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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive (2 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: What is necessary for the rite of passage through all of this? What triggers it?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is the Senator happy to share time?

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I call Senator Paddy Burke, who is sharing time with Senator Garret Ahearn.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Senator Ahearn is in possession.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: No. The Senator had her time to speak.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator can make a brief clarification.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: The Senator has an opportunity to make a clarification and is straying.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: We are running out of time for the Minister to speak.

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

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

Seanad: Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: In addressing this, I must confess I am loath to contradict legal opinion I generally hold in great esteem. I would not consider myself to be an accomplished law student though I passed with a decent clearance of the grades required. That is where I put myself.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: What does one call the doctor who comes last? Doctor. In this context, I see a sense to the order of keeping everything in the proposed new subsections starting with "1" and grouping those together. We are balancing four documents. I have the sections of the Children Act, the amendments and the Bill as published. In the incoherence of so many documents, it can look a little disordered....

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I understood the Minister's response to be that if we keep the amendments in section 1, the rest of the text will remain numbered as is currently. This would mean that anything outside of the Act, whether it be academic writings, productions within the Department of Justice, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth or anything else that refers to those...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am not without sympathy on this matter and I agree a degree of nuance in the hands of a judge would be beneficial. A judge would be trustworthy. There may be difficulty, however, in that we are living in a social media age and the hard facts of the last number of years have been that witnesses, including children, have been named, subject to abuse online and hounded in their communities...

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: On Friday next.

Seanad: Children (Amendment) Bill 2020: Committee Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: At 10.30 a.m. on Friday, 5 March in the Dáil Chamber.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: On Friday of last week, the UK Supreme Court found that Uber drivers were entitled to employment protections and were not self-employed. The argument in the case, which was supported by the GMB trade union, was that these drivers were workers who were deserving of employment protections. We saw a similar announcement from the Italian courts yesterday. The UK ruling arose from the fact that...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Employment Rights (26 Feb 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I have been in many cases in the Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, and the Labour Court. The difficulty is that one can satisfy the criteria of being self-employed while, in fact, be working unlawfully. There is a problem in the model that we have. With due respect, the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment needs to address the fact that the gig economy works very differently...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State and her officials for giving of their time. I appreciate that this is a very busy time and that an awful lot of work is being done. Over the past 48 hours in particular but throughout recent months, we have received emails that share how difficult it is for parents at home to cope with children with special educational needs. There has been a cycle of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Alignment of Special Education Policy with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (23 Feb 2021)

Mary Seery Kearney: Last year, there was a programme of supports over the summer. Is it intended to continue that this year or to provide enhanced programmes that may deal with setbacks in development or where there have been difficulties for families? What is proposed for this summer? It is important that systems be put in place. We are anticipating the summer holidays, which will come around all too...