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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Parents and Patient Advocates (19 May 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank all the witnesses for their clear evidence to the joint committee. I am caught somewhere between being utterly depressed and very inspired by the commitment, tenacity and sheer doggedness of the witnesses in pursuing this on behalf of their babies. I have two questions. Mark and Róisín spoke about the report that was conducted about baby Mark. Other reports were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Chairman and members. I do not often beg indulgence but I appreciate it. I am anxious to ask one or two questions of Mr. O'Brien. We were told today by the parents of two babies who died in Portlaoise that the HSE management is clearly incapable and cannot be trusted. They told us that information was deliberately suppressed, as were known red flags. The story goes on and on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (Resumed): Health Service Executive (19 May 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: The first item on the agenda was baby Mark Molloy and the reporting relationship. No minutes of the meeting are available but it is documented and it did occur. How can Mr. O'Brien say that he is not responsible, that he was not there and that he had nothing to do with it? We know that other deaths occurred in 2013 after these appeals by the Molloys to Mr. O'Brien as director general of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIQA Investigation into Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise: Health Information and Quality Authority (13 May 2015)

Lucinda Creighton: I thank the Chairman for giving me the opportunity to contribute and the team from the Health Information and Quality Authority for appearing before the joint committee and producing such a comprehensive report. To echo the sentiments of previous speakers, one almost experiences a sense of déjà vuwhen reading the report because much of it repeats what we have heard previously....

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (5 Feb 2014)

Lucinda Creighton: ...the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, for participating in this debate. I welcome his announcement to the media yesterday that he will proceed with an independent HIQA inquiry into the deaths of babies in Portlaoise Hospital. The families concerned and a cross-section of Deputies have been calling for such an inquiry. After the tragic death of Savita Halappanavar and the HIQA report...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: There is a degree of confusion with regard to what is proposed in these amendments. My amendment and some of the others are very much consistent with the constitutional interpretation of Article 40.3.3°. That has already been made clear to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health and Children by Ms Catherine McGuinness. Deputy Róisín Shortall also mentioned the Master of the...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (11 Jul 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: I move amendment No. 22:In page 7, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following:“ “viable”, in relation to a pregnancy, means a foetus or embryo that is, or would be expected to be, capable of surviving independently outside the womb by reason of its gestational age;”.I would like to speak to amendments No. 22 and 85. They would make it an offence for an...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: ...hierarchy or the editor of the most popular newspaper? I mentioned groupthink, which is a corrosive affliction in this country. We saw it in the Haughey era, we saw it during the Celtic tiger era and we see it on this question of abortion. It is easy to understand why people in positions of responsibility want thorny issues to simply disappear. It is far easier than risking conflict or...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)

Lucinda Creighton: ...imagined when I stood for election to the Dáil for the second time in 2011 that I would find myself here two years later speaking on a Government sponsored Bill to liberalise abortion law in Ireland. I am in no doubt by now that this legislation will pass, notwithstanding the many reservations expressed both privately and publicly by colleagues from all parties and in the face of...

Social Welfare Benefits (29 Jun 2010)

Lucinda Creighton: ...pleased to have an opportunity to raise the very important issue of the carer's allowance in the Chamber this evening. Everybody would agree that it is impossible to overstate the huge importance and the value of the role of carers in Irish society. In particular, I refer to the role they play and the great social value of the work they do in keeping families together, binding...

Waste Management: Motion. (3 Jul 2007)

Lucinda Creighton: It gives me pleasure to speak on this issue that is critical for both my constituency and the country, namely, waste management and specifically the proposed incinerator for the Poolbeg Peninsula. This evening the Opposition is offering the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Deputy Gormley, the opportunity to stop the Poolbeg incinerator. He need only support the...