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Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (15 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: We, in the Labour Party, agree with the Minister to extend the ARP scheme for property owners. We recognise that the monthly payments comprise a sizeable, significant fraction of the financial safety net that has been built for Ukrainian refugees. We believe that extending the scheme will allow its application to refugees who are still arriving into Ireland to have accommodation assistance...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (15 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: My hometown has suffered reputational damage because of what has happened over the last couple of years. The people of the town, elected representatives, community leaders and people who have come to live in the town, both from around the country and abroad, all work hard to build it to be what I believe is a great town a great place to live. We have welcomed people to Drogheda for a very...

Seanad: Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (14 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Many of us grew up hearing about people needing organ donation. It is something I have heard an awful lot about. I have had very young friends whose lives have been transformed and changed because of organ donation. They are able to live full lives into adulthood whereas, even a decade before, they would not have been able to do that. There is a real opportunity here now. I hope many...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses. It has been really interesting. I recall when I was in the Union of Students of Ireland, we disaffiliated from Drinkaware because we recognised that it did not make sense for a drinks company to be leading off on this. It was highly controversial when we did it more than ten years ago. It caused a furore at the time. It is very interesting hearing the witnesses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Public Health and the Commercial Determinants of Health: Discussion (14 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Perhaps we are straying a little here again but these programmes are on our national broadcaster. They are freely available. Advertisements are run, sometimes even from Government, and they are allowed into our schools. Does this area need much more regulation because some of these advertisements are potentially quite harmful? That would take an enormous shift in thinking among educators...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Cathaoirleach Gníomhach. Hopefully, everybody can hear me okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Great. I thank all of our guest speakers for their presentations this morning. The theme is to examine a system for assisted dying. I am struck that in an opening statement, a section reads: "It is the conclusion of the senior clinical group in the HSE that there are significant supports, ... legal and medical, in place in Ireland to enable people to die in a dignified way." Is there a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Let me follow up with one point. I suppose the moral question will be further down the line, when there is pre-legislative scrutiny or other such scrutiny. There is a stance to the effect that there currently are ways in which people can die a dignified death or exit this life in a dignified way. That is what I take from these statements. Obviously, the move towards having a discussion on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses. I appreciate their patience with my philosophical wanderings.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Following on some of the themes that have been mentioned, and it has been discussed a couple of times, it is time we start calling these arson attacks what they are, namely, terrorist attacks. I do not think I am being OTT when I use this term. We have done some research on this. We can use terror laws for arson attacks on accommodation or linked to people seeking asylum. That is language...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: Yes I am. I am in my office. Thanks for facilitating my participation from here. I thank everyone for their presentations today. I was struck by what was said about our tendency to think of dementia or Alzheimer's as being an older persons' disease but this is no longer the case. I would like our guests to tell us a little bit more about the needs of those with early onset dementia and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank our guests.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I will try to whiz through things. I wish to briefly mention the UNRWA funding and a number of countries' withdrawal of it. I understand the accusations made towards UNRWA. However, it has provided flour to 3,482 families outside of shelters since November 2023, combatting what many international organisations call emerging starvation, looming famine and outbreak of disease. It supports...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I am behind you.

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: When is it proposed to take Committee Stage?

Seanad: Digital Services Bill 2023: Second Stage (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I will remain sitting. When you sit down, you do not tend to quite wander off in the same way. I find I am much more succinct when I am sitting down than when I am standing up. It might be a note for the future if we want to keep on point.

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: Not about anyone in this room. It is an observation. I have noticed a change in how I speak from down here. I thank the group for putting in this motion. I have spoken here a number of times about my own experience of care and how important it is. My experience of care is within a family situation, but I have a lot of interaction and engagement with carers who work as professionals...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (30 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the witnesses for their contributions, which have been really interesting. I will park my initial question for a moment and just follow on from what the previous respondent said, which is that there is currently no system that is fully safe. I invite our other guests to come in on this. If there is no system that is fully safe, does that mean no system can be devised that is safe...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: Tairgim leasú a 3: I leathanach 4, línte 11 go 14 a scriosadh agus an méid seo a leanas a chur ina n-ionad: “(a) in subsection 1° of section 3 of the Irish text, by the deletion of “Ós ar an bPósadh atá an Teaghlach bunaithe gabhann” and the substitution of “Gabhann”; (b) in subsection 1° of section 3 of the...