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Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: All of the children in the local play schools still use the playground.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: Yes.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: That is what I was trying to get at.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: Yes, I understand.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I do not absolutely agree with Deputy Robert Troy. Many programmes and youth services have adjusted to their budgets. Most have told me that the cutback has not affected their programme of work with young people. I do not know what the figures are, but when I talk to people on the ground who are working in the services, they say they have a reduced budget and are using other initiatives to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I thank the Minister. I apologise for being somewhat late. I was reared by a family that thought one had to creep before one could walk, and walk before one could run. I think it is important to bear that in mind in the development of any service. One has to creep and then walk and then run, and then things will fall into place. While I join other speakers in welcoming this allocation,...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I might make my point about youth cafés at this stage.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 40 - Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: What kind of uptake has there been in this regard? That is all I really want to know. It is a very basic question. I am also concerned about the increase in the number of children in care. Although the figures we have been given regarding the number of referrals of children in welfare protection cover a nine-month period only, I think it is important to look at them. It is obvious that...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I, too, wish to be associated with it. It is wrong and unfair that this meeting has been rushed and that members have not had adequate time to speak.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive (Revised) (10 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: This issue is close to my heart. I look forward to the final report and the measures that will be put in place. I come from an area that has been ravaged by drugs since my early childhood. The time for local and national drugs task forces is gone. The model needs to be broken and we need to consider something completely different. It is difficult to see the work done by some local drugs...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: We accept gifts of any kind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I am happy to say I will not. The Chairman will embarrass me, and I am not easily embarrassed. I hope my husband is not watching this. I will conclude on a quote that sums up what our guests have been saying: "In the Violet Room, she closed the door, And when I came out, He was no more." These few lines express everything that our guests have said. I thank them and I enjoyed their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Transgender Health Issues: Discussion (4 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I am constantly reminded when I sit in this room of how privileged I am to be a member of the committee. I have repeated this a number of times but it is a fact. We sit here as public representatives but when we leave this room many of the groups which have made presentations to us have left an impression. I need to make many notes because I have a head like a sieve. Ms Lacey and the...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: No. I offered, but the Chairman keeps throwing me in at the deep end. He had better not make any comment about my hair this time. I was slagged the last time. When I entered the room after the last vote, I had a message on my telephone from a young woman who had been watching the debate on television. She told me her story. I was taken aback when she stated that today was the beginning...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I hardly ever agree with Deputy Ó Cuív but I agree that there are too many suicides in the country. Sadly, many people lose a family member without warning or a note left behind. The family members are left distraught and constantly ask why it happened. The Bill allows medical professionals to intervene and hold the hands of women in that distraught state who need to be able to...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: Perhaps the Minister will clarify a point. Is there anywhere in this Bill or amendment that the life of a viable unborn baby is not protected? Does the Minister understand what I mean?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: What will happen if a woman turns up with suicidal tendencies at approximately 26 weeks, or a stage when a baby could live outside the womb? I was clued into what happened at the hearings and doctor after doctor indicated that everything medically possible would be done to protect the life of the woman and child. Am I clear and right in saying that?

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: Will Deputy Boyd Barrett withdraw his remarks about the Minister not fully understanding urgency? That is very wrong for the Deputy to say. The Minister has been a medical professional for a long time.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: We are not here to insult people. We are here to guide people. A remark like that brings this committee down and it needs to be withdrawn.

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Catherine Byrne: I have sat through these hearings and I must say that the excellent interpretation of the Bill by Deputy Ó Caoláin throughout really blew me away. What the Deputy is saying is lay person's language. Can the Minister read out the first part of his response again? He stated that this could not be put in due to something in law, and I would like to hear that again in order to...