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Fourth Interim Report of the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: ...of past trauma that results in a re-experiencing of the initial trauma event. It can be triggered by a situation, an attitude or expression, or by certain environments that replicate the dynamics and the loss of power, control and safety of the original trauma. Not being believed or listened to is another factor in trauma and retrauma. The whole issue of the experiences of people who...

Topical Issue Debate: UN Committees (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Saudi Arabia has been elected to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women by the United Nations Economic and Social Council. The UN describes this commission as the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. The executive director of Geneva-based UN Watch has stated that electing Saudi Arabia to...

Symphysiotomy: Statements (26 Jan 2017)

Mick Wallace: Chronic pain, incontinence, hip degeneration, organ prolapse and psychological trauma are some of the horrendous lifelong effects of symphysiotomy. They are also the effects which have been completely rubbished by the assessor of the Government's symphysiotomy redress scheme, Ms Justice Harding Clark. The exclusion of survivors’ oral evidence from the terms of reference of the scheme...

Coroners Bill 2015: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2015)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Bill, particularly the new provisions proposed by Deputy Clare Daly to seek to make inquests mandatory in all cases in which a woman dies in the care of maternity services before, during or after giving birth. For far too long, the HSE has defaulted to defensiveness and denial when things have gone wrong. It has refused to engage with the causes of sometimes catastrophic...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (8 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: ...clear at this stage that we do not agree on this issue. I respect the Minister's views but I will still make known mine. According to Lakshmi Puri, Assistant Secretary General of the UN, "sexual and reproductive health rights are at the heart of gender equality, women's rights and women's empowerment".Some 20 years on from the Beijing conference, there is a recognition in the multilateral...

Mother and Baby Homes Commission of Investigation: Motion (Resumed) (28 Jan 2015)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the discussion on the terms of reference presented by the Minister. Ireland has a deplorable record on women's rights, which has, correctly, received severe criticism from international bodies such as the UN committee on human rights, the UN committee against torture, the Council of Europe, the Commissioner for Human Rights and the UN committee on the elimination of discrimination...

Interdepartmental Report on the Commission of Investigation into the Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (17 Jul 2014)

Mick Wallace: I also wish the Minister well and hope he enjoys his new portfolio more than the last one. This week, Ireland's compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was examined by the UN Human Rights Committee. The State was found wanting across a range of areas but the committee reserved some of its most severe criticisms for Ireland's record on women's rights. Given...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (10 Jun 2014)

Mick Wallace: I wish to share time with Deputies Daly and Coppinger. I welcome the Government's decision to establish a statutory commission of investigation into mother and baby homes. Such an inquiry is long overdue. That hundreds of children are buried in unmarked graves is not news. The fact of how mothers and babies were treated is not new. I wonder how the public who have known about it for so...

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (5 Mar 2014)

Mick Wallace: This week has been a difficult one for many people in Ireland. The manner in which the Government has set about congratulating itself so much is very difficult for a lot of people to listen to. I would say more than half of the people of Ireland are struggling to pay their household bills. More than half of our people are in a difficult place and a large proportion of them are probably...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Adoption Records (9 May 2013)

Mick Wallace: ...more than likely, there will be some information in the private domain that will need to be chased up. Most of us agree that the child's right to an identity must be of greater importance than the mother's right to privacy. The legislation must be introduced without further delay and I am unsure why it has been delayed. The Minister said last year it would be in place by Christmas. We...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (19 Feb 2013)

Mick Wallace: More than a year ago, I was approached in the Italian quarter by a woman who had been in one of the Magdalen laundries. She had spent 16 years in an industrial school, was found by her mother and moved with her to England, where she stayed for nine months. She left because she was being abused by her stepfather and on her return to Ireland, she was picked up by the gardaí and brought...

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

Mick Wallace: ...to deal with the consequences of the Supreme Court judgment in the X case. It is not as if it was a revolutionary judgment even at the time. The Supreme Court found that abortion is legal in Ireland when a woman's life is at risk, including from the threat of suicide. My colleagues and I have brought forward this Bill to provide a legislative basis for the legal termination of a...