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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have held out great hope for this legislation. I am with Senator McGreehan all the way in that I have viewed it as being quite empowering legislation. I can see how, in an institutional setting, it very much is empowering when it is worked with a lot of staff. Perhaps it is designed with that in mind. I am very disappointed to hear the consultation implications. I find it horrifying....

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I can see the strengths in the legislation in the context of situations such as that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Very much so. I hear that loud and clear. Mr. Lowndes made a very good point regarding people being in bad humour. There are implications for daily life and it needs to have a clear structure of empowerment and safety. I very much hear that. Before I ask Mr. Dunne a specific question, is there anything he wishes to contribute?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Should there be some sort of an appeal or review mechanism? How would Mr. Dunne manage that situation? How does he think it should be managed in a way that is in the spirit of where the legislation wants to get to? It is a valid point.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I acknowledge that at this committee and, in particular, at the Committee on Disability Matters, we are often joined by extraordinary advocates on behalf of family members. I often wonder about the people who do not have family members who are so extraordinary and have fought for so long. My question relates to the submission from Disabled Women Ireland regarding privacy. Although we may...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. I know that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes. I agree with that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I saw that in a recent television programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank all our guests. In particular, I welcome Mr. Gilvarry, whom I had the great privilege of meeting last year at the graduation event for representatives at the Red Cow Inn. He was a very fine representative and I came away with a long list of tasks to do as an Oireachtas Member as a consequence of the great representation and advocacy I received that night. I note from his submission...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I had the privilege on that evening last year of meeting members of Mr. Gilvarry's family too, and family is very important. Everyone lives within a family who want to see and share in his or her success, and I know that Mr. Gilvarry's family want to share in his. My opening questions are for the NCSE. If I were to try to summarise what I have heard and read during this meeting, it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate the extent of Ms Prendeville's answer. I disagree that the NCSE cannot ask because of data protection. It is essential that the NCSE asks so that there can be proper planning for children. I welcome that Our Lady of Hope School was opened by the two Ministers. I acknowledge the ongoing incredible work by the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan. I also acknowledge her drive....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Deputy Higgins has indicated that I can go first. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements, which I very much appreciate. I want to pose questions on two very distinct and separate issues I encounter. The first is that since the 1990s, there are two fantastic groups in the Chapelizod area, namely, the Chapelizod Tidy Towns group and the Chapelizod Heritage Society. The person...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: That may be my misunderstanding, but in the documentation and books on it that the group has written, it is seeking for the monument to be at the very least preserved.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: My question is what this proposed legislation does for that. In terms of the monument not being cared for, there is a certain maintenance of it and a rather unsympathetic block of concrete underneath it that is not particularly sympathetic to the structure. My question is more about what this proposed Bill does. If we have anomalies in the context of different items of legislation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is great. I thank Ms Collier.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Monuments and Archaeological Heritage Bill: Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (17 Feb 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, or to whoever wishes to comment.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I would like to speak about Ukraine. I was really struck by the press release from the Auschwitz memorial at the weekend. It gave a great summary of what our disposition should be. It stated: This act of barbarity will be judged by history, and its perpetrators, it is to be hoped, also by the International Court of Justice. As we stand at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial, it is...

Seanad: Housing Policy: Motion (2 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I very much welcome the motion and congratulate the Civil Engagement Group for tabling it and giving us the opportunity to speak about the issue. I welcome our guests to the Chamber. I am very struck by the entirety of both Senator Ruane and Senator Flynn's contributions but especially by the line in Senator Flynn's contribution that referred to a message that people are failing. There is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I pay tribute to the Irish people for the extraordinary and overwhelming generosity they have shown towards Ukraine. The fact that centres all over the country that were set up to collect goods for shipping to Poland have had to stop receiving them because they were overwhelmed is really quite extraordinary. I note the statement by Dóchas this morning that it would be better for people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Education with the UNCRPD (Resumed): Discussion (3 Mar 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister of State and thank her for her opening remarks. I want to begin by congratulating her and thanking her very sincerely for the recent opening and ongoing growth in the Our Lady of Hope School in my constituency of Dublin South Central. I know that a considerable amount of work was carried out by her good self and her officials and also with the Minister, Deputy Foley....