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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The committee members were not aware.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thought someone was being incredibly rude and wanted them to be removed from the room if they were undermining Dr. McDonagh in any way. It suggests I might be somewhere on the same page with her. Dr. McDonagh and Mr. Wycherley, and Professor O'Neill and Dr. Hartney, have expressed exactly what is one of our concerns throughout this committee's meetings. That there is the lived experience...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: As Dr. Hartney was speaking, I wrote a note about capacity versus infantilising people and their ability to exercise that capacity. I very much take her point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Dr. McDonagh's testimony was very powerful and I feel totally inadequate in following her with a question other than to say that it is very powerful. I also hear Dr. McDonagh make the point regarding Travellers and suicide and the value of people in our State. I very much hear and want to honour that. I also want to address something from the last round of questions where Professor O'Neill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no question that the normalising of anything and the implications of that in our society have been consistently raised by our committee. However, non-medical people know of The Lancetand would hold it in esteem. Citing an article in this context with that title can be misleading. While I take Professor O'Neill's point regarding normative conformity, I had the benefit of sitting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: No. That is not what happened. I thought Dr. McDonagh was genuinely being interrupted. I could not understand how the Chair was not intervening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I have enormous respect for their views and their entitlement to hold them, and am sympathetic with an awful lot of what I have heard this evening. However, our history as a State and as legislators has been to espouse a just society. We need to legislate not even necessarily for what the majority thinks but for what is needed for a minority....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I would condemn a situation like that around any patient but I do not think that there is necessarily an either-or. By having the option of assisted dying, it does not mean that person would not be enveloped in the care that is absolutely essential to their dignity right up until and including that moment where they exercise that right to know they will die in two months' time, unconsciously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, faith has not always influenced the behaviour of our State to the better of its people. As a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth having to deal with mother and baby homes and other situations, we have seen it to the forefront of those unfortunate decisions over years, and the hardship they caused. I am not sure...

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Recommendation No. 31 in the names of Senators Ruane, Black and Flynn is out of order.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Recommendation No. 33 has been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Recommendations Nos. 35 to 37, inclusive, have been ruled out of order.

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

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

Seanad: Finance (No. 2) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am rushing from another meeting so that is why I am not there in person. I did not want to miss my slot. I thank the witnesses for their opening statements and their contributions so far today. I also thank them most sincerely for the ongoing work they do. Ms Grogan has been particularly brilliant to me personally on a couple of things I needed to run past her. The Fine Gael...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Did Ms Grogan want to add to that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Where it occurs, it is useful, but how much of a say does that young person have in that care plan? Is it handed to them or do they co-create it?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Chair. I will come down to the committee room now.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion (6 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I pay tribute to Mr. Gloster. As head of Tusla, he was extremely accessible and fantastic. I wish him well in his appointment in this role and hope it continues in the same vein. The Fine Gael Parliamentary Party met the parents' group, Families for Reform of CAMHS. The group is growing in numbers daily. It is quite substantial. It gave a submission to this committee. It did a survey...