Results 1-20 of 80 for going forward speaker:Annie Hoey

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

Annie Hoey: ...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 have this legislation going forward.

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...and muttering about planting weather and wet sodden land. I must have picked it up off my dad over the years when he used to do that. As a little girl I would stand beside him and nod along and go, "Yes, most certainly." It has been incredibly difficult. As I have been going across the country I am struck by and cannot get over how often I see wet farm lands in a way that I do not...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...amendment seeks to delete, change or replace that language with different text, which is welcome. It was said in the Lower House that we in the Labour Party are supportive of the aim behind the Government’s proposal but we would have liked to see a way to delete the sexist language while also ensuring there is meaningful recognition of care both within and outside the home, on...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...want to say I am tickled pink that it is finally coming through but this is significant legislation. We have waited five years for it. The Bill is about patient safety and the well-being of those going into hospitals or healthcare settings, as well as the well-being of doctors, GPs and their staff. We are not just talking about the people who want to access reproductive healthcare but...

Seanad: Care Payments: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...for her contribution. Sometimes, in here, you get a moment where you see the reality of our lives behind the cameras and all the things we do, and we realise that people have complex lives and go through difficult times. Sometimes, they share that with us. I thank Senator Ardagh for sharing the experience of caring and for highlighting the responsibility involved. I have spoken a...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...and alcohol task forces in Buswells Hotel. They were talking about investment to support and aid their recovery. I am sure they will have circulated the information to everyone and I need not go into great detail. Drugs and alcohol do not only affect the communities people might think of. There were representatives from Ballymun, Dún Laoghaire, Finglas, Cabra, Bray, canal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...that. In some countries this has been deemed permissible and then in other countries it has been deemed impermissible and there is a whole moral element to this. How did how do we find a way forward to square the circle? Obviously, we have to look at the context that exists in Ireland but Ireland also exists in a global context. We do not exist in a silo. We can do things in other...

Seanad: Local Government Matters: Statements (28 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...not members of the Labour Party, which should put the spooks up some of the other parties in that we canvassed far and wide to get an idea of what people are experiencing. I would need an hour to go through all of the issues that were raised with me on behalf of those councillors and local area representatives but I will try to go through some of them. A big issue that came up, and which...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: I am not going to speak for terribly long on this issue. As I believe this is, though, the last time we will address this matter, I feel I should speak on it. I am acutely aware that with every day that passes, time is slipping away from those who had their lives cruelly and irrevocably changed, and sometimes even destroyed, by this brutal regime that the State willingly supported. These...

Joint Committee On Health: Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...medical professions, against pursuing this diagnosis. It is suggested that because people have lived so long without it, they have no need to do that. How would the witnesses advise someone to go forward, who has received that discouragement, either from family, friend circle, or indeed the medical sphere? As I said, once that penny has perhaps dropped and we have opened up the can of...

Seanad: Academic Precarity: Motion (24 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...working for free because they are not being paid into the examination period. They are effectively volunteering their time. They will get paid a couple of euro for each exam they correct but they have to go through them at an almighty pace to even make minimum wage in an hour. I could not believe she was talking about staff in an academic institution effectively working for free because...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local and Community Arts: Discussion (24 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...other supports. Ms Conway is right to highlight that we have perhaps missed the boat. While it is better to pre-empt these things or not do them in the first place, hopefully we might find a way forward. I am concerned when the witnesses say they do not think the research will include the disability allowance. That might be something for us as a committee to be aware of. In many...

Seanad: Disregard of Certain Criminal Records of Gay Men: Motion (17 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...greater acceptance of and equality towards LGBTQ people. However, we cannot ignore the damage, shame and criminalisation that LGBTQ people faced before 7 July 1993, particularly in those laws that criminalised gay and bisexual men. Without going on too much of a 32-county and anti-imperialist rant, we inherited those laws from Britain. They were draconian laws that applied to sexual...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Committee Stage (16 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...when they refer to a cost on the State. I do not know that we could ever really calculate the full cost of the impact that mother and baby homes had on people's lives. If we are not even going to be able to discuss the amendments because they have been ruled out of order and require money messages, we should at least be open to the amendments seeking a report on the operation of the...

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Civil Engagement Group for bringing forward this Bill. The Labour Party will be supporting it and voting in favour of it. I agree with my colleague, Senator Warfield, that we would like to see the Bill go to Committee Stage in order that we can pick through the bits that have been outlined as problematic. Sending something to Committee Stage does not send it to the Áras to...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...how that can be managed? The primary issue has to be paying people a fair wage. Of course, not everyone’s grant stayed still; some people’s grants increased. However, if the grants are not going to manoeuvre around that space to facilitate that, how can that be managed going forward, if funding is going to remain static? Following on from that there is not a person in...

Seanad: Inland Fisheries Ireland: Statements (29 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...in the background. He did a lot of work and, as a fisherman, often talked about Inland Fisheries Ireland and the various spats between anglers and other hijinks that fisherpeople would have got up to. It is fair to say that IFI has been hit by a string of controversies. When we look at the work that IFI does and that other Members have outlined, it has made a great contribution and is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Engagement with Chief Executive Officer (22 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: It is something I am particularly interested in because I think around 25% of lung cancers are caught due to completely unrelated issues. People go in to have a routine operation on their toe or something and the medical staff happen to catch lung cancer at stage 3 or stage 4 at which point the prognosis is very poor. There is real potential with the lung cancer screening given what is...

Seanad: Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Bill 2019: Second Stage (7 Mar 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...been done on this matter by Deputy Kelly - I refer in particular to the commitment and promise he made to Vicky - and by all of the women and those involved in the 221+ group to ensure that this Bill got to where it needed to be.I acknowledge the Minister has been working intensely with both Deputy Kelly and the 221+ group to get this to a place where people felt this legislation would do...

Seanad: Citizens Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (23 Feb 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...our culture to date, which is slightly changing, than it does about people using these substances. I can feel that shift and I hope we see that shift in how we treat people using drugs. That goes from people using drugs recreationally all the way to people in the depths of addiction, possibly the second, third or fourth generation down, and communities that have been devastated by this....