Monday 9 May, 2016
# Donegal County Council
# Donegal County Council
Brian Ó Domhnaill claimed expenses for attending events in different locations on the same days.
# seanad - Sunday 1 May, 2016
# 1916 Pride
# 1916 Pride
Fintan Warfield thinks ‘you don’t have to be a Shinner to be a republican’.
# seanad - Friday 29 April, 2016
# Seanad Newcomer
# Seanad Newcomer
Ruane says she hopes to champion the causes that are close to her heart.
# seanad - Thursday 28 April, 2016
# Gender Recognition
# Gender Recognition
Newly-elected Sinn Féin senator Fintan Warfield thinks a lot still needs to be done to help young trans people living in Ireland.
# seanad - Wednesday 27 April, 2016
# Upper House
# Upper House
There’ll be plenty of familiar faces in the upper house.
# seanad - Tuesday 26 April, 2016
# Deadlock
# Deadlock
If we don’t get a government deal, then yes, probably.
# seanad - Monday 25 April, 2016
# Counting Votes
# Counting Votes
Sinn Féin’s Warfield became the mayor of South Dublin after being elected to the council in 2014.
# seanad - Thursday 21 April, 2016
# Factcheck
# Factcheck
TheJournal.ie’s FactCheck was paying close attention to TV3′s Seanad debate last night. Here’s who told the truth, and who lied.
# seanad - Monday 28 March, 2016
# The Other House
# The Other House
The Seanad election is underway. But how does it all work and how many people actually get a vote?
# seanad - Tuesday 22 March, 2016
# Next Best Thing
# Next Best Thing
Last month Aodhán Ó Ríordáin said he wasn’t going to “kick around the Seanad ’ if he lost his Dáil seat. Now he’s changed his mind.
# seanad - Friday 18 March, 2016
# Next Best Thing
# Next Best Thing
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin, Kevin Humphreys and Ged Nash are all seeking a Leinster House comeback.
# seanad - Friday 11 March, 2016
# James Heffernan
# James Heffernan
James Heffernan was released an hour and a half later.
# seanad - Thursday 3 March, 2016
# Line-up
# Line-up
The postal ballot will begin from 21 March.
# seanad - Wednesday 2 March, 2016
# Breathing Fire
# Breathing Fire
He announced today that he will run in the elections for the upper house of the Oireachtas.
# seanad - Thursday 11 February, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Barry Johnston says emigrants are exercised about having no say in the kind of country they would one day like to return to.
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