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Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank our guests for their contributions and opening statements. For the representatives of Safetynet Primary Care, how do their patients connect with their organisation? How do they know it is there to avail of its services? I note annex 1 to the written submission it provided sets out the various services on offer. I ask Dr. O'Reilly and Dr. Skuce to elaborate on that because it is...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is the initiative in operation somewhere? I apologise for cutting across Ms Alagha.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: There are enough of us at this meeting to support and help Ms Alagha on that.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Excellent. It is a brilliant initiative.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Experiences of Migrant Communities Engaging with the Healthcare System and State Bodies: Discussion (16 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Thank you.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I wish to raise two matters. This morning, the Joint Committee on Disability Matters heard from the mother of a man with an acquired brain injury and from a woman who was 33 years of age when she had a stroke. The latter stated: Not one medical expert came to our house following my discharge. Members need to realise that, at this time, there were a large number of everyday tasks that I...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (11 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: It is awfully sad.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses before us. I am very grateful to Ms Bardon and Ms Farrell for so generously sharing with us their experience so that we can learn from it and figure out the best way to serve their needs by advocating and by calling for debate. I have a general habit on Thursdays of going to the Seanad after these meetings and calling it out. To be fair, the Leader, Senator Regina...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Who wrote the national stroke strategy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank Ms Farrell. I have sought a debate in the Seanad on this topic, so I expect we will be exploring it there as well, and ventilating the very real concerns that were so well exposed in the documentary the other night and that Ms Farrell confirmed.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I want to begin by paying tribute to the courage, commitment and dedication to peaceful protest exhibited by Austin Currie, and to express my deepest sympathy to Senator Currie and the entire family. Last night, the "Prime Time Investigates" documentary on wardship was aired. I wish to begin by renewing my call that the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act is commenced and that we bring...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister for his readiness to engage with the housing committee so openly and with us.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) (Large-scale Residential Development) Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Safe Access to Termination of Pregnancy Services Bill 2021: Second Stage (10 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: At the ungodly hour of 9 a.m. last Sunday, I had my first experience of being a sideline mom at a match. I cheered on as six-year-olds played as they do, that being, not very well; but they did play. A woman beside me had a three-year-old child with her. My husband and I looked around. We thought that the little girl was gorgeous and said she was lovely. The mother told us not to judge...

Seanad: Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People: Statements (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State for her statement today and her continued work and commitment. She is extraordinarily dedicated and shows a determination and will since taking up office that is to be lauded and praised, and I sincerely mean that. Her office is super: if I contact her officials, I get an immediate response. There is a sense that work is getting done and that they are...

Seanad: Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Bill 2021: Second Stage (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I read the name of this Bill and chills went through my veins, remembering my land law lectures with the late, great Deborah Wheeler, a barrister colleague, in the King's Inns. Certainly, this legislation is timely and good and there is no reason we should not all support it. I am sure the fears that went through rural Ireland, in particular, regarding it are something else. There are two...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Strengthening Prevention and Early Intervention Supports to Children and Families Post Pandemic: Prevention & Early Intervention Network (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Thank you very much Chair. I thank Dr. O'Dwyer for that opening statement, which I really appreciate. I am very struck by the statement that there are good policies in place, but it is about the implementation of those policies. We see reports like yesterday's drug task force report and the research done by the Tallaght drug task force, and it would be mirrored in the one I chair in Dublin...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Strengthening Prevention and Early Intervention Supports to Children and Families Post Pandemic: Prevention & Early Intervention Network (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: One of the impediments I see is around recruitment and filling gaps and shortages. Where has Mr. Chance seen that manifest itself in terms of what he would like to see prioritised? Does he have any ideas on how to change that?

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Strengthening Prevention and Early Intervention Supports to Children and Families Post Pandemic: Prevention & Early Intervention Network (9 Nov 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am good for now, Chair.