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Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: However, I would be more concerned at rushing into passing judgment on those who ran Bethany Home without hearing their side of the story.

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Deputy McDonald would know a lot about shame.

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Constitution demands we respect the rules of natural justice. While Sinn Féin may not accept this, people are entitled to a fair hearing and an opportunity to protect their good name. This is something at which Sinn Féin would be good. As I stated earlier, the infant mortality rate in Bethany Home was very high by current standards and children there did suffer from diseases...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Did Bethany Home improve the lot of those who passed through its doors or did it make their lives worse by the standards that existed at the time? I am not here to defend those who ran Bethany Home - it cannot have been a pleasant experience - but I am certainly not in a position to condemn them out of hand in the way proposed by Sinn Féin. Having listened-----

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “notes that Bethany Home: — evolved from two private charities, the Dublin Midnight Mission and Female Refuge and the Dublin Prison Gate Mission, which predate the existence of the State; and that in 1934 it moved from Blackhall Place to Orwell Road, Rathgar,...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I acknowledge the hardships faced by those born in Bethany Home. There is no doubt they faced hardships. Up to the 1950s, poverty and the diseases associated with poverty were widespread in Ireland. Infant mortality rates were high. Children were not cherished the way they are today and were often seen as a burden or a form of cheap labour. There was no provision for legal adoption....

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy would know a lot about decency.

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I know about honesty too.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: The question of private patients in public beds is different. This amendment relates to private patients in private beds. The date will be 1 March.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Yes.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy. I also thank all of the contributors for their contributions.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: Before I get back to dealing with the Bill, because that clearly had nothing to do with it, I wish to say we are trying to change a system that was permitted to become embedded in this country. It was a two-tier health system where if a person had private health insurance, he or she had greater access to health services and if he or she did not have such insurance, regardless of medical...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: People aged 60 and over cannot simply join private health insurance schemes. There is a mechanism whereby they must wait to have pre-existing conditions dealt with, and this waiting period is sometimes between five and ten years. People should keep that in mind. I will get back to the Bill. The proposed amendment inserts an explicit provision in the existing health insurance legislation...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 3:In page 6, between lines 37 and 38, to insert the following:"(3) Schedule 3 to the Principal Act, as amended by subsection (1), only applies in the case of a health insurance contract entered into or renewed on or after 1 March 2014 (and, accordingly, that Schedule, as in force immediately before that date, shall continue to apply in the case of a health insurance...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: To a great extent the Deputy and I are agreed on the central issue, how to introduce a more refined health indicator when we do not have the information with which to do that. Where I disagree with him, however, is that while this is a stand-alone Bill, as introduced, there is a combination of issues that need to come together in respect of how we treat people who need treatment, whether in...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: In the past our health system has suffered - I hope it will not suffer in the future - from decisions being made too quickly and not based on evidence or clear criteria. The hospital bed utilisation credit, provided for in the Health Insurance (Amendment) Act 2012, was payable in respect of each overnight stay in a hospital bed in private hospital accommodation by an insured person where...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2013: Order for Report Stage (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I move: "That Report Stage be taken now."

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: It is unfair to ask that question when we simply do not know. The only people who know are Mr. O'Brien and those who were present at that meeting. It is unfair to ask a question like that because it simply leaves it hanging there. The question will probably get a lot of publicity but if the answer is "No", it will get very little airtime and we will have to come back to the House and make...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I take on board everything the Deputy said and would disagree with very little of it other than to say I am always reluctant to move back to the medical model when it comes to disability because most people within the disability sector, and I am talking about the people who have a disability rather than those who would speak on their behalf, tell me clearly that they do not want a medical...

Topical Issue Debate: HSE Staff Remuneration (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The current director general of the HSE was in receipt of an allowance of approximately €26,000 between 2006 and 2012. This allowance was granted by the HSE to the Director General when he was chief executive of the National Cancer Screening Service in recognition of very significant additional responsibilities which he took on as project...