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- Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: ...all pregnancies were carried to full term without complications or the devastating news of fatal foetal abnormality, people who did not want to become parents used contraception all the time, girls and women were not raped and there were no victims of incest. I could go on but irrespective of what my preferences are, the reality is that abortion takes place in Ireland every day both...
- Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 Jul 2013)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak on this very important piece of legislation. I wish to state at the outset that I will be voting with my conscience and with the Government on this issue, as I do on every other issue. I wish to set out some facts which I hope will explain my reasons for doing so. However, before I do that I wish to say that a great deal of misinformation is in...
- Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (23 May 2013)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: 53. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the Good Shepard Mother and Baby Home, Dunboyne, County Meath, has not been included under the scheme of State involvement in religious run residential institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24920/13]
- Magdalen Laundries Report: Statements (Resumed) (26 Feb 2013)
Marcella Corcoran Kennedy: It is with profound acknowledgement of the findings of the McAleese report that I welcome the opportunity to speak. I thank Dr. Martin McAleese and his committee for their work in producing this long-awaited report, which provides us with an indepth exploration of one aspect of a period of silent and latent societal degradation. The women and children housed in these institutions and...