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Seanad: Social Welfare and Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (13 Feb 2024)

Mark Wall: ...asked questions by particular mothers. It puts them under so much needless stress. In fairness, many groups, including SPARK and Women's Aid, have identified the fear that these young mothers feel in dealing with those calls and meetings. I hope this Bill will address social welfare inspectors and the need for them to go to those lengths. I hope that will change because it is wrong....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...It is the conclusion of the senior clinical group in the HSE that there are significant supports, ... legal and medical, in place in Ireland to enable people to die in a dignified way." Is there a feeling, therefore - I am just trying to read between the lines here - that our current system is adequate and that there is enough in place to support people in their end-of-life care? Is it...

Coroners (Amendment) Bill 2024: Second Stage (8 Feb 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...inquest that is currently under way. Families waited a very long time for that full inquest. Having spent time with the families from my own constituency, I know how it hard it was for them to feel that the State had not exhausted every avenue in trying to understand what happened to their loved ones. The dignity and persistence of the families in their search for the truth is truly...

Seanad: Death of Former Taoiseach: Expressions of Sympathy (7 Feb 2024)

Rebecca Moynihan: ...overlooked and, in some cases, written out. We will particularly remember him for giving space to the unionist community and allowing the unionist community at that stage in the late 1990s to feel safe to come into a process, and for working towards not just the historic Good Friday Agreement, but perhaps the most significant part of that process, which was the 1994 ceasefire. John...

Research and Innovation Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Seán Sherlock: ...deal with that in his reply. I think there will be agreement in the House that it could be perceived that people in what I call the non-applied areas in the humanities and social sciences may feel a sense of worry about this legislation. I imagine postdoctoral and other researchers in the applied humanities and social sciences will see potential opportunities and the Minister's words...

Misuse of Drugs (Cannabis Regulation) Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ..., the Judiciary and the Garda, take drugs but they do not end up in court because this is actually a point about social justice. The people who end up in front of courts are those who society feels do not have power. This is a discussion about power and people. Do we honestly think we will affect a person's life for the better by giving them a criminal charge? Do we genuinely think...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...the care they need. We still have some inconsistencies in the payment of the Covid recognition payment to home carers and other healthcare workers. People are still contacting my office to say they feel they ought to have been entitled to something. That is still rumbling on, which is not ideal. It would also be remiss of me, while we are talking about carers, not to recognise that the...

International Court of Justice and Genocide in Gaza: Motion [Private Members] (30 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...action is not just down to the Minister of State but to all of us. It is not just down to the Government; it is down to civil society, trade unions and the Irish people to make a determination of what we feel should be our ongoing relationship with Israel and how we can halt what it is doing. Its actions may come to an end. There may be a resolution, a ceasefire and diplomacy but this...

Services for those Seeking Protection in Ireland: Statements (30 Jan 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...; fleeing war, or persecution, or economic migrants who come here looking for a better life, just as millions of Irish people have gone and continue to go to other countries. These vulnerable people now feel unsafe in our country, which is most shameful. I have always been proud that we in Ireland did not fall prey to these hateful and dangerous narrative as many of our neighbours across...

Seanad: Defence Forces Tribunal of Inquiry: Motion (30 Jan 2024)

Mark Wall: ...bodies. It is a very important channel that is kept open. It is also important that we acknowledge the pride, as all Members who stood up here today have done, that we all have in our Defence Forces. The pride we all feel from the actions and representations of our Defence Forces both at home and abroad is unique and must at all times be protected. We are all aware of the challenges...

Children and Family Relationships (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: ...the application was made by me. Because I am not the birth mother, I am not recognised as my son's parent and may not claim Irish citizenship by descent for him. You will appreciate how this made us feel, coming especially at Christmas, when thoughts of family are paramount. We were shocked that this is the case for same sex couples in Ireland... All we ask is that our children are...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Northern Ireland (25 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: Does the Tánaiste agree that the fundamental problem with the DUP and Sinn Féin in the build-up to a settlement is that neither will move on something fundamental and important if they feel that there is any segment of their own party who will not move with them? Others, particularly in Northern Ireland, took risks to move matters along, but those parties in particular seem...

Post-European Council Meeting: Statements (24 Jan 2024)

Brendan Howlin: ...people and of all right-thinking people across the European Union. The ongoing carnage in Gaza is unconscionable and horrifying. It is now clear to the entire world that the Israeli Government feels it can act with complete impunity and exactly as it wishes. A country that Ireland regards as a member of the community of nations has decided that it is not bound by international law, the...

Gaza and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide: Motion [Private Members] (24 Jan 2024)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: ...we have deep political relationships that they are wrong, because some things are more important. The sad point is that every time I leave Leinster House and I see the Ukrainian flag, it makes me feel that we are all hypocrites. That moral certitude we had - the sense of truth and justice that the West speaks about, and the sense that we are all in this together and that when we see...

Housing and Homeless Prevention: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Jan 2024)

Gerald Nash: ...? Thanks to the housing issue, the concept and principle of the social contract have been shattered and irredeemably broken. When I speak to young people, I am always struck by the hopelessness they feel regarding their prospects of ever owning a home. So many of them have already effectively given up. They are fatalistic about this and I can understand why. Even those with...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I feel like I have to explain that every time I speak here. As my Labour Party colleagues and I said yesterday, we welcome the proposed changes to the definition of "family" in Bunreacht na hÉireann. If it is all right, I would like to take a moment to make the connection here and to applaud the ruling in the Supreme Court case yesterday, and to thank Johnny O'Meara for taking the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...in expressing the wishes of the citizens' assembly and which it was felt would give a meaningful recognition of care in the Constitution on, as I said yesterday, a gender neutral basis. We feel the Government wording falls a little short of what the citizens' assembly and the Oireachtas joint committee recommended. We feel the wording is somewhat more restrictive. The Government's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...the thoughts on the witnesses on whether having a public vote strengthens the legislation. If there is a public vote and people are in support of it, there is support for it. Do the witnesses feel that strengthens their hand in doing something like this? There have not been public votes across the world on this. Legislation has just been brought in. Do the witnesses think there is a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Mark Wall: ...current and wonderful diversity of family life in Ireland. Indeed, it is my experience that such a restrictive definition has not reflected family life in Ireland for a long time. We therefore feel it is time to amend the definition of family, just as it is time to amend the language used in Article 42.2. I will not get a chance to contribute to that debate later but I welcome the fact...