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Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: First Stage (25 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the specific offence of spiking characterised by the administration, injection, or causation of the taking orally of a substance, knowing that the person to whom the substance is administered, injected, or caused to be taken does not consent, or being reckless as to whether the person consents, and where the...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: First Stage (25 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is scheduled for next Wednesday.

Seanad: Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (25 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I welcome the Minister to the House and congratulate him on this legislation, which, albeit in large part technical in nature, is a comprehensive provision in what it sets out and in the objectives it seeks to achieve. Certainly, we need to strengthen those healthcare professionals who are awaiting greater security following the precarity that arose out of Brexit, which is also faced by our...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for the considerable work they are doing in unprecedented circumstances. My apologies, I have been in the Seanad all afternoon on legislation so have missed much of the session but will go over the transcript. I have a small enough question but the witnesses will see where I am going with it. For many years – too long according to the programme for Government...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Are any in rural locations? Representatives groups say they have been in rural locations on occasion.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Prior to the current emergency circumstances, were all of them only in urban settings?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (Resumed) (30 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That is my point. Many of us are bound by diplomacy and parliamentary language from expressing what we really think but many issues that have been presented are those that have been encountered over the past two decades and overcome throughout that time. There has been bus transport, bus connectivity with local communities and so on. I will say what the witnesses may be prevented from...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Even Dublin would be happy to concede for Mayo to get Sam this year.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am a Mayo woman at home in my own house. I rise today to bring to the attention of the House something I have spoken about again and again. Last Sunday we saw the horrific scenes all over social media of a fire in an apartment complex in Blanchardstown. That set absolute fear and panic among apartment and duplex owners in complexes where there are known construction defects and fire...

Seanad: Non-Fatal Offences against the Person (Amendment) (Spiking) Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 May 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for being so positive on this. I also thank our group’s leader, Senator Doherty, and Senator Ward for their work on the Bill. However, all credit needs to go to Young Fine Gael for its hard work. It goes to show that, if you get involved in politics, you can change and influence matters. Here we are bringing into law a Bill that has been at the heart of Young...

Seanad: Capital Investment in the Health Service: Statements (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister is very welcome. This is an exceptional plan. It is an extraordinary piece of work, and as the Minister can see, I have marked on it everything which is of relevance to my home constituency of Dublin South-Central. I confess I have not had the opportunity to get out and itemise all of the uplift it involves and the additional beds and services it will provide. However, it is...

Seanad: Capital Investment in the Health Service: Statements (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Minister has addressed all of the other Senators, but I expected a comment on Drimnagh, Curlew Road and Davitt Road.

Seanad: Capital Investment in the Health Service: Statements (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Can I have a commitment that the Minister's office will come back to me?

Seanad: Capital Investment in the Health Service: Statements (1 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That would be great. We need to know what is the position.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Should we ask IHREC for its response to the earlier questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I echo the comments of every member who has contributed. I am mindful that the public discourse on this subject is delicate and begin from a place of empathy. I was taken by Ms Woods's words – or perhaps they were Ms Gibney's – about fears over painful and protracted deaths and how a person facing that prospect may wish to access a range of choices from palliative care to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Chair. I have a few questions. First, the safeguards that we talk about are ones that, certainly aspirationally, all legislators would like to see. All of us, I imagine, are in public life to better the quality of life of everyone in our Republic. However, it is flawed. It is not perfect by any means. I am a member of the Joint Committee on Disability Matters, and I am very...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Assisted Dying, Legal and Constitutional Context: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I engage with people in palliative care who speak about the objective of living. When a devastating diagnosis is first given to someone, they project forward and imagine. I am sensitive to people throughout the country who are listening to this and thinking they do not want this option and those who will want it as an option. There is a change in the quality of life. The definition of...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have huge sympathy for the case Senator Ruane makes. It is a very coherent argument, to be fair. We have evidence regarding people in that nursing or that maternity care aspect, that a single woman giving birth beside a married woman giving birth received very different treatment. The former was treated in an abominably different way. Empathy and respect was shown to the married woman...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I was using that term ironically.