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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: The committee members were not aware.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thought someone was being incredibly rude and wanted them to be removed from the room if they were undermining Dr. McDonagh in any way. It suggests I might be somewhere on the same page with her. Dr. McDonagh and Mr. Wycherley, and Professor O'Neill and Dr. Hartney, have expressed exactly what is one of our concerns throughout this committee's meetings. That there is the lived experience...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: As Dr. Hartney was speaking, I wrote a note about capacity versus infantilising people and their ability to exercise that capacity. I very much take her point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Dr. McDonagh's testimony was very powerful and I feel totally inadequate in following her with a question other than to say that it is very powerful. I also hear Dr. McDonagh make the point regarding Travellers and suicide and the value of people in our State. I very much hear and want to honour that. I also want to address something from the last round of questions where Professor O'Neill...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: There is no question that the normalising of anything and the implications of that in our society have been consistently raised by our committee. However, non-medical people know of The Lancetand would hold it in esteem. Citing an article in this context with that title can be misleading. While I take Professor O'Neill's point regarding normative conformity, I had the benefit of sitting...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Protecting Vulnerable People: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: No. That is not what happened. I thought Dr. McDonagh was genuinely being interrupted. I could not understand how the Chair was not intervening.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the witnesses for their contributions. I have enormous respect for their views and their entitlement to hold them, and am sympathetic with an awful lot of what I have heard this evening. However, our history as a State and as legislators has been to espouse a just society. We need to legislate not even necessarily for what the majority thinks but for what is needed for a minority....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I would condemn a situation like that around any patient but I do not think that there is necessarily an either-or. By having the option of assisted dying, it does not mean that person would not be enveloped in the care that is absolutely essential to their dignity right up until and including that moment where they exercise that right to know they will die in two months' time, unconsciously...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Religious, Faith-Based and other Philosophical Perspectives on Assisted Dying: Discussion (5 Dec 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: With due respect, faith has not always influenced the behaviour of our State to the better of its people. As a member of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth having to deal with mother and baby homes and other situations, we have seen it to the forefront of those unfortunate decisions over years, and the hardship they caused. I am not sure...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I support the amendment proposed by Senator Doherty to the Order of Business to take No. 10 before No. 1, regarding the Misuse of Drugs (Amendment) (Control of Nitrous Oxide) Bill 2023. It is incredibly important that we bring this forward. I am chair of a drugs task force and am aware of the increase in nitrous oxide use. The view of some parents that it is safe and that it is a...

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Hear, hear.

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Shame, shame, shame.

Seanad: Recent Violence in Dublin City Centre: Motion (29 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I pay tribute to the Minister for the exceptional job she has done throughout her tenure, but especially since last Thursday. She has spoken with confidence and strength, and for the majority of people who are appalled and who support our gardaí and our Commissioner. I am foursquare behind her. Populism is a definite type of strategy that claims everything is simple, has a really...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Road Projects (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I thank the Minister of State. That is very important. I welcome Elle Lennox and Lucy Reeves to the Seanad. They are here doing work experience with me this week.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabilities Assessments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I say well done to the Minister of State, and thank her for all of her work in this area. I welcome Minister of State, Deputy Jennifer Carroll McNeill. I congratulate her on her recent lobbying and hard work on our behalf to try to secure a new EU agency for white collar crime. We are proud of her out there in Brussels. I call Minister, apologies, Senator Conway.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disabilities Assessments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Indeed, he has already.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Disability Services (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I congratulate the Senator and the Minister of State, particularly the Senator, for their consistent advocacy and for their modelling of what can be exemplary public service.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Enrolments (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Before we take the next Commencement matter - this is of particular relevance to the Minister of State - I welcome the students from Our Lady's School in Ballinteer to the Gallery today. I thank them for coming into the Seanad to see us all. They are here as guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Richmond. Their other Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, is here so they are getting a double...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: School Accommodation (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: Before we take our concluding Commencement matter - this is also of relevance to the Minister of State – we welcome the second group from Our Lady’s school in Ballinteer, who are guests of the Minister of State, Deputy Neale Richmond. They also get the great opportunity of being here to see one of their other TDs, the Minister of State, Deputy Josepha Madigan, in action.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Nov 2023)

Mary Seery Kearney: I am here to ask that we have the Minister for Transport come before the House for a discussion on the transport and bus network in Dublin city. When I have submitted proposals for Commencement matters on this issue previously, I have been told it is not the Minister's issue, but the NTA reports to him and this organisation is bringing in major changes in this regard. From next Sunday,...