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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...

Seanad: Employment (Collective Redundancies and Miscellaneous Provisions) and Companies (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate the Minister of State. I could not be more thrilled to see her here presenting this Bill. I am delighted she is here in the Seanad. She is very welcome. I have a background in employment law and have been involved in collective redundancies over the years so I particularly welcome this Bill. It is very good legislation. The consultative process is a very valuable tool....

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: acknowledges that: - the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022, and the establishment of the online safety and media regulator, Coimisiún na Meán, is a key Government strategy in the protection of children online; - Coimisiún na Meán is developing Ireland’s online safety framework, through binding online...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Everybody is welcome. I thank the Minister for taking the time to attend. I appreciate that she is very busy at the moment so she is very good to come here. As long ago as 2010, the American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Use published an article that said smartphone use and social media platforms - platforms, apps and games - were designed to be addictive, which is what is addressed in this...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the members of Fórsa. I have gone to bat against Fórsa in the WRC on many an occasion. I acknowledge the Minister’s remarks and all the work she has done, which clearly is felt across this House. There was a time when everybody smoked in all of the movies. In fact, they did it to promote them. That was what being cool looked like. Then there were decades...

Seanad: Smartphone and Social Media Use: Motion [Private Members] (24 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Tuesday next at 1 p.m.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I apologise; I was online at the beginning of this session. I thank the witnesses for coming in. Their report is extraordinary. I advocate for a particular group in society and in that context, people can ask questions and they are completely ignorant of the fact the question they are asking is highly offensive. They do not mean it but that does not make it any less offensive. It just...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: We are talking in very polite terms here, where our witnesses are speaking about microaggression. I wonder if the people listening understand what we mean. Would any of our other guests care to talk about that experience and how you would like to overcome it?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: We speak about racism but this also could be from a religious perspective, there are also LGBT groups, as well as other groups such as disability groups within schools. When the witnesses referred in their opening statement to having an anti-racism policy, I thought to myself that this was so obvious, wondered why we had not thought about that before and thought of course we should have an...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Again that is where the curriculum comes from. That is brilliant. I thank our guest.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I think the non-teachers should stand up.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I was curious about how the panel was made up and how long it was serving. I am glad to know this is something that is working. Again, we should probably have an advisory panel as a committee as well, and why not? It seems bizarre we would speak about children and young people and not actually hear from them. I am a little bit ashamed that we are four years in, and although this is not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: In my defence, there will be a motion in the Seanad tomorrow on smartphones and social media and I will have a line in it about assistive technologies and the benefits of them.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: This is an extremely interesting discussion with a clearly articulate group. Having phones very young and being on social media was not to their detriment in some respects.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I agree with all of them.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Ireland's International Obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (23 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: In France, there is a law that devices must have parental controls set as the default. We should have that here.

Seanad: Gas (Amendment) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (17 Apr 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Amendments Nos. 4 and 38 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.