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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I appreciate that starting point, but I just wished to establish, for people watching and so forth, that if they were to come from this, the Minister is happy to give the commitment that he will be proposing that legislation or that he will lead off on that as the Minister for Health. I will move on to the second-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: Okay, I appreciate that is the angle. From how this process has been talked about from the beginning, many people felt that it was going to go beyond the operational. I appreciate that the Minister is coming at it as a start point and that it may evolve from that, but I believe that many people were under the impression that it would include policy. I wanted to put that forward. I accept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Scope and Structure of Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act: Engagement with Minister for Health (8 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: As I was thinking, I came up with another question. I know it has been said again and again but the teams in all our offices are doing the Lord's work trying to find and parse documents live as the meeting proceeds, which is exceedingly difficult. I appreciate that problems sometimes arise but it is incredibly difficult for members to do this. We want to get the best out of this meeting...

Seanad: Covid-19 and the New Measures (Education): Statements (2 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister for Education to the House. I am the education spokesperson in the Seanad but I also cover further and higher education, innovation, research and science. If the Minister will indulge me, I might discuss education from primary level to tertiary level. I am the Senator for students, after all, so I might try to cover a couple of different areas, if that is all right....

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (1 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Justice, Deputy James Browne, to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Schemes (1 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, to the House.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospice Services (1 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. Senator O'Loughlin has four minutes.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Hospice Services (1 Dec 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister of State for coming in to address the matter and Senator O'Loughlin for raising it.

Seanad: Horticultural Peat (Temporary Measures) Bill 2021: Second Stage (30 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: We are using a lot of language about extracting and harvesting. I do not know if that is a reflection of what we are talking about when we speak of removing peat from the earth. It is more suitable to say we are mining peat because it is not renewable in any relevant timescale. It takes an enormous amount of time to renew peatlands. We should start calling it mining. I do not know how...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Homes Redress Scheme: Statements (30 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister for coming to the House on this issue. On behalf of the Labour Party grouping, I express my sincere sympathies to all survivors and their families. We have received, as has every Oireachtas Member, an enormous amount of communication on this issue. We have met and spoken to survivors and affected persons and their families. Even when walking through the corridors of...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: The first issue I wish to raise this follows on from the abortion working group. I am aware that the group has contacted the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to express serious concerns over the confusing and somewhat contradictory messages regarding the legally mandated abortion review. I share the group's concern. The review was announced last March and six months on there...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by An Taoiseach (18 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I wish to share my time with Senator Mark Wall. I want to flag some areas that I hope are of importance to the Taoiseach. I could not stand up here without referring to student nurses and midwives. As a former Minister for Health, the Taoiseach will be all too familiar with the work they do, but the issue of pay has still not been resolved. This is scandalous. I plead with the Taoiseach...

Seanad: Report on Victim’s Testimony in cases of rape and sexual assault: Motion (17 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank the committee Chairman for being present for this discussion. First, I will say for the record and for anybody who is listening to or watching this debate who has survived sexual assault, rape or any sort of violence, I believe you. I know that you were there. I know your pain. I believe you and you did nothing wrong. You survived and however you chose to handle the moments,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: The witnesses have spoken a lot about long-established tobacco companies presenting themselves as vape companies that allegedly want to get people to quit smoking and about their slight smoke and daggers approach. Can they outline the rules and regulations for lobbying by the tobacco industry in Ireland and internationally and how lobbying works here? I ask because it is important for the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I have some outstanding thoughts to express about the presentation made by the Department a couple of weeks ago. Obviously the Irish Cancer Society, in its submission, has expressed concern about the threat posed by e-cigarettes. A lot of submissions from the industry mention the Public Health England, PHE, report stating e-cigarettes are 95% less harmful than tobacco. I have heard the 95%...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I wish to put it on the record that the 95% figure is tosh. Ms Power has said that e-cigarettes are not recommended as a cessation method except for long-term adult smokers so why do people use e-cigarettes to quit smoking? Is it because there has been a powerful marketing campaign and we have let the ball slip? I have the 95% figure in my head and I remember that she said a couple of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Public Health (Tobacco and Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill 2019 (Resumed): Discussion (17 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: Those are all my questions. I thank our presenters. It has been very interesting.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: Everything I had intended to say has been already said. The basis of the amendment is the inclusion of local authorities, councillors and representatives in the process in order that they can keep up to date with regard to it. As a former councillor, I know that there are many ways to engage. This provision drives that home a little bit better. It gives more of a statutory basis to that...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Committee Stage (16 Nov 2021)

Annie Hoey: I move amendment No. 27: In page 9, to delete lines 7 to 11 and substitute the following: “ “(1B) Where a planning authority receives an application for permission to which section 32A(1) applies it shall— (a) notify the elected members of the planning authority of the making of the application, of where the application is available for inspection, and of such other...