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Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Two crack teams. Two teams of the highest calibre.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The best negotiators they could find, three from each side, in secret negotiations over a period of months-----

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: They came out with not even a sheet of paper between them.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The frustrating thing, as the Leader will agree, is that this country faces a huge number of challenges - Brexit, homelessness, housing and the health crisis, which have all been mentioned today.

Seanad: Order of Business (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is it not unbelievable that the two main parties in the Oireachtas could have six weeks of negotiations and not come up with a single sheet of paper with a single word written on it? If they had a single sheet of paper with the word "homelessness" written on it, at least we could have an argument over and back as to the importance of that word or what they are going to do about it. However,...

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is that what the Senator was shouting at me?

Seanad: Order of Business (Resumed) (18 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Was he shouting that at me earlier? I could not really make out what he was saying.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The issue of conscientious objection is dealt with comprehensively in the Bill but as Senator Bacik has said, if we are to envisage a situation where a woman is in a room with a doctor, and she is distraught and in clear need of a service available as legislated for, and as voted for by the people of this country, are we really going to focus our attention on what the doctor is feeling rather...

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The child to which Senator Mullen referred is mine. I will say this much about my daughter, thank God she has been born in this year so that in years to come she will live within an ideology of care and compassion for women and not the judgmental views of Senators such as Mullen and Ó Domhnaill which would send her across the waves for the care that she needs, feeling like a criminal....

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: We can refer them on.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: This comes from the same crowd that redirected to the Iona Institute's website.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: If one reads what can be found at that link, one can compare it with the record of the House.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report and Final Stages (13 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: The Iona Institute website-----

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: It is speculation. It is outrageous.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: Is the Senator speaking to the amendment?

Seanad: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (6 Dec 2018)

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin: I thank the Minister of State for being here. This is an emotional day. I share the emotion of my colleague and friend, Senator Humphreys, when he apologised. I feel the same need to show a sense of shame as an Irish man for what has been done to Irish women and continues to be done to them to this day. I join others in commending my colleague, Senator Bacik, who for years has campaigned...