Results 8,141-8,160 of 15,268 for speaker:Kathleen Lynch
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: I hope it is on the way out. If one is a woman and pregnant, one cannot be suicidal. If a woman presents as being suicidal in these circumstances, there is not a psychiatrist in the country who can tell her that she has a possibility of dying by suicide because of that pregnancy. It is our job, as legislators, to ensure that in the rare case where someone is pregnant and feels suicidal as...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: When Deputies start to talk here about legal definitions and about whether the evidence was available at the time, they should remember that they are talking about a woman who is pregnant and that pregnancy could be a threat to her life. I have said to Deputy Clare Daly on another occasion that we should start to look seriously at the issue of fatal foetal abnormality and the threat to the...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: This is about protecting women.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: We had a referendum on that.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: It is called legislating.
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: Does the 14 year old girl who was raped have no say?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: Was she not 14 and was she not raped?
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: The Deputy does not understand.
- Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: I wish to clarify a point with the Senator. We need to get this very clear. If Senator's Bill, with the amendments we intend to bring forward, is not to become part and parcel of the overarching legislation that we will introduce at the start of next year, we will come back with amendments to this Bill, but it will still be the first quarter of next year before we get to do this because we...
- Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: I need to clarify a point.
- Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: I need to clarify that it will not be possible for us to take Committee Stage next Tuesday.
- Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: We should always be very careful about falling into global assumptions about men or women. The one thing I discovered in my work on equality, about which I was a bit surprised, is that women who have children work longer hours because of the financial imposition, and it is an area in which Senator Mary White has had an interest long before I ever got this job and we have discussed it on...
- Seanad: Parental Leave Bill 2013: Second Stage (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: More than half.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: Government policy is to support older people to live in dignity and independence in their own homes and communities for as long as possible and to support access to quality long-term residential care where this is appropriate. The Health Service Executive has responsibility for the delivery of services such as mainstream home help, enhanced home care packages, meals-on-wheels and day or...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Community Care Issues (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: As the Deputy's question relates to service matters, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply to the Deputy.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: I refer the Deputy to my reply to Parliamentary Question Number 674 of 28 May 2013.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter it has been referred to the Health Service Executive for direct reply.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (10 Jul 2013)
Kathleen Lynch: As this is a service matter this question has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.