Results 481-500 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am just correcting, the Senator was incorrect-----

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is not my view. It is a fact of what happened in this House.

Seanad: Rights-Based Care Economy: Motion (27 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Does Senator Boyhan accept that he has put on the record of the House something that is incorrect? It is incorrect. Maybe Senator Clonan would grace us with his presence, so we can ensure that is corrected. Otherwise there would have been no need for him to call me out and thank me for leading on it to make sure that it went through to the next section. Anyway, there are other important...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the speakers for their contributions thus far. I hear figures and that we are down 15% in the number of cases awaiting allocation. Some 28% of children are awaiting allocation of a social worker and we have an improved figure on that. There is a 15% improvement in unallocated cases. That is 15% of the 28%, which is an improvement of 4.2%. That means 23% of children still do not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Two things will come out of that, I suppose. We have in care and not in care. Are there children who are not in care who do not have a allocated social worker? What percentage is that and what are they missing as a consequence? I also want to state that I do not doubt for a minute the dedication, so I am not casting any aspersions on that. I just want to know what a child is missing as a...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I appreciate that, and I thank Mr. Brophy. When we talk about prioritising a child for allocation, how long does that process take, once there is an identification? Presumably, a child is identified and there is some sort of assessment of which category they fall into. How long are they waiting an allocation, and is there a geographical challenge in that allocation?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am not being picky, and I really appreciate the answer, but when we say very quick or that someone may be waiting a while, what exactly does that mean? Give me a ballpark figure timewise.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: No matter where they live.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: That sounds very sensible and proactive and I commend Ms Murphy on that. How long does the CORU process take?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: To what?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: This leads me to the working conditions of social workers. We are at a stage where someone goes into social work because they have a passion and an interest, and that is fostered in the education system as well. They then get out in the field and they know they are in an environment where perhaps they are working with the three out of four, knowing there is a child out there who is not...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am mindful that if we are in a position where the allocations go to the highest need, then the client load of each social worker will be more complex and there are not perhaps easy wins which give initial job reward to keep going and to keep their heart up. I would be concerned about things like that. I have one last question for the Minister and I thank Ms Duggan very much. The...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Does the Minister have a timeline?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Child Protection: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister and the Chair.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: When Senator Doherty says it is no small beans, in 2018 it was €185,000. In 2019, it was €14,000. In 2020, it was €240,773, or 38% of the income of St. John's Ambulance Ireland for that year. In 2021 it was €286,800. We have a total in excess of €700,000 that the organisation has received from the State since 2018. While I suspect that some of the 2020...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (13 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: When an organisation makes public statements of apology to survivors but privately behaves completely differently, why on earth would they take up a counselling service provided by that organisation? The counselling services needed to be provided by the State.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (12 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: This year eight primary schools in Greystones and Delgany came together and the parents and young people adopted a voluntary code to agree that children of 12 years of age and younger would not have a mobile phone. They agreed that they would not purchase or use a mobile phone once the children were in primary school, that mobile phones were for secondary school and that they would not do...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Senator Clonan. Unfortunately, due to his experience and Eoghan's experience, he has articulated what is horrific and what we all agree is horrific. I was party to the Joint Committee on Disability Matters report and the Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth report on the AONs, and it outlines all of the things we need to do. Deputy Rabbitte is an...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Nobody said that.

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Second Stage (11 Jul 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator should not be disingenuous. Nobody has said that.