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Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: If the Leas-Chathaoirleach does not mind, I will carry on with my point.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Absolutely. I would very much like to support this amendment but, unfortunately, I am not able to do so. It is a very well-thought-out amendment and it is something to which we will have to return. With regard to the amendment on rape and incest, I am very much of the view that this country has moved on. It is a pity that many of the representations we have received have come from a...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Why does Senator Ó Domhnaill not stick to it?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I will finish my point. I would very much like to address the rape and the incest issue. Has Senator Ó Domhnaill met a victim of incest? I have met one, as I am sure many other Senators have. I genuinely wish we were addressing this issue. I accept that we are not and that is why I will not be able to support the amendment put forward by my colleagues, which I know is very well...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: My points shall be brief. I understand that we are discussing fatal foetal abnormality. It means a medical condition suffered by a foetus such that it is incompatible with life outside the womb. I am horrified by what I have heard from Senator Ó Domhnaill. He suggested that every parent who has a disabled child is subject to the amendment. That is low, below the belt, uncalled for...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: What is the Senator's point of order or question?

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: For goodness sake.

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Yes, I am dealing with the amendments that have been tabled on fatal foetal abnormality----

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: Yes. The amendment also deals with being "incompatible with life outside the womb." I am certain such a thing is a medical decision, as are many of the medical decisions to be taken under this legislation. I would very much like to be in a position to support this amendment, and I said so on Second Stage. I also trust the legal opinion of Senator Ivana Bacik, who is one of the most...

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I too want to congratulate my colleague, Senator John Gilroy, on the publication of his book, A Cry in the Morning. I hope we will see many colleagues help him celebrate the launch this evening. I also want to commend our colleague, Senator Sean Barrett, and other Members of the House on a robust debate yesterday on the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013, in which Senator Barrett...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I thank Senator Sean Barrett for tabling this amendment which raises a very important issue in the context of the Irish housing market. Those of us of a certain generation have grown up with this view that if one did not own a property in Ireland, or if one was not trying to buy one, one was nobody. The thinking was that rent was dead money and that anybody with half a brain would not rent,...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I do not want to get into it.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I started the speech by saying I would not get into the blame game.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I will deal with the here and now.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: The Senator's party had many opportunities while in Government but it did not get to it.

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I understand that. I have one opportunity to speak and I will take it. We must all agree and move on in this regard. As I have already said, I am a solicitor and I understand the need for a functioning mortgage and banking market but there must also be confidence in the system, which there is not at this time. There is no confidence in the banking system or insolvency regime because it...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Report Stage (16 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the people in the Gallery, particularly the members of Threshold national housing organisation, who have a particular interest in this Bill. In my Second Stage speech I suggested that the provisions of this Bill which allow the Minister to delay its implementation should be exercised by him in view of a number of matters. I refer in particular to the revised mortgage arrears...

Seanad: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (15 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I welcome the Minister to the House for what is an important debate. Like every other Member of this House, I am well aware of the responsibility on me, as a legislator, to think long and hard on matters of deep concern to the Irish people. This Bill concerns a very sensitive matter, as Senator Labhrás Ó Murchú pointed out, namely, the termination of a pregnancy. Like other...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I have great sympathy with the amendment proposed by our colleagues and I welcome a full debate on it on Report Stage. There is considerable concern over the veto banks and lenders have both in the insolvency legislation and in the mortgage arrears resolution process. For example, in the updated MARP, a tracker mortgage may be withdrawn when a bank has made a proposal that it considers to...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2013: Committee Stage (12 Jul 2013)

Aideen Hayden: I am sure the Senator heard my Second Stage speech.