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Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services Provision (12 Feb 2014)

Kathleen Lynch: I advise Deputy Naughten that there will not be a separation of mothers and babies in any new unit that will be built. In the case of any woman who suffers from postnatal depression, the plan is that there will be a bed available for both the mother and the baby. All modern thinking informs us that there should be no separation.

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There were public allegations of children being neglected in Bethany in 1939 and 1940. These were investigated and rejected by the health authorities. There were suggestions that some of the complaints were motivated by sectarian concerns but it is not possible to make any determination from this distance as to whether the investigation was adequate. It is very difficult to put these...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I acknowledge the hardships faced by those born in Bethany Home. There is no doubt they faced hardships. Up to the 1950s, poverty and the diseases associated with poverty were widespread in Ireland. Infant mortality rates were high. Children were not cherished the way they are today and were often seen as a burden or a form of cheap labour. There was no provision for legal adoption....

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) (10 Jul 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: When Deputies start to talk here about legal definitions and about whether the evidence was available at the time, they should remember that they are talking about a woman who is pregnant and that pregnancy could be a threat to her life. I have said to Deputy Clare Daly on another occasion that we should start to look seriously at the issue of fatal foetal abnormality and the threat to the...

Private Members' Business: Medical Treatment (Termination of Pregnancy in Case of Risk to Life of Pregnant Woman) Bill 2012: Second Stage (18 Apr 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: ...add my voice to that of my colleague, the Minister for Health, in stating the Government wishes to ensure that pregnant women whose lives are at risk can access appropriate medical treatment in Ireland, including lawful termination of pregnancy. As Members are aware, termination of pregnancy already is lawful in Ireland when it meets the criteria laid out in the X case ruling, that is, if...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: ...Medical Practitioners Acts to ensure all medical practitioners will have indemnity insurance. That is long overdue. I take Deputy Ó Caoláin's point about general practitioners, gynaecologists and other health professionals not being required to have insurance. The Minister's proposal will introduce such a requirement. I believe being pregnant and having a baby is not a medical...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (29 Jun 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from an organisation (details supplied) seeking clarification on the special provision as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report 1932 to 1933 of transferring women who had multiple births outside of marriage from a State-funded mother and baby home to an...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: .... That is something that could be done immediately. It struck me that the people who have been to the forefront of bringing this horror to our attention call this the Irish holocaust. I sat and thought about that for a while. Just after the Second World War a study was done in Germany on how people could allow such awful things to happen to their neighbours - the people they worked...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Nov 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: ...That is why I am such a great believer in whistleblowers' charters, which we should have in all aspects of life. I could not believe what happened. I look at people doing jobs. With experience, and having got to know people, one knows whether they are good and have the requisite interest. My instinct is not to trust a person on the first meeting. Perhaps that is a bad way to be, but it...