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Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I was not going to speak today. I just came down to listen but as I listened to Senator Clonan and others, the words of James Connolly came to mind. Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek Our programme to retouch, And will insist, whene’er they speak That we demand too much. ’Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements give me mirth, For our demands most moderate...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I hope the Government will support her in the work she is doing on that. I also hope the Bill will not be opposed but, rather, ushered through with enthusiasm and haste. I thank all the visitors in the Chamber and those who are not here and have advocated for themselves or their loved ones for too long. I look forward to a day when disabled people have their needs met and their families...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: What do you think of me?

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: It was a Thomas the Tank Engine reference.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: We are resuming on section 15. Amendment No. 57 is in the names of Senators Higgins, Ruane, Black and Flynn. Senator Higgins has the floor.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: It has already been grouped with amendment No. 6.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome Professor Daniel Carey from the University of Galway who is in the Gallery here today. He is very welcome to the House for this discussion.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Amendments Nos. 70 to 73, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Amendments Nos. 74 and 75 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I ask the Minister of State to outline the rationale for the Department's funding of the role of safeguarding officer in St. John's Ambulance Ireland and to explain if such a funding mechanism will be available for similar organisations. In the reply to a parliamentary question tabled by my party colleague Deputy Ivana Bacik, the Minister stated that the appointment of the national...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Perhaps the Minister of State knows the answer to this question. On 4 January, during that meeting with Department officials, St. John Ambulance made the Department aware of the need for financial support in order to fund the post of safeguarding lead. Is the Minister of State aware that all of these legal cases are being taken? How does the organisation not have the finances for this post...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Well done to the Minister. I thank those from the Together for Safety national campaign and those in the Gallery who have been with us throughout this process. I also thank the officials in the Department, and of course Senator Paul Gavan for initiating some of the legislation on this. It is a great day for the Senator and his team, and for the women and pregnant people of Ireland who will...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Green Party for bringing this motion. At our Labour Party conference in March, my Labour Party colleague for Blackrock, Councillor Martha Fanning, brought a motion on this very topic. In her motion, she recognised the prevalence of loneliness in our society and she further noted that local authorities, as the custodians of many of our indoor and outdoor community spaces, should...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: When coming here today, I was reflecting on a quote from James Larkin of 110 years ago, "Intolerance has been the curse of our country." Looking at some of the things that have happened over the past couple of weeks, it is unfortunate that 110 years after one of our greatest revolutionaries said that, we seem to be facing into it again. In the part of Dublin in which I am based, over last...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I am raising the need for the Minister for Health to address issues relating to the state of trans healthcare in Ireland and the need to move to informed consent, gender affirming care at community and primary care level. I will give some context of our trans health care here in Ireland, although frankly, that is something that I do not think we...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I note the mention of the Cass report. I will not go too much into it but there were questionable methodologies in the research of that report. It is disappointing that there has been wilful misrepresentation in the media and by some bad actors of the report. It is being used to deny, restrict and cut off services to very vulnerable people. I hope that is borne in mind as well. Trans...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. I have a health topic for the Minister of State, as he peruses different topics here today. Following on from the "RTÉ Investigates" programme broadcast last night - I hope the Minister of State has seen it and, if not, I would certainly recommend he take a look at it - I want to ask the Minister, or the Minister of State, Deputy Burke,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: Many of the changes outlined by the Minister of State are not the required legislative changes that we need to see. That is what we want. The recommendations that emerged from the review have a robust evidence base and are rooted in qualitative research of the lived experience of women and pregnant people who have accessed abortion services since the commencement of the Act. This is a...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, to the House. As someone who grew up on a tillage farm and dabbled in the agriculture sector, I will keep my comments mostly to those areas I am familiar with. I certainly welcome the Minister's comments and his outline supports for tillage farmers. Once a tillage farming girl, always a tillage farming girl. Over recent months I have found...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. We welcome the Research and Innovation Bill, which will be a strong foundation for promoting and advancing research in Ireland and ensuring that research bodies and individuals get easy and equal access to funding and opportunities. There are, however, certain points that require a more detailed approach to ensure the Bill will function as...