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Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: The ESRI is encouraging us to allow more people to come here.

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: On a point of information, I did ask whether the Minister of State or the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform had discussed this situation with colleagues of mine in the psychiatric profession. If they refuse admission to a very dangerous person, who then kills someone on an aeroplane, who will accept legal liability — the doctor who refused the entry?

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: Does the Minister of State know if psychiatrists were consulted? I am aware that the public health doctors were not consulted.

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I congratulate Senator Mansergh on his wise words. We all know other members of Fianna Fáil are extremely worried about this Bill because they have told us. Will the Deputy Leader reconsider and allow us to take Committee Stage next week? Everyone has spoken of their concern about section 4 and the definition of "prescribed diseases and disability". Has anyone in the Department of Justice,...

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: That is not true.

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: Acting Chairman, I hope you will give me injury time. The worrying aspect of this legislation is that there is no right of appeal. If somebody makes up his or her mind that the person with Down's syndrome cannot come into the country, that is that. The Bill appears to override the refugee convention because it makes it an offence to have false papers. We all know that many people trying to...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: Senator Jim Walsh knows well that we are prepared to make exceptions in dealing quickly with legislation when necessary. However, as has been pointed out by my colleagues, Second Stage of the Immigration Bill could be taken today, with Committee and Report Stages being taken next Tuesday. In that way, the Bill would not be delayed in coming before the Dáil. I have had an opportunity to ask...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: How can they possibly allow that to proceed? Do they have relations or friends with any such problems? I have had trouble already with the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform concerning such people. I was trying to get a visitor's visa for a Russian woman of 80 to visit her daughter who is married here. She has a 40 year old son who is mentally incapacitated. After three attempts,...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I second Senator O'Toole's opposition to the Order of Business. I think this is disgraceful. No one minds a register being established for the regulation of non-nationals, but the Bill does not even provide for an appeal mechanism. Non-nationals will have to prove they came from Uzbekistan, rather than from Tajikistan. How are they supposed to do that on the high seas, on a sort of floating...

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: Have my medical colleagues been consulted about whether they will take part in this?

Seanad: Order of Business. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: We will not even get ten minutes to discuss it. I really am disgusted.

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: We were ready to debate the matter on Tuesday afternoon.

Seanad: Immigration Bill 2004: Second Stage. (30 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: We would not have delayed the Dáil at all.

Seanad: Crisis Pregnancy Strategy: Statements. (29 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I welcome the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Callely. Crisis pregnancies have been with us since the dawn of time. It is splendid that we are addressing this issue in the House as ten years ago it would not have been addressed. When I was a young doctor in the Rotunda Hospital, there was no such thing as a crisis pregnancy. We chose to ignore the issue for...

Seanad: FÁS Community Employment Schemes: Motion. (28 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I support the motion although Dr. Mansergh has spoken eloquently on the amendment. Senator Ross had many criticisms of FÁS but he was criticising the chiefs running the programme rather than the Indians doing the work. The community employment schemes have been of great value to various organisations I have been involved with in different parts of the country. One of the best aspects of the...

Seanad: Services for Victims of Domestic Violence: Statements. (28 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I welcome the Minister of State, Deputy O'Dea, and I am glad that he recognises the work being done by Women's Aid, the National Network of Refuges and the National Women's Council for women who experience domestic violence. I welcome the presence of members of some of these organisations in the Visitors Gallery. I thank Women's Aid for the excellent briefing document for this debate. I am...

Seanad: Order of Business. (28 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I support Senator O'Toole in his call for the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to come to the House and explain his new policy on the mix of prisoners in our prisons. The governor of Mountjoy Prison, Mr. John Lonergan, apologised yesterday to the family of the man who was murdered in the prison. However, we should all be apologising. When people are put in prison they are...

Seanad: Order of Business. (27 Jan 2004)

Mary Henry: I ask the Leader to invite the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform to the House for a discussion on the office of the State pathologist. For decades, Professor Jack Harbison carried a great burden dealing with all the cases of murder, manslaughter and other crimes. Dr. Marie Cassidy is apparently now being asked to do exactly the same. The position of a deputy State pathologist was...

Seanad: Order of Business. (11 Dec 2003)

Mary Henry: Some months ago when the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Brian Lenihan, was in the House I pointed out that it had been brought to my attention that there were very serious difficulties regarding the supervision of children in the care of the State in some areas. We read in newspaper reports yesterday and today that two very young girls in the care of health...

Seanad: Maternity Protection (Amendment) Bill 2003: Report and Final Stages. (11 Dec 2003)

Mary Henry: I support Senator Cox's very eloquent words. She has put a great deal of work into this Bill and I commend what she has done. I am sure the Minister of State will take note of her suggestions and bring them forward.