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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: Certainly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: We are going to run into timing difficulties. I will begin to take two contributions together. I invite Mr. Brady and then Senator Feighan to speak.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: We will take Senator Frank Feighan next. Then we will come back to the witnesses.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: Mr. McFeely, do you want to come in on those points?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: Before I bring in the next speaker, I ask people to be brief. I want time at the end of the meeting to be able to talk a little bit about what we can do going forward. We do not want to have this meeting only for everyone to go home and never talk about it again. I ask people to keep it brief in order that we have time for that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: Senator Landy must leave but he has one straightforward question to ask.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: Many points were raised there. Do the witnesses want to come back in on some of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I remind Mr. Bunting-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: -----not to mention people by name.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: It is for everybody's benefit.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I will take further questions from speakers, go back to the witnesses and then we will sum up. The next speaker is Senator Ó Donnghaile to be followed by Senator Black.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I will bring in Senator Black and hers will be the last contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I will call the witnesses to make their final contributions but I ask them to bear in mind that, as a committee, we are anxious to do something constructive. I am aware the witnesses have been working on this for a very long time but we want to see what we can do. I ask them to bear that in mind when they make their final contributions to allow us move forward with it. I hope we will come...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I sincerely thank our witnesses for their fantastic contributions. This is an issue on which they have been working for a very long time and it is difficult. We can only thank them for coming down today and for the work they continue to do. This is an issue we definitely want to take on board and do much more as a committee. It was originally raised by Deputy O'Sullivan and I thank her...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: People can contact the clerk or me in the meantime. We should allot time at the start of our next meeting to see how we will go forward with this. We will then come back to the witnesses and tie in with them if they are open to it. I hope we will have some progression on it. We need to move it on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I have no difficulty with this. Perhaps others have opinions or suggestions on this. We are also open to meeting other groups or people if members think we should. Are committee members happy to accept this proposal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Maghaberry Prison: Discussion (3 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: At the start of the next meeting we will spend time going through this and we will make the decision then on who we will meet and on various issues.

Calais Migrant Camp: Statements (2 Nov 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: When one thinks about this situation one thinks about one's own children and families, and that is actually what we really need to do - some Deputies have already made reference to this. As a mother, I think about my own two boys and how one of my greatest fears is not being able to protect them or not being able to be there for them but I know that I am lucky enough to have family and...

An Bille um an gCúigiú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An tOchtú Leasú a Aisghairm) 2016: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fifth Amendment of the Constitution (Repeal of the Eighth Amendment) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (25 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: I commend Deputy Coppinger on bringing the Bill forward. My colleague has already set out our position. Let me make it clear that we support the right of a woman to seek a termination of pregnancy where her life and mental health are at risk or in grave danger. We support the introduction of legislation to allow for terminations in cases of fatal foetal abnormality, rape and incest. In...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (25 Oct 2016)

Kathleen Funchion: 459. To ask the Minister for Health the reason, after spending over €12 million on renovations to Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary, wards are sitting idle with the hospital not running at full capacity; and if this was due to the elevator size as the elevator is incapable of transporting a hospital bed in accordance with HIQA regulations. [31897/16]