Results 1-20 of 130 for long speaker:Annie Hoey

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

Annie Hoey: .... By any measure, that is a de facto non-existent healthcare system and is not good enough. Some of the issues with the system include a lack of access to quality care, as I said; a decade-long waitlist for the primary public service; non-existent youth services; denial of services and primary care; little to no availability of surgery within Ireland; and, a failure to adhere to...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...daily and muttering about planting weather and wet sodden land. I must have picked it up off my dad over the years when he used to do that. As a little girl I would stand beside him and nod along and go, "Yes, most certainly." It has been incredibly difficult. As I have been going across the country I am struck by and cannot get over how often I see wet farm lands in a way that I do...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Animal Breeding (20 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...be changes under the Control of Dog Breeding Establishment Act - forgive me if I did not quite get that - and the first meeting will be held soon. Obviously that is great but is there any idea how long this will take? Is it likely to happen this side of Government or is it foreseen to take a little bit longer? There needs to be zero tolerance for the cruelty or neglect of any puppy or...

Seanad: Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022 (Section 4(2)) (Scheme Termination Date) Order 2024: Motion (15 Feb 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...to live in the town, both from around the country and abroad, all work hard to build it to be what I believe is a great town a great place to live. We have welcomed people to Drogheda for a very long time. Mosney is right beside Drogheda, which has become a thriving, multicultural, diverse town. I implore the people who are either seeking election or who are currently elected to be...

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....

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Non-court-based Conflict Resolution Mechanisms for Media-related Complaints: Discussion (17 Jan 2024)

Annie Hoey: ...it? I am struck by hearubhave heard a number of people it I was struck by hearing a number of people say that it is easier to pull a story than try to defend it. This was in the context of the long-term impact of running a story on a particular issue. I would like to tease that out. If something is newsworthy, it is newsworthy. There are lots of issues I do not think are newsworthy...

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

Annie Hoey: ...are not there. Often this healthcare is extremely time-sensitive because of the legislation, or perhaps for personal reasons. People do not have the luxury of waiting until the protesters are no longer outside. No one should have to make a healthcare decision based on waiting for when protestors will not be outside. That is not the best way to do that. It can be frightening and...

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

Annie Hoey: ...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 for a person, it takes a long time for that weight to come off your shoulders. You constantly feel it and you constantly feel their presence. I thank Senator Ardagh for talking...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Developing a Legal Framework for Assisted Dying: Discussion (11 Jul 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...consent if they have lost capacity at that time. Nowhere else in the world currently has this process where it is possible to give a waiver in advance. I do not want to suppose. We have come a long way in advance healthcare and all these things. I was on the committee that dealt with elements of that. Will this approach become more commonplace? Anybody who wishes can answer this...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by H.E. Maura Healey, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (27 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...general she took action to protect abortion provision and services in the state of Massachusetts and as governor she ensured a stockpile of Mifepristone under threat of it being banned. Not so long ago in Ireland, women like me and others were either illegally buying abortion pills for people or helping women to access abortion pills. It was only six years ago that I and others were...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...spoken to me about it. There is very much a direct connection with the impacted workers. These things are happening not just in Ireland but across the globe but the fact Tara Mines cannot say how long these 650 workers will be out of work is very worrying. There were discussions on "Morning Ireland" earlier about unsustainable losses tied to changes in the prices of zinc and...

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...

Joint Committee On Health: Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...of the four catchment areas and who have come to this realisation and are really struggling? Perhaps they have been struggling their whole lives. I think in particular of women who went through a long period of masking. I do not know what it is about women in their 30s where the mask suddenly comes off in every which way in their lives. It feels to me, from anyone I spoke to, that...

Joint Committee On Health: Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion (13 Jun 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...health sphere, in particular with ADHD. There seems to be discouragement, even from some medical professions, against pursuing this diagnosis. It is suggested that because people have lived so long without it, they have no need to do that. How would the witnesses advise someone to go forward, who has received that discouragement, either from family, friend circle, or indeed the medical...

Seanad: Disregard of Certain Criminal Records of Gay Men: Motion (17 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...that prosecutions for such offences were improperly discriminatory, contrary to human dignity and in breach of personal privacy and autonomy". I want to take a moment to acknowledge him and my LGBT comrades in the Labour Party who, for a long time, campaigned for a better Ireland for people like me in which to grow up. I was only five years-old when those laws were repealed.It seems...

Seanad: Electoral Reform (Amendment) and Electoral (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...of work for civil society in Ireland in finally getting that case to where it needs to be. This, hopefully, will push the Government to enact that legislation, which is exactly what the people voted for long before I was a twinkle in anyone's eyes.

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Development of Local Community Arts: Discussion (10 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...the time it takes to fill out grant applications, and I am not looking at anyone in particular in the room. Grant applications are robust and that is good and important. However, they can take a really long time. There are also such matters as PR and promotion. The grant applications cover the in-the-room piece, the creating piece, but there is a whole plethora of stuff that comes...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...areas, and the need to manoeuvre them into more sustainable, suitable accommodation. A number of people who I have spoken to have found that requirement of being here for six months is a long time to wait to be able to work. We have many skilled workers, not just in the tourism sector but in many areas, who are currently languishing, which is the word that they have said to me. I am not...

Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media: Developing Rural Tourism: Discussion (3 May 2023)

Annie Hoey: ...trying to get people to obtain professional qualifications through third level or whatever it is. How do we tackle the perception piece to show it is not just about seasonal workers and there is a long-term opportunity there, or indeed what work is being done to create those career paths so people do not feel there is no opportunity to move or grow in the sector? The other question is...