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Select Committee on Health: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) (21 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: -----between the baby and the birth mother.

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (30 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 459. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when it is expected to open applications for the mother and baby institutions payment scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52942/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes (18 May 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 420. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the timeline he is working towards for providing enhanced medical cards to mother-and-baby-home survivors; if this will be commenced immediately after the legislation is signed into law; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23803/23]

Mother and Baby Institutions Redress Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (19 Oct 2022)

Róisín Shortall: We have heard about the wide range of concerns and shortcomings regarding the proposed mother and baby institutions payment scheme. These concerns echo those raised by the survivor groups, which are yet again deeply disappointed by the failure to deliver on fair redress. The scheme falls far short of the absolute minimum required to begin to address the great damage done to those abducted...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (12 Jul 2022)

Róisín Shortall: 198. To ask the Minister for Health if a dedicated funding allocation for the development of the inpatient mental health support mother-and-baby unit has been agreed; if not, when he expects to announce this allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37490/22]

Women's Health Action Plan: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...be mainstream issues. Sometimes when there are women's sections or women's groups, that can result in the sidelining of those issues. Women's health issues should be mainstream, at the front and centre of the health service. As I say, it is good to bring the various elements together in this but it amounts to a repackaging of several initiatives that are already in train and have...

Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (23 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...to send good wishes to the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, for a speedy recovery. The Social Democrats support this legislation. I hope there will be an open approach on Committee Stage and on Report Stage in terms of taking on board proposals and suggestions from the Opposition. For far too long, assisted human reproduction practices in this country have remained unregulated....

Farrelly Commission of Investigation Substantive Interim Reports: Statements (11 Nov 2021)

Róisín Shortall: I listened to the Minister of State's earlier contribution and I was a bit surprised that it was so short. I got very little sense of the State's response to this appalling case. The Minister of State took a lot of time talking about the Brandon case with which there are obvious parallels which we need to address. I acknowledge Deputy Pringle and all of the work he did on the Brandon case....

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (3 Feb 2021)

Róisín Shortall: 480. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if private nursing homes were included in the remit for the recently published mother and baby homes report, including a home (details supplied); if not, the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5337/21]

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

Róisín Shortall: ...It is unusual in legislation that the regulations proposed to be made are not specified in all instances. A number of speakers requested that the regulations be published in order to allow a full and thorough debate on the legislation. Unfortunately, that request was not acceded to. Amendment No. 27 would insert a new paragraph (c) in section 4(1) to set gestational limits for the...

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

Róisín Shortall: ...the issue of the lack of gestational limits. An extraordinary regime is proposed under which termination of pregnancy can take place right up to 39 weeks. At 39 weeks, there is a good chance the baby will be fine. Perhaps at 32 weeks that would also be the case but, as was pointed out earlier, the further one goes back to, say, 22 or 23 weeks, the greater the risk of permanent...