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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I would condemn a situation like that around any patient but I do not think that there is necessarily an either-or. By having the option of assisted dying, it does not mean that person would not be enveloped in the care that is absolutely essential to their dignity right up until and including that moment where they exercise that right to know they will die in two months' time, unconsciously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, faith has not always influenced the behaviour of our State to the better of its people. As a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth having to deal with mother and baby homes and other situations, we have seen it to the forefront of those unfortunate decisions over years, and the hardship they caused. I am not sure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I support the amendment proposed by Senator Doherty to the Order of Business to take No. 10 before No. 1, regarding the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (Control of Nitrous Oxide) Bill 2023. It is incredibly important that we bring this forward. I am chair of a drugs task force and am aware of the increase in nitrous oxide use. The view of some parents that it is safe and that it is a...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Shame, shame, shame.

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I pay tribute to the Minister for the exceptional job she has done throughout her tenure, but especially since last Thursday. She has spoken with confidence and strength, and for the majority of people who are appalled and who support our gardaí and our Commissioner. I am foursquare behind her. Populism is a definite type of strategy that claims everything is simple, has a really...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. That is very important. I welcome Elle Lennox and Lucy Reeves to the Seanad. They are here doing work experience with me this week.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabilities Assessments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I say well done to the Minister of State, and thank her for all of her work in this area. I welcome Minister of State, Deputy Jennifer Carroll McNeill. I congratulate her on her recent lobbying and hard work on our behalf to try to secure a new EU agency for white collar crime. We are proud of her out there in Brussels. I call Minister, apologies, Senator Conway.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabilities Assessments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Indeed, he has already.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate the Senator and the Minister of State, particularly the Senator, for their consistent advocacy and for their modelling of what can be exemplary public service.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Before we take the next Commencement matter - this is of particular relevance to the Minister of State - I welcome the students from Our Lady's School in Ballinteer to the Gallery today. I thank them for coming into the Seanad to see us all. They are here as guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond. Their other Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, is here so they are getting a double...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Before we take our concluding Commencement matter - this is also of relevance to the Minister of State – we welcome the second group from Our Lady’s school in Ballinteer, who are guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond. They also get the great opportunity of being here to see one of their other TDs, the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, in action.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am here to ask that we have the Minister for Transport come before the House for a discussion on the transport and bus network in Dublin city. When I have submitted proposals for Commencement matters on this issue previously, I have been told it is not the Minister's issue, but the NTA reports to him and this organisation is bringing in major changes in this regard. From next Sunday,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: All of us would agree the Covid vaccination programme was an extraordinary success. It has been fantastic. All of us queued up, got our vaccinations, stayed safe and were kept safe in the main. So it is worrying that today Professor Éamonn O’Moore, director of national health protection in the HSE, has said there has been a low uptake of vaccinations and that we need an urgent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their statements, and also for the decades of incredibly hard work that has gone into the care of people. There is not one person in this room or listening to us who has not been touched in some way by a family member receiving beautiful and person-centred palliative care in a hospice. I commend the witnesses on that. What struck me in reading the opening...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Kathryn Mannix is very strong on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have mentioned Ms O'Reilly's movement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: In principle, I am one of the people who, had I been asked, would have said I broadly support the choice of assisted dying. I do not want to give a misconception about myself. I differ from Deputy Higgins in that I think over these three sessions on coercion we have looked at mental health and discussed that. We have looked at palliative care supports and I hear the witnesses loud and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Access to Palliative Care and Social Supports: Discussion (21 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have two things. First, is it not reasonable that an individual, in anticipating their death and knowing they will have palliative care, would decide or want the option to decide that they would die while aware and that there would be a sense of being part of the saying goodbye? That is where I would see, perhaps, an option or choice of assisted dying appearing within palliative care,...