Results 1,161-1,180 of 2,078 for speaker:Mary Seery Kearney

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: As a follow on to that and in the domestic context, we need to be assured or to give consideration to the fact that that Irish-born child by surrogacy will use that document for an application to school as birth certificates are produced for many things. While these children have a right, absolutely, to their identity and to their gestational origins, and nobody is disputing that we need a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Analysis of the Issues Paper (12 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes, I agree completely with Professor O’Mahony on that point and I thank him for that.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Safety (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State for taking this matter today. On 26 April, apartment owners in a particular complex in Dublin South-Central were informed by the management company that they were each going to be levied with a fee of €32,000 for construction defects in the complex to cover the work needed to bring it up to the correct fire safety standards. Of that sum, €7,000...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Fire Safety (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. This is an issue in everybody's constituency. The worrying aspect is not just that homeowners are barred from the possibility of sale or the costs involved, but also that there are insurance issues. These homeowners cannot get insurance on their properties. The management companies of some of these complexes are now insolvent because they have spent their...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: My issue is trite in light of the previous two contributions. However, I want to raise an issue and ask for the support of both the Leader and the Cathaoirleach in the matter. Heritage and Tidy Towns groups go to enormous effort to ensure the upkeep, care and love for their communities. They are to be lauded. I have a group in the Dublin South-Central constituency that works...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for coming to the House. We stand in a quite magnificent room that carries with it a whole heap of history and magnificence. Am I proud and do I think it appropriate our Government would issue an apology in the surroundings of the Seanad, given the honour this noble House has? I so. Do I agree with it? I do not. The Minister has done an extraordinary amount. He is...

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: We will deal with many other issues on Committee Stage. For today, I join with the apology, as my party’s spokesperson on children and as a Government colleague, and I apologise for the grave hurt these people have been caused, which can never be undone and in respect of which they can never be fully consoled.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Tomorrow at 10.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I will probably repeat much of what the Vice Chairman said, so I apologise in advance. I will watch the video recording of the meeting later because I am sure much of what I had intended to say has been covered. A proposed development in my home constituency, Dublin South-Central, arose recently and is currently at the pre-planning phase. It is in the order of about 300 apartments in an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no doubt about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Housing Provision for Older People: Discussion (10 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is there a challenge in recruitment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. By way of introduction, the committee gets a breakdown of each person's curriculum vitae courtesy of the secretariat who are fantastic in the support that they give to us. I note Ms Duffy has a role in the Merrion Fertility Clinic and the ethics committee in the hospital, in addition to which she is a lawyer. One of the features that arose...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Does Ms Duffy suggest one looks for a licensing authority in a country and seek a list of included clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: So Ireland is not standing over it because we cannot but at least we could make recommendations. I am thinking about the guidelines that we could put together.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: The guardianship is reliant on the consent of that parent.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: Who is prepared to take that risk and be that guinea pig?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: I concur. I am happy to wait until the second round for my other questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on International Surrogacy: Issues relating to International Surrogacy Arrangements and Achieving Parental Recognition: Discussion (Resumed) (5 May 2022)

Mary Seery Kearney: In a limited and discrete group.