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Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: There were public allegations of children being neglected in Bethany in 1939 and 1940. These were investigated and rejected by the health authorities. There were suggestions that some of the complaints were motivated by sectarian concerns but it is not possible to make any determination from this distance as to whether the investigation was adequate. It is very difficult to put these...

Bethany Home: Motion [Private Members] (10 Dec 2013)

Kathleen Lynch: I acknowledge the hardships faced by those born in Bethany Home. There is no doubt they faced hardships. Up to the 1950s, poverty and the diseases associated with poverty were widespread in Ireland. Infant mortality rates were high. Children were not cherished the way they are today and were often seen as a burden or a form of cheap labour. There was no provision for legal adoption....

Seanad: Symphysiotomy: Statements (16 May 2012)

Kathleen Lynch: I thank those Senators who called for this debate which deals with a subject that is not only emotive but very pertinent and which needs to be dealt with. I will start by explaining precisely what symphysiotomy is, to give some context about its use as a medical procedure and specifically its use in Ireland. Symphysiotomy is a medical procedure that was primarily used before the advent of...

Nurses and Midwives Bill 2010: Report Stage (Resumed) (21 Apr 2011)

Kathleen Lynch: ...Medical Practitioners Acts to ensure all medical practitioners will have indemnity insurance. That is long overdue. I take Deputy Ó Caoláin's point about general practitioners, gynaecologists and other health professionals not being required to have insurance. The Minister's proposal will introduce such a requirement. I believe being pregnant and having a baby is not a medical...

Written Answers — Departmental Correspondence: Departmental Correspondence (29 Jun 2010)

Kathleen Lynch: Question 316: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will respond to a letter from an organisation (details supplied) seeking clarification on the special provision as outlined in the Department of Local Government and Public Health Annual Report 1932 to 1933 of transferring women who had multiple births outside of marriage from a State-funded mother and baby home to an...

Ryan Report on the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse: Motion (Resumed) (11 Jun 2009)

Kathleen Lynch: .... That is something that could be done immediately. It struck me that the people who have been to the forefront of bringing this horror to our attention call this the Irish holocaust. I sat and thought about that for a while. Just after the Second World War a study was done in Germany on how people could allow such awful things to happen to their neighbours - the people they worked...

Passports Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Oct 2007)

Kathleen Lynch: ..., so be it. This legislation reminds me of another Bill on which I spoke, not the last time I was elected to the Dáil but the time before that. It was introduced by former Deputy Mervyn Taylor and, similarly to this Bill, was considered lightweight but it had a significant impact on how we gather information. The Bill was one page long and proposed to extend the amount of information...

Hospital Staff. (14 Feb 2007)

Kathleen Lynch: I would have preferred the Minister for Health and Children to have been present but I appreciate the attendance of the Minister of State. The issue I wish to raise concerns a facility in Cork which is due to open on 24 March 2007. Cork has been well served by four maternity units and three in particular, the Bon Secours Hospital, St. Finbarr's Hospital and Erinville Hospital, which are...

Child Care (Amendment) Bill 2006 [Seanad]: Second Stage (23 Nov 2006)

Kathleen Lynch: ...That is why I am such a great believer in whistleblowers' charters, which we should have in all aspects of life. I could not believe what happened. I look at people doing jobs. With experience, and having got to know people, one knows whether they are good and have the requisite interest. My instinct is not to trust a person on the first meeting. Perhaps that is a bad way to be, but it...