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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Assistance Dogs in Ireland: Discussion (19 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...Deputy Mitchell O'Connor had to say, some of the issues raised today, particularly around access, are not ones with which we were familiar. As a committee, we will contact all the Ministers who we feel have a role to play in terms of bringing about the changes required to the relevant legislation. I am sure members of the committee will also do all they can to further heighten awareness...

Equality (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2013 [Seanad]: Second Stage (18 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...workers in staff rooms, break rooms and canteens nationwide. The thought that because of one's sexuality, because one's marriage had ended or because one had a child while unmarried, one might not feel comfortable in one's ability to talk about what is the monotony of life with one's colleagues for fear that one might put one's job or one's career prospects at risk is, in 2015, something...

Topical Issue Debate: Pension Provisions (11 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: I wish to highlight an issue that many people mistakenly believe has been solved. Sadly, it has not, and that is why I feel the need to raise it on the floor of the Dáil. People will be well aware of the Waterford Crystal pensions issue. The factory was the pride of Waterford and it was shut down very suddenly. Scenes from the grey days of the closure were carried on the news and are...

Social Welfare Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...they have the monopoly on caring. If they really cared about the families they talk about, they need to face up to the people and decide to go into government to make life better for the people they feel they have a monopoly interest in. Who does Deputy Ferris think he is? I live in a family in a community in a village in a county where unemployment was at the highest rate of any region...

Travellers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (3 Nov 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...of State and I know that the only job a Traveller can find in Ireland is working for a Traveller's group. A Traveller cannot find work anywhere else. Is it any wonder, therefore, that members of the Traveller community feel segregated, isolated and have difficulty in engaging with systems? I agree also with my colleague, Deputy Joanna Tuffy, when she says help is available, but it is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Quarterly Update on Children and Youth Issues: Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (2 Jul 2015)

Ciara Conway: I am not suggesting that; I am talking about the support services in place for those who do not feel comfortable to come forward and name because that is one of the requirements, although "requirement" may not be an incorrect word to use. If somebody comes to Tusla, it is in the context of making a report. It is not always about providing support for someone who is a survivor. What is the...

An Bille um an gCeathrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Comhionannas Pósta) 2015: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...with the fact they are gay. There are adults, including opinion formers, community activists and leaders, as well as leaders of religious organisation, who argue that being gay and the associated feelings are wrong. I am glad to say that is not true. This country has taken great strides to tackle the issues important to gay and lesbian people and include them. It is a source of great...

Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Services (10 Mar 2015)

Ciara Conway: I thank the Minister of State for her response. I take no pleasure in raising this issue time and again. I represent the people of Waterford, who feel like they are getting a shoddy deal. We were told at the time of the Higgins' report that one of the main requirements to secure services into the future was an increased population base. In regard to the case I highlighted of the elderly...

Children and Family Relationships Bill: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Feb 2015)

Ciara Conway: ...and children. I do not say that lightly. A child's sense of belonging and identity is wrapped up in the home in which he or she lives and the person who cares for him or her. No child should feel that he or she is somehow lesser than the child he or she sits beside in school or plays with on the football or hockey team. This legislation will bring an end to that for many children and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Suicide in Ireland: Discussion (13 Mar 2014)

Ciara Conway: ...consideration, and Mr. Layden from Aware spoke about it also, is screening. We have very effective cancer screening and have seen great results but we rarely screen ourselves in regard to how we are feeling. People often ask us how we are doing and the response is "I am grand", but we do not look at that in a significant way. That is important for all of us, regardless of whether we are...

Local Government Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Nov 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...Minister is establishing community councils as a means of engaging with local groups and communities but one would ask why not leave the town councils in place. Rural communities in particular may feel more disconnected from the bigger urban areas and town councils served a real purpose in providing a bridge between such areas. They have a long history of delivering for their local...

Committee on Health and Children: Select Sub-Committee on Health: Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Committee Stage (Resumed) (3 Jul 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...The impediment to access to services for some affected women is often the very unfortunate fact that there is a considerable stigma associated with abortion in Ireland such that women do not always feel they can share information with doctors. I, for one, hope the discussion we have had in the Oireachtas over recent months will be a starting point in reducing the stigma and allowing women...

Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (26 Jun 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...that they will manipulate the truth. It is chilling and disturbing that many believe this would be the case. Many anti-choice campaigners seem to be of the view that everybody expressing suicidal feelings should be taken seriously, apart from women. Likewise, we often hear concerns being expressed in this debate about time limits in regard to terminations and the issue of early delivery....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Heads of Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013: Public Hearings (17 May 2013)

Ciara Conway: ..., to be sent to the most senior cardiologist to get whatever specific care necessary? A pregnant woman should also enjoy such specialist care. Is that the current practice in small hospitals? My feeling is that it is but perhaps it is worth saying. I want Dr. Monaghan to clarify a matter. He said that maternal deaths were higher in the UK and he asserted that this is directly linked...

Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (27 Feb 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...Good Shepherd Magdalen Laundry would stay with the women for the entire duration of his consultations. They were not even afforded the dignity of being able to attend a physician on their own. He did not feel they were prevented from talking to him about any subject but if one is the victim of institutionalised cruelty and that same person is the room with one, how is one supposed to...

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services (30 Jan 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...in this critical stage of their development, is they are cared for in an appropriately supportive environment where they will be able to reach their milestones but also where the childminder feels they have the security and safety in terms of Garda vetting and access to the support and training they so badly want and in which they have eagerly engaged in recent years.

Topical Issue Debate: Child Care Services (30 Jan 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...women but for one. They felt they had been on a journey in recent years in terms of professionalising themselves and improving their standards and the kind of care they provide to children. They now feel the rug has been pulled from under them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (10 Jan 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...of us? With regard to the submission from the conference of bishops, the Supreme Court judgment was based on the presumption that abortion would be a helpful treatment for suicidal thoughts and feelings. As we heard yesterday from very eminent witnesses, the Supreme Court presented its judgment based on the case before it. I would like the witnesses to respond to that point in their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Implementation of Government Decision Following Expert Group Report into Matters Relating to A, B and C v. Ireland (8 Jan 2013)

Ciara Conway: ...end up in maternity hospitals or departments of psychiatry but will arrive in their local general practitioner's surgery, or in a surgery up the road, for fear of the negative stigma of having the feeling of suicide ideation and of inquiring about access to abortion services. What do professional psychiatrists say we, as legislators, need to do to inform and instruct general practitioners...

Gaeltacht Bill 2012 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Jul 2012)

Ciara Conway: ...Is mór an trua é nach bhfuil mé chomh líofa is a bhí mé nuair a bhí mé ag freastal ar an mheánscoil. Throughout the debate, it has been said that when people leave school, they no longer feel the same onus is on them to speak the language. Bhí mé ag freastal ar ollscoil na Gaillimhe agus bhí seans agam an díoplóma sa Ghaeilge a dhéanamh. It stopped there I am afraid. Is...