Results 961-980 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I get what the Minister is saying about proving the information has been conveyed. I understand this is the motivation and that we need to prove information has actually been conveyed. I depart slightly from Senator Ruane on that, but it could have been done by addressee-signatory only. Making the person the letter is addressed to the only person who can sign for it would discharge the...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister's answer is very comprehensive. I agree with Senator's Moynihan that he has an unenviable task and that, no matter what way things go, there will be hard choices involved in this. Section 70 provides for a review. I know this cannot be put into the Bill and I am not asking the Minister to do so but I wonder whether the terms of reference of the review, when it is being...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am thrilled that the Minister is here and we are not talking about Covid-19.The Minister has come in so many times and we hoped for a day like this when we would deal with the normal everyday issues. I congratulate him of the women's health action plan, which is a considerable piece of work, and it is fantastic to bring forward what was begun in the task force under my colleague, Deputy...

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister is being disingenuous with people who desperately need that legislation.

Seanad: National Maternity Hospital and Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is.

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister of State.

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Consumer Credit (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: Protection of the Native Irish Honey Bee Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Jun 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister of State and all our beekeepers and scientists. I apologise because I was in committee and could not come to the presentation this morning. It is my great honour to have been invited by Senator Martin to be a co-signatory of this Bill. On the day I received his email, it brought me back to being a child. I have beekeepers in my family. I do not claim to know...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: It would be remiss of me not to point that in the 2019 report, the second report by the former special rapporteur, she notes that she identified three main responses to her conclusions in the 2018 report. Several states and civil society organisations rejected the premise of sale outright in the context of surrogacy, arguing that at no point is there a transaction for the child. A...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for being so open and prepared to speak. It is a courageous thing to share one's own story, particularly where we are trying to navigate a way through a legislative quagmire. Hearing from the witnesses about their experiences has been helpful. The purpose of this committee is to discuss international surrogacy. In many instances, the surrogate mother does not live...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Preventing the Sale, Exploitation and Trafficking of Children: Discussion (19 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank our guests.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I suppose I should get down to business. At the age of seven, children are going through a developmental phase where they have, I believe Professor Golombok used the term, a "sophisticated understanding" with regard to their surrogacy. However, I think at that stage they have a more sophisticated understanding of relationships. That tends to be the phase when they do the “I love you...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank both witnesses. I thank Professor Madden for giving us the opportunity to have this discussion. Senator Ruane a number of weeks ago, very early in our meetings, touched on the idea of a paternalistic attitude that women cannot make this decision for themselves because of their socio-economic background or the county in which they live. While I am not ignoring the fact that we need...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: We need to acknowledge that a year longer will be too long for families, in such cases as where a woman cannot sign a consent form and she cannot sign anything to do with a child. Any more kicking this down the road and carving it out is just giving an excuse for what is prohibition by a failure to legislate. This will be a failure to the children of our State.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Potential Double Standards in Protections for Surrogate Mothers in Domestic Arrangements: Discussion (26 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: With respect, I really do appreciate that Dr. Tobin is setting out a pragmatic response to the situation. Both of the witnesses are doing so. I appreciate that that is not his intention. My concern is that there are flaws and gaps that have been left as a result of the Child and Family Relationships Act, which undermine same-sex couples in particular. On the issue of reciprocal IVF, the...