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Seanad: Disability (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (8 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...if enacted. All of us know about the cost of assessments of need. I do not mean the financial cost, although it too is of concern, but the cost to individuals and their families who are waiting with what feels like no end in sight. My colleague, Senator Wall, outlined the impact of not having an assessment of need, having an assessment of need and the back and forth that we know people...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...society and we need to develop a national plan to tackle it. Research published last summer showed that Ireland had the highest rate of loneliness across the whole of Europe, where 20% of people feel lonely most of the time compared with an average of 13% across Europe. It is very hard to think that one in five of us feel lonely all of the time. That is a very dismal figure. The US...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...is discrimination, stereotyping and an exclusion of trans people from policy development. The message comes across from all the trans organisations that I have met with and work with which say they do not feel they are at the table in any meaningful way on the decisions that have been made about trans people. There is no path for any young trans person to access gender-affirming medical...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...fertiliser prices rose as a result of the outbreak of war in Ukraine. We still have some of the residual impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. There is no doubt that on a political and cultural level, farmers feel under attack as a result of some policies that favour cheap imported food over home production and from a society that underpays and undervalues them. We have already heard...

Seanad: Research and Innovation Bill 2024: Second Stage (20 Mar 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...and social sciences on an equal status to the STEM disciplines and to provide equal funding opportunities for all fields. It is not just because I am an arts graduate myself and therefore I feel somewhat sympathetic to the cohort that studies these subjects, but I do think it is very important that a balance is found. I am excited to see this at the core of the Bill, alongside the...

Seanad: Community Safety and Investment: Motion [Private Members] (28 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...is key in breaking the cycle of youth offending and fostering positive outcomes. There are other areas beyond the scope of the motion that I would love to see the Government look at. These include hate speech. I feel like time is ticking on the Government to finish out the Bill. I get the feeling it will not happen. There should also be decriminalisation of the drug user. This is...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (27 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...compiled by AsIAm and Inclusion Ireland. The report contains survey results which show that 35% of disabled children endure seclusion and 27% suffer restraint at school. Children have a right to feel safe at school. AsIAm and Inclusion Ireland have called for guidance and regulations in schools. Anyone who saw the reporting on this since then would be horrified to think that children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: System for Assisted Dying and Alternative Policies: Discussion (Resumed) (13 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...It is the conclusion of the senior clinical group in the HSE that there are significant supports, ... legal and medical, in place in Ireland to enable people to die in a dignified way." Is there a feeling, therefore - I am just trying to read between the lines here - that our current system is adequate and that there is enough in place to support people in their end-of-life care? Is it...

Seanad: Family Carers: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...the care they need. We still have some inconsistencies in the payment of the Covid recognition payment to home carers and other healthcare workers. People are still contacting my office to say they feel they ought to have been entitled to something. That is still rumbling on, which is not ideal. It would also be remiss of me, while we are talking about carers, not to recognise that the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Naoú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (An Teaghlach), 2023: Céim an Choiste agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Thirty-ninth Amendment of the Constitution (The Family) Bill 2023: Committee and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: I feel like I have to explain that every time I speak here. As my Labour Party colleagues and I said yesterday, we welcome the proposed changes to the definition of "family" in Bunreacht na hÉireann. If it is all right, I would like to take a moment to make the connection here and to applaud the ruling in the Supreme Court case yesterday, and to thank Johnny O'Meara for taking the...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: Céim an Choiste (Atógáil) agus na Céimeanna a bheidh Fágtha - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) and Remaining Stages (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...in expressing the wishes of the citizens' assembly and which it was felt would give a meaningful recognition of care in the Constitution on, as I said yesterday, a gender neutral basis. We feel the Government wording falls a little short of what the citizens' assembly and the Oireachtas joint committee recommended. We feel the wording is somewhat more restrictive. The Government's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...the thoughts on the witnesses on whether having a public vote strengthens the legislation. If there is a public vote and people are in support of it, there is support for it. Do the witnesses feel that strengthens their hand in doing something like this? There have not been public votes across the world on this. Legislation has just been brought in. Do the witnesses think there is a...

Seanad: An Bille um an Daicheadú Leasú ar an mBunreacht (Cúram), 2023: An Dara Céim - Fortieth Amendment of the Constitution (Care) Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: Hopefully, I will be forgiven for remaining seated. I am not able to stand for long periods at the moment, so I will be doing something that feels very unnatural. I welcome the debate and the introduction of the Bill to amend Article 41, particularly related to the current sexist language within it, which refers to women having a life within the home and mothers having duties in the home....

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Dec 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...who want to access reproductive healthcare but also staff. I have spoken to those who have sought to access healthcare and to providers. I cannot speak for all of them but those I have spoken to feel this will be beneficial. While we may not have floods of protests outside of places, it has a chilling effect and that is what it is designed to have. People have had to make decisions to...

Seanad: Care Payments: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...is a short period of caring for a loved or perhaps a lifetime of caring for someone, it weighs on your shoulders in a way that I think people who may have not experienced it are not aware of. You feel that weight on your shoulders all of the time. Some people have talked about respite. Even when those caring responsibilities are gone, for whatever reason, and you are no longer caring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Legal Protections and Sanctions: Discussion (4 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: Professor Huxtable might be able to answer this question. I am still trying to get my head around the concept of morality and right and wrong in different countries. Unfortunately, it feels rather pressing on this particular issue that we somehow get this right. I do not know how we come about that. In some countries this has been deemed permissible and then in other countries it has been...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for the Treatment of Endometriosis: Endometriosis Association of Ireland (28 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...Lee asked about the training that is available and what we know about that. In terms of that gatekeeping, outside of the high level work in terms of engaging with the national GP body, do the witnesses feel there is potential for a shift there, or is it part of the old style of medicine where there is that gatekeeping anyway? Do the witnesses feel there is potential for a shift in GP...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...be a safe family of friendly and fun events. It will be filled with colour, laughter and joy. For a huge amount of the community we are almost separated from those dark times when people did not feel safe to walk down the streets and when people could not stand up in their national Parliament and say they were out. Other members of the community are still facing harassment daily. They...

Seanad: Mother and Baby Institutions Payment Scheme Bill 2022: Report Stage (14 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: I am not going to speak for terribly long on this issue. As I believe this is, though, the last time we will address this matter, I feel I should speak on it. I am acutely aware that with every day that passes, time is slipping away from those who had their lives cruelly and irrevocably changed, and sometimes even destroyed, by this brutal regime that the State willingly supported. These...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...As I said, we saw a 14-year-old visibly queer student in Navan being attacked because of who they are. Following this assault BeLonG To made a statement that according to 2022 research 76% of LGBTQ+ students feel unsafe in our post-primary schools. This is not good enough. We have to prioritise the safety and well-being of LGBTQ+ youth who are seriously at risk. The rise in anti-LGBTQ+...