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Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Sep 2022)

Regina Doherty: It strikes me as odd that it was only just during Covid, but I do not see why we would need security then and not during normal times. It is bizarre. I will contact the Minister in that regard today. Senator Conway, who has brought the HPV catch-up programme to our attention on many occasions in the Seanad, raised the fact that constituents of his have told him they have been charged for...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, motion regarding the Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 and the Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022 back from joint committee, to be taken without debate on conclusion of the Order of Business; No. 2, statements on the high level action plan for the Report of the Commission on the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: A wide range of topics were raised. Senator Burke talked about his views on the deregulation of the energy market. While I am not sure I fully agree with him, the fact several companies are competing against one another is certainly not giving the consumer better choice. The mind boggles at some of the reports in recent weeks that are an attempt to educate us as to how we could save money....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (4 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Not everything is a label and while I appreciate the examples she gave us today are labels, "Traveller" is not a label. Travellers are a race of people who have a rich history, language and traditions. I think we need to be careful. Senator Kyne spoke about school transport. Senator Flynn spoke about her real disappointment at some of the language that was used in the past week. I...

Seanad: Planning and Development Regulations 2022: Motion (4 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I move: That Seanad Éireann approves the following Regulations in draft: Planning and Development Act 2000 (Exempted Development) (No. 3) Regulations 2022, and Planning and Development (Solar Safeguarding Zone) Regulations 2022, copies of which were laid in draft form before Seanad Éireann on 19th September, 2022.

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by the Rt. Hon. Lord John McFall, Lord Speaker of the House of Lords (5 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I welcome the Lord Speaker to our Upper House. As he said, it is an awful lot smaller and more intimate than the House of Lords but he is very welcome. It was mentioned that we held a minute's silence in the presence of the British ambassador, H.E. Mr. Paul Johnston, a number of weeks ago. I think we can all agree the outpouring of sorrow throughout the world demonstrated the enormous...

Seanad: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2022: Second Stage (5 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I will ask a question because I have been fascinated while listening. I can see the points that both the Minister and the Senator are making. The Minister has stated that before 12 weeks it is not considered an abortion but thereafter, there is a presumption that the life of the child will be preserved. There is a whole legal quagmire there that may exist. The Minister stated some minutes...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister is saying the AHD is silent and the current law after 12 weeks would allow he interventions to protect the life of the child distinctly, differently and separately to the life of the mother. What has legally changed since we felt the need and the Attorney General in 2015 would have felt the requirement to put in the exact clause that we are now taking out, which specifically...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Minister is saying the reason that it is not required is that we now have primary legislation that determines how healthcare services will treat babies older than 12 weeks and, therefore, it is implied by other legislation that a baby that has been in gestation for longer than 12 weeks will be protected regardless of whether it is silent in the AHD or of specific requests by the mother in...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The reason Members have had such disastrous examples to reference is that doctors, hospitals and clinicians have been allowed to follow clinical policy and the ambiguity of different interpretations of that policy has resulted in women and babies suffering. I do not see the problem with inserting specific wording in an AHD to the effect that if the person concerned is pregnant at the time of...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: What is the Minister's purpose in changing the language from previously specifying that healthcare professionals would intervene to protect or save the life of the unborn, to moving towards changing the language so that healthcare providers would intervene to protect the pregnancy? Are we trying to determine that the word "pregnancy" actually relates to the life of the baby in the womb of...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: I do not think I am going to change the Minister's mind. I understand the Minister is saying that changing the language means there will be interventions which will protect the woman's pregnancy or the person's pregnancy. By association, we are supposed to assume or come to the conclusion that this means we would be intervening to protect the life of the baby. Have we become so politically...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: It should say both. The words "pregnancy" and "foetus" should be included.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: We are scheduled to complete this Bill next Wednesday. We have an hour and 15 minutes scheduled with a finish time and early signature order of 2 p.m. on Wednesday. Does the Minister propose to come back on sections 73 and 74 before or on Wednesday? How does he propose to address the concerns that were raised today before we resume on Wednesday?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (6 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Next Tuesday at 2.30 p.m.

Seanad: Minute's Silence for Victims of Creeslough Tragedy (11 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: On Friday, 7 October, an unspeakable tragedy occurred in Creeslough, County Donegal, which took the lives of ten beautiful souls and devastated a small tight-knit community. Shauna Flanagan Garwe and her daddy, Robert Garwe, Catherine O'Donnell and her son, James Monaghan, Leona Harper, Jessica Gallagher, James O'Flaherty, Martin McGill, Martina Martin and Hugh Kelly all had their lives cut...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: The Order of Business is No. 1, Consumer Rights Bill 2022 – Second Stage, to be taken at 4.45 p.m. and to adjourn no later than 6.45 p.m., if not previously concluded, with the time allocated to the opening remarks of the Minister not to exceed ten minutes, group spokespersons not to exceed eight minutes, all other Senators not to exceed five minutes, and the Minister to be given no...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: Of all of the things that I managed to do during the four years that I was lucky enough to sit at the Cabinet table, the one that probably fills me with the most joy is the hot school meals programme. I got to meet all of the five- and six-year-olds and they cannot help but make one feel delighted that they are getting hot food, as opposed to cold ham sandwiches, which they warmly welcomed....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2022)

Regina Doherty: We will see what we can do and we will push the matter on a little. Senator Wall also mentioned the debate in the Dáil Chamber tomorrow evening on section 38 and section 39 agencies. I wish him well with that. Senator Ó Donnghaile spoke about Creeslough. Senator Boyhan expressed his sympathies to those affected. I had never before heard that poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay", but...