Margaret Murphy O'Mahony

Passing of Sexual Offence bill

To inform members of the Oireachtas on the case for protecting all human life with emphasis on protecting the 8th Amendment.

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for Social Housing

Discretion in lending small amounts to be restored to credit unions::To ensure credit is available for the most vulnerable

To tackle income volatility:::- Extension of income averaging where farmer’s spouse is self-employed - where a spouse of a farmer has a fully separable source of income from self-employment, income averaging should be allowed on the farm profits.::- Individualising income…

Agri-Environment Schemes - GLAS - that funding of €250m is allocated for agri-environment schemes in Budget 2017, with full payments for all GLAS, AEOS and oranic scheme participants::Areas of Natural Constraints - that funding is increased by €25m in Budget 2017, to €225m, This…

To provide low cost loans to farmers to alleviate cashflow pressures across all sectors::That these loans would be available to farmers from January 2017::That the Minister for Agriculture communicates with the Strategic Banking Corporation (SBCI) to urge greater engagement with…

To establish a credit union supported, state backed fund for SMEs

That the Minister for Agriculture would put in place a crisis fund for farmers who have suffered crop losses of 25-50% and straw losses in excess of 50%::That Aid would be paid on a once-off basic to cereal and oilseed growers who can demonstrate that they incurred substantial…

The introduction of legislaton to facilitate Safe Injection Centres as a means of harm reduction for intravenous drug users, and to assist with social and public order difficulties associated with intravenous drug use.

Concise standards for disclosing patient safety incidents.::Appropriate supports for patients and health care professionals following an adverse event.::Greater focus on prevention of patient safety incidents.::Amendments to the Open Disclosure - Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill…

Discussion about open disclosure

To further the stated policy aims of the Irish League of Credit Unions as set out in its Six Strategic Steps document::To advance implementation of ILCU's policy objectives by government and Oireachtas

Government to deal with issues facing the 600,000 people with disabilities in Budget 2017

To seek information on plans and encourage action by the Minister for Health to make plans to make provision in the Department's upcoming Statement of Strategy for UN CRPD ratification, and to increase and improve Personal Assistants provision and Neurological services