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Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I am very glad to be a part of this discussion. I welcome the Minister of State to the House again. We chatted at a different session earlier today. We are living through the most strange and difficult times. We are living with restrictions for fear of our health and that of our loved ones, with the sense that no matter how hard we try to do what is asked of us, the goalposts keep moving....

Seanad: Mental Health and Covid-19: Statements (12 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I can wrap up pretty quickly; I will not use the whole slot. I want to take a moment to reflect. Senator Seery Kearney spoke about her dad having his sleeve practically rolled up for the vaccine and the hope that is giving to him. On New Year’s Day, my dad was having a general new year's telephone call with his friend. They are both ever so slightly hard of hearing so we all heard...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Order for Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am sharing time with Senator Sherlock. I am proud that today a student issue is the subject of the first Bill I have brought to this House. I hope that the Senator for students is earning her stripes. The Bill is very simple. Its purpose is to ensure a rate of pay for student nurses when they are working commensurate to the rate of pay...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: Student nurses have said to me that they were told they were unable to avail of the vaccine because they were students in their first, second or third year of study. There could be a miscommunication where some student nurses have been told they cannot avail of it.

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister. Even now that their placements have been suspended, many student nurses and midwives are back in hospitals working as healthcare assistants. When offered the opportunity to stay at home or find work elsewhere, many have gone back into hospitals, which is incredibly admirable. A student described it to me as: Terrifying, stressful, feel unsupported, feel as if I am a...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank everyone for their contributions. I thank the Minister for being here. I have recovered a little from my nervous jog up the stairs and I am a little calmer now that we are on the other side of my first go at this. It seems that all in the room are in agreement that student nurses and midwives should be paid while they are working. It is clear from the testimonies of the students I...

Seanad: Student Nurses (Pay) Bill 2021: Second Stage (19 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: Next Tuesday.

Seanad: National Climate and Air Roadmap for the Agriculture Sector: Statements (22 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I welcome the Minister and thank him for progressing this issue. As an elected member of the Agricultural Panel and a committed environmentalist, I am very proud to see attitudes in Ireland changing on the role the agricultural community has and wants to play in the fights against climate change. I am also a very happy, healthy vegan from a tillage background, who is doing quite well.

Seanad: National Climate and Air Roadmap for the Agriculture Sector: Statements (22 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: We are all very happy and healthy vegans in my farming family. For too long, we have been afraid to have these conversations and there seems to be a narrative, in the public mind at least, that the agricultural sector and the environmental lobby must always be pitched against one another. However, agricultural stakeholders know more than many others the reality of what climate change has...

Seanad: Councillors' Pay: Motion (22 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: Unlike Senator Ahearn, I am not from a family of public representatives. It is great to hear the pride in his voice as he talks about his wonderful family tradition. I sometimes wonder why there has never, as far as we know, been anyone in my extended family involved in politics. Perhaps it is because we felt there was no place for us or we would not be welcome. Perhaps it did not seem...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2021)

Annie Hoey: I welcome Senator Norris back to the House. It is great to see that he is doing well. I wore a suit that matches his for the special occasion. I want to be associated with my Labour Party colleague's comments on the naming of viruses. It is important that we think about the words we use. We noted how a former President of the United States used the naming of the virus as a quite racist...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I propose an amendment to the Order of Business, that No. 6 be taken and put on the Order Paper. This is a Labour Party Bill, the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021, which bans the conversion of purpose-built student accommodation into tourist or short-term visitor lets. I want to raise my concerns about the news that came out this morning of the students who did not get...

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to restrict applications for change of use of certain student accommodation units; and to provide for connected matters.

Seanad: Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: First Stage (1 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: Next Monday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank everyone. This has been really interesting. There is a lot to learn to gain an understanding of this area. I ask everyone to bear with me as I speak my pidgin Irish. I will do my best. I have two questions. We have talked a lot about their subject matter already. One of them relates to how the communities themselves feel. Conas a bhraitheann an pobal nuair a fheiceann sé...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: The Irish Language and the New Decade New Approach Agreement: Conradh na Gaeilge (2 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I thank Mr. Comer. That answers my question and I think frustration is an accurate description. I used the word "frustration" as well and that fairly succinctly covers what we expected to hear.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I will jump to my favourite topic of student nurses. What else would I talk about? The reason given for our inability to pay student nurses and midwives is the EU directive. However, every year 18 to 20 students in every class are sponsored by the Government to undertake nursing and they are paid a salary throughout the four years at a healthcare assistant level. How is that square with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: I would appreciate an answer on, particularly, how we have 18 to 20 students being paid a healthcare assistant's rate. It is being done through a Government-sponsored scheme. I am interested in hearing how that tallies with the EU directive and how the arrangement does not work There needs to be a conversation. We need only listen to some of the points made, including here today, on why...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Covid-19 Health Related Issues: Update (2 Mar 2021)

Annie Hoey: We are perhaps comparing apples and pears. How much someone is being paid elsewhere is not going to affect student nurses other than to inform them they are perhaps being paid a different amount. There is very clearly a problem. I have told the Minister before that the Union of Students in Ireland has research on this. The INMO and SIPTU also have research. There is ample quantitative...