Results 4,261-4,280 of 14,388 for speaker:Clare Daly
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: There is no legal impediment to adoption. It is legal in this State and anybody who has a crisis pregnancy and who chooses that as an outcome can do it. Deputy Fitzpatrick seems to be concerned that there are not enough children. The only alternative is that we reverse the Chinese policy of restricting numbers of children and mandate every woman to have four children. Then, if she cannot...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Given the amount of debate on abortion and taking up Deputy O'Connell's point that prevention is better than cure, could I respectfully suggest that a key part of our strategy should be on developing a policy for universal contraception access and undertaking studies? There is a contradiction in law such that people younger than 16 have the right to make decisions about their health care...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: What about the difference between medical consent at the age of 16 and sexual consent at the age of 17?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: One of the points which did not make the ancillary recommendation list but which featured very highly in the other opinions of the Citizens' Assembly relates to decriminalisation. In the presentations, the question of who will fund and carry out terminations arose. I think Dr. McKenna made the point about not getting licences for abortion pills and so on would not be an impediment to use....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: In the event of the eighth amendment being repealed, the protection of life provision being changed and the criminalisation aspect being removed, there would be nothing to stop that pill being available.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: On that basis, I take it that the HSE would support the call of GPs to have a more enhanced role, particularly in the areas of medical abortion and the fact that over 80% of abortions would take place in the early stages of pregnancy and could be accommodated by the abortion pill, for example.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: If the abortion pill is relatively cheap and a GP prescribes it, the cost would not be enormous.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Which is the cheap one? We know the tablet is cheap. Is Dr. McKenna saying the doctors are dear?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: The point I am making is that it is a relatively simple procedure in the context of Dr. McKenna's points about-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: The point I am trying to register is from a cost and service provision point of view and concerns the witnesses advising us as a committee. What they are saying, I think, is that the facility to have, for example, the abortion pill would be far cheaper, more accessible and better for women's health, but also better from the point of view of putting less pressure on our health service, for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: My last question is whether the working group the Department has with the Minister for Health is on target for a May referendum, which is-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Is that a "Yes"?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: That is a "Yes".
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: That is good.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Ancillary Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly Report: Department of Health and the HSE (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Good.
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Obviously, we understand that the SatCom project, which we are being asked to sign up to in this motion, has a variety of uses. It will involve a pay per use of the system for defence forces in the field. However, as part of that debate it would be wrong not to look at the EU satellite technology and to highlight the use of satellites and satellite data transmission as part of Europe's...
- Proposed approval by Dáil Éireann of Ireland’s participation in two European Defence Agency Projects: Motion (30 Nov 2017)
Clare Daly: Labour is also voting for it.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017) Clare Daly: The Minister mentioned criminal activity has a reason for the increased overtime. Has any work been done with regard to the number of gardaí out sick, particularly those out with work-related stress? Has there been an analysis of the costs of that and the impact this has? If people are out sick, they must be covered by overtime.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017) Clare Daly: My question related to people being out sick. If we recruit people and they end up being stressed at work or in a difficult position with respect to bullying, harassment and so on, they might end up out sick. There has been no analysis of the number of Garda staff out sick, particularly those out with work-related stress. I know it has been brought to the Minister's attention that in a...