Results 1-20 of 563 for and speaker:Annie Hoey

Seanad: Air Navigation and Transport (Arms Embargo) Bill 2024: Second Stage (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...the changing of policy tomorrow. However, we all know that is not how the legislative process works. There are multiple Stages in both Houses. There is pre-legislative scrutiny, Committee Stage and Government amendments. I do not see why all of this diplomatic engagement and all of these other bits and pieces cannot happen as we go through the normal legislative process. There is no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank everyone for their presentations and all the work they do. As someone whose family availed of community-based supports, including myself, the work they do to support people is not unrecognised. I do not have many questions, but I am very interested in listening. Ms Fort spoke about people coming in a little bit later on or after their treatment. Would many people approach for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Challenges Facing Community-based Cancer Support Services: Discussion (29 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: It is an area I am interested in. I want to see screening for many more cancers rolled out and I know there are trials and plans to see whether it works in certain socioeconomic areas. I would like to see those rolled out because for certain cancers, particularly lung cancer, the evidence in the UK shows that it could catch that cancer much earlier. It is very much a silent cancer....

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (28 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...out in Rafah. I have looked at photos of charred babies who were burned to death. I have watched the video of a man holding up the headless body of a child while fires burn in the background, and shouts and pleas for mercy ring out. I wonder is it mercy from whom - Israel or the world? Western Rafah is where the Israeli army forced Palestinian refugees to flee for their own safety, and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I rise to address a very grave issue, the resurgence of animal cruelty, specifically through the barbaric practice of cockfighting. Despite our progress in animal welfare and this cruel practice being outlawed almost 200 years ago, this disgusting spectacle has seen a troubling revival. Footage obtained by Noteworthy shows horrific battles being held in backyards as well as in purpose-built...

Seanad: Waste Management: Statements (22 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister of State for coming to the House. I am often accused of talking rubbish in here but today I am literally going to talk about rubbish and the impact on our local communities. I thank my Labour Party colleagues for introducing this motion, in particular, Senator Sherlock, who has led out on this. I also refer to my Labour Party colleague, Councillor Kevin Donoghue, who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...before when the witnesses were here previously so forgive me for being a broken record on these topics. The witnesses mentioned a global shortage of doctors. Are we training enough doctors in Ireland? Is there global capacity to meet the medical needs of the world? I suppose it is an esoteric question but if there is a global shortage of doctors and we have a shortage of doctors, are...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I was not going to speak today. I just came down to listen but as I listened to Senator Clonan and others, the words of James Connolly came to mind. Some men, faint-hearted, ever seek Our programme to retouch, And will insist, whene’er they speak That we demand too much. ’Tis passing strange, yet I declare Such statements give me mirth, For our demands most moderate...

Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I hope the Government will support her in the work she is doing on that. I also hope the Bill will not be opposed but, rather, ushered through with enthusiasm and haste. I thank all the visitors in the Chamber and those who are not here and have advocated for themselves or their loved ones for too long. I look forward to a day when disabled people have their needs met and their families...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: We are resuming on section 15. Amendment No. 57 is in the names of Senators Higgins, Ruane, Black and Flynn. Senator Higgins has the floor.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Amendments Nos. 70 to 73, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Amendments Nos. 74 and 75 are related and may be discussed together. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: I ask the Minister of State to outline the rationale for the Department's funding of the role of safeguarding officer in St. John's Ambulance Ireland and to explain if such a funding mechanism will be available for similar organisations. In the reply to a parliamentary question tabled by my party colleague Deputy Ivana Bacik, the Minister stated that the appointment of the national...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Child Protection (2 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...State aware of this? I want to make sure I am reading this right. Is part of the condition of the funding for this officer that the periodic reviews are to be agreed between Department officials and St. John Ambulance and it will be required to submit a final report on progress at the conclusion of the 12-month period? Is it part of the agreement that if it gets the funding, it must...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: Well done to the Minister. I thank those from the Together for Safety national campaign and those in the Gallery who have been with us throughout this process. I also thank the officials in the Department, and of course Senator Paul Gavan for initiating some of the legislation on this. It is a great day for the Senator and his team, and for the women and pregnant people of Ireland who will...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...in March, my Labour Party colleague for Blackrock, Councillor Martha Fanning, brought a motion on this very topic. In her motion, she recognised the prevalence of loneliness in our society and she further noted that local authorities, as the custodians of many of our indoor and outdoor community spaces, should be central to a national plan to address loneliness. She called not only on...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (30 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...in which I am based, over last week graffiti was sprayed on social housing. I will not read out what some of the graffiti said but it was absolutely appalling. It was racist, it was disgusting and it was embarrassing for the area. I spoke to a number of residents who were ashamed to look at that graffiti across from their houses. They were ashamed to think of what it would mean for...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: I thank the Minister of State for coming in. I am raising the need for the Minister for Health to address issues relating to the state of trans healthcare in Ireland and the need to move to informed consent, gender affirming care at community and primary care level. I will give some context of our trans health care here in Ireland, although frankly, that is something that I do not think we...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...Cass report. I will not go too much into it but there were questionable methodologies in the research of that report. It is disappointing that there has been wilful misrepresentation in the media and by some bad actors of the report. It is being used to deny, restrict and cut off services to very vulnerable people. I hope that is borne in mind as well. Trans people, like all of us,...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Abortion Services (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...topic for the Minister of State, as he peruses different topics here today. Following on from the "RTÉ Investigates" programme broadcast last night - I hope the Minister of State has seen it and, if not, I would certainly recommend he take a look at it - I want to ask the Minister, or the Minister of State, Deputy Burke, on behalf of the Minister, when the recommendations of the...