Maria Byrne

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to Personal Assistance Hours and secure funding

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to housing and the need to implement policy

To inform members of the Dail & Seanad of issues facing people with disabilities in relation to transport and the need to implement policy

The introduction of a cost of disability payment to help equalise the the cost of living experienced by people with disabilities

Passing of Sexual Offence bill

Reform of school admission policies / School patronage reform / Curriculum reform / Guidelines for schools on opt outs from religious instruction

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

To ensure understanding of industry perspective on proposed legislation and policy change.

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…

Increased understanding of the activities of Scouting Ireland::Funding provision within Budget 2017 under the Department of Children and Youth Affairs Youth Grant

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

Pressure on Seanad members to vote for motion put down by Alice Mary Higgins calling for rejection of CETA