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Imposing Sanctions on Israel: Motion [Private Members] (15 Nov 2023)

Louise O'Reilly: Israel is committing war crimes; there is no doubt about it. It is slaughtering journalists, aid workers, civilians and thousands and thousands of children. I wish to read a piece from an email I got yesterday from a concerned mother. She wrote: I took my baby into bed every night while parents in Palestine took their babies into a grave. Please, for the love of God or whoever you...

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

Louise O'Reilly: We expect much of the Minister but we do not expect him to master the art of bilocation, and we thank him for his apology. I welcome the publication of the women's health action plan. It is a positive step and I am thankful for the opportunity to discuss it. It is a good plan but, as the Minister knows well, it will succeed only if it is backed up with funding, commitment and dedication...

Covid-19 (Special Educational Needs Provision): Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Louise O'Reilly: It seems the Minister has conveniently forgotten that it was by agreement with the teachers unions and the special needs assistant, SNA, unions that the schools were able to reopen and stayed open for 80 days. The Minister was quick to take all of the credit for reopening schools but when her failure to engage and her inability to listen and respond to the genuine concerns of those working...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Oct 2020)

Louise O'Reilly: This has been a tough week for the women of Ireland. Last night, we had a heartwrenching and emotional debate on the Government's proposals to seal the records of survivors of mother and baby homes, women who were vilified, abused and treated as outcasts by this State. In the same week, issues surrounding CervicalCheck have unfortunately arisen again. Some 12 months ago, the Tánaiste...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Louise O'Reilly: I welcome this Bill but I feel it is being rushed. I will be honest about that. I understand time is tight and the end of this Dáil term is coming but it does feel like this is being rushed somewhat. I am sure every speaker this evening will acknowledge the bravery of the women who came forward and told their stories in the media. I would say that was really hard. I do not know how...

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018. This is incredibly important legislation that will finally give a whole generation of people the opportunity to have their say on the eighth amendment and Ireland's effective constitutional ban on abortion. The repeal of the eighth amendment is necessary in order to ensure that Irish women have access to proper and appropriate health care. The...

Third Interim Report from the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (13 Feb 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: While the announcement of a delay to the commission of investigation's report is disappointing, the reasons for the delay - the sheer amount of documentary evidence - cannot, and should not, be disputed. I would have preferred it if additional resources had been requested when the scale of the documentary evidence became apparent in order for the report to be published on time. I accept the...

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (17 Jan 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: ...the more we keep saying that it is going to be divisive, the more likely it is that it will be thus. I do not believe that it necessarily has to be divisive, unlike in 1983. I have spoken to my mother at length about this because both she and my father campaigned against the insertion of the eighth amendment into our Constitution. I am both grateful and proud of them for that, as it...

Mother and Baby Homes: Statements (1 Jun 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank my colleague, Teachta Ó Laoghaire, for sharing his time. I wish to ask the Minister about St. Clare's mother and baby home in Stamullen. It was excluded from the investigation. A man who came to my clinic in Balbriggan two or three weeks ago is still traumatised and has still not recovered. He was born in St. Clare's. It was the site of vaccine trials. There should be...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (24 May 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: 260. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will expand the terms of investigation into mother and baby homes to include a home (details supplied) and in particular issues surrounding the illegal and abusive testing of vaccinations at that home. [24848/17]

Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...proud to be one of its supporters. It deserves credit for bringing this about because it was only through its hard work that the matter got the attention it deserves. I welcome this legislation and hope we will be in a position to expedite its passage as well as ensuring the provisions of the Bill take effect as quickly as possible. This is not the first time today that the Minister and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: It is absolutely welcome. I want to correct Senator Mullen on one point. I thank him not to put words in my mouth because I was fairly clear on what I said and it does not require any interpretation by the Senator or anybody else. When Senator Dolan referred to women giving up their children, was he referring to the mother and baby homes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Women's Reproductive Health: Discussion (8 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: I heard that. It is very important to say they did not just have their children taken from them. By all accounts, what is emerging from the mother and baby homes and what some of us might have known for a while is that these women had their human rights violated in the most disgusting way possible. If we want to talk about morals - Senator Mullen mentioned some sort of moral code - we have...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (7 Mar 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...Bill in 2013. At the time, we tabled several amendments which would have excluded the pregnant woman herself from criminal sanction. While the Bill we are debating tonight is well-intentioned, the simple and undeniable fact is that it does not address the issue of the criminalisation of women. This issue cannot be meaningfully addressed until the eighth amendment to the Constitution is...

Questions on Promised Legislation (8 Feb 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...available in six. Alongside this, national guidelines are also due to be published. It is important that these scans are made available so that no parent is left in the situation in which a young mother found herself in Kerry recently. She gave birth to a baby who had a serious heart condition. Her baby was transferred to hospital in Dublin while she had to remain in Kerry. Having just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Louise O'Reilly: ...about implementing the maternity strategy or prioritising women's health. It gives me no pleasure to say that. My first question relates to the provision of an anomaly scan at between 20 and 22 weeks of pregnancy. When I asked the Minister about this issue in October 2016, he referred my question to the HSE which subsequently advised me that this scan is routinely offered and...