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Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: What about the preceding five years, during which the Deputy's party was in power?

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy's party was in power for five. The Deputy had his chance.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: It cut funding for the disabled.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: I hate listening to hypocrisy.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: It is hypocrisy.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: And the five years before them.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: The same as Deputy Quinn.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: What about Deputy Quinn?

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: You had five years.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: If the Deputy's party did as much as it did previously, they are better off.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: The Deputy's party had five years.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: What did it do?

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: Labour and Fine Gael cut funding.

Rights of People with Disabilities: Motion. (18 May 2004)

Willie O'Dea: That is the answer to everything.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: To become a citizen of Denmark by virtue of birth, a child must have parents who have resided in the state for ten years. The same requirement is in place in Greece. The average period of parental residency throughout the EU is five years whereas we propose only three. There was a time when birth alone allowed a person to claim British citizenship, but the law in this regard was changed...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: It is also a fact that the masters provided the Minister with the figures which he subsequently quoted. Obviously, they took this action because they felt the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform had a central role in solving the problem being experienced by maternity hospitals. Why else would they approach that Minister? Usually, the obvious person to contact about problems in...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: One of the masters said "it is surprising there has not been a major catastrophe within the maternity services as yet".

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: Another said in a statement to a newspaper in reference to the increase in births to non-nationals that "the projected number of non-nationals giving birth in Dublin is sufficient to warrant a fourth maternity hospital in the city". I have received numerous complaints from people in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary about similar pressures on maternity services in the mid-west. On 11 April, The...

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: In the same edition, The Sunday Times investigated the numerical extent of the problem and stated that what cannot be denied is the number of pregnant asylum seekers turning up at Irish ports and airports.

Twenty-seventh Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2004)

Willie O'Dea: Of the 3,270 women aged over 16 who applied for asylum last year, 1,893, or 58%, were pregnant. At the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin there were 1,951 births to immigrants last year. Almost 14% came to the hospital between one and ten days before giving birth while about 13% arrived in labour. That strongly indicates that at least 27% of immigrant births, or about 500, were passport tourism...