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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I too thank the witnesses for sharing their personal stories. I know it is not easy. We should be past a place in Ireland where women have to share their personal, private medical history to get a bit of movement. I feel for all our witnesses and am sorry they have had to go through what they have. We are going to do our best to make things better for them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: On that note, I ask the witnesses to keep in touch with us and reach out to us. We are all much more aware of everything following this meeting, and we are here to advocate on their behalf.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Everyone is very welcome back. I wish to raise a matter I saw on the front of the Irish Mail on Sundaylast week. I was very concerned to read the front-page story about the €14 billion hole in the national development plan budget. I believe a memorandum was brought to Cabinet today by the Minister for Transport, Deputy Ryan, on this inflation-driven deficit. It is very concerning....

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The Minister of State is very welcome. He and my colleagues will not find it any surprise that I will raise the issue of the family law court complex that was promised for a long number of years to be delivered at Hammond Lane. I have spoken about this ad nauseamsince my election to this House back in 2016. I was very happy to see it included in the programme for Government that this site...

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: What percentage-----

Seanad: Crime and Policing: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: It is-----

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank Senator O'Loughlin, who has plenty more to say on this issue. I appreciate the work she has put into this, and that of the women's caucus. It is a very important motion. It is very long but contains so many facets. It is very important that we have the conversation because, as she outlined and is mentioned in the motion, care is very gender based. There is unpaid and paid care....

Seanad: Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Motion (4 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Whatever I say today will be completely inadequate next to Senator Clonan's contribution. I can hear the passion in his voice because he has been through this with a very vulnerable child who had to face a number of serious surgeries. Senator Conway, when he was a child, faced some very serious and life-altering surgeries. Like Senator Clonan, he has personal experience of this. We have...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I will give a quick welcome. I acknowledge the work of Lusk ICA, which does tremendous work and has been supporting women in north County Dublin in rural areas for generations. This is a very strong branch that contributes an awful lot to the overall ICA network in Ireland. I am delighted to have them here today. I thank the Cathaoirleach for that welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank the Cathaoirleach and the committee for allowing me to sit in on this session. I am not a member of the committee but, representing north County Dublin, I am very interested in the horticultural industry. I was lucky to visit Keelings’ plant last year with the Minister, Deputy McConalogue, where I met its CEO, Caroline Keeling, and saw the wonderful production facilities it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Challenges Facing the Fruit and Vegetable Industry: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: If that were changed, would Keelings be in a position to develop housing?

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I thank our colleague Senator Pauline O'Reilly and her colleagues in the Green Party for proposing this very important motion. It is great to have the opportunity to discuss it, coincidentally on World Menopause Day. We cannot discuss women's health enough because such discussions were sorely lacking for years. It was never discussed in these Houses or beyond it and that has stored up an...

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The Senator should join Fianna Fáil. He would be more suited.

Seanad: Provision of Free HRT Treatment: Motion [Private Members] (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Tomorrow at 9 a.m.

Seanad: Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I start by welcoming ambassador H.E. Dana Erlich and Jeremy Wilmshurst from the British Embassy who are here in our Gallery to witness this very important debate and the range of views across the House. Like everyone, I am devastated at the scale of human suffering since 7 October. We have all been looking at appalling images on our television screens, on our phones and in our newspapers....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: I appreciate that some of my questions have already been covered. I thank Dr. Conlon for clarifying the rigorous extent of the peer review and examination of the research. I know all three witnesses are very experienced in this area and I appreciate the clarification. On the three-day wait, I thank the witnesses for outlining what they believe would be a positive impact on women if the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: Before sexual intercourse takes place, the clock starts ticking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: That is possibly two, three or four weeks prior to conception.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: The first day of the last period.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Report of the Review of the Operation of the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act 2018: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

Lorraine Clifford-Lee: If a woman misses her period and takes a pregnancy test two days later-----