Results 1,281-1,300 of 2,735 for speaker:Marie Louise O'Donnell
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was about to tell the House about the demographic profile.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Irish society must plan for population 80 and, in particular, have regard to the growing number of people whose capacities will decline as they age. It is necessary, therefore, for the State to facilitate people to plan individually for such an eventuality. The figures included in the national dementia strategy for 2004 suggest that in 2011 there were 47,800 people with dementia. It is...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I was about to thank the Minister of State for it.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am pleased that my proposed amendment in section 78 has been accepted and I thank the Minister of State. It is extremely important the supervisory and investigative functions of a director of the decisions support service include the exercise of those functions in respect of attorneys under the 1996 Act. I had meant to thank the Minister of State for it. I also am pleased to note section...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (10 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I just mentioned that programme in so far as it is a guide for when people lack capacity. However, I understand, in respect of all the amendments, that it will be part of it and I thank the Minister of State for accepting my other amendment and for taking it on board in the spirit of the Bill.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: On a point of order, I know the work the Minister of State has put into this but why did we not get a copy of her notes? It is very hard for her to read it out and it is very hard for us to take in the provisions outlined because we did not get time to read it. I accept almost all of what the Minister of State is saying but is there a reason we did not get her notes beforehand?
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It would not be normal practice either to relate 100 different amendments.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: When the group goes over five or six amendments we cannot take it in.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Maybe we should have a rule that if a group has more than a certain number of amendments the notes are circulated.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We applaud her endurance.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is half the amendments.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: They still are.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: We are not on that yet. That is why some of us are sitting here.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: The Senator should sit down.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Page 53, line 6.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I move amendment No. 26:In page 17, to delete line 30 and substitute the following:"and to reside in the place of his or her choice in so far as that is practicable,". Section 8 sets out the guiding principles, inherent in which is the minimisation of the restrictions on relevant persons. The principles include respect for the right to dignity, bodily integrity, privacy, autonomy and...
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I am only speaking to that amendment.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: Unfortunately, I am not speaking to the others. This is the only amendment in my name and it is the only one to which I am speaking.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: It is sitting there as it were.
- Seanad: Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Committee Stage (9 Dec 2015)
Marie Louise O'Donnell: I take Senator Craughwell's point. I am making a more general argument about the way we are "processing" older people and that is the word for it in the sense that we will not consider having the fair deal scheme applying to the home in the same way that it operates in care settings but it would be helpful if could start there. In the Senator's case, it was not a practical option for his...