Results 181-200 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: On Friday of last week, the UK Supreme Court found that Uber drivers were entitled to employment protections and were not self-employed. The argument in the case, which was supported by the GMB trade union, was that these drivers were workers who were deserving of employment protections. We saw a similar announcement from the Italian courts yesterday. The UK ruling arose from the fact that...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: I have been in many cases in the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court. The difficulty is that one can satisfy the criteria of being self-employed while, in fact, be working unlawfully. There is a problem in the model that we have. With due respect, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment needs to address the fact that the gig economy works very differently...
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: Is the Senator happy to share time?
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: I call Senator Paddy Burke, who is sharing time with Senator Garret Ahearn.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: Senator Ahearn is in possession.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: No. The Senator had her time to speak.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator can make a brief clarification.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator has an opportunity to make a clarification and is straying.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: We are running out of time for the Minister to speak.
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?
- Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: In addressing this, I must confess I am loath to contradict legal opinion I generally hold in great esteem. I would not consider myself to be an accomplished law student though I passed with a decent clearance of the grades required. That is where I put myself.
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: What does one call the doctor who comes last? Doctor. In this context, I see a sense to the order of keeping everything in the proposed new subsections starting with "1" and grouping those together. We are balancing four documents. I have the sections of the Children Act, the amendments and the Bill as published. In the incoherence of so many documents, it can look a little disordered....
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: I understood the Minister's response to be that if we keep the amendments in section 1, the rest of the text will remain numbered as is currently. This would mean that anything outside of the Act, whether it be academic writings, productions within the Department of Justice, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth or anything else that refers to those...
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: I am not without sympathy on this matter and I agree a degree of nuance in the hands of a judge would be beneficial. A judge would be trustworthy. There may be difficulty, however, in that we are living in a social media age and the hard facts of the last number of years have been that witnesses, including children, have been named, subject to abuse online and hounded in their communities...
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: On Friday next.
- Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: At 10.30 a.m. on Friday, 5 March in the Dáil Chamber.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Chairman. I am in my office in the Leinster House complex. I thank the witnesses for their opening statement and contributions thus far. I very much welcome the endorsement of the report of the ombudsman and the willingness to so openly embrace its recommendations. For me, it comes down to the stories I have been told. I refer to the constituents and others whom I have met...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: May I cut across Dr. Morgan? We have a similar vision, which is great. However, using the word "accessing" implies that the imperative to act is on the parent. When a child is born with obvious complex needs, surely the system in our public hospitals should immediately trigger in such a way that the system comes to the parent, who is already trying to cope with all that is before them with...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)
Mary Seery Kearney: What are the impediments?