Results 601-620 of 636 for speaker:Joan Freeman

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (29 May 2019)

Joan Freeman: I second the motion of my colleague Senator Mullen. I feel apologetic every time I see the Minister of State, because I know I am going to attack him. I am sorry, but he is the face of his Department so I know he will not personalise it. What does it take for the Government to listen to the people of Ireland when it comes to the mental health services? If we look back over the past 18...

Seanad: Mental Health Services: Motion (29 May 2019)

Joan Freeman: It is in lots of trouble and there has been lots of bad publicity. There is one thing that could turn things around, which is the Government looking after the mental health of our country. This Government must stop losing the appetite for mental health and must put it first on the agenda.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Freeman: I wish to apologise to everyone for being late. It was totally unavoidable. Forgive me if I make some comments that people have already made. As some of the witnesses may know, I come from the real world in many ways. We need to be real. We do not know whether the people who are here today will be back again when there is another election. That is the reality. We do not know when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Impact of Homelessness on Children: Discussion (Resumed) (19 Jun 2019)

Joan Freeman: Mr. Mooney is, of course, right that we need long-term solutions and to introduce legislation, but we are never going to have that perfect storm where everything falls together. We need to have solutions now for the 1,700 families who do not want to wait another two or three years to see what the Government will do. Let us focus on that while continuing to work in the background on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2019)

Joan Freeman: I offer my sincere condolences to the family of John Pender on his tragic death. This man was killed in Fuengirola last Friday. He was the co-founder and husband of Caroline McGuigan, of that wonderful charity, Suicide or Survive, SOS. I just do not know how Caroline is going to face the coming months and years ahead because this man was her rock and worked with her every step of the way...

Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I second amendment No. 10.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I welcome the formation of the committee and the focus it will put on mental health in the Traveller community. As most of what is in my submission repeats what has been said, I will edit it as a I move along to focus on what I want to speak about. I will jump straight into it with the crisis within general mental health services and the unacceptable inadequacies and underfunding in many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I apologise but I have to leave at this point.

Seanad: Traveller Culture and History in Education Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I welcome the Minister. It is lovely to see him here. I am a great supporter of this Bill. Senator Kelleher is a magnificent champion of the Traveller community. I want to make three points. Yesterday I had to give evidence to the Oireachtas committee on Travellers. I was asked to talk about what can be done about mental health in the Traveller community. Many statistics were...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: May I respond to that?

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: In response to the Minister, I know that some of the amendments will be ruled out of order because of the financial imposition on the Exchequer. I introduced the Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018 last December and I acknowledge Professor Mary Aiken, who is in the Gallery and who has aided and abetted me every step of the way. Yesterday we had a number of briefings which were really...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: Amendments Nos. 1, 2, and 7 to 9, inclusive, have been ruled out of order. I am aware of that and I accept it, but there are two other amendments about which I would like to talk when they come up.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I move amendment No. 3:In page 4, line 4, to delete “material”.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I move amendment No. 4:In page 4, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following:“ “material” means material— (a) whether in the form of text, (b) whether in the form of data, (c) whether in the form of speech, music or other sounds, (d) whether in the form of visual images (moving or otherwise), (e) whether in any other form, or (f) whether in any...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I will not move amendment No. 5, which defines "responsible person" in the Bill, as this is consequential on the amendment creating the e-safety commissioner.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I move amendment No. 6:In page 4, to delete lines 8 to 10 and substitute the following:“ “social media” means, for the purposes of this Act, an electronic service that satisfies the following conditions:(a) the sole or primary purpose of the service is to enable online social interaction between 2 or more end-users; (b) the service allows end-users to link to, or...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: The Minister is not referring to section 4.

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: To clarify, what I am proposing is very simple. This is not about the significant amount of social media issues that are emerging as we discuss this. I am talking about taking down sites that provide harmful content, for example, a site that tells a child to do a certain task every day for 50 days and on the 50th day, tells him or her to take his or her life or a site that promotes...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: I wish to echo what Senator Craughwell has said. The reality is that I am only talking about sites that do nothing else but provide very harmful content. There is no grading in this, as Senator Craughwell said. I will try to simplify it. I appeal to the Minister to imagine what it would be like if he had a child, grandchild, niece or nephew left in a room alone with a stranger who would go...

Seanad: Children's Digital Protection Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (16 Oct 2019)

Joan Freeman: Now.