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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: Discussion (8 May 2014)

Mary Moran: I apologise, as I thought the Chairman was wrapping up the meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: Discussion (8 May 2014)

Mary Moran: We must speak up for ourselves. I welcome the delegation, although I have met some of them and had discussions before. I thank the delegation for the presentations and apologise for my late arrival, as I had a previous engagement. I welcome the comments made by my colleagues on women and the role they can play not only in conflict resolution but also in public life and politics. We have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security: Discussion (8 May 2014)

Mary Moran: May I speak?

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Mary Moran: The allocation of €1.4 billion for 2014 will provide numerous supports for people with disabilities across the country. It is not always about how much we allocate but how to use the money most effectively and efficiently. Through my role in this sector, I hear that the quality of the personal assistance service could be improved. In the mental health sector, we now have a person to...

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Mary Moran: Many people across the country are no longer willing to accept a top down approach to health care. We must now facilitate this new way of thinking. I thank the Chair for leniency.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (7 May 2014)

Mary Moran: I am pleased and honoured to second this motion. I welcome Mr. John Dolan and other members of the Centre for Independent Living who are here for this debate. I agree with Senator Bacik on the need to put the personal assistance service on a statutory framework. Speaking to those involved, it was reiterated to me that we need certainty and greater clarity in this area. A personal...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Support for Young People with Disabilities: WALK and Carers Association (7 May 2014)

Mary Moran: I welcome the representatives of WALK and the Carers Association. I found both of their presentations very interesting, true and up to date. I have a personal connection with WALK peer programme in that I shadowed one of the girls, Emer, who is here today. It was an excellent day and an excellent eye opener to the work that is done to give young people with disabilities an equal...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: On a point of order-----

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: Senator Terry Leyden is out of order and I am very disappointed with him.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: The Senator should not cast the first stone.

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I refer to the welcome announcement made this morning by the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, that €15 million would be made available for the school book rental scheme capital fund available to all primary schools. I have been a strong supporter of cutting school costs for parents. In my role as a member of the Joint Committee on Education and Social...

Seanad: End-of-Life Care and Bereavement: Motion (16 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I too welcome the Minister of State to the House this evening. I pay tribute to Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell in particular for bringing this extremely important motion to the House. I am also delighted that the amendment has been withdrawn. This is an extremely important motion and something with which we are all in agreement. The motion is too important for dissent. The issue is one...

Seanad: Order of Business (16 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I join others in welcoming the Lord Mayor, Councillor Oisín Quinn, to the House. It is great to see him here. I would like to raise some concerns that have become increasingly more prevalent and have received increasingly more representations concerning people with an intellectual disability being refused medical cards or having their medical cards taken from them. I firmly believe...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I join with the commendations for and congratulations to the President, Michael D. Higgins and his wife Sabina, on the excellent job they did in representing our country last week during the first official state visit to Britain. It made me very proud to be an Irish person. I am particularly proud that I campaigned and canvassed for and supported Michael D. in his bid for the presidency. I...

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: He did excellently.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: He was the No. 1 candidate.

Seanad: Order of Business (15 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: On numerous occasions, I have raised the serious matter of the provision of mental health services and psychiatric beds for children and adolescents. It is unacceptable for a child or a teenager to be placed in an adult psychiatric unit. I was horrified to read a report from the annual general meeting of the Psychiatric Nurses Association of Ireland that 76 children and adolescents were...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Homeless Accommodation Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State. I was shocked by the solution offered to the family. I am glad that measures are being taken but, unfortunately, they will do nothing to alleviate the problem faced by this family. I would have hoped this would have been addressed before the problem arose, which is why I encouraged them to speak to the homelessness officer weeks before they knew they would...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Homeless Accommodation Provision (9 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Jan O'Sullivan, for taking this matter. I raise the case of a young family, and this case is relevant to the broader question of housing. The family has been struggling to find suitable rented accommodation in Dundalk where a landlord will accept rent allowance. They have been having this problem for a number of months. I have been in contact with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Leadership in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Mary Moran: I welcome the witnesses and apologise for coming and going during the meeting but I had to attend other meetings also. I again thank them for their submissions, in particular Ms Nihill's which I found very interesting. As a former teacher, I agree with much of what she had to say. I was a secondary school teacher for many years and taught for half my career in the vocational sector and the...