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Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Impact of Cost of Living Issues on Young People in Ireland: Motion (28 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: At 10.30 a.m. tomorrow.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: There are many issues on which I would like to address the House; I am spoiled for choice. I thank Senator Ruane. What is needed in the incidents that hit the news last week is a conversation regarding the entirety of the community and the safety of young people in the community as well as the intergenerational trauma and the affects of that happening. I welcome the cost-of-living budget....

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Finance): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Today has been a good news day for those in a family, including those in a lower-income or middle-income family. We saw the announcement of both universal and targeted measures to assist families as they face into this cost-of-living crisis. This crisis can be supported by reasonable and prudent measures. We still have a reserve in case the situation gets worse and that is important....

Seanad: Budget 2023 (Public Expenditure and Reform): Statements (27 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate the Minister of State for arguing for the increased budget for the Data Protection Commission. The increased provisions are very good. We are the supervisory authority for many multinational companies and it is very important that we are on our game in the Data Protection Commission. I love this budget because those with babies in arms have provision for childcare and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister. I appreciate her coming here in person. It shows her commitment, the response that she has made all week and the commitment that is there for the community in Cherry Orchard. We have seen the videos online of what happened and they are horrific. I want to begin by condemning the actions against the two gardaí who went in there. They were treated in the most...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Antisocial Behaviour (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: We will get my name right one of these days. I thank the Minister for that response. With the Minister of State, Deputy Browne, I visited the youth justice programme there which was extraordinarily creative through Covid when it had to go out to meet young people. It had to change how it engaged with young people who were used to either visiting the centre and then did not want people...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I ask the Leader to arrange a special debate on the experience of children and their families when they are in hospital. This morning on “Morning Ireland” we heard the experience of a woman whose child was in hospital with a long-term illness. She spoke of the cost of car parking and the costs when the child was being treated, for cancer in this instance. If the child felt...

Seanad: New Innovations for People with Disabilities (Digital Assistive Technology): Statements (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: We will commence with statements on new innovations for people with disabilities - digital assistive technology. I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, back to the House.

Seanad: New Innovations for People with Disabilities (Digital Assistive Technology): Statements (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Senator for his kind words and well done to him for his persistent campaigning.

Seanad: New Innovations for People with Disabilities (Digital Assistive Technology): Statements (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: This is a great opportunity to make statements and look at the innovative developments the Minister of State is leading on in the Department. I thank her most sincerely for the constant advocacy, work and dedication that she shows in this Department. I speak about it every week at my own parliamentary party meeting, as I said to the Minister of State before, also to ensure that she gets all...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State for attending, for all of the work that has been done in the past few years, and especially for his role in this area. I reiterate the praise that he gave to Ms Mannion, in particular, and thank her for her constant work across many areas in the Minister of State's Department. I thank her, in particular, for her dedication to this work, as I thank the other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: General Scheme of the Local Government (Maternity Protection and Other Measures for Local Authority Elected Members) Bill 2022: Discussion (22 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I take the Minister of State's point that it is a very different type of relationship. It is not a straightforward employer-employee relationship and does not enjoy all of the attendant rights of that relationship. It needs careful monitoring and I know that See Her Elected will do that and I have no doubt that the Minister of State will as well. It must be ensured. It is about the subtle...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no doubting the Minister of State's strong work ethic and I thank her for taking this matter. In early July, the Oireachtas Joint Committee on International Surrogacy published a report that was very well received by the three Ministers to whom it was relevant, namely, the Minister for Health, who is the lead Minister on the issue, and the Ministers for Justice and Children,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: To say I am not impressed by that response is mild, to be perfectly honest, and with due respect to the Minister of State, who is merely the messenger. That the Departments have a view to developing a policy paper is a wholly inadequate and absolutely unacceptable response. There are children in this State who have the right to the two parents, that is, the mother they have only ever known...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Assisted Human Reproduction (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is total obfuscation by the Department of Health in actual fact. The fact is that every common law jurisdiction that influences our jurisdiction in courts has already legislated for surrogacy. The position that is being put forward by the Department of Health is absolutely untrue.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will begin by associating myself with the remarks of Senators Ruane and Flynn. In terms of certain videos broadcast online, people are to be condemned for their behaviour and condemned for ramming a Garda car and my thoughts go out to the gardaí who were in that car. At the same time, stigmatising a whole area and community as a consequence, and labelling the people of that community...

Seanad: Institutional Burials Act 2022 (Director of Authorised Intervention, Tuam) Order 2022: Motion (21 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I support the motion. The sooner we get through this motion and get on with the excavations in Tuam the closer we will be to families having some sort of closure, which is long overdue. I am mindful and grateful that this is the honouring of a commitment made in July. It is now September and according to the briefing note, it will be 2023 before there are excavations on the site. In the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Last night, we saw frightening lawlessness in evidence in Cherry Orchard, including the ramming of a Garda car. Just before lunch today, the Garda Commissioner, Mr. Drew Harris, condemned the ramming and called it disgraceful and concerning. He stated that the Garda had stood up the public order unit, as it had done over the weekend, and that a full investigation is now under way. I would...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Members of the European Parliament (20 Sep 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: We have seen some horrific changes in this area in the past couple of months, in particular. The fears following the war or as a consequence of the weaponising of energy from the war of Ukraine, and the effect of that on families, communities and disadvantaged communities, in particular, is something that I would like to hear about from the MEPs in the course of this session together. I am...