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- National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)
Gary Gannon: I begin by bringing into the Chamber the words of the American poet, feminist and lesbian activist, Adrienne Rich, who said, "Every built thing has its unmeant purpose." It should be a source of celebration the Irish State and people should be getting a modern maternity hospital, free of Nightingale wards and with single-room occupancy. The fact hundreds of millions of euro will be spent to...
- National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)
Catherine Connolly: ...;ithreacha agus leanaí a chur ar fáil dúinn. Nílimid chun glacadh leis sin. Sin an teachtaireacht láidir uaimse, ó na Daonlathaigh Sóisialta agus ó fhormhór na Dála. Nílimid chun glacadh leis sin níos mó. We are here almost 70 years after we declared ourselves a Republic and we certainly have a long way to go before we...
- National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)
David Cullinane: I commend the Social Democrats on tabling this motion and for giving us the opportunity to discuss this issue. I discussed this privately with the Minister a number of weeks ago and have raised it a number of times in the Dáil and at meetings of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health. In recent months the Minister has given us some assurances, as he would see it, regarding religious...
- National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)
Jennifer Whitmore: After everything that women, past and present, have gone through in this country to defend the right to healthcare, it is an absolute fallacy to believe that it is possible for a privately-controlled hospital, built on Catholic lands and founded under a Catholic ethos, to provide healthcare that is based solely on medical science and that religious ethos will not influence it in any shape or...
- National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)
Holly Cairns: The story of maternal healthcare in Ireland is the story of how we have treated women in this country. It is far from a happy story; it is a lot closer to a horror story. Irish maternal healthcare was a place where misogyny reigned, where women were defined solely in terms of their reproductive functions and where they were denied control of themselves, their bodies and their lives. In the...