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Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will not.

Seanad: Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Out of respect for the Cathaoirleach, I will but, with due respect, what is going on here is obscene.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Senator Warfield is in possession. Let him finish his point.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: We need to allow the Member in possession to speak.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: As the Chair, I will do the welcoming. The Senator sent a message to me. Senator Clifford-Lee has already made her contribution to the debate.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: You have already made your contribution.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am not taking anything out of you, with due respect. I am the Chair, thank you. You have made your contribution-----

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Under Standing Orders, you have made your contribution. Thank you. I am very glad to welcome Senator Ardagh's friends here today. They are Lorcan O'Connor, Claire O'Connor, Betty Sheerin, Seamus Sheerin, Padraic McShea and Garrett McShea. They are all very welcome to the Gallery. The other people in the Gallery are also welcome. No doubt the usher can inform me as to who they are. The...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Green Party Senators. This is a worthy motion deserving of all of our support. I thank the Minister.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to sit again?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I echo the comments of my colleagues in wishing Tom Hickey a very happy retirement. I thank him for his professionalism and courtesy. I also thank all the Seanad staff and everyone who makes this House function. Extraordinary work goes on behind the scenes. I came in today to pay tribute to the work of Sam and Odette Doran and to celebrate the opening to the public of the interim...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for bringing forward the legislation. He said he would, he has done so and here we are. He gave very strong assurances when discussing legislation tabled by Members of the House. He said repeatedly he would bring in this legislation. He has been here twice this week and I say well done and congratulations and I thank him very much. Senator Malcolm Byrne has robbed all...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I hear what everybody is saying and I very much respect the emotion that is involved. I stand here as a married person whose family is not included in this amendment, so it is not without its boundary. I think it is important that we keep the debate at an academic level. We are Senators, and it is important that the debate is not too personalised and that we do it like that. However, I...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Tomorrow.

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: An Dara Céim - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Céim an Choiste ordaithe don Chéadaoin, 23 Eanáir 2024. Committee Stage ordered for Wednesday, 23 January 2024.

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am grateful to be able to debate this legislation to amend our Constitution. It is an extraordinary privilege to be in the Seanad and to be able to speak to it. I do not believe that this article has inhibited me at any point in my life. I need to say that. I do not believe it needs to be removed because it has been a blockage to me. However, in the past, it has led to assumptions or...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I do not have the permission of the Leader to do that. The Senator will remember we dealt with this before Christmas on the rather excitable day in the House.

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Certainly, I will text the Leader and ask her.

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: Tomorrow.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Foreign Birth Registration (23 Jan 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jack Chambers, for attending. The foreign births register is a particular register held by the Department of Foreign Affairs and is also known as the citizenship by descent register. Its normal use is in the context of passports being claimed by people who are perhaps the children of Irish citizens living abroad, and it is the method by which they...