Results 441-460 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: The 12 headings are very comprehensive, so I congratulate the officials on that. One of them was going to come in on the inspectorate.
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: Great. When Mr. Wolfe says "now", that is since when?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Issues Facing the Early Childhood Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: All right. I asked because as recently as 2020 it was hit and miss.
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: The area and village of Drimnagh is a very distinct community within the constituency of Dublin South-Central. It has its own unique character and is led by a representative organisation called Dynamic Drimnagh, which comprises a number of representative groups and organisations within the community and speaks for the community. Back in 2011, the people of Drimnagh were promised a primary...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate that the Minister of State is not in the Department of Health. I commend him on the incredible work he is doing in his own Department. I raised this matter in July 2020, February 2021 and June 2021; on 23 February 2023; with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, in March 2023; and with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, on 1 June 2023. I can tell the Minister of State that...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Primary Care Centres (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: It does not say "Yes" either.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: This is quite racist.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: May I raise a point of order?
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Senator. On a point of order, we have something called employment equality, which also covers race. One cannot adjudicate on someone on the basis of race and exclude him or her from applying for a job on that basis.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: That is the law of our country. Apart from the racist sentiments, I would have thought that the intelligence services of Ireland would benefit greatly from someone from a bigger intelligence agency coming in and bringing all of that experience with him or her. I do not think that, just because someone is a foreigner, he or she will give away all of our secrets. It is contrary to the law of...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: I understand employment law.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: What Senator Craughwell is saying-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: What we are talking about-----
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: That is shockingly racist.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: It is.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: It is not at all. It is racist.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: I bring good news today. I commend the Minister, Deputy Foley, on bringing a memo to the Cabinet this morning for Cabinet approval of the guidelines to be issued to schools in support of a voluntary ban on the purchase of smartphones for children in primary schools. The Minister has very rightly done the maximum she can do in making schools a conduit to support parents in saying "No" to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: What about quality of life? How do the witnesses recommend us to look at that? Senator Mullen discussed the experience of his father. There is the experience of the End of Life Ireland representative, who discussed his wife. They are very different perceptions of quality of life. That is where it is a subjective experience. How do we legislate for subjectivity?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Autonomy and Assessing Decision-making Capacity: Discussion (7 Nov 2023)
Mary Seery Kearney: Excellent. I thank Dr. Duckworth.