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Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am going to speak to what has just been spoken about.

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Senator Keogan mentioned that people will no longer be allowed to stand silently. Senator Mullen said there is no issue and nothing is happening in Cork. I have in my hand a tweet from Senator Mullen that reads, "I encourage people in Ballinasloe and the surrounding area ... to engage with medical and other staff ... to discourage the practice of abortion and to never let up". That is a...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----and disgrace that any politician would do that to staff who are going about their business. We had a referendum and not everybody voted in favour, but this is the way laws work. We vote, and take it on the chin if we do not get what we want and the laws are passed. I am encouraged by this legislation. Unfortunately, only one in ten GP practices engage in allowing women to have...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: This legislation is an important part of the work that is going on. I again thank the Minister. I am delighted to be here on this significant and important day.

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I move: “That Seanad Éireann: recognises that: - hair loss during cancer treatment or chemotherapy-induced alopecia is one of the most common side effects of cancer therapy; it can have a profoundly negative impact on cancer patients, often compounding the worry and trauma they are experiencing dealing with the cancer itself; further recognises that: - there is a...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the Minister for being here today. I also thank Bríd McGrath who is in the Public Gallery. She raised this issue with me and since then we have been working together on it. We have discovered that a large number of people in Ireland have benefited from cold cap treatment in hospitals. In some ways it is quite straightforward. Much research have been done and in over 50% of...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I will first address the cost. The HSE wrote directly to Deputy Leddin, whom I asked to raise a parliamentary question about the costing, and told him that purchasing it would cost between €20,000 and €230,000, including VAT. What price a woman’s health? It is such a small amount of money. We know that women have lost faith in the health service, particularly cancer...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I feel strongly that we should use this time with the Minister to try to get over the line something that has been raised with me by numerous women as impacting their daily lives, so I was disappointed by Senator Warfield’s intervention. We all speak about the difficulties in the healthcare system. I did so on radio last night. I would love to see a new cancer building in University...

Seanad: Hypothermia Scalp Cooling Therapy: Motion [Private Members] (13 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Tomorrow at 9.30 a.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I welcome and thank the Minister. I thank his officials as well for coming along today. I wish to get back to the overall purpose of the Department being here, which is around our obligations and role with regard to the climate Act. Looking at the climate action plan for 2023, and the annex of actions in that regard, the Minister's Department is the lead one in ten of those and is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I have, but these are on a very small scale I suppose and people-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: -----do not seem to be applying for these projects. It is more on the more innovative level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Review of the Climate Action Plan 2023: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment (7 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: It is.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (6 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I am delighted to have the Minister of State in the Seanad. I am fed up, as no doubt every other politician is, with the state of school transport in this country. It is an absolute outrage, to be honest, that the Department of Education has been sitting on a report on school transport since 2021. I rise today specifically to deal with one issue in Galway around the Educate Together...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Transport (6 Dec 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: The Minister of State's response has outlined numerous other problems with school transport which highlights the absolute urgency in getting this report. We are now in December and we will be lucky to get sight of it before Christmas. It will end up having taken more than two years to get a report to tell us what we basically already know which is that school transport is a bit of a joke....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: COP28: Discussion (28 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. There is a significant amount in it, as others have said. Ireland, through the Minister, Deputy Ryan, but also the Department of Foreign Affairs, was core to getting loss and damage established last year. As Ireland now has that reputation, it is important that we play that pivotal role. On the issue in respect of debt, one would not want...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: This matter does not relate to the Minister of State’s Department but I hope she will have answers for me. I thank her for being here. This is to do with community energy. Two community energy projects are in jeopardy now, in Galway and Mayo. It is fantastic that we have community energy for the first time but it does not work if there are State bodies, such as ESB Networks,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Renewable Energy Generation (22 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: As already outlined, we need these projects to go ahead as soon as possible in light of the debt and financial issues associated with their not proceeding in a timely manner. One of the issues I have is that there is an enabling grant of up to €180,000 per project through the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI. No community project of which I am aware is in receipt of that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: I thank our guests for all of their input. A huge amount of work has been done, which is fantastic. It is really important for the delegation to ask their question. They have done their bit so they have asked us what are we going to do now. We are all involved in different political parties but we are all here because we share the same passion for the environment and biodiversity and want...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Citizens' Assembly Report on Biodiversity Loss: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2023)

Pauline O'Reilly: Recommendation 8 is about having children involved in decision-making and recommendation 15 is about setting up a citizens’ assembly on a permanent basis. Now that our guests have been involved in the decision-making, do they think it makes them more likely to take actions within their own lives and push forward policies that will make the difference in biodiversity? If they do, that...