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Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: If families had that €1,000, under governance, would they not be prepared to provide care? Perhaps that is too creative. One could ask if there is a right place for legislative measures. I accept the point that the Bill concerns decision making and that if older people want to stay in their homes they cannot be forced out, if they have the capacity and wherewithal. However, where...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: We continue all the time to create fragile environments and we put older people into them which makes them even more fragile. It is done in the name of health and safety but in fact it is the closing down of their freedom. Some of them are so healthy and safe they are treated like babies and they are not allowed to think for themselves. In effect, their liberty is taken away from them, for...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Manners will now be put on me by the Acting Chairman.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just-----

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is called passive suicide.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What page is it on?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: What page is that on?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: He is not raising the amendment. He is back-referring it.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: The amendment was not discussed at any level, and it was not even part of an adjacent discussion.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I would like to go back to a Bill that was discussed four weeks ago. Could I do that?

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 235:In page 88, between lines 18 and 19, to insert the following:“(d) to provide information on the creation of an enduring power of attorney or the making of an advance healthcare directive to enable a person who has capacity to express his or her wishes to be given effect when he or she lacks decision-making capacity;”. We were under the impression that...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was about to tell the House about the demographic profile.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Irish society must plan for population 80 and, in particular, have regard to the growing number of people whose capacities will decline as they age. It is necessary, therefore, for the State to facilitate people to plan individually for such an eventuality. The figures included in the national dementia strategy for 2004 suggest that in 2011 there were 47,800 people with dementia. It is...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was about to thank the Minister of State for it.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am pleased that my proposed amendment in section 78 has been accepted and I thank the Minister of State. It is extremely important the supervisory and investigative functions of a director of the decisions support service include the exercise of those functions in respect of attorneys under the 1996 Act. I had meant to thank the Minister of State for it. I also am pleased to note section...

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just mentioned that programme in so far as it is a guide for when people lack capacity. However, I understand, in respect of all the amendments, that it will be part of it and I thank the Minister of State for accepting my other amendment and for taking it on board in the spirit of the Bill.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I disagree with Senator Conway. It is very important to reach some sense of perfection, given that human rights is about this. We must start at the top, not half way or three quarters of the way up. Heterosexual men were very good at perfection throughout my life. That is where I learned it. I had grave difficulty believing women were perfect. Men were telling me for years that they were.

Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report and Final Stages (15 Dec 2015)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: Given that the core of the Bill is about human rights, we start at a level of perfection and fall as fragile human beings. We do not start half way up a ladder. I thank some of the experts in the Public Gallery and people such as Mary Farrell. Many of us can be educated and informed by those who live with what the Bill is trying to provide for and whose lives are caught between the devil...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: I wish everybody a very happy new year. May all their gods go with them, in whatever way they come over the next few months. I support Senator Whelan. It is interesting that it is Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Independent Members who are coming together on this side of the House to find out how we can boil town-wide tankers of used oil in Portlaoise, whose smell has a huge effect on...

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Jan 2016)

Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, in an effort to be kind. In regard to what Senator Craughwell said, there is no rise in the number of dropouts at second level or correlation between the number and a decrease in guidance counsellors.