Results 1-20 of 1,878 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney
- Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Amendments Nos. 8 and 9 have been ruled out of order.
- Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to take Fifth Stage?
- Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (28 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (23 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I formally second Senator Martin's Bill. It is excellent, insightful legislation. It is very simple and straightforward but much needed, especially where applications regarding coercive control come into play. I congratulate and thank the Minister for Rural and Community Development for her announcement yesterday on the local enhancement programme. The constituency of Dublin...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I commend the work of the Minister for Health. Yesterday he held a briefing with the Dáil members of the health committee in advance of Report Stage of the assisted human reproduction Bill. I believe Report Stage is due for next week. That is a fantastic development. The time between now and the end of term will fly by quickly and I ask we make sure there is adequate time in our...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State for taking the time to come to the House to deal with this in person. I am working with a family who are incredibly caring and supportive of their 29-year-old son and brother who is a ward of court and has been in the care of the State for some years, since he left school. He was undergoing treatment under the auspices of the HSE in Dublin. At times, that...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I only learned of it myself this morning.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the pupils and congratulate them. Senator Carrigy is a great colleague. I also say hello to Fintan. I know when the Minister of State makes a commitment, she always rises to the challenge of what is presented before her. She began by talking about the will and preference of this man being at the heart of this case, and I completely agree with that. However, a family needs to be...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: There are peculiarities that, as I said, are lacking in any accountability. I accept that the Minister of State acknowledges that.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses very much for the opening statements and the evidence thus far. I congratulate them. This is an exceptional model that is worthy of being followed and adhered to in Ireland. I have a couple of questions. It was mentioned that a memo was going to Cabinet. From everything that has been said, it would appear that the decision to scale this up has been made so I am...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: The Cabinet. Is it straightforward? I would imagine the answer is the budget, as my learned colleague already knows.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Just to clarify, I am not casting any aspersions on that. I have seen it. I have seen the videos of the interviewing of witnesses and have always been struck by just how forensic, detailed, considerate and caring it is. There is no leading or anything like that. It is eliciting the witness detail in a very considered way. That is what I have seen in prosecutions that were brought...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: So the 95 will be involved.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I know that. So I do not go to Terenure Garda station, rather I go to whatever the designated east premises will be? How is that?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, I suspect it will be motivated by budget. That is what I wrote in my notes. I have been on the prosecution side of child sexual abuse cases and seen them. Because they are held in camera, they are not out in the public and not seen. As a result, I have seen this specialist Garda interviewing and it is exceptional. That is going back 12 years, when I was last involved in such cases....
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Review of Barnahus Model for Young People who have Experienced Child Sexual Abuse: Discussion (21 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: My other question was at what point is it engaged. A parent, child or someone calls the Garda, presumably to report a crime.
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. I call Senator O'Reilly to reply. She has five minutes, and I thank her for this very thoughtful motion.
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: I take this opportunity to welcome the Minister of State and congratulate him. This was my first opportunity to see him in the House in his new role. I agree that his passion will be very much present in how he deals with his brief.
- Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to sit again?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Apr 2024)
Mary Seery Kearney: Last year, the Data Protection Commission published a report on an investigation it had launched into the Department of Health keeping dossiers on families who were taking cases against the State over the provision of services to their children with disabilities. There was an outcome to the report, which resulted from a whistleblower’s actions two years earlier. The Department was...